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Who'll Be The First Baseball General Manager To Get Publicly Smeared?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
Wizards, They Love Them Hos
Good rule of thumb: When a professional athlete is arrested for solicitation of a prostitute, we are required to write about it, even if that athlete only average 3.7 points a game last year....
X Games Skater Somehow Doesn't Die
We don't cover much X Games around here — we probably don't need to explain why — but last night, some guy named Jake Brown pulled off one of the most amazing moves in X Games history ... and then took a fall that amazingly didn't kill him. We're still not sure it's sports, but man, it's tough no...
The Long, Painful "March" To 755
We're not gonna make any predictions this time — and we promise, this is the last time we're gonna end a day with a Bonds post — but Barry Bonds might or might not give this another try tonight....
Being An Obscure Gay Basketball Player Won't Help You Sell Books
It's difficult, in the world of sports book publishing, to garner better advance publicity than John Amaechi had for his book Man In The Middle....
Somebody Just Give This Guy A Grill Endorsement Already
You knew, somehow, if Evander Holyfield just hung around long enough, waiting for someone to need a big name to highlight some sort of grueling pay-per-view spectacle, someone would give the 44-year-old former heart patient the opportunity to fight for another championship. (Or die trying. Seriously...
Browns Fans Are A Joyous Sort
Apropos of nothing — we haven't said that in a while — here's a Photoshop creation to honor those happy Cleveland Browns fans. Somehow, Brady Quinn is not in this picture, dancing or rocking out to Warrant....
It's Never The Offseason In The Mind Of Gilbert Arenas
We know you never miss Gilbert Arenas' blog, because you're a good hearted soul, but if you haven't had a chance to check today ... well ... we're just gonna go ahead and just quote Gilbert directly....
Jake Gyllenhaal Wants To Kiss You
Look at that face. That's the face of a life well lived; that's the face of a guy who needs his life story told. That's the face of a guy who has bedded plenty like you, Kolber, you ain't nothin'....
NFL Season Preview: Chicago Bears
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....
Sometimes The Internet Is Scary
From the People Will Auction Anything Online file ......
Theismann Still Bitching About MNF Firing
We're sure there are people out there other than Joe Theismann and Washington Post columnist Leonard Shapiro who will miss Theismann on "Monday Night Football" broadcasts next year. We just can't find any of them....
NFL Season Preview: Kansas City Chiefs
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....
Cubs Are Iguchied, Drop One Game Back Of Brewers
No first place for you, Chicago Cubs. Oh, why, why? (Bangs head against refrigerator). The Philadelphia Phillies, bolstered just before game time with the addition of pitcher Kyle Lohse from the Reds (6-12, 4.58 ERA, tiny, ill-advised goatee), beat the Cubs 4-1 on Monday. The loss dropped Chicago to...
The Man Needs No Superpowers
We can't thank Benjamin Hill of Minor League Ball enough for this little tidbit: We're about to get our comic book geek on with our hero among heroes....
Athletes, As Drawn By The People At The County Fair
The gentle souls over at The Sports Hernia have started a series that's near and dear to our heart: A look at some of the most ridiculous sports T-shirt caricatures throughout history....
What Not To Do With A Golf Cart
An absolutely bizarre story from Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, and proof that you should always be careful with your golf carts....
"If [Saunder] says, 'Clinton I need you to run through that brick wall,' and that brick wall, it's hard to run through a brick wall, I've got to find a way to get as close as I can and dive over the top of this brick wall and tell him, '[Bleep], I made it over.' You know? 'I did it. I didn't do it t...