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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you admire your white knit collar polo with two button placket, just like ESPN's Jay Harris ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Boston [ESPN], Atlanta at San Diego. Has there ever been a streakier team than the Padres, in any sport? [TBS]. • NBA Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 1, Phoen...

A Brief History Of Quincy Carter
For those who remember, and for those who can't forget:...

Leftovers: Durham Solidarity
• Duke women's lacrosse team will wear "innocent" sweatbands on their uniforms during their Final Four. [Durham Herald-Sun] • Soccer player lulled to sleep, robbed. [U-TV] • A novel idea, one supposes: President's brother approached to work as commissioner of the NFL. [Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel] •...

Rony Seikaly Is No One-Woman Man
Far be it from us to tell a woman how to live her live, but we just don't see much upside in model Elsa Benitez hanging out with estranged husband (and former hairy NBA center) Rony Seikaly anymore....

You Don't Bring Me Apples, Anymore ...
OK, we'll admit it; we wrote a letter to Barbaro. Dear Babs: Get well soon, you big, crazy ungulate mammal. Sorry you got hurt, and also for breeding you with legs like chopsticks. Our bad. Well, see ya. Yeah, like you haven't written. Sure. Have you seen New Bolton Center, the hospital in Kennett...

Random YouTube Finding Of The Week
Not excited enough for the Western Conference Finals tonight? Well, if this video doesn't pump you up, nothing will....

Four Tiny Tidbits On: The United States
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. Today: the United States! And for World Cup previews that are even better than ours, check out That's O...

Blogdome: Goleo Brings The Funk
• Goleo, the late World Cup mascot, gets his rap on. [I Dislike Your Favorite Team] • Introducing the St. Louis Cardinals fan half beard. [Inside STL] • Is someone going to have to intervene in this Ozzie Smith-Tony LaRussa feud? [Sports. Music. Blog.] • The NFL is costing itself a lot of money with...

ESPN Bonds Chroniclers About To Be Released Into The Wild
We would say our long national nightmare is almost over, but we have a feeling the nightmare was only in our heads all along....

Jake Plummer, Terror On The Road
It's easy to forget now, but for a while there last year, Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer was having a pretty cool year. The Broncos had the best record in football, some were touting him as an MVP candidate and some even thought he could lead the team to the Super Bowl. And then the blowout and ...

We Mean Not To Offend, Joey
Now ... we are going to tread very carefully here ... we don't want any trouble ... we are just reporting facts ......

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.. Baseball Blunders w/Rob Neyer: Would writing angry Amazon reviews count as a "blunder?" • 3 p.m. College football w/Beano Cook: When we heard that line on the Sopranos this past Sunday, "Someone should tell her she's dead," we ...

You're With Me, Lycra
Warning: The latest cologne-soaked issue of GQ does not come without pitfalls, and we're not talking about the six-page spread on Tommy Lee and his addiction to searsucker suits. Although we could be. No, to what we refer is much more horrible....

One Awfully Strange Way Of Celebrating
We don't know how we missed this the other evening, but apparently, with seconds left and the Mavericks all set to celebrate, coach Avery Johnson ran down the bench to make a substitution. In all his excitement and hurry, he appears to have pulled a Reggie Evans on Josh Howard....

The Closer: Mets Host Enormous Sleepover
Notes from a day in baseball:...

Heat Take 1-0 Lead Despite Lottery Distractions
It is perhaps telling that, the morning after Shaquille O'Neal and his Miami Heat looked strangely dominant in a Game 1 win over the Pistons, the NBA event that garnered the most online attention was the draft lottery, which was won by the Raptors, who now conveniently aren't run by a moron....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while telling everyone you meet "you're no Jack Kennedy." ... • NBA Playoffs: Introducing Antoine Walker, Gary Payton and Jason Williams; remember them? Heat beat Pistons to take Game 1. • Soccer: Well, this can't bode well. U.S. loses to Morocco 1-0, plus Claudio Reyna strains hamst...

Eastern Conference Pants Party: Pistons Vs. Heat
As disappointed as some of us might be that we didn't get our LeBron-Wade Eastern Conference Final, we have a feeling it'll end up happening someday, somehow. Let's not get greedy just yet. Let's just watch to see if those workmanlike Pistons — who, for all their lack of popularity today, were Ameri...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you're just hanging around with Madonna ... • MLB: Atlanta at San Diego. Peavy is still pissed. And we can't really blame him. [TBS] • NBA Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 1, Miami at Detroit. Didn't we all see this coming? Yes. [ESPN] • NHL Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 3, ...

ESPN Rocks Down Alison Road
An intrepid tipster sends us this beauty of an invite, encouraging ESPN employees to come to the Bristol cafeteria this Friday for that "Mike And Mike In The Morning" wedding and see the Gin Blossoms rock the buffet line like it has never been rocked before....