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A Match Made In Bristol
That "Mike and Mike Wedding Madness" wedding happened this morning, with the two Florida Gators fans hitching up in front of the his-and-her Gators mascots, Bill Walton and a smattering of ESPN2 viewers....
Bronson Arroyo, Rockin' Pitchman
Initially, though we were happy about the Bronson Arroyo to Cincinnati trade, we worried that the harsh transition to "rollicking Boston nightlife" to "downtown closes at midnight" would cause some trouble for the rocking righthander. Clearly, though, it's all worked out well, so much so that now he...
The Closer: ... With An Arm That Can Bring A Man To Tears
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while hanging upside down above a trampoline ... • NBA Playoffs: The Pistons we know and love are back, blowing sweet kisses to Shaq and the Heat ... • NHL Playoffs: The Ducks are not done! They need a couple more hours in the oven before the Oilers are ready to dig in. • MLB: Becket...
What Not To Do On A Trampoline
To distract you from the apparently false Neil Everett rumor below, here's that trampoline basketball injury that, we agree, desperately needed its own post. Honestly, we're so glad our parents didn't have a trampoline growing up, because this totally would have happend to us....
Did ESPN Suspend Neil Everett? (Well, Apparently Not)
We hate to ruin the pleasant vibe of an intensely giggle-inducing day, but multiple sources from the Bristol complex have told us "with 97 percent certainty" that anchor Neil Everett, who famously dropped a "You're With Me, Leather" reference on SportsCenter, has been suspended from the network fo...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after your Minuteman border activities net exactly one rabbit and old boots ... • MLB: Tampa Bay at Boston. Because Your Sports Leader cannot seem to get enough of the Red Sox. [ESPN] • NBA Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 2, Miami at Detroit. If you watch one NBA playoff game all sea...
MLB.com Will Save Your Soul
Ah, MLB.com. On the heels of revolutionary collaborations with musicians as varied as Scott Stapp and Live comes the newest mashup of online baseball technology and singer-songwriter cleavage: It's Jewel, presented by MLB.com!...
Leftovers: NHL Ratings ... Oy
• Yes: Video blogs are actually getting better ratings than the NHL. [Dave's Football Blog] • They're running out of beer in Edmonton. [CTV] • On hazing and the homophobia often inherent. [Out Sports] • The mayor of Memphis is fighting Joe Frazier. What could possibly go wrong? [WREG]...
How Not To Negotiate Contracts
Sports. Music. Blog. tells the story of Matt Harrington, a minor-league baseball player whose holdout skills put Terrell Owens to shame. Here's a quick history of Harrington's uncanny ability to turn down money and baseball fame at every possible turn....
The Most Brilliant Thing You'll See All Day
So a local television station in Cleveland decided to put together an "investigative report" on the dangers of allowing your children to go to the public library....
And To Think That In Some Countries These Dogs Are Eaten
Excuse us if this is off the subject a little bit ... but just take a guess at how much we can bench press. Come on, what do you think? Take a guess. 315 pounds, maxing out at 400! Ha!...
Some Not-So-Tiny World Cup Tidbits
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. Today: Japan, the United States and Italy! Tomorrow we'll also be featuring leftover tidbits from all t...
Blogdome: A New Position In The NBA
• That's what each NBA team needs: A designated nut-kicker. [Johnny Hong Kong] • This is not — repeat, NOT — how you play trampoline basketball. [Insomniac's Lounge] • Cole Hamels already has himself a famous girlfriend. [Paul's Poop] • Your source for all your hating Jay Mariotti needs. [We Are The...
Letters To Barbaro
As BarbaroMania sweeps the nation like a crazy horse tsunami, we pause to pay tribute to our army of commenters, who were in top form on Wednesday. Your messages to Barbaro were, um, at once inspiring and disturbing: "Get up. WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. — Jack Bauer, 35; Los Angeles, CA, USA, soon ...
Pat Robertson Could Destroy You With His Legs
A couple of days ago, we noted that CBS Sportsline's SPIN columnist Clay Travis had dug up a claim that Pat Robertson had leg-pressed 2,000 pounds. (Unlike what we wrote then, the Florida state leg-press record is 1,335, not 665; we had that wrong. Sorry.) This was, of course, ridiculous, right? T...
Searching For SpongeBob
If the movies have taught us anything, it's that Alcatraz is escape-proof. That's because of the frigid, shark-infested mile-and-a-half of San Francisco Bay that's between the notorious former federal prison and the city of San Francisco. If you're a 1940s goon, hood, mobster, mug, ruffian, thug, ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m.. Rapids' Jovan Kirovski: A soccer star in Colorado; your life must be exactly like Mick Jagger's. • 2 p.m. NBA with Chris Broussard: Who's the next coach for the Kings? Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Exactly; Tom Tolbert. •...
Hey, It Worked In The Warriors
Our affection for Cincinnati wide receiver Chad Johnson is well-documented, so we're obviously down right giddy to see that, in the offseason, Johnson has, inexplicably, decided to grow a mohawk....
You Know Schilling Plays Against Himself As Soon As The Game's Over
As you might have heard already, Red Sox legend/blowhard Curt Schilling loves video games so much that he had a video character of himself created for the game Everquest II. (Photo from Boston Dirt Dogs. If you defeat him, Sony donates money to the ALS foundation....