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Cleveland's Wacky Home Game In Milwaukee
As you know, thanks to all the freaking snow in Cleveland, the Indians "hosted" the Angels in Milwaukee yesterday, and Indians fans Mistake By The Lake were there. It was a bizarre afternoon all around, with the scoreboard showing Cleveland news headlines, a misplaced sausage race and, most amusingl...
NBA Roundup: Drama In The Southland
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
The Daily Closer: Hey, What's With All The Old Guys?
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while observing the playful antics of Nibbles the elephant seal ... • NBA: Escape From LA ... Kobe's 50 can't save Lakers vs. Clippers. • NHL: What's weirder; the fact that Atlanta hosted a playoff game, or that the Rangers won one? • MLB: Brandon Inge clobbers Blue Jays, kicks a Mou...
Folks, Do We Ever Have The Job For You
A few months ago, we told how our old friend Carl Monday was taking on a new gig with a new station. Well, he's fortifying for his investigations; he's hiring an assistant, and that assistant could be you....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after being pummeled by lesbians ... • MLB: Washington at Atlanta. Braves are the new black. [TBS] • NBA: New Jersey at Cleveland; Los Angeles Clippers at Los Angeles Lakers. Oh TNT Thursday night doubleheader, how we will miss your sweet smile. [TNT] • NHL: Playoffs, conference quarte...
Look Where The Twins Are Gonna Be Playing
Randball and the folks at The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has posted sketches of the new Minnesota Twins stadium that supposed to open in 2010. As you may have read, a retractable roof would add an extra $100 million to the $522 million stadium cost, so they're not doing one. Which, if you look at this...
Leftovers: Fat Man Falling
• Look out above! It's a fat guy! [Newsday] • Jose Contreras' family is in a bit of a pickle. [UmpBump] • Cheer up, Nats fans! [Gheorghe: The Blog] • ESPN fantasy baseball, trying to dig out of its own hole. [Diamond Hoggers] • The story of when Kurt Vonnegut briefly wrote for Sports Illustrated. [T...
Razorbacks Fans Are Terrifying
So you know the crazed Razorbacks message board fan who went through the impressive measure of FOIAing coach Houston Nutt's cellphone records, discovering that he had been text-messaging a local female reporter? Well, his quest to rid Arkansas of Nutt is not over; as you can see in this video, he's ...
Mnookin: Another Crazed Night At Fenway
Last night, Fenway Park came alive once again, in that weird, psychotic way that only Fenway Park can come alive. Even though it turned out to be the King Felix show, it still had the feel of a historic night ... well, for April, anyway....
You Just Can't Trust MapQuest Sometimes
So you're pissed, right? We mean, you're really freaking ticked off. Your teammate has flummoxed you for the last time. So now you're at his house. You've got a handgun in your car, a shotgun by your side, and it's 4:30 a.m. It's time for revenge; you came here to kick ass and chew gum, and you're a...
The Dysfunctional Family Circus Lives
To wash the taste of The Ladies takeover of Kissing Suzy Kolber yesterday out of their proverbial gullets, the gang at KSK brought one of our favorite (if derivative) gimmicks out of mothballs today: the Family Circus NFL riffs...
Odalis Perez Has A Uniquely Hittable Pitch
Longtime readers will be well aware of our affection for Royals pitcher Odalis Perez, the only guy brave enough to admit that he could give two craps about charity and helping out kids, and only wants to get his. To remind, from last year:...
Just What We Need: Another Reality TV Channel
If you've ever been unfortunate enough to catch MLB.com's "Baseball Channel" — with its mid-80s graphics and talking heads who look like they're a busted teleprompter away from a "Boom Goes The Dynamite" moment — you have to be a little concerned about this whole "MLB Network" business. The channel,...
Sports Dopes Tell Us What It Was Like There
Here's a semi-clever idea for a book: Asking various "sports media professionals" — also know as "People Who Didn't Pay For A Ticket" — to list their five favorite sports moments they've experienced in person....
Blogdome: Morgantown, Be Aware!
• Pac Man Jones, heading back to West Virginia. Excellent. [Lt. Winslow] • The key to enjoying the NHL playoffs? Hate. [Out Of Left Field] • Baseball's greatest fatties. [Bugs And Cranks] • Paul Bako, mercenary. [Royals Review] • Is the Don Imus situation a tipping point? [Pass The Word] • Jemele Hi...
Wild Times In Fayetteville
So you know last week, when all that information about Arkansas coach Houston Nutt came out thanks to a resourceful fan? Well, even though national media has been strangely loathe to report on it — "Only WE can file federal FOIAs!" — the news has apparently made it back to the Nutt home, because Dia...
Welcome To The Island Of Doomed Men
The NFL Draft is just more than two weeks away, and because we're slowly warming ourselves up to the prospect of watching Chris Berman read names off a Teleprompter for six hours, we thought we'd bring back one of our favorite videos, which pops up around this time every year....
Stuart Scott Truly Loves His Hos
While a guest on "Mike and Mike In The Morning" — one's gay! one's fat! hijinks ensue! — Stuart Scott, as reported by The Fanhouse, wanted to make it clear that when calls you a ho, he's doing it out of love....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Insider Chad Ford: If you answer 100 questions, do all readers get a free Big Mac? • 1 p.m. Page 2's Bomani Jones: I vow that this will be your only question that does not mention the name Imus ... doh! • 2 p.m. MLS with...