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At Last, Nash And Nowitzki, Together Again
While trying to find video of a time when Mavericks coach Avery Johnson's voice was deep — we imagine it just one day rising, like reverse puberty — we came across this apparent promotional video for the Mavs. "The Avery Bunch" are heading to the Western Conference Finals, where they will face the P...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while kissing Lilly, sending Eddie off to school and getting into another hair-brained scheme with Grandpa ... • NHL Playoffs: 'Canes Mutiny: Rampant Tropical Weather Systems even series with Sabres. • MLB: Richie Sexson and grand slam just kind of go together, don' they? Mariners be...
Hasselhoff, Nowitzki Lead Mavs Past Spurs
Boy, man, is Mark Cuban's billion-dollar penis ever gonna come out and play tonight....
It's Western Conference March Madness
We know a few people, Midwesterners, mostly, sometimes with their own little biases, who claim to love college basketball but are left cold by the NBA. We don't understand this, but even they can't deny the beauty of tonight: Two games, both elimination, winners play each other in the conference fin...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as TiVo begins recording scenes from your life, including that time you killed a guy (too bad "The Twilight Zone" is cancelled; we'd make a bundle with that one) ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Boston. OK, back to good, old-fashioned intraleague hatred. [ESPN] • NHL Playoffs: Sabres at ...
Two Bald Guys, Ruling Everything
Pity the poor parents of anyone who might have been featured on ESPN's coverage of track and field yesterday; we imagine them readying to watch their dear child heave the shot put or hoist a javelin, years of support and pride and sweat finally being showcased on national television ... and then, ...
Leftovers: Smart People On The NBA
• Malcolm Gladwell points out that basketball statistics tell you more than you thought you knew. Or something. We liked the story about the dog whisperer. [The New Yorker] • Mets fans are feeling pretty cocky after their weekend series. [Mets Are Better Than Sex] • Ozzie Smith and Tony LaRussa are ...
Many Japanese Baseball People Screaming
Someone sent us this "video" that appears to be a commercial for a Japanese baseball ... something. We have no idea what it's about, what's going on, or what it means ... but we do know that we are truly philosophically scarred by the whole thing....
The Pain Of Life As A Royals Fan
We watched all three Cardinals-Royals games over the weekend, on the Royals television affiliate — which had a charming, low rent, public access, Wayne's World feel — and we can say with as much certainty as we can muster that the Royals are the worst team we've seen in a long, long time. It's not...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: England
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. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: England! And for World Cup previews th...
Blogdome: Thank You For Kazmir
• A big hug to Mets fans, from Devil Rays fans. [Rays Index] • One last round of wacky '70s baseball player photos. [Touching All The Bases] • Would you believe what they put up for sale from Joe DiMaggio's estate? [The Wade Blogs] • How Michigan's football stadium relates to the GDPs of small natio...
The David Wells Mad Lib
Obviously, David Wells — as evidenced by his appearance on the waiver wire in just about every fantasy league we're in — is much more useful as a quote machine these days than as an actual baseball player. And he's never more amusing than when he's being edited to suit the taste of the delicate ne...
Checking In On The Bonds Contest
We're going to get into tonight's Cardinals-Giants, Bonds-Pujols matchup a little later today, but we thought the time was right to remind you of our Barry Bonds home run challenge, which encouraged you, nearly a month ago now, to predict which pitcher would give up the homer that passed Babe Ruth...
It's All About That Inside Post Position
Jon Kreft is a seven-foot-tall, Uwe Blab of a center, and he's the top recruit coming to Florida State next year....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Penske crew chief Matt Borland: Was that you I saw yesterday on the side of the road leaning against a Volvo, waiting for Triple A? • 2 p.m.. Baseball with Buster Olney: How's the Roger Clemens recruiting coming? I head that the ...
If You Can Make It There ...
We know that the obvious death of boxing has been thoroughly documented and dissected, but we kind of think this pretty much pushes it into the kitsch category....
They Shoot Theismann, Don't They?
The news appears to be improving for Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner who went down during the Preakness with a broken hind leg. Not since that Joe Theisman video did we recoil quite so much during a sporting event (we were all sad when they had to shoot Joe in the lockerroom afterwards, weren't...
The Closer: Mr. Met Kicks Some Cross-Town Booty
Notes from a day in baseball:...
LeBron Finally Runs Out Of Magic Dust
As much as we loved the idea of LeBron James swooping from the heavens and lifting his team, all by his lonesome, into the conference finals and beyond, yesterday's easy win by the Pistons was pretty much inevitable. When you team is essentially just one player, and that one player scores only six p...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while consoling a sad Johnny Cakes ... • NBA Playoffs: Well, that took longer than it should have. Pistons pull plug on LeBron, Cavs 79-61. • MLB: Our long national nightmare is over. Abreu's five RBI help sink Red Sox, end Phils' five-game loss streak. • NHL Playoffs: Edmonton Fossi...