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Texas Sold A Lot Of Stuff
The Texas longhorns have set a new NCAA record for merchandise sales. A football national title, a baseball national title, a very good basketball team, and Vince Young can do that for you, I guess. The school made $8.2 million in royalties last year....
LeftoverDome...
• Assigning various song titles to college football teams. West Virginia gets to be Aretha Franklin. [Chicago Sports Review] • A look back at Randy Walker's finest games as head coach of Northwestern. [Also Receiving Votes] • For a Jersey guy, Jay Williams seems okay. [Choke Artist] • Left-handed NF...
New Mexico State Basketball Player May Have D'd Up A Pizza Guy
It seems like the only time that pizza guys get any attention are in plot attempts in porno (did you order the extra sausage?) and criminal activity. File this one into the latter category....
Japanese Golfer Proudly Displays His Balls
At yesterday's Reno-Tahoe Open, Yusaku Miyazato recorded two holes-in-one during the same round. It's never been done before, and normally, something like that would make me want to punch the guy in his face, just out of pure jealousy. But Miyazato, who barely speaks English, was asked how he'd cele...
About Last Night...
• NFL: Steelers 7, Eagles 16. David Akers is in midseason form, hitting from 40, 49, and 52. • MLB: Astros 5, Pirates 1. Roger Clemens got his 347th career win, but since it came against the Pirates, I've still got him at 346 . • NFL: Cardinals 23, Bears 16. Matt Leinart's line: 15-of-21 for 144 yar...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch to avoid another one of those a troubling dreams involving Mr. Celery ... • MNF: Steelers vs. Eagles, preseason. We're sure the fans from both sides will be quite genteel. [ESPN] • Tennis: Pilot Pen Tournament, at New Haven, Conn. "I may be old, but I'm spry." [ESPN2] • MLB: Yankees at...
NFL Season Preview: Minnesota Vikings
We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of people painting ...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Bryant Gumbel's Burden
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email to let him know what you think of him....
Blogdome: Helping A Sun Devil Out
• It's your Arizona State coaching aid. [The M Zone] • So, how did that Mirabelli trade turn out for the Red Sox? [Red Sox Stats Guy] • Forget your subway series, Mets. [The Bleacher Report] • The Phillies are not nice to their groundskeeper. [WBRS Sports Blog] • Sorry, ESPN: We know you don't reall...
The Lastings Milledge Ho-Down
We've had several people ask us this morning: Hey, how about those Cardinals? Actually, a few variations on the them, a 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould type of thing....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. USC DE Lawrence Jackson: Wasn't this headline unnecessarily harsh? • 3 p.m. Fantasy FB Injury Report: Terrell Owens re-injured his hamstring, and I'm not feeling so hot myself. • 3 p.m. Cal DB Daymeion Hughes: Hey, did you hear ...
"You Get To Hit Somebody And You See Them Fall Over"
Considering how it went last time we brought this up, we are extremely hesitant to do it again ... and as we do so, we remind you that this woman — girl, actually — is 16 years old and should probably be considered that way ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while realizing that pretty much anything you do today will be a letdown from yesterday ... • Daunte's Inferno: Panthers beat Dolphins 19-10 in NFL exhibition. • MLB: Vanilla Hose 5 1/2 back after 10-0 win over El Tigres. • World Basketball: U.S. humiliates small western African repu...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as raccoons make a videotape of your captured dog ... • Little League World Series: USA semifinal, Portsmouth, N.H., vs. Columbus, Ga., at Williamsport, Pa. Since they're apparently cracking down on coaches hitting their players, there's little reason for us to watch. [ESPN] • MLB: St....
NFL Season Preview: Washington Redskins
We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of people painting ...
The Padres Very Much Value Your Patronage
You know those annoying updates you get from MLB.com all the time, which pretty much come without mercy anytime you buy a ticket online, like, ever. (We're still getting Phillies emails once a week because we went to a game there three years ago.) We always assumed those emails were sent out by prog...
What Tiger Will Be Up To In Five Years
We don't get into Tiger Woods much around — except to make fun of his facial expressions — mainly because Tiger Woods is, by both design and nature, an intensely boring, robotic character. He wins, and he wins again, and he breaks into a recognizable human emotion every couple of years. This is not ...
Blogdome: Screwing Tiger Town
• One fan isn't happy about the Tigers raising their ticket prices so high for the playoffs. [Mickey Tettleton Memorial Overpass] • Tim Duncan hates music. [The Basketball Jones] • B.J. Upton should make all his plays from his ass. [Rays Index] • Carmelo Anthony can do anything in the basketball Wor...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1:15 p.m. Actor Mark Wahlberg: Of all the people in the history of ESPN chats, you are the least likely to be on time. • 4 p.m. Football scientist KC Joyner: You're mad, doctor! You'll never be abe to put a normal brain into Terrell Ow...