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Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....

Blogdome: Chasing The Bulls
• Could the Mavs win 72 games? [WBRS Sports Blog] • Ryan Tucker is feeling much better, thank you. [Kid Cleveland] • Is Greg Oden really not all that dominating? [Cursed Cleveland] • Ron Zook knows how to recruit ... criminals! (We joke, we kid.) [Loser With Socks] • Free agency has gone nuts! [Rumo...

Joe Darger Has Two Mommies (And A Crapload Of Siblings)
Curious, and fascinating story in The New York Times today: UNLV forward Joe Darger is the son of a polygamist father. He has 15 siblings, most of which go to all his games....

Tar Heel Blue Nation Seeing Red Today, Not Surprisingly
A lot of vitriol flowing around the Web this morning, most of it aimed at Gerald Henderson and Duke. But none seemed more perturbed at the roundhouse elbow to the probiscus of Tyler Hansbrough than the Tar Heels men's cheerleading squad, who were in Henderson's face, dude! You do not want to anger p...

Ron Borges' Cut-And-Paste Job
If you don't like The Boston Globe's Ron Borges and would like him to go away, you're in luck this morning: He pretty blatantly plagiarized his column yesterday from The Tacoma News Tribune. The evidence is obvious, and overwhelming....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA MBB with Andy Katz: Ever take an elbow to the face while rebounding? A knee to the face? Ever get a rebound? • 3 p.m. Notre Dame's Derek Landri: Any regrets at missing by one year the opportunity to annihilate Jimmy Clausen ...

'I Think Tigger Just Clocked Trev Alberts ...'
Hey, kids! From Every Day Should Be Saturday, a roundup of what went on at ESPN: The Weekend at Epcot Center in Florida. Follow along with their handy schedule and map, or just read some of the highlights below!:...

This Was Probably Inevitable, When You Think About It
You know, it's kind of amazing to us that nobody brought up this possibility: David Beckham yesterday suffered a possibly serious knee injury....

Billy Packer, Information Dissemination Specialist
Of all the "Sweet Christ, Billy Packer is so full of equine excrement" moments, we have to say, the "Just Going For The Ball!" foul from Gerald Henderson on Tyler Hansbrough at the end of the Duke-UNC game is definitely near the top of the list. Whatever your thoughts on the reason for Henderson's a...

NBA Roundup: From Now On We Call It Nashville
Notes on Sunday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night ...
What you missed while letting the Wookkie win ... • College basketball: Duke vs. North Carolina ... like a walk through a bad neighborhood in just about every way. • NBA: Kobe, meet the Suns. Suns, Kobe. • NHL: We're no experts, but this has to be some kind of penalty. Avalanche 4, Red Wings 3, OT...

Kevin McHale Is The Best General Manager In The History Of Sports
Forbes came up with a system to rank all of the general managers currently working in sports. Kevin McHale ranks first. Forbes needs a new system....

To Watch Tonight...
• Women's College Basketball. SEC Tournament Final. I'd look up who's playing, but... I don't want to. If you care, you already know. If you don't care, you're not going to. Fair enough? 7:30, ESPN2. • NBA Basketball. Utah Jazz @ New Orleans Hornets. Since "Jazz" was never really an appropriate moni...

So Much For That 2-Seed For The Salukis
Just one automatic bid was on the line today... even less than than that if you're of the belief that Creighton and Southern Illinois were probably both already in the tournament. The poor Salukis have won the MVC regular season championship five times in the last six years, but have won just one of...

LeftoverDome...
• The Pistons owner gives $75 million to a Jerusalem hospital. [SI] • If The Big Picture can have their "Would You Do?" tournament, then these ladies can do the same, although I don't know if "Would You Do Chris Berman" is a question the world is ready for. [Ladies...] • A closer look at the numbers...

Ron Jaworski Finds A Home
If I had to rank all of the professional football broadcasts that ABC's done in the last six months, I'd say that the Chicago Rush vs. Kansas City Brigade Arena Football game they just had was number one. It was their best effort. Beyond that, every broadcast involving Tony Kornheiser is tied for la...

The Anticlimactic Retirement of Jake Plummer
I didn't believe Jake Plummer when he said he was considering retiring. I'm not sure why. Maybe it was because I was looking forward to many more years of exciting, high-level Jake-the-Snake football... but I sort of doubt that....

Jerry Sloan Is Not The World's Friendliest Man
The newsworthiness of the "John Amaechi coming out" story has probably come and gone, so let's consider this a part of the new "Jerry Sloan calls his players 'fucking cunts'" story. Meech was a guest on Andrew Siciliano's radio show, and offered these tidbits about why he and his head coach didn't g...

Bud Selig Is Trying Very Hard To Tolerate Your Bitching
Bug Selig, rebel bad-ass that he is, is taking a little bit of a contentious stance against the backlash towards the MLB's exclusive deal with DirecTV. He referred to it as "a slight controversy, in some places," and he believes that the solution is for you to get off your broke ass and buy yourself...

The Money's Out There, You Pick It Up, It's Yours
Let's get caught up again with the orgy of NFL free agent activity. If you're an NFL player, and your agent couldn't work it out so you were a free agent this off-season, you should probably fire him....