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About Last Night ...
What you missed while uncovering the terrible secret of Giant Lego Man ... • MLB: Richie Sexson? Boooo ... no wait , yaaay! Mariners 4, Twins 3. • NFL preseason: Jay Cutler plays for one magical series in Denver's 17-13 win over San Francisco. • Tennis: David Ferrer defeats the freakishly tall John ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you use the remote left-handed for tonight only ... • MLB: Houston at Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers need a mascot. Come on, make Lasorda earn his pay. [ESPN2] • NFL: Preseason, Denver at San Francisco. Wait, the 49ers have the better quarterback here? Weird. [ESPN] • Little Leagu...
Nothing Says The EPL Like A Botched Orgy
You know, if you can't trust a soccer player to behave himself during an orgy with his teammates and prostitutes, sheesh, who can you trust?...
Actually, It Kind Of Reminds One Of The NFC West
Because college football season is almost here, and because I can already picture Joe Paterno leading a player around by the nose with a pair of pliers, I give you this ... one more reason to love Philadelphia. I mean, besides the Rocky statue, and the fact that Eagles fans travel all the way to Tex...
Hammerin' Hank's Thesaurus
• Hank Aaron, more careful with his words than you even realize. [Foul Balls] • Jeff Reed ain't looking for nothin' but a good time. [Doubt About It] • Hanley Ramirez has been rather awesome this year. [Vegas Watch] • Debating the "draft your star's backup" strategy of fantasy football. [Ghosts Of W...
NFL Season Preview: Jacksonville Jaguars
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....
Scoop Jackson And NOIS Meet
Sometimes, when two great minds converge, it can be blinding, like a supernova that outshines its entire host galaxy before fading from view over several weeks or months, or like when they crossed the streams in Ghostbusters....
We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. Madden challenge legends: Wait ... THE Jarvis "Young Jarvis" Thomas? • 3 p.m. Fantasy baseball with Pete Becker: Wherefore art thou, Chase Utley? • 4 p.m. Video games w/Aaron Boulding: We're in The Matrix! I need fresh air!...
Vick's Gonna Sit A Year Out ... At Least
Peter King says it's not official yet, but Yahoo Sports — sorry: Yahoo! — has the big scoop: Michael Vick will be suspended for the entire 2007 season....
"How's Tiger Doing?"
It is not, inherently, in the sports fan's nature to root for the dominant favorite. We love underdogs, the scrappy upstart coming from nowhere and upsetting the proverbial applecart; it's our own sad, tiny way of imagining that, sometimes, sports can speak truth to power....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching the meteor shower ... • Golf: Tiger Woods ships off PGA Championship trophy to whatever warehouse holds all of his other metal stuff. • Tennis: Holy crap, is the start of the Novak Djokovic Era in tennis, and I have nothing to wear. • MLB: It's the end of the world as ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after putting the final touches on your re-make of Elie Wiesel's "Night" starring Pokémon characters... • MLB: Atlanta Braves at Philadelphia Phillies, 8 p.m. In preparation, Jon Miller will receive a piece of paper with the names of all the players, and what team they play for. [ESPN]...
Ride, Raghib Ride, Upon That Mystery Bull
The man you see on the right, riding the large coconut wedge is former NFL wide receiver Raghib Ismail, and he's just one of nine celebrities partially recognizable names partaking in a reality-based TV show called "Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge." (Note: When "celebrity" and "reality-b...
German Soccer Shaving Scandal Raises Questions, Blinds Thousands
All things considered, all you folk have been on your best behavior this weekend. Which makes it all the more difficult to ruin a perfectly beautiful Sunday afternoon by throwing some nightmare fuel onto the fire....
Apartheid? More like Aparth-tied
• If your South African netball team achieves racial balance, you start out with six points. [Doberman on the Diamond] • Bobby Cox's eventual ejection record has steroids written all over it. [Log's Blog] • A written transcript of what you might've heard if you watched last night's Redskins game wit...
Darren McFadden's NFL Draft Status Downgraded From "Yes" To "Probably Yes"
Yesterday, in a story which Deadspin suspiciously omitted, ESPN reported that Darren McFadden was declaring for the NFL after his upcoming junior season, so sayeth his momma after a chat with Pat Forde. Because that was such a news scoop. After all, rarely do exciting, electric football players ever...
Sergio Garcia's Mind, It Likes To Wander
Have we picked on Sergio Garcia enough this weekend? Indeed we have, but just as you can never have enough bacon, you can never try hard enough to destroy the psyche of an athlete whose sport is 90 percent mental. But maybe we don't need to do any of the work. The Sports Elitists recounts a Sergio ...