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Remember: Dale's The One Who's Always In Trouble
One of our favorite old stories — memorialized in a classic early Bill Simmons column — was the Atlanta Gold Club trial. Remember that? The one where all the athletes — Patrick Ewing, Andruw Jones and, uh, Stephen Baldwin — kept getting sexual favors from a strip club in Atlanta. (Yes, Rodman was in...
Leftovers: Chan Ho, Bleeding
• Chan Ho Park, really not feeling so well. [Baseball Musings] • Juan Gonzalez and his bag of steroids. [New York Daily News] • Former jocks turned actors, if you can call them that. [CourtTV] • Hey, some rare good press for ESPN Mobile. [Technology Review] • The Arena Football 2 playoffs are ON THE...
When It Comes To Foreign Substances, Listen To Gaylord Perry
For those who don't remember Gaylord Perry, despite being the only member of baseball's Hall of Fame named "Gaylord," he also holds practically all of the modern-day petroleum-based pitching records. All of our current CSI television programs combined would be hard-pressed to figure out how Perry ke...
At Last, An Actual Diaper Dandy
Last week we waxed philosophical on the plight of a young basketball phenom from Maryland, who was already being pursued by AAU and high school coaches even though he was only 10 years old. Well coaches, if you want to get in on a really young talent, check out this video. The kid is, like, three....
Some Good Ole' Texas Schadenfreude
As you would probably suspect, many Oklahoma rivals are having some fun with this Rhett Bomar no-show job business, and nobody's going crazier with it than the Hook 'Ems of Texas. They've had a little photoshop contest on a Longhorns message board, and they're having all kinds of fun....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Atlantic Coast Conference
We must confess that we can't wait each year for the crunch of shoulder pads; for cleats churning up chunks of turf and red-faced coaches screaming from the sidelines. But enough about lacrosse. College football season is upon us, and to celebrate, we're going to get back into tiny tidbit mode and...
Blogdome: An Open Letter To George Solomon
• We thought the most recent column from ESPN ombudsman George Solomon was among the more critical and reasonable ones he's written. Here's a dissenting (and somewhat convincing) view. [Fan's Attic] • How this year's baseball season is like the 2001-02 NBA season, and how the Mets are like the Nets....
We Can't Believe This Hasn't Happened In Philly Yet
From the Videos That Scare You To Your Very Core Department comes this from-the-stands video of Brazilian soccer team Gremio supporters at a game last weekend. If you think this isn't terrifying enough, here's, as Paul Harvey might say, the REST of the story:...
Your Unwarranted Kevin Costner Update
You can always tell how Kevin Costner's career is going by how much he remembers he "loves the beautiful game of baseball." When he was stalling in the late '90s, he tried to recapture the Bull Durham-Field Of Dreams magic with For The Love Of The Game, a movie so dull and torpid that you'd never be...
God, Training Camp Is So Disgusting
Far be it from us to tell any football team how to run their business, particularly during the big petri dish of sweat and blood and all kinds of other disgusting things in the midst of training camp, but we suspect a new policy the 'Skins have put into place might have been worthwhile to institut...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 12:15 p.m.. Boxer Vernon Forrest: So, have you ever beaten anyone besides Shane Mosley? • 2 p.m.. Driver Brad Coleman: If there were more fistfights in NASCAR, like in hockey, I might even watch. No, sorry. That's a lie. • 2 p.m.. 'Sum...
Yao Ming's Big, Big Stand
Houston Rockets center Yao Ming doesn't just spend his offseasons taking a stroll or two around the track. He also spends it saving elephants by swatting away bullets heading toward them directly out of the air. See, he's not just tall; he's made of some sort of indestructible material....
Buyer Beware ... And Beware Again ... And Beware Again
In a classic Oh, Now You Tell Us moment, Philadelphia owner Jeffrey Lurie has suddenly realized that, aw, jeez, maybe it wasn't actually the best of ideas to bring in wide receiver Terrell Owens....
Ah, Fun With PC Goodness
If you're a Yankees fan so obsessed with your team that you require daily tidbits of minutiae to get through your workday, you might have one of those daily desk calendars. (We have one for "The Far Side.") Fishbowl NY has pointed out the above entry for yesterday, August 2, in which the copy-editin...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while dodging flying burritos ... • Golf: Not only do we not see Michelle Wei on this leaderboard, but we're still working on figuring out what Weetabix is. • World Series of Poker: Several top players eliminated despite their comical glasses. • MLB: Um, in case you haven't noticed, ...
Next Up: Gran Turismo!
We are not, as of this writing, professional marketers. We are confused by what people use to sell their products. We skipped class a lot: Sorry....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the last surviving munchkins steal your car ... • Boxing: Featherweights, Rogers Mtagwa vs. Alvin Brown, at Philadelphia. How come ESPN boxing isn't like the fight scenes in the Rocky movies? [ESPN2] • MLB: Philadelphia at St. Louis. Hit streak or not, I'm going for a beer. [ESPN] •...
Poker? We Barely Even Know Her! (Sorry.)
We haven't had any Anna Benson updates for a while, mainly because her husband is in baseball purgatory in Baltimore, they haven't made a divorce announcement in a few months and her handlers have apparently asked her to slow down on the slaughter of bunnies and other adorable animals....
Leftovers: Booting Sooner
• Oklahoma's starting QB is kicked off the team. [The Oklahoman] • You know, a coach who is also a pimp is a versatile fellow indeed. [The M Zone] • A nice review of a book we very much enjoyed, actually. [Orlando Sentinel] • USC player nailed for steroids. [Los Angeles Daily News] • Cubs fans reall...