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Minor Enterprise: Now Batting, Father Time
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...
Blogdome: Yao, Ladies Man
• Yao Ming, just out taking a stroll. [The Basketball Jones] • Vlade Divac just looks like he's going to take over Serbia. And that's a good thing. [To The People] • All you could need to know about the British Open course. [Armchair GM] • Tomo Ohka looks a little different now that he's almost off ...
Come On Down And Boo Our Guests!
You know how audience coordinators at "Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith" are always trolling Web message boards trying to get people to come to their shows? Well, now it's getting rather extreme....
Morrison-Tyson: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Remember Tommy Morrison? In a more sports world with a little more flair than the one we inhabit, his story would be among the most compelling. Distant relative of John Wayne, co-star with Stallone in Rocky V, briefly heavyweight champion, beat George Foreman, spent 14 months in jail and, oh yeah,...
Who Knew Strange Things Happened In Long Island?
OK, probably time to get into this New York Islanders mess. As you surely have read by now, the Islanders fired general manager Neil Smith and hired current backup goalie Garth Snow to take his spot. The move seems curious from all directions; even Snow seems to be receiving a demotion, since he h...
Are We Ready For A Tour de Landis?
Can Floyd Landis be the next Lance Armstrong? We as Americans have to decide, and soon. It's clear after Tuesday's 15th stage of the Tour de France that Landis just could win this thing. Are we sure if we can embrace a cycling icon who looks exactly like a slightly younger version of actor Jim Bro...
Goodnight, Seattle, And Good Luck
It has been a while since a franchise actually up and moved: The most recent had the Expos heading to Washington, D.C., but that had been brewing for so long and had been handled so poorly that few in Montreal were particularly devastated to see them go. Therefore, it certainly warrants note that ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m.. NFL with Gary Horton: Who did the latest 49ers stadium plans, Tim Burton? • Noon.. NBA with Ric Bucher: Screw everything; I'm predicting Allen Iverson will go to the Warriors. • 5 p.m.. Poker with Bernard Lee: My "tell" is tha...
The Closer: Exploring The Melky Way
Notes from a day in baseball ......
Our History At Busch Is Off To A Roaring Start
In the first two games at the brand new stadium of the team for which we have directed a considerable amount of our psychic energy over the last 26 years, the home team has been outscored 29-8. When a baseball team is blown out, it is often to referred to as a "football score;" the final tally was...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching men in blue grey uniforms circle the bases ... repeatedly .... • Tour de France: America, take hope; Floyd Landis will save you. • MLB: Beltran loves his bases juiced; slams once again as Mets top Reds 8-3. • Minor League Baseball: Canseco less than stellar in pitching...
Bobby Knight Wants YOU
From We Are The Postmen, the fine people who brought you the profane Bobby Knight golf instructional video from a few months back, here's another great one, with Coach doing a recruiting video for the Marines....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you put much faith in Jason Marquis... • MLB: Mets at Reds. Reds fans anxiously await any more genius moves before trading deadline; such as Griffey for a bag of magic beans. [Fox Sports Ohio] • WNBA: Houston at San Antonio; New York at Los Angeles. Mark Cuban will blast the officia...
Chasing History: Bobby Cox
The excellent A Trivial Pursuit points out something we didn't know: Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox is but eight ejections away from breaking John McGraw's record for lifetime ejections. McGraw was ejected 131 times; Earl Weaver has the AL record with 98. Those are extremely impressive numbers. ...
Leftovers: What's With All The Dead Steelers?
• The Pittsburgh Steelers have a terrible time keeping their old players alive. [Los Angeles Times] • Some truly impressive competitive eating records. [CBS Sportsline] • Bruce Arena has WINGS! [The Sporting News] • Pittsburgh's general manager could take a lesson from the guy who traded up from a p...
Get Drunk With ESPN
We've been waiting for someone to come up with a definitive ESPN drinking game, and even though this might not be the definitive one, it's pretty close. Here's a fun "Pardon The Interruption" sampling:...
It's Good To Be Jimmy Johnson
Every year or so, former Cowboys and Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson is forced to deny rumors that he's returning to coaching, usually with some sort of "I'm having too much fun relaxing on my boat!" response that does little to squash talk....
Only A Matter Of Time Before This Becomes An Olympic Sport, You Know
It is at once Carl Monday's worst nightmare, and everyone else's dream come true. On August 5, hundreds of people will gather in a hall in central London to, um, pleasure themselves for charity. We only wish we were kidding about the UK's first "masturbate-a-thon," in which contestants — both men ...
Tsuyoshi Shinjo, SUPERSTAR!
We're not going to say anything about this Japanese video of New York Mets flop Tsuyoshi Shinjo. We're just going to show it. And then hide....
Sklar Brothers Poll Maddeningly Inconclusive
Well, we've closed our poll on the Sklar brothers, and, much to our frustration, it didn't really tell us much at all....