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Blogdome: How Clarett Was Failed
• The sports world did Maurice Clarett no favors. [Sportszilla] • Yeah, why AREN'T people making a bigger deal out of the Donald Sterling flareup earlier this week? [The Assimilated Negro] • It's the Bimbo soccer team! [The Offside] • Perhaps the MLS should have relegation rules. [Soccernista] • Al ...
Madden Player Ratings Are Out, If You're Into That Type Of Thing
We are just 11 days away from the release of Madden 07, and the fine folks at IGN, for the real diehards out there, have released the rosters and player ratings of everyone in the game. Looking at our Buzzsaw, we see, as usual, two of the three best players are the kicker and the punter....
Welcome To The Metrodome. Here's Some Hair
Proving once again that the line between minor league and major league promotions is getting blurrier by the minute, Minnesota Twins fans donned synthetic facial hair on Thursday during Joe Mauer Sideburn Night in the team's game with the Toronto Blue Jays. The first 10,000 fans arriving at the Me...
The Change Of A Name, But Not Much Else
We've been receiving a lot of requests to comment on the story yesterday that the brand ABC Sports is going away, being replaced by "ESPN on ABC." From now on, all ABC sports personalities will be ESPN personalities....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Bengals' K Shayne Graham: As one of the few Ohio athletes who isn't incarcerated, how do you stay on the straight and narrow? • 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: Just because I scream "Stop hitting me!" and curl into a ball by the ...
Stay Angry, San Diego
We'll confess: In the genre of "having Iraqi child hold sign of American popular culture phenomenon that he likely doesn't understand but, by bringing thoughts of a frivolous pursuit into an area that is anything but frivolous, will make a fun point of humor for friends of family back home, allowing...
Can't Break Her Steelers Habit
This picture, which ran in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, makes us happy in a way we can't quite put our finger on....
YWML Night: The Morning After
Well, "You're With Me, Leather" night was last night in Dunedin, Fla., and we received three different reports. That's good, because all three reports reported that there were only three YWML spottings there. They must have all seen each other....
The Closer: The Fragile Psyche Of Roger Clemens
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while being berated by Nick Saban ... • NFL: Manning plays one series, Rams beat Colts 19-17 in exhibition thriller game. • PGA International: Phil Mickelson cannot stop the might of Mathias Gronberg. • MLB: Redbird singing in the dead of night/take these broken wings and learn to fl...
Fictional League Somehow More Fictional Now
Now that the whole Maurice Clarett business has veered into Greek tragedy story with Tom Friend's breathtaking ESPN story, we turn our focus to the part of his story it's easy to make fun of: His "upcoming" stint with the Mahoning Valley Hitmen of the Eastern Indoor Football League, a league that ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Waldo gives up and finds himself ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Chicago White Sox. Can no one stop this pinstriped juggernaut?[ESPN] • NFL: Preseason, Indianapolis at St. Louis. Sure to be a sellout, if only to enjoy the AC for three hours. [Fox] • Tennis: ATP Masters Series, Rogers...
MLB Would Like You To Stop Enjoying Their Product So Much
Lots of discussion the last few days about fantasy baseball statistics, who owns them and whether Major League Baseball is clueless, a bunch of jerks or both. Basically, baseball wanted to force any fantasy game companies to pay them a licensing fee just to use their stats, and a St. Louis judge sai...
Leftovers: Beware The Buzzsaw, Ben
• Roethlisberger all set to start preseason opener, and he's even thinking of wearing a helmet. [Pittsburgh Live] • Dodger Stadium was almost a fun place to see a Mel Gibson protest. [Defamer] • DeShawn Stevenson probably needs to mind his surroundings. [Florida Today] • Another Ohio State guy goes ...
Must Have Passing Baseball Interest
It's tough to find a good job sometimes. Lord knows we rattled around for almost a decade waiting for this one. If you haven't found your dream job yet, the Devil Rays might have a gig for you....
YWML Night Is Here
Well, now that the Cleveland Plain-Dealer has weighed in on the No. 2 Deadspin ongoing gag, it's time to hop back to No. 1 again....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Independents
We must confess that we can't wait each year for the crunch of shoulder pads; for cleats churning up chunks of turf, and red-faced coaches screaming from the sidelines. But enough about lacrosse. College football season is upon us, and to celebrate, we're going to get back into tiny tidbit mode an...
Blogdome: Ah, To Be A Coach's Wife
• A thorough look at the wives of the SEC. [Deep South Sports] • OK, this made us laugh long, and hard. [True Hoop] • In case you were wondering where the heck Randall Simon had been. [WBRS Sports Blog] • A Royals fan muses on last night's win over the Red Sox. [Royals Authority] • It's not so hard ...
The Return Of The Rogue Agent
Remember David Frost? He's the hockey agent/coach/Svengali/asshole who held more than a little undue influence over young hockey players, including St. Louis Blues player Mike Danton, who later tried to have him killed. (Later, while in jail, Danton tried to reach out to Frost again, who had essenti...