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To Watch Tonight...
• NASCAR: Nextel All-Star Challenge. I'm not sure how an All-Star event works in an individual sport, but okay....
Barbaro Cheats; Injures Leg; Will Be Served Later With Fried Rice
The Preakness has come to an end, and there was very little drama involved in determining that there will not be a Triple Crown winner this year. Barbaro jumped out of the gate early and tried to get a head start. He had to be calmed a little bit, and they got him back in the gate. When they start...
714, At Last
It's kind of a shame that this didn't happen while Will was blogging, because I'm not nearly as obsessed with this as he is, but... c'est la vie. Barry Bonds hit his 714th career home run, tying Babe Ruth for 2nd on the all-time list. It came against Brad Hasley of the Oakland A's in the second in...
If You Want To Throw Down In Fisticuffs, Fine.
White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski plowed into Cubs catcher Michael Barrett at the plate, and Barrett felt that it was an inappropriate touch. He got up, wrapped Pierzynski up in a little hug so they could chat for a quick second, and then he popped him in the face. It was a short right cross that ...
About Last Night...
• MLB: San Francisco 0, Oakland 1. As you may have been able to figure out from the score, Barry Bonds did not homer. Yet, even after that night of baseball, it still led SportsCenter. If only there was a "Diop on Diop" series....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the NSA listens in on your Chinese takeout order ... • NBA Playoffs: Eastern Conference semifinals, Game 6, Detroit at Cleveland; Western Conference semifinals, Game 6, San Antonio at Dallas. These series are not going as planned. We like that. [ESPN] • MLB: Atlanta at Arizona. Home...
Hey, Kids, Let's Play Nintendo!
Thanks to SporTech Matter for this beauty of a find: It's the actual original 1987 television commercial for RBI Baseball, the Nintendo game that we (and, we suspect, the majority of you) spent most our youth playing until we were yelled at to go to bed....
Blogdome: Detroit Has The Best Record In Baseball. Really.
• A Tigers fan struggles to deal with success. [Mickey Tettleton Memorial Overpass] • The Blue Jays are doing things somewhat backwards. [Baseball Musings] • The ACC won't be happy until they control everything. [The Mighty MJD] • Bud Selig is not a fan of controversy. [Rubber Arm] • Which teams hav...
Roger Gets The Jordan Treatment
You know, it just wouldn't be the Internet without Roger Clemens steroids rumors. It's like they make the place whole....
Maurice Drew Hates Your Nerd Ass Too
We received this photo of former-UCLA, now-Jacksonville running back Maurice Drew a while back, and we decided not to run it, mainly because it's hard to blame a guy when someone decides to take a picture of a guy holding a blunt next to him while sleeping. Besides, that fellow looks like a really f...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.. Rattlers' WR/DB Randy Gatewood: What does nine years in the Arena Football League even feel like? Have you ever wished you could look up between plays and see a cloud? • 2 p.m.. Boxing with Dan Rafael: I say, that man struck th...
Record For Stuffing Face With Pig Ass In Jeopardy
You're probably going to make fun of us here, but we consider competitive eating a sport. We do. We never had until we worked with writer Larry Getlen on his story "The Champions Of Consumption" for The Black Table, our old stomping grounds. The two-part series looked at the history of competitive...
Danny Almonte Is Way Too Eager To Be An Adult
Remember Danny Almonte, the dominant Little League World Series star from The Bronx from a few years who turned out to be two years older than the maximum age? Well — at this should make anyone who remembers the Almonte business feel extremely old — he just got married ... and she's 11 years older...
Daily Closer: You're A Good Man, Kerry Wood
Notes from a day in baseball:...
It's Playoff Time! Everybody Grab A Ball!
Before we talk about last night's Clippers' win over the Suns, can we just say how disappointed we were that there wasn't a single incident of a grown man wounding the genitals of another grown man?...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking 28 action photos of Bigfoot, all with the lens cap on ... • NBA Playoffs: Suns Branded — Elton scores 30 as Clippers force Game 7. Haven't we done this already? • MLB: Pujols has two hits and two RBIs to lead Cardin ... no wait, sorry, do-over. University of Illinois gra...
Last Call For The Clips
The Cavaliers', uh, somewhat unexpected rattling-off of three consecutive wins over the Pistons has overshadowed what had been the plucky little engine that could of the postseason: The Clippers, who face elimination at the Staples Center tonight against the Suns....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while very much enjoying Lima Time ... • PGA Tour: Bank of America Colonial, first round, at Fort Worth. If having a Fred Funk poster on our bedroom wall is wrong, then we don't want to be right. [USA] • MLB: Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay. It's every young boy's dream to one day wear ...
Yeah, This Guy's Brando
So here's the deal: You're a college baseball player, and you need to get on base to get a rally started. There's an inside pitch, and it's somewhat close to you ... so you make the questionable decision to pretend that it hit you....
Blogdome: Blame It On Reno?
• Not everyone's ecstatic about all these hazing pictures. [Nandovia] • Perhaps this really should be the Cubs' new logo. [AdFreak] • A list of 30 things all sports fans should do before they turn 30. We've done nine, which is kind of depressing. [Chicago Sports Review] • If you're from our neck of ...