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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Boxing historian Bert Sugar: Go to bed old man! • 2 p.m. Chicago Fire's Chris Rolfe: What exactly did Andy Herron do to earn a six-game suspension? • 4 p.m. College hoops with Andy Katz: How many of these games have you played ...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while rockin' in the free world ... • MLB: Posada decides to carry Yankees for awhile longer, gets key hit in 4-3 win over Rangers. • NBA Playoffs: Attention Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. The Cavs have won in Detroit. We repeat, the Cavs have won! Please hold all bet...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as literature hooligans invade your book signing and a melee breaks out ... • MLB: New York Mets at St. Louis. Cardinals fans repeat the line we've heard on the X-Files so many times: "Mulder! I need your help!"[ESPN] • NBA playoffs: Conference semifinals, Game 5, Cleveland at Detroit;...

Blogdome: Welcome Back, Ryan
• Looking at Ryan Leaf's first interview in four years. [The Sports Pulse] • Those looking for live-blogging of the Champions League final can go to the Guardian. [The Guardian] • We never thought of this as true, but we guess it is: Selection Sunday really happens, like, all year. [Double A Zone] •...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. NHL playoffs w/E.J. Hradek: So, ever long for a job where the average working room temperature rises above 50 degrees? • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: Love the latest edition, but the chapter about Jesus secretly fatheri...

Julio Franco's Career, In Pixels
How long has Mets octogeniarian Julio Franco been around? So long that his career actually spans the whole era of video game baseball. From the Atari 2600 to Bases Loaded to MLB 06, Franco has been around for all of it. The great minds at Progressive Boink — those responsible for the genius that i...

This Is Why Everyone Needs To Synchronize Their Swatches
In Paris, earlier today (or yesterday, or whatever that time difference is), the IAAF — perhaps the most useless acronym in sports; it stands for International Association of Athletics Federations, which is kind like saying you have a Collection of Associated Alliances — announced that sprinter Ju...

Wait ... They're Not Still Playing?
Last night's Clippers-Suns game was so intense, so all-inclusive, that we were this close to just live blogging the thing ourselves. (J.E. Skeets did just fine, anyway.) The game ended at 2:18 ET time, which was seven hours ago; a guy who clocked in to work when this game ended still has an hour l...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while braiding your sister's hair ... • NBA Playoffs: Here Come The Suns, And I Say, It's Alright. Marion's 36x20 lead Phoenix in 2OT, put Clippers on the brink. • MLB: Kazmir, 22, youngest AL pitcher to six wins since Vida Blue in '71; Devil Rays beat White Sox 10-7. • Tennis: Marti...

Chris Kaman And Clippers Ready For World Domination
Little known fact: Clippers center Chris Kaman is not, in fact, actually hurt: That lump on his shoulder is just a normal byproduct of reaching the 25th year of life on his home planet. It's kind of like a birthing pouch, actually; in nine months, a being resembling a cross between Nicko McBrain a...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after your citizens storm the Lego Bastille, and throw you into Lego prison ... • NBA Playoffs: Conference semifinals, Game 5, New Jersey at Miami; Game 5, Los Angeles Clippers at Phoenix. How ironic that the Nets' final moments will be shown on the network that gives us the series Wit...

Blogdome: Uh, Ouch
• Man, Aaron Rowand worked himself over a bit there. Sheesh. [The 700 Level] • The Chris Rix training academy. No, really. [Every Day Should Be Saturday] • The blog equivalent of the SI cover jinx. [Noobsports] • More on the fastest man alive. [Chris' Sports Blog] • Ladies and gentlemen, the pink bu...

"Hey, Let's Play 'Seventeen' Again." "Yeah, Bro!"
We'd like to thank Boston.com for this staggeringly brilliant photo of Doug Flutie, bringing some goddamn RAWK....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m.. Boxer Rocky Juarez: OK, so originality isn't your strong suit. Let me guess: Is your dog named Rover? • 2:40 p.m.. IRL's Castroneves, Hornish: It was going to be 2 p.m., but, you know, traffic. • 3 p.m.. Writer and author Chris...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while building a Lego city, where you are undisputed king ... • NBA Playoffs: Never before have we heard so much about offensive rebounding in the playoffs — Mavericks take 3-1 series lead over Spurs. Oh, and LeBron ... • MLB: Rangers, Millwood make silence hobbling Yankees, 4-2. It'...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the cast of "Lost" discover that they are really the cast of "Lord of the Flies," just older ... • MLB: Boston at Baltimore. Do they give the cast of "The Wire" free tickets? [ESPN] • MLB: San Francisco at Houston. Hey, the circus is in town! Come see A .217 hitter get an intentiona...

Hello, Boston!
As that picture brings you back to the immortal "Does "More Than A Feeling" Really Have The Same Guitar Riff As "Smells Like Teen Spirit?" argument, we let you know that we are going back out on the road. (Book promotion never ends.) As soon as we finish up this here site today, we're heading Bost...

Goodnight, Sweet Dougie; May Your Dreams Involve Much Frantic Scrambling
He made it official earlier today at a press conference in waterlogged Foxborough: that scrappy, lovable Doug Flutie has finally retired, at the age of 43. As disappointed as we are to see Flutie retire — we always kind of figured he'd play until he was 60 — we are relieved as well; Flutie seems l...

Blogdome: No More Cocktails?
• Georgia president wants to get rid of "the world's largest outdoor cocktail party." That game was always pretty different than any cocktail party we'd been to anyway. [The Wizard Of Odds] • For those who just can't get enough of college hazing pictures, here's some juicy ones from the Northwestern...