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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:30 a.m. Page 2's Scoop Jackson: It occurs to us that former President Andrew Jackson has broken as many "scoops" as you have lately. • 12:30 p.m. Cleveland Cavaliers' Donyell Marshall: Does LeBron get mad when you use his ermine rob...
Gilbert Arenas Can't Stop Shooting
Via Mr. Irrelevant, we present this picture of Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas, who had a rather nuts battle with Boston's Paul Pierce last night. (Pierce hit a game-winning shot at the buzzer.)...
The Final Four Sleeps With The Fishes
Fascinating story in The New York Times this morning; an economist postulates that, in college basketball, point shaving takes place in about 5 percent of all games with big spreads. The economist, Justin Wolfers from the University of Pennsylvania, has collected results from nearly 16 years of co...
Revisiting A Truly Great Prank
We did a very brief bit on this a couple of days ago, but we didn't give it nearly enough of a heads-up, since, frankly, it's one of the best examples of fan subterfuge we've ever seen....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while quelling locker room dissent on your Fantasy Baseball team ... • World Baseball Classic: Take that, Mexico! That's about $177 million worth of pitching that the U.S. threw at you. • NHL: Stars stop Oilers in shootout, which is still a weird sentence to type but that's modern ho...
Let's Not Forget The Real Victim Here
In all the rigmarole destined to take over the sports airwaves in the coming days, let's not forget who will suffer the real ramifications of the definitive proof that Barry Bonds took steroids story: ESPN....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your ex-mistress talks about your sexual dysfunction on the cover of a national sports magazine ... • World Baseball Classic: USA vs. Mexico, at Phoenix; Canada vs. South Africa, at Scottsdale, Ariz. Bud Selig will be watching via closed circuit TV from his underground lair. If you ...
Bonds Won't Get Off The Hook This Time
OK, if you've hadn't a chance to dig into the Bonds Sports Illustrated story yet, we cannot recommend it more highly....
The End Of Barry Bonds
So we just got back from lunch ... what'd we miss?...
Blogdome: Tony Danza As ... Who Again?
• "Who's The Boss?" ... in Knick land. [The Basketball Jones] • So, moving to the NFL, who's the most hated football player? [Dave's Football Blog] • Tiger Woods is so much better than everyone else, it's just not even fair. [Sugar, Mr. Poon?] • Theo Fleury, causing international incidents. [World C...
Bruce Pearl Coaches Crackheads. Yeah! Take That!
As longtime readers know, we never miss an opportunity to knock around Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl. We know this isn't fair — he's a great coaching story, he's done a great job and the man is a world champion sweater — but Bruce Pearl's fate was sealed with us back in the early '90s when he was an...
Who's Got Bracket Fever?
We're just five days away from Selection Sunday — which, in combination with the season premiere of "The Sopranos," is pretty much more fun than any day should be allowed to be — and we're still working on our big NCAA Tournament Project. (All teams remain signed up for. Honestly, you guys rule.)...
Myles Brand Makes Himself Richer
The Wizard Of Odds brings us a little bit of info we hadn't heard about: NCAA president Myles Brand made $870,000 in compensation last year. That's a figure that's higher than what a single public university president makes. And they actually pay the people who make them all their money....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. ESPN anchor Mike Greenberg: Do the words "ESPN" and "anchor" conjure images of Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, like they do for me? • 2 p.m. Jim Caple on Kirby Puckett: Two hours isn't enough. We could talk about him for we...
Muresan Lives! (In The ABA)
After he read about the promotion on Deadspin last week, Danny Groner of Silver Spring, Md. decided to attend the ABA game featuring guest player Gheorghe Muresan. Because he was really there. He files this report:...
We've Got Spirit, Yes We Doooooooooo ...
College cheerleading, an object of ridicule since it was discovered that our President did it, has new respect in our eyes. Southern Illinois basketball cheerleader Kristi Yamaoka, who fell 15 feet off of the top of a human pyramid onto her head on Sunday, suffered a chipped neck vertebra and a co...
About Last Night ...
What you missed when your kid's G.I. Joe collection went AWOL and turned up in Barbie's Dreamhouse ... • NBA: Kobe's 43 not enough as Spurs spank Lakers. • College Basketball: This is troubling, NCAA bracket-wise. Gonzaga beats LMU by 1 in WCC championship game, after having won in the semis over Sa...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the rest of the family interacts with each other (fine, as long as they keep it down) ... • College Basketball: Colonial Athletic Association championship, N.C.-Wilmington vs. Hofstra, at Richmond, Va.; West Coast Conference championship, Gonzaga vs. Loyola Marymount, at Spokane, Wa...
The Ladies Love The Baseball
We always find it kind of embarrassing when major sports leagues make conscious efforts to try to cater to the female audience. From our experience, a woman is either a sports fan, or she isn't — you know, like the rest of the human population. League executives tend to think of female sports fans t...
Gammons And Morgan: A Team For The Ages
We're not sure if this will make the folks at Fire Joe Morgan leap in bliss or slip into madness, but it appears everybody's soul-crushing Sunday Night Baseball analyst Joe Morgan is gonna have some company in the booth this year: Peter Gammons....