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Your Last World Cup News Of The Day
The Mighty MJD points us to a Web site of considerable terror: Heal Rooney, a page featuring a huge picture (purportedly) of injured England striker Wayne Rooney, who is still in danger of missing the World Cup. The premise of the site, apparently, is for you, the user, to roll your mouse over Roo...
Lamenting The Loss Of Harry, Once Again
For some reason — perhaps it's the Cardinals-Cubs series tonight — but we started becoming rather nostalgic and wistful about Harry Caray today. We're not sure why. Jack Buck was always our favorite announcer anyway. Maybe it's just because we don't have many Harrys anymore; people who are liable to...
You Is Talking Loco ... And We Like It!
We hear words like "beauty" and "handsomness" and "incredibly chiseled features," and for us, that's like a vanity of self-absorption that we try to steer clear of....
World Cup Preview: Group C
The World Cup is almost here! So that you aren't caught flat-footed, we're previewing each group, in no particular order, to explain why your team has no chance to win (you'll thank us later). Today: Group C! If you have any thoughts on a particular group, send them to [email protected]. Our opera...
Blogdome: Hey, Thanks, Gary
• Gary Barnett has done Colorado very few favors. [The Wizard Of Odds] • Who are the top 10 honky NBAers in history? The world may never know. [Gheorghe: The Blog] • What the Blue Jays need to be doing, like, right now. [Forward Progress] • The top 10 tight ends in college football. (Not a euphamism...
Do Not Give Frank Solich The Date Rape Drug
Remember that alleged email that circulated a while back about Ohio football coach Frank Solich and how his drunk driving arrest was actually a case of him being dosed with GHB? Well, it turns out ... it's absolutely true. The Sporting News has learned that Solich's attorneys do plan on fighting t...
Bonds' Anti-Climactic Trip To Shea
We've been fortunate enough, during our time here in New York, to see the Shea Stadium crowd riled up a few times, including our favorite, John Rocker's return to Shea for the first time, in June 2000, since his infamous 7 train remarks. (As was typical at the time, the crowd booed him lustily, an...
A Rugged Sport From An Untamed Land, With Matching Accessories
Now it's time to check in on the manly sport of rugby, where only the strongest of the strong survive, especially in the violent, brutal wilds of New Zealand, where the weak are usually ground up and fed to crocodiles....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Chris Sheridan: Are we as a nation prepared for Nowitzki-mania? Do we know enough German? Do we have enough Hasselhoff CDs? • 1 p.m.. College Baseball w/Will Kimmey: Ping! Go the strings of my heart. • 3 p.m.. Desperados...
A Guide For The Casual Soccer Fan
So we know there are still a lot of stragglers around these parts either uninterested by the World Cup or intimidated by their lack of inherent knowledge of the proceedings. That's OK, of course: We are not a nation who grew up gathered around the radio listening to soccer games. We have some catc...
Orioles Considering Drafting Blast From The Past
The Major League Baseball draft is next Tuesday and Wednesday, and, as anybody knows, it's the most boring draft of all the professional sports. (And if you sat through any of the NFL Draft beyond the first 10 picks last year, you'll realize what a strong statement that is.) So you end up looking ...
Is It Good To Be Dirk Nowitzki?
We've figured out why Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki, despite scoring 50 points in a Game 5 victory of massive import and generally making that leap into alpha dog status that we require of all our superstars, always fails to appropriately inspire us the way that, say, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while rescuing Pete Coors, again, from the mountains ... • The Big Five-O: Mavs' Nowitzki helps put Suns on the brink. • A Mighty Wind: Hurricanes oust Sabres, gain NHL finals. • MLB: Indians' Belliard helps send White Sox packing, 12-8....
Phoenix, Dallas Rev 'Er Up Again
The two guys, in this Associated Press photo taken from Game 2 of the Dallas-Phoenix series, are, according to the caption, examples of how fans "are drawn to intense game situations because of their need for a competitive outlet and get rowdy at games because they want to feel involved, say exper...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you tell the other Berea boys downtown what you're in for ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Detroit. New York goes for four-game sweep as Leyland increases to eight packs a day. [ESPN] • NBA Playoffs: Western Conference finals, Game 5, Phoenix at Dallas. As long as we know that Mark Cu...
Chris Berman Knows Not Of Your Velvet Rope!
Not that it's particularly difficult to piss off a group of beat reporters — typically, a smile or similar expression of anything resembling joy will do it — but it appears our favorite Leather aficionado appears to have pulled it off at the Yankees-Tigers game the other evening....
Leftovers: Defending Arenas
• The real story of Gilbert Arenas' arrest. (The scoop: He doesn't seem to have done anything wrong.) [Washington Post] • Outstanding heckler Bryan Trottier hired by Islanders. [TSN] • Those scuffling Mavericks and their wives ... [Fox Sports] • Seriously, how did everyone miss on Tayshaun Prince? [...
BREAKING: If That's Wrong, We Don't Want To Be Right!
This just in: You really don't want to mess with Carl Monday....
You Know, He Could Be Behind You ... RIGHT NOW!
An ingenious reader put this together, the first Dilbert parody we've ever found amusing....