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Leftovers: Waste Management
• Who would have thought a team called the Trashers would be mobbed up? [NewsTimesLive] • Albert Belle denied bail, going to stay in jail until stalking trial begins. [Arizona Republic] • We really do kind of need PowerPoint presentations to preview college football, actually. [Every Day Should Be S...
Hey, We Can All Agree To Hate Soccer TOGETHER!
In this time of international turmoil and global conflict, it is good to know that there are issues that we can all come together on. President Bush says he never saw a soccer ball as a kid, and now a Saudi cleric says soccer is against Allah....
Live Blog: Brazil Vs. Croatia
As has been pointed out, Brazil is like the Yankees it's OK to like. Few people think the Brazilians are arrogant or full of themselves, and rarely do people root against them. We think it's because every single Brazilian person we've ever met is extremely attractive. That's more than we can say f...
Odalis Perez's Charitable Contributions
You know who's a charming guy? Recently demoted Dodgers starter Odalis Perez, that's who....
Roethlisberger Maelstrom Only Just Beginning, We're Afraid
The reaction to Ben Roethlisberger's motorcycle accident isn't yet approaching Barbaro proportions — he's not a loveable racehorse, after all — but it's up there. Aside from multiple facial fractures — which were repaired successfully, according to surgeons — Roethlisberger seems to have escaped o...
Spreading The Buckeye Love In Iraq
We've had more than our fair share of big fun at the expense of Ohio State of late, so we thought we'd try to even matters out by pointing out this picture, taken by Corporal Adam Knox, from Whitehall, Ohio, currently serving in Iraq. He's the brother of Deadspin reader Tom Knox, who forwarded the p...
Blogdome: Nike's Spelling Bee
• Yeah, Nike? Spelling "Russia" correct on the clothing is very important. [Paradigm Blog] • If a CFL cheerleader can't keep her job after appearing on "The Howard Stern Show," dammit, when CAN she keep her job? [The Universal Cynic] • That rugby match? Not a brawl, coppers. [The Red Terror] • Deali...
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
When we first saw this, we thought it was an Onion headline. But no, it's for real; Fifa Urges Mexico Coach To Try Nicotine Patch. Ha. Evidently FIFA is a bit miffed that Mexico coach Ricardo Lavolpe lit up a couple of Camels on the sideline during Mexico's 3-1 win over Iran in the World Cup. That's...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Cold Pizza's Skip Bayless: Your barber swears that the birthmark he found on your scalp reads "999," but we know better, right Skip? • 4 p.m. NFL with Pro Football Weekly: Just as a precaution: Should I wear a helmet during this...
Live Blog: France Vs. Switzerland
One of our favorite essays in the new "Thinking Fan's Guide To The World Cup" is the one about England from Nick Hornby. He writes about how difficult is him to root for England in the World Cup, considering that his favorite team, Arsenal, has so many French players. We understand this completely; ...
Your Big Ben Morning Roundup
As we revisit the circumstances of Ben Roethlisberger's accident from yesterday, before we talk about Big Ben himself, we feel obliged to mention: Boy, Charlie Batch sure made it to the hospital awfully fast! Certainly it was somewhat unseemly for Batch to have shown up so quickly? Was Roethlisber...
JJ Redick ... DUI. Seriously.
Not to pile on here, but we'd say the odds are pretty good this is going to make him cry....
The Closer: Jose Contreras Will Rock Your World
Notes from a day in baseball:...
Hirshey: We Waited Four Years For THIS?
David Hirshey's World Cup Closer begins today. Enjoy....
Live Blog: Korea Republic Vs. Togo
As you would probably expect, it's not good when your coach leaves the team immediately before the biggest three matches of your life. Of course, it's also not good when your team is Togo, so there's that....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while furiously scrubbing red-white-and-blue paint off of your face ... • NHL Playofs: Hurricane Recchi puts Carolina one step from Stanley Cup. • World Cup: George and Yortuk Festrunk, the two wild and crazy guys, feel a bulge in their tight American pants at this result: Czech Repu...
Picking Through The U.S. Carnage
One of the funnier bits "The Daily Show" has done of late was to run training video of late terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi set to the "American Idol" song "Bad Day," which was always played when a contestant was voted off the show. It somehow summed up so many conflicted and complicated wor...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you can't remember which beer can was shaken vigorously and which wasn't ... • College baseball: NCAA Division I super regionals, Game 3, Sites and teams TBA. Yeah, see, that's not really much help. [ESPN] • Stanley Cup finals, Game 4, Carolina at Edmonton. The Oil vs. Water series ...
How To Brainwash Your Baby Early
From the folks at Thrillist comes a truly mortifying discovery: Team Baby Entertainment, DVDs designed to brainwash your otherwise sensible and emotionally curious child into a life of violent confrontion, xenophobic geographic loyalties and face-painting....
Leftovers: For The Sports Fan Who Has Nothing
• Hey, look, it's ESPN Monopoly! [BoardGames.com] • It has been 12 years, today, since O.J. Simpson killed those people. [The Hater Nation] • Should they do something about ground rule doubles? [Walk Of Balk] • Apparently, there's absolutely no steroid problem in the NHL. [TSN] • Charity prom event ...