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To Watch Tonight
What to watch after both your father and your son get arrested on "Cops" ... • Boxing: Heavyweights, Terry "Cloth" Smith vs. Rob "Petrie" Calloway, at Springfield, Mo. [ESPN2] • MLB: Atlanta at Philadelphia. This had better not interfere with the Bill Engvall Show. [TBS] • NFL: Buffalo at New Orlean...


He's A LumberJax And He's OK
Now you, too, can have a career in professional lacrosse. Just marry the owner! It's easy, and will result in absolutely no ribbing in the team locker room for years to come....

Who's The Next Punter To Attempt To Kill Off His Competition?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....

Red, It Took Us 16 Years To Get Here. You Play Us, And I'll Give Ya The Best We Got.
You're better than any player we ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter we ever saw. Suit up....


For One Magical Evening, The Great Potato Caper Lives Again
Time once again to root around in the world of minor league baseball with Rick Chandler's Minor Enterprise!...

Ripken, Representing AMERICA
• Cal Ripken is now literally a diplomat. [Lion In Oil] • Someone voted for Duke in the college football Top 25 polls. [Mac Gs World] • Action stars, and the two-minute drill. [Deadly Hippos] • Why do high school baseball players get to have agents? [The Feed] • The intense demand for bobbleheads ne...

NFL Season Preview: Denver Broncos
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....

The OTHER Cardinals Story From Yesterday
Say what you will about the Cardinals, but they know how to handle PR. Postseason stud and cult hero needs to go to rehab for substance abuse? Hey, bring up Ankiel! A happy story to drown out the ugly one. And it absolutely worked....

Pittsburgh's Week Of Shame
It has been more than 24 hours since the Steelers unleashed Steely McBeam onto the world, and their fans are far from making their peace with it....


We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. "Cheat Wave" with Wayne Drehs: See what we did there? "Cheat" rhymes with "heat," and we put it in quotes to emphasize the cleverness. Thanks for visiting ESPN! • 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: Ow, my turnbuckle! • 3 p.m. Fantas...

Will They Make It Rain On Pac Man's Face?
Weirdest thing, though, is that the promotional angle has pushed over into the real world; the man who was paralyzed in the famous Make It Rain strip club shooting is a former professional wrestler, and some guys are threatening to really hurt Pac Man....

David Beckham Actually Does What He's Paid To Do (For 20 Minutes, Anyway)
In all the hullabaloo of Rick Ankiel, John Daly and cockroaches crawling up Tony Romo's uniform, we almost forget the real story: David Beckham ran up and down a field for about 20 minutes!...

John Daly, Still Puffing Along
We don't have much hope for John Daly to make some crazy run to win the PGA Championship, but for one day, he continued to give hope to fat guys who smoke and drink 15 Diet Cokes a day everywhere....

Hey, New Yorkers, come out to Kinsale Tavern this weekend to meet David Hirshey and watch some Premiership. He'll be there from 7:45 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday and 7 a.m.-1 p.m. on Sunday. From Hirshey: "If they introduce themselves to me and say nice things about Arsenal, I'll buy the first round on L...

Drama At Shea Extends Over The Fence And Into The Clubhouse
Remember the old days in the NL East, when the Braves were pulling this crap on the Mets all the time? Willie Harris provided the heroics in the outfield and Chipper Jones the muscle in the clubhouse as Atlanta picked Mr. Met's pocket, 7-6. Harris leaped above the left-field fence to pull in Carlos ...