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To Watch Tonight
What to watch while learning about this "Internet" ... • Atlanta at Los Angeles Dodgers. Why don't the Dodgers have a mascot? I mean, besides Lasorda? [TBS] • WNBA: Los Angeles at Seattle. Yes, you will Jump On It, America. And you will Jump On It with gusto. [ESPN2] • MLB: Chicago Cubs at Washingto...
Spencer Hawes Doesn't Think It's Getting Hot In Here
New Sacramento Kings center Spencer Hawes has heard your complaints about athletes not being political, about LeBron James refusing to speak out for those suffering in Darfur. He wants you to know that he will not kowtow to corporate interests. He speak truth to power. Particular in his college deba...
All Hail The Harlem Globetrotters!
When we were kids, we were obsessed with the Harlem Globetrotters. We went to see them at the Assembly Hall in the mid-80s, and granting for the fact that the only real entertainment we had back then was running over G.I. Joe figurines with the lawn mower, it kind of blew our minds....
Vote Neshek, Everybody!
Twins reliever Pat Neshek is having a rather outstanding year, with an ERA at 1.37 and pitching in that submarine way we always find charming. He's actually one of the five finalists for the last American League All-Star spot, voted on by fans on MLB.com. And he's unleashing his secret weapon to bri...
Welcome To The Malestrom, Zach
• The eventual Zach Randolph meltdown at the Garden is gonna be awesome. [laissez-faire ball] • Which sports figures should host "The Price Is Right?" [Flyers Fieldhouse] • Dean Cain would like to play some hoops. [Winning The Turnover Battle] • The worst Pirates of all time. [Doubt About It] • A ru...
Shane Matthews Is Causing You Phone Spam
It's becoming difficult to tell all these new upstart football leagues apart. There's Mark Cuban's, there's the other AFL, there's that weird one with Maurice Clarett that never got off the ground ... there's just a ton of them....
Taking The Game Home With You
One would think, theoretically speaking, that it would be difficult to physically detach a stadium seat and then somehow sneak it past security and almost all the way out to their car. But that's discounting the unique ingenuity of your typical Cincinnati Reds fan....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. LIVE from Wimbledon!: Will you look at all this rain? Good thing I wore me rubber knickers. • 3 p.m. Boxer Winky Wright: The light heavyweight division? With a name like Winky? • 3:30 p.m. Boxer Bernard Hopkins: For the last tim...
When Athlete Wives Go Dangerously Wrong
You know, life as the child of a professional athlete is hard enough. And now look what some baseball wives are doing....
Les Miles Needs To Work On His Sarcastic Rants
If you're going to start ripping people, Les Miles, go all the way. That way Every Day Should Be Saturday wouldn't have to step in and pick up the slack with some writer's embellishment, turning what was some mildly interesting radio content into something truly memorable. The LSU football coach was...
Tank Johnson Is Not Drunk, But Drunk Enough
So, with word coming out that beleaguered Chicago Bear Tank Johnson actually being under the legal limit in his DUI arrest a couple of weeks ago — the one that ultimately forced his release from the Bears — the guy should be out of the woods and all set and good again, right?...
Roger That
Fun fact: The last pitcher to win 350 games — Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves — reached the milestone on Sept. 29, 1963; a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The Braves' catcher that day? Joe Torre. On Monday Torre watched the feat again, this time sans cup, as Roger Clemens won No, 350 in an e...