g Page 5869 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
About Last Night ...
What you missed while hiding from your pit bull ... · We So 'Horny: Texas wins College World Series. · Yankees Salvage Win In Ninth Over Mets: Trained snipers on roof slowly lower rifles aimed at Jason Giambi's head. · Zoom, Zoom: Tony Stewart wins NASCAR Save Mart 350....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch now that Elimidate has been cancelled ... · Wimbledon, Day 5: Federer and Roddick try to liven up this dying party. · It's a small world after all: LA Dodgers vs. LA Angels at an undisclosed location near Disneyland. · Subway Series: Wouldn't this be the worst time ever for a newspaper...
This Week In Weird Foreign Sports
We tend to find European sports terminology hilarious, mainly because it points to how equally absurd American sports terminology is. We all might know what "a blooper to shallow left" means, but to anyone not intimately familiar with baseball terminology, that's just nonsensical babbling. So here...
Blogdom's Best: The Nationals (wha?) Are Buyers Buyers Buyers
· A 2,000-word treatise on whom the Washington Nationals should trade for as they (huh?) make a run for a division title. [Capitol Punishment] · Confused Philadelphia phans aren't quite sure what they're supposed to yell at Boston fans. [The 700 Level] · Cubs fans have officially jumped the cliff: T...
Today In MLB Blogs
Humor. Who knows exactly how it works? Some things just strike us as amusing. For instance we were watching a rerun of the TV show "M*A*S*H" last night and witnessed the following exchange: Frank Burns: "Listen Bub, I'm a pretty fair doctor myself. You can ask any of my patients." Hawkeye: "We're...
Well, If Any Of You Are Bored Tonight ...
Via the indispensable NFL Wives Yahoo Group. Free admission for the ladies. And you can meet the Vikings' Larry Ned! Get there early!...
We Have To Ask ...
We Have to Ask ... Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: Are sports agents technically rodents, or members of the weasel family? · 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: Hey, wasn't that Tyson trying to sell his pigeons on eBay? · 4 p.m. Poker with...
Page 3 Wakes Up And Publishes — Barely
Well, it's Friday, so that must mean it's time for Page 3's editors to remember that they're, in fact, editors and update their "page." To show they mean business, they actually post two stories today. (We know!)...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while trying to unionize the neighbor kid's ant farm ... · Spurs win NBA title 92 days before their 2005-06 exhibition season begins. · Cardinals' Morris (8-1) finally tastes defeat/sushi. · See you later, alligator: Florida advances to College World Series finals....
Zack Greinke: "Let Me Go Home!"
The truly amazing folks at Yard Work — an anonymous blog that's written in the voices of ESPN writers and "personalities" — are having a grand time playing around with ESPN.com's new "writing" gig for A's closer Huston Street. Yard Work imagines a continuous column written by Royals starter Zack G...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as the cops make various demands outside by bullhorn ... · Game 7, Pistons at Spurs: Let's see who the media can blame this time. · College World Series, Double-Elimination Round: Florida vs. ASU. Loser gets to leave Nebraska! · U.S. Open Women's Golf Championship. Or, as they call it ...
Blogdom's Best: It's Cute When Newspaper Reporters Pretend They Go Online
News From Chairs With Little Rollers On Them ... · Boston Globe profiles message board poster, but gets everything wrong. [Sons Of Sam Horn] · White Sox fans finally starting to believe. They're totally going to regret it. [SouthSideSox] · Sympathy for Vinny Castilla and his "tired bat." [District o...
Today In MLB Blogs
As if the world doesn't hate us enough already, somebody got the bright idea recently to send Tommy Lasorda to other nations to act as our ambassador. He has just returned from Japan, where he was part of a "delegation" representing us at the World Expo. We know this because Tommy has just recoun...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: Isn't this June? Instead of devising a seven-month plan to acquire Mark Brunell, shouldn't I be, oh, I don't know, having a life? · Noon. ESPN Golf School: Once again I've strained a tendon trying to lea...
About Last Night ...
What you missed due to the fact that what happened in Vegas, didn't stay in Vegas ... · Austin Powers: Texas reaches CWS championship round. · French dissed again: Campbell pulls out of French Open. · Clemens, age 43, wins 334th game. You, age 26, pull a muscle playing video poker....
Sneakers: Rock The Vote, America!
We know that the whole point of ESPN's Page 2 is to write about the culture of sports, from entertainment to clothing to ... well, whatever the media kit says, just trust that. But this is getting ridiculous....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as life passes you by in a conga line outside your window ... Mets at Phillies. This meeting of the Doug Mientkiewicz Fan Club will now come to order. Wimbledon After Dark. We won't tell you what happened. CWS: Texas vs. Baylor. The ping! you hear means that none of these guys will be ...
And The Children Shall Lead Them ...
Minor league promotions are always fun — we were a big fan of the team that gave out free vasectomies for Father's Day a few years back — but the Northern League's Kansas City T-Bones have come up with a great one. In July, the first two innings of the game will be played by two kids on an XBOX o...
Blogdom's Best: It's Bad Enough We Have To Watch It <em>Once</em>
News And Views From People For Whom RSS Is A Stat ... All-Baseball.com columnist begs and pleads for instant replay to stay away from the diamond. [All-Baseball.com] A remembrance of Darryl Kile, three years to the day of his death. [Viva El Birdos] Unfortunately, SportsCenter is still planning on s...
This, Of Course, Means You Can't Use Your Hands In Heaven
It's actually kind of surprising we haven't heard of this before, though if it were to happen, it was obviously going to be soccer. The Reading soccer club of England can now buy an officially licensed coffin. The coffin weighs 500 pounds and is a "blue and white striped coffin adorned with the c...