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Floyd Landis About To Become Decidedly Less Popular
There have been tons of rumors circulating around Tour de France champion Floyd Landis, who has gone missing from two races he was scheduled for this week. No one can get a hold of him, and race organizers were "annoyed."...
Your Morning Harold Reynolds Update
Well, we have our answer as to what Harold Reynolds will do now: He's not going to try to get his job back....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching The Nanny marathon ... • The Big Hurt: Frank Thomas leads Athletics over Red Sox 5-1 with impressive display of athletic prowess. • Tennis: Hey look, an A-Rod you don't have to boo! Top-seeded Andy Roddick dismantles Rik De Voest in first round of Countrywide Classic •...
So What's Next For Reynolds And ESPN?
So now that Harold Reynolds has confirmed that he was indeed fired for sexual harassment, we wonder for a moment: Is there any way he could come back?...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you steadfastly avoid the Outback Steakhouse... • Boxing: Cruiserweights, Eliseo Castillo vs. Jonathan Banks, at New York. At what point does your son say "Dad, when I grow up I want to be a cruiserweight?" [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Yankees at Texas. Just for a change of pace, Yankees...
Honestly, They Better Sign Isaiah Rider Soon
Admit it: You wouldn't be surprised, at this point, if Carson Palmer was nailed for sticking up a Dairy Queen somewhere just outside Blue Ash, would you?...
Leftovers: Jefferson's A Gamer
• Richard Jefferson's secret training technique: Halo 2. Really. [Life On A Bench] • There's nothing Elvis Stojko can't do. [The Star] • The John Sterling drinking game! [Sox Fan In Hell] • An excellent blog interview with Buster Olney. [MetsBlog] • Tony LaRussa's dog dies. We guarantee you our mom ...
People Talking About A Video Game: That'll Be 20 Bucks, Please
Sometimes we wonder if we're piling on ESPN, if we're just looking for things that are wrong, never giving them the benefit of the doubt, just out to criticize all the time, whether it's merited or not. Are we just being Negative Nellies? Are we unreasonable? We wonder. We're introspective that wa...
Minor Enterprise: Yeee Haw! It's Mullet Night!
Welcome to Minor Enterprise, where we preview, and occasionally review, the great events of minor league baseball. Each Wednesday we'll take a look at the promotions, players and mascots which populate our minor league ballparks; the unsung heroes of our national pastime. (Minor Enterprise not res...
OK, Maybe Everyone Should Boo Dusty
OK, we understand that he had thrown a lot of pitches, and that he had walked five guys, and that the score was 0-0 and that he has been injured enough to need to be coddled a bit....
Daniel Snyder Appreciates Your Checkbook
We have always found the notion of Fan Appreciation Days amusing. Even though every single salary of every single player in every single sport is paid for exclusively by fans — whether it be tickets, merchandise, cable bills, whatever — big-time sports still feel the need to acknowledge the fans o...
Also, They Make Their Tamales Way Too Hot
It takes a special kind of person to come into a verbal confrontation with White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and come out looking like the more unreasonable one ... but if anyone can do it, it's Andy Van Slyke....
Blogdome: Irreconcilable Differences
• A petition for ESPN divorce. [The Sports Frog] • We will never, EVER get tired of the Hoosier Cardinals Fan series. [Inside STL] • More Bat-Girl Lego goodness. [Bat-Girl] • Pittsnogle and the Celtics, a perfect match. [I Heart Celtics] • The Oakland A's as Smurfs. [BaySports] • Careful, friends, o...
Someone Could Really Use Matlock Around Right Now
We don't mean to imply that matters have gotten as bad as they possibly could get for Maurice Clarett just two weeks before his robbery trial ... but they're as bad as they could possibly get....
New Team USA Looks Like Old Team USA
The preliminary/final/tentative/whatever they're calling it roster for USA Basketball has been set, and the talk continues to be about how "cohesive" and "team-oriented" the new roster is. (It helps when you have a leader who just happens to coach basketball.)...
Harold Reynolds' Firing: The Smaller Picture
Lost in all of the hubbub over Harold Reynolds being dismissed at ESPN is the fact that he won't be in the broadcast booth for the Little League World Series, breaking a nine-year string. It seems especially cruel to cut Reynolds loose on the eve of the biggest event for pint-sized athletes in the...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Cowboys' TE Anthony Fasano: If you don't have any T.O. stories, we're leaving. • 3:30 p.m.. Raiders' S Darnell Bing: Art Shell is your coach. Who are you signing next, Jim Otto? • 4 p.m. "Summer House'' w/Chris Spielman: Oh yeah...
Great Tastes That Taste Great Together!
This photo, from Sports Illustrated's "College Football Summer Bonding" story, is rather obviously more gay than anything at the Gay Games in Chicago last week. This is how they bond: A slip-and-slide? Yeah ... in prison!...
AJ Hawk Is A Moral Man
As a followup to our AJ Hawk/Laura Quinn/shotgun wedding post from yesterday, we look to the Dayton Daily News, which gives us the full report on why AJ Hawk, rather than go through with the planned wedding in March, got married in his lawyer's office while wearing his Under Armour gear. (Seriousl...