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Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Orioles
Baseball is here! Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're previewing the season by going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. Today: The Baltimore Orioles....
Blogdome: Yeah, But What's His Wonderlic Score?
• Not a bad day for Reggie Bush yesterday, not bad at all. [The Sports Frog] • Johnnie Walker, the official drink of the New York Yankees. [Copyranter] • ESPN is all over the dominoes beat. [Ninja James] • If Dr. Zaius predicted the American League East. [Surviving Grady] • All you could possibly wa...
It's Opening Day. Commence Wistful Laments For Days Of Yore
It's one of everyone's favorite days of the year: The day when George Will pulls a hamstring trying to come up with synonyms for "grass," "sunshine" and "purity." It's opening day! The first game of the day is at that baseball mecca Shea Stadium, with the Mets hosting the Washington Nationals. First...
Up-To-Date On Duke Lacrosse Developments (Or Lack Thereof)
We promised an update on the Duke lacrosse rape allegations today, so here goes. A roundup of latest events:...
We'd Suggest Always Betting The Under
We have a question. Why is Pete Rose scraping for a living here in the U.S. when he could just skip across the Atlantic and be a god? Soccer is where the real action is, friends. First, we have a report that most Premiership players are betting on games; or, as former Republic of Ireland striker T...
Yeah, Steroids Will Totally Ruin Your Life
It was pointed out when Yankees Meat Loaf impersonator Jason Giambi admitted to taking steroids in front of the BALCO grand jury that steroids worked out just fine for him. A year after it was confirmed by Giambi was taking steroids, he signed a nine-digit contract with the Yankees. Ask him, in da...
Adventures In Advertising
He may be an unspeakable cad in most parts of our great land, but San Francisco is still doggedly clutching Barry Bonds to its bosom. Call it denial, pride, myopia, whatever; from San Francisco's point of view, Bonds may be a cheater, but damn it, he's our cheater. For proof, let's head over to th...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Frozen Four marathon!: I love college hockey! (this will be only slightly more popular than the recent Matlock marathon). • 1 p.m. WNCAA championship with Charlie Creme: I won the golden ticket! Now where are the Oompa Loompas?...
The Best Way To Personalize Your Plates
Spotted by a reader on the Upper West Side of Manhattan this weekend. This is not our car. Oh, but if it were....
One Depressing Sports Weekend
We don't mean to overstate this, but Saturday was a disappointing an evening for college basketball as we can remember. It's not just that George Mason lost to Florida, or even that they lost so convincingly. Their legend had been secured simply by making it to Indianapolis at all; any mid-major w...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while having all kinds of troubles trying to sell your late father's sanitation business ... • Women's College Basketball: Turtle Mania! Maryland upends No. 1 UNC to reach NCAA title game. Will take on Duke. • NBA: And they call it the streak ... Carter's 43 lead Nets to 12th straigh...
Baseball. Tonight.
The long 162-game journey begins tonight for the Indians and the White Sox. It will be the most heated game between the two teams since Roger Dorn trade Jack Parkman to the White Sox in Major League II....
To Watch Tonight...
• Women's College Basketball: North Carolina vs. Maryland. I hope you enjoy this one as much as Trey Wingo will....
Was Not To Be For Wie
For a while today, it looked like Michelle Wie would earn her first major victory on the LPGA Tour. But Karrie Webb and Lorena Ochoa both eagled the 18th to head into a playoff at -9, while Wie's birdie putt just singed the cupp, leaving her at -8, tied for 3rd with Ben Roethlisberger's ex-girlfri...
Leftovers: April Fools Fun...
• Cleveland blogger gives his reasons why the Cavs are going to miss the playoffs... despite already having clinched a playoff spot. [Mistake By The Lake Sporting Times]...
The Value Of College Athletes
Ever wonder how much money an individual player was worth to a university? So did Robert Brown, a professor at Cal State-San Marcos who has spent 15 years studying the value of college athletes. He put together a formula to estimate how much members of last year's North Carolina and Illinois baske...
"I'll Have Him Secured Any Minute Now."
The best SportsCenter commercial of all time, in my opinion....
This Week In Arena Football
• Georgia Force 55, Kansas City Brigade 47. With the win, Force head coach Doug Plank become's the franchise's all-time winningest head coach. I can feel the jealousy of Vince Lombardi, Chuck Noll and Bill Parcells....
Trying To Stop The Flop
I wasn't able to get you your soccer update yesterday, but I did want to point out some efforts to being taken to eliminate the diving and flopping that can sometimes plague the game....
Durham Quickly Becoming Compton East
You know, between the rapes and the drive-by shootings, Durham doesn't sound like such a great place to be right now....