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Mr. T Joins Sox's Regular Gang Of Idiots
According to the Boston Herald, the first pitch at Friday's Red Sox-White Sox game is going to be thrown out by Mr. T. Strangely, the big takeaway from this little stunt is that T will be wearing socks. For a guy who we don't remember ever seeing in a shirt, we can't say this shocked us too much....
How To Make Everyone You Know Want To Kill You
In a description of the upcoming ESPN Mobile program, which will give Sprint customers easier access to sports scores while they're bashing their phones against their heads because they're not working because they're Sprint, ESPN Mobile senior vice president Manish Jha described some of the other ...
Just Asking ... Hypothetical ... No Offense Intended
We know we're not supposed to be suspicious of this. We know we're supposed to accept that agent Drew Rosenhaus, who has been a feature subject in every newspaper with a beat writer and seems to want to single handedly send the NFL into a labor war, we know we're supposed to believe every second o...
About Last Night ...
What you missed during your frenzied scramble to buy every Wonka Bar in town ... Schilling gets first save since '92, but let's be honest, it was against Tampa Bay. Lance Armstrong facing little resistance as he approaches Paris — kind of like the Germans in WWII. Pistons fire Larry Brown, official...
McMichael Gets Early Jump On Training Camp With Wife
Miami Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael was arrested last week for spousal abuse, his second arrest for that charge in the last 13 months. (The good news is that she wasn't pregnant this time.)...
Tommy Lasorda Returns To Action
Attention Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. Tommy Lasorda has updated his blog! Everyone please turn on your computers! Every month or so, perhaps simply to justify the free laptop computer, our man Tommy does his duty for MLB Blogs.com. This time he pecks out a loving tribute to the A...
ESPY Mania!
Are you like us? Did you spend last night with your eyeballs rubber-cemented to the television screen, desperate to see who was going to win the ESPYs? Could Lance Armstrong three-peat? Who would win craziest play? What exactly does Curt Schilling look like in a tux? These are important questions....
ESPN Spreads Its Terror Across The Land
Those who were up to watch SportsCenter this morning know that ESPN's already obnoxious "50 States, 50 Days" promotion has begun. The idea, in case it hasn't been sucked down into your soul by now, is that SportsCenter will be at a different location every day for the next 50 days, or pretty much ju...
Cuban Plays Dress Like A Pirate Day
Apparently, Dallas Mavericks whack-job owner blogger Mark Cuban has interest in buying the Pittsburgh Pirates. Cuban is from the Pittsburgh area, which we'll confess we didn't know; we imagined him sprung forth, fully grown, from the Internet, like The Lawnmower Man or something. Anyway, Cuban — w...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... 10 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: I've been having those dreams again about Astros closer Brad Lidge. Can you help me? 11 a.m. MLB with Buster Olney: Now that you're not on that beat anymore, could you write a snarky book ripping the Yanke...
The Only Way You Can Use Your Hands In Soccer
From those always entertaining Brits comes the Pee Goal, which is pretty much exactly like it sounds: You put a little soccer net in a urinal, and if you're not too drunk to aim correctly ... GOALLLLLLLLLLL!!! You just try to hit the little soccer ball hanging on a string, and if you ... you know,...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while secretly reading your child's Harry Potter book in the basement ... Tiger Woods smooches British Open trophy, uses a little tongue. Top of the Tour, ma! Lance Armstrong increases overall lead. Royals, Tigers in ugly brawl. Ron Artest suspended just out of habit....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as authorities string police tape across your porch ... Cardinals at Giants. Scenic panorama includes San Francisco Bay and the lovely BALCO Laboratories. PBA's Motel 6 Roll to Riches. What, you were expecting the Waldorf Astoria? Woman, I told you not to bother me during the PGA John ...
Leftover: LeBron's New Best Friend
Cavs finally find playmate for LeBron; Cavaliers back up the truck, dump loot all over Larry Hughes' front yard [Cleveland Plain-Dealer] The dance ... she is over. Cuba blames U.S. for Olympic baseball snub. [MSNBC] Stotts, the beer ... er, coach who made Milwaukee famous. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentine...
This Week In Weird Foreign Sports
We tend to find European sports terminology hilarious, mainly because it points to how equally absurd American sports terminology is. We all might know what "a blooper to shallow left" means, but to anyone not intimately familiar with baseball terminology, that's just nonsensical babbling. So here...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerage gambler Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap: Raiding ESPN Insider's story on the Cubs' Corey Patterson. Playing the odds on that final, inevitable, glorious eruption by Lou Piniella. All-Star Game prop bets:...
Today In MLB Blogs
Oh, MLB Blogs, you're so cute. Noting the controversy over the final fan voting for the All-Star Game, the site points out that some of its bloggers don't agree on the winners. Inside the White Sox believes that Scott Podsednik is deserving. But over at Bleeding Pinstripes, there's a difference o...
The Bitch-Slapping Of Skip Bayless
Considering that Charles Barkley has openly said that ESPN talking head doofus Skip Bayless is "evil" and "one of the two people [he'd] like to kill," it's not that surprising that Bayless would have plenty of enemies in the world of sport. (A number that pales, of course, to the number of enemies h...
The Cool Kids At MLB.com "Rock" "Out" In Detroit
One of the best things about baseball's All-Star Extravaganza — which begins Sunday — is how much of a spectacle Major League Baseball thinks it is. Commissioner Bud Selig and Co. pull out all the stops and bunting, making sure the world sees the game of baseball at its best....
Scrappy Podsednik Upgrading In Lady Department
We've always liked Chicago White Sox outfielder Scott Podsednik. He's small, he's scrappy, he plays hard, he steals bases, he likes to get his uniform dirty in the way that fans always like white players to get their uniform dirty. But we always liked his understatedness the most: Nothing flashy, ...