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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your clumsy attempts at romance earn you yet another yellow card ... • Boxing: Welterweights, Oscar Diaz vs. Chris Smith, at Dover, Del. Fisticuffs? In Delaware? [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Mets at Philadelphia. Let's watch as the Mets screw up terribly, yet still manage to win. [ESPN] ...

The Kids, They Like The Golf
We've been trying to fire ourselves up for tomorrow's U.S. Open — the amount of morale-pumping required to maintain a face-painting level of excitement for televised golf is sometimes more than we can muster — but we just can't quite regurgitate the same Tiger vs. Phil stories. Sorry. We don't have ...

Leftovers: Page Six Blows Our Mind
• Paris Hilton did a striptease for Eli Manning? What? [Page Six] • Those Red Sox, they sure do love their dog poop. [Boston Herald] • Dr. Z runs through forgotten injured quarterbacks from days past. [SI.com] • Wrigley Field ... wireless! [The 700 Level] • Anybody looking for some live World Cup au...

Get Away From Carl Monday, Voyeurs!
Well, if you're not quote ready to let go of Carl Monday's investigative brilliance, it appears Carl Monday himself is. On his "blog" over the weekend, Carl cordially requested we let the library report go. He says "response to the reports has practically short-circuited our blog" and blames the upr...

Live Blog: Germany Vs. Poland
This is a key second game for each of these teams, with Germany needing a win to nail down a Round of 16 appearance and Poland needing a win (or at least a draw) just to have a chance. It's a good thing, too, because there's no obvious historic link between the two countries that would otherwise a...

Something Funny In Turkey
Completely bizarre story out of Turkey, a place where most bizarre stories all end up anyway....

Random YouTube Finding Of The Week
Many have said the reason YouTube — and its recent competitor Veoh — has become so popular is because you can watch clips of varying length and entertainment value. But the reason reason is, obviously, that people can point cameras at themselves and do incredibly stupid things....

We Have Not Forgotten About The NHL. Honest.
OK, you're right; we've been somewhat neglecting our hockey friends. It's just that it's really hard to get fired up about an NHL title in a city where ice had to be shipped in by train until 1941. (Yes, we know they were once the Hartford Whalers. And Elizabeth Taylor was once hot). But we promise ...

Blogdome: Big Ben's Next Manuever?
• How Big Ben could turn himself into an ultimate anti-hero. [Hard 7] • Definitely not a good few months for Polo in Durham. [The Realests] • Look, they're video blogging from the World Cup! [Goal.com] • The Los Angeles Coliseum is not exactly opening its arms for the NFL. Well, it doesn't have arms...

Does Redick Have Bigger Worries Than The DUI?
This image, put together lovingly by our friends at Bad Idea Blue Jeans, pretty much sums up reaction to Day 2 of the JJ Redick story: Yep, it's still unbridled glee, all around....

Jim Harrick: My Life On The D-List
We know you've been worried, but you may now relax your troubled brow; Jim Harrick is coaching again. The 67-year-old Harrick, who was fired at UCLA for falsifying expense reports, and fired at the University of Georgia for various recruiting scandals (for which the Bulldogs are still on probation),...

Live Blog: Tunisia Vs. Saudi Arabia
We know, we know: We haven't quite adequately captured the storied glory of the Saudi Arabia-Tunisia rivalry this week. We're trying, but JJ Redick keeps getting arrested, and it's distracting us....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NFL with Gary Horton: Loved that song North, to Alaska. Written any other ballads lately? • 1 p.m. Boxing Historian Bert Sugar: Will history look back at your sport like the gladitorial games, or like glorified cockfighting? • 4 ...

Hirshey: Brazil Stays Mostly Sheathed
David Hirshey will write regularly during the World Cup....

Did The Heat Really Make This A Series?
After staying up too late watching basketball, we woke up this morning ready to survey the NBA world's presumed newfound excitement over the NBA Finals, which showed some signs of life last evening. But that's not what we found....

Live Blog: Spain Vs. Ukraine
Anybody else having difficulty not making "Insane In The Ukraine ... Insane in the brain!" comments? The song's just stuck in our head....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while recreating the Battle of Waterloo entirely with chickens ... • NBA Finals: Not quite time for Miami fans to get excited yet, but it's a start. Wade leads two-point win over Mavericks. • MLB: Glavine roughed up, but Mets beat Phillies anyway. • World Cup: Goooooooo oh, forget it...

Dwyane Wade: Kind Of Fun To Watch
This mighty pretty Getty Images photo, taken during one of Dwyane Wade's many free throws tonight, pretty much sums up everything we just saw: Everywhere we looked, there was Dwyane Wade, and there was Dwayne Wade only....

Is This It For Shaq, Wade And Riley?
Well, if you're not too busy waving David Hasselhoff masks like a maniac, you should certainly be intrigued by tonight's NBA Finals Game 3. The Heat obviously have to win, and the game is perhaps as important to Shaquille O'Neal's legacy as it is to Pat Riley and the rest of the Heat. Even Dwyane ...