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Hey, Kids, Come Out To The Park!
We encourage all kids in the Philadelphia area to get their tickets now for August 20 at Citizens Bank Park, for a very special Phillies promotion for a Sunday afternoon game against the Nationals: It's The Brett Myers Back-To-School Pack!...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you question a world in which God allows this to happen... • Golf: ING Par 3 Shootout, final day, at Gaylord, Mich. We've been golfing for 15 years. What is this "par" you speak of? [ESPN2] • WNBA: Sacramento at Seattle. Let's see, OK ... the nicknames are, Monarchs, and ... damn it...

Last Post On Mariotti/Guillen, Honest
OK, we promise: Last Ozzie Guillen-Jay Mariotti related post of the week, unless one of them ends up being caught drunk on camera, forcing us all to become dirty voyeurs....

Leftovers: Losing Isiah?
• Isiah Thomas has one year to turn the Knicks around. What could possibly go wrong? [New York Post] • You don't think the NBA listens? Look, they're putting up ads for referees? [NBA.com] • The Weekly Standard takes on soccer. You can probably guess what happened next. [The Weekly Standard] • Hones...

Live Blog: Spain Vs. France
A little way to keep yourself entertained during this World Cup if you happen to be the sort who has trouble retaining interest? Pretend the countries are their corresponding characters in "Mike Tyson's Punch Out." Therefore, this one is Don Flamenco vs. Glass Joe. There. Don't you feel better? Yo...

Death On The Rugby Field
So imagine if during a baseball brawl, instead of the usual hijinks of bench-clearing brawls and pretend lemme-at-'em pretense, things got so out of hand that one player actually killed another player. Seems crazy for baseball, but in rugby, apparently, anything goes....

Stage Diving, NASCAR Style
If we were bigger NASCAR fans, we would have certainly known about this earlier — since it happened about a month ago — but we're not, so we needed We Are The Postmen to point it out to us....

Jay The Joke: For All Your Jay Mariotti Mocking Needs
For skewering of our friend Jay Mariotti, quite frankly, we like to think we take a back seat to no one. Well, excepting perhaps Jay the Joke, a new blog dedicated to, as they put it "uniting Cubs fans and Sox fans through a common hatred of Jay Mariotti." And in so doing, does this blog not unite...

Blogdome: Smell The Excitement
• Daytona 500 cologne ... just what you'd think it is. [Copyranter] • Taking sports site away from Kentucky public employees, that's just being cruel. [The Kentucky Democrat] • More on Mariotti-gate. [Chicago Sports Review] • What happens when someone from high school outpaces you in the sports worl...

Just Can't Live Without Your Radio
MediaBistro's Fishbowl NY blog points out a brand new feature on Sirius Satellite Radio: It's Wimbeldon on the radio!...

Even More Trouble For Duke Athletics
Yeah, see, it really hasn't been a good few months for Duke athletics. Jeez....

Hopeless Geeks Superman Fans Assemble!
In honor of Superman Returns, which opens on Wednesday and is rumored to be pretty good, we pose the question: How is it ruled when a ball is driven underground? (We suspect that this has happened once or twice to Royals' pitchers already this season). If no one can dig it out in time, is it a hom...

Joe Mikulik, The Day After
We know you couldn't possibly have gotten enough of the great Joe Mikulik yesterday, so here's some more from everyone's favorite minor league manager. First, here's video from the stands, one long unbroken take that starts with the now infamous stolen base and ends with Mikulik exiting stage right ...

Live Blog: Brazil Vs. Ghana
If you're the type of person who's still upset about the United States losing to Ghana last week, you might be lamenting that this could have been the U.S. playing in this game. But you know what? We highly doubt you're that type of person....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m.. Baseball with Joe Morgan: Hi Joe, I would like to ask an important qu ... wait, just got a phone call. Gotta run. • Noon.. Lunch with Buzzmaster!: I can think of nothing less appetizing, unless the Appelbee's guys are playing....

Hirshey: B'Day, Mate
David Hirshey will write regularly during the World Cup....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while Sponging your Bob ... • When Beavers Attack: Oregon State wins first-ever College World Series title. And the crowd goes wild (yay!). • Foul Mood: We'd like to get worked up over the penalty call, but it's soccer, and we have kind of have no idea. Sorry. Italy beats Australia 1...

The Manly, Manly Sports Reporters
So we've been noticing something goofy going on with the coverage of the Ozzie Guillen-Jay Mariotti story; on the whole, the sturm und drang seems to be directed away from Guillen, who, after all, is Ozzie Guillen, a guy whose rantings whom we all kind of accept like the drunk uncle at Thanksgivin...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the roller coaster ride hits the apex, and things begin going downhill ... • College World Series: Game 3, North Carolina vs. Oregon State, at Omaha. This is for everything ... all the marbles. The dreams of many young men ride ... you've swtiched the station already, haven't you? [...