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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize your hi-definition TV is defining some things you'd rather not have defined ... • College Basketball: Texas at Texas A&M, Utah at TCU. Yeah, if we had a nickel for every time a horned frog was mentioned in the Bible ... [ESPN2] • College Women's Basketball: Baylor at Tex...
Leftovers: Manny's Finally Here
• Oh, if only we could make such news just by showing up for work. (Late, we might add.) [Sawxblog] • Al Leiter and Gary Majewski replace Billy Wagner and C.C. Sabathia on the U.S. World Baseball Classic team. Awesome. [The Steveohville Speakeasy] • The old Agassi, the one with the perm mullet, he'd...
Just Two Days To Wedding Crash At ESPN
Hey, everyone, a reminder: You only have two more days to crash the party of Mike and Mike's Marriage Madness endeavor....
OK, You Guys Freaking Rule
We are less than 24 hours into our big NCAA Tournament Preview Project, and hoo boy, have you guys come through so far. We're projecting — by "we," we mean Joe Lunardi, pretty much — 35 teams into the tournament so far ... and all 35 have been signed up for. We encourage you to check out the whole...
Bonds' Comedic Timing As Pitch Perfect As Ever
It's one thing for Barry Bonds to to dress up as Paula Abdul as a prank in spring training. (Or, more accurately, as a Media Event for his reality show.)...
Bad Dad Of The Week
Far be it from us to pass judgment on the quality of child rearing in individual sports, but for all the Jim Pierces and Marv Marinoviches of the world, we think we have a new winner in the Worst Dad contest. Though we suppose that depends on your perspective....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Blue Jays
We're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested oddities on y...
Blogdome: Whither A.I.?
• Yeah, we were really sad Iverson didn't make the Olympic team shortlist too. [The 700 Level] • What sports would look like if the South would have won the Civil War. [Wood On Sports] • "Fire Dolan!" doesn't have the same ring as "Fire Millen!" but we nevertheless appreciate the sentiment. [Calacan...
What's Going On With Zack Greinke?
For those of you who don't have your Google News Alerts set to "Kansas City Royals," you might not being paying close attention to a truly bizarre story involving Zack Greinke. The one-time Royals phenom, once called "the future of pitching" by Baseball Prospectus, has left the team for an unspeci...
Yeah, It's A Fight. We Get It
Show of hands: Is anyone still interested in the boxers-shouting-at-each-other-and-then-it-nearly-comes-to-blows-at-the-press-conference routine? The last time that was fresh, we think, was when Max Baer insulted Jim Braddock's wife in 1938. But they continue to do it, for some reason. The latest...
Coach K: iPod Spokesperson
For those of you gearing up for the UNC-Duke game this weekend, we present you with ... a cartoon!...
Hee. Hee-hee-hee. Boobs! Hee-hee. HEE!
All right, we're all about being a fifth-grade boy this morning....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Multi-Sports Fantasy Focus: You dare to mock my biathlon office pool? You will pay for that — and pay dearly. • Noon: NFL with Chris Mortensen: There's nothing better than a nice pro football chat in early March. Perhaps we can...
Wolverines Get In On The Rap Game
In the tradition of Miami's Seventh Floor Crew, three Michigan football players — Jerome Jackson, Tyrone Jordan and Landon Smith — have recorded a supposedly derogatory song called "Measly Penny", in which the players take turns denigrating a woman who apparently has caused them collective pain. (...
Barry Bonds Is Ready For His Closeup, ESPN
Call us cynical, but we've been mulling over this whole Barry Bonds-in-drag thing that occurred at the Giants spring training practice field on Tuesday. Upon further review, we smell a very large and stinky rat. This, you see, was a very un-Barry-like thing to do. Whatever Barry is about, he is no...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while dozing peacfully on a New Orleans balcony ... • College Basketball: Brady Bunch — LSU, which starts three freshmen and a sophomore, clinches share of SEC title. • NHL: Sharks rout Swede-less Red Wings, 5-1. • NBA: Lakers inch ever-so-slightly above .500 with win over Magic....
Help Us Do The Best NCAA Preview Of All Time
Well, kids, Championship Week starts tonight, and you know what that means: The NCAA Tournament is tantalizingly close. We were trying to think of ways we could do the tournament justice, Deadspin-style, and we realized what makes this site fun is not us, but you. Who better to write about individ...
To Watch Tonight
A kinky three-way between your ass, the sofa and the TV ... • College Basketball: LSU at South Carolina, Illinois at Minnesota. Are we having Illini pie or Gopher stew? [ESPN] • NHL: Minnesota at Colorado. And we're back, after the longest layoff since the strike. Except for the Swedes, of course, w...
Roger Even Throws At Unborn Sons
As an update on the Roger Clemens item from earlier, an eagle-eyed reader points out that this is hardly the first time Roger has not hesitated to give the high hard one (so to speak) to a family member....
Leftovers: Villanova Blue
• Curtis Sumpter to miss rest of the season for Villanova. [Big East Basketball] • Don't expect Eric Moulds back in Buffalo next year. [Buffalo's Best Blog] • Apparently, Scoop Jackson gets to write a yearbook entry every year at ESPN. Maybe it's in his contract. [ESPN] • You think Destiny Frankenst...