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To Watch Tonight
What to watch while waiting for Aunt Lou to finish cooking dinner ... • MLB: Texas at Detroit. We won't predict anything here. Nope, don't wan to jinx either team. We are silent, because (Detroit will win World Series). Doh! [ESPN] • NFL: Preseason, Kansas City at New York Giants. Let the sobbing (C...
NFL Season Preview: Detroit Lions
We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of people painting ...
Leftovers: Who Is The Mystery Mets Sponsor?
• What the heck is Azek Trimboards? [High And Inside] • Yeah, you just try and find Rrett Bomar on the cover of an Oklahoma calendar. [The Wizard Of Odds] • It's NASCAR love affair intrigue! [Scene Daily] • Hey, MLB Advanced Media: Screw off. No, really, we mean it. (Seriously: Show us the part on o...
Take This Grass, Or Kevin Brown Will Shoot You Where You Stand
Remember Kevin Brown? Awesome for the Marlins, injured for the Dodgers, pissy for the Yankees, kind of a dumb hot-headed Hoosier type? Of course you do. Good ole Kevin Brown....
Google Video, Jose Canseco And You
We're not sure how we'd react if attacked by a leopard; probably curl up like an armadillo and roll toward the nearest large body of water. But we would hope that it would be a manly, dignified roll. We wouldn't want to go out squealing like a Girl Scout, as you can hear in this video. The reason we...
Attack Of The Killer Baseball
We'd never seen this video before, but it's proof of the age old maxim: When a baseball decides to kill every person in the room, there's simply no stopping it. Do not taunt Happy Baseball....
Canseco Pitching Debut Goes As You Probably Imagined It Would
There are many forms of self delusion. There's Kip from Napoleon Dynamite, who was "training to be a cage fighter." Then there's Jose Canseco, who beaned four batters, walked five and gave up a home run over 4 1/3 innings in his pitching debut with the Long Beach Armada on Wednesday, inspiring thi...
Blogdome: Portis' Bed
• In case you missed the Esquire interview with Clinton Portis. [The Big Lead] • "Meditative" footage of Lonny Baxter's arrest. [WizzNutzz] • Big, big fun with cheese scoreboard races in the CFL. [Boatmen Blog] • At the end of the day, why DID Floyd Landis do it? [Bored At Life] • A little Ohio foot...
NFL Season Preview: San Diego Chargers
We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of people painting ...
Old 49ers PR Guy Has Much Better Job Now
Remember Kirk Reynolds? He's the former San Francisco 49ers head of PR who was fired last June for making a "sensitivity training" video for the players that featured lesbians, gay jokes and crude Asian humor. We always thought his mistake was one of execution rather than one of message; the inciden...
Fortunately, It's A Slow Time Of The Year For Fantasy Football
For the second consecutive year, ESPN is having serious problems with its fantasy games. The above message, which anyone who tries to get in the fantasy game gets right now, has, obviously, perfect timing: If there's one time of the year when people aren't thinking about fantasy football, it's total...
Ron Artest Talks With Kids: Can World Peace Be Far Behind?
From the looks of things, it's only a matter of time before Ron Artest is asked to appear on Sesame Street. We're a wee bit late on this, but fortunately TrueHoop was paying close attention to Artest's first day of mandatory community service yesterday, which was part of his punishment for the 2004 ...
Tom Brady Linked To ... Uh ... A Phone Call, We Think
You can forgive Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for wondering this morning, "Jeez, of all the seedy, steroid-infested, slimy illegal gin joints in all the world, I had to walk into his."...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Live from PGA Championship: Could the Internet get any more excting than this? • 2 p.m. D.C. United D Bobby Boswell: If they outlaw diving, is there any reason left to watch soccer at all? • 3 p.m. Seahawks K Josh Brown: Just t...
Stolen Car Clip A Fake, Subsequent Beatdown Not So Much
By now, many of us have seen the video of the fan who ran on the track at Altamont Motorsports Park last week and stole the winning car, driving it away. The above video was all over the place, from CNN to "SportsCenter" to "Today."...
The Closer: Turns Out There's Some There, There
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while vaccuming the lawn ... • Tennis: It's not the Roger's Cup anymore ... Roger Federer ousted in second round of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters by a teen. • MLB: Bruce Froemming umpires 5,000th career game, receives tribute mooning from Red Sox mascot. • Soccer: En...
We're Only 99 44/100ths Percent Pure, Ourselves
The woman on the left in this photo is Danika Schroeter. She finished second in the Canadian downhill mountain biking championships last week, finishing just one second behind Michelle Dumaresq. Dumaresq is the woman in the middle. The lady on the right ... we don't know who the lady on the right is...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the Aflac Duck finally develops nuclear capability ... • Little League Softball: World Series, championship, at Portland, Ore. We do not have money on the Pequannock, N.J. team! [ESPN2] • MLB: Detroit at Boston. We thought interleague play was over. Oh, wait. [ESPN] • Tennis: ATP, W...
NFL Season Preview: New York Giants
We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of painting their...