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Terrell Owens, Symbol For The Youth
You know, this is the NBA Finals, the World Cup, the start of some obviously exciting baseball pennant races and, of course, ant soccer. One would think it would be our one Terrell Owens-free time of the year....
Leftovers: Dmitri Young Heads To Rehab
• Not a good month for the Young family; Dmitri Young is at the Betty Ford Center. [Detroit Free Press] • Having trouble figuring out the World Cup? Here, it's how each team relates to a professional American team. That should help. [Boston.com] • The best rundown of Carl Monday's Mike Cooper attack...
Live Blog: Poland-Ecuador
We continue our romp through Group A of the World Cup with our second and final live blog of the week: It's Ecuador vs. Poland....
KC Trainer Responds, Denies Affidavit Cameo
OK, probably time for a Jason Grimsley update....
You Can't Fight In Here! This Is The War Room!
Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face. We can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily f...
Hey, Hey, Hey, It's The World Cup!
Just to get us all into a World Cup kind of mood, we present this "separated-at-birth" photo combo, which a reader sent in and is sure to give us terrifying dreams at least through the group stage. Although we're not sure which is which, we know that one of the shots is of Brazil's Ronaldo, and Nosf...
Blogdome: Your Great Commercial Moments
• A look at some great old sports commercials. [Mutoni's Musings] • World Cup soccer stars show off their cars. [Jalopnik] • More reflections on the idiocy of Tom Powers. [I Dislike Your Favorite Team] • One guy explains his World Cup biases. [FowlerChalk] • Should Israel be rooting for the Heat? [T...
Altitude Sickness
Hey, for the last time, if you're climbing Mount Everest and you get into trouble, could you do the other climbers the courtesy of dying off the trail? Just crawl over to the side so that you're out of the way. Thanks. We wrote about this a while back, and it's happened again: A man who reached th...
That Nice, Warm Feeling On Your Feet
This story's a few days old, but we haven't covered it yet, and besides: It's a nice transition from the World Cup opener anyway....
Live Blog: Germany Vs. Costa Rica
All right, well, we told you we were going to be live-blogging each weekday World Cup match, and we weren't kidding around. They're about to kick off in Munich in the opening game of the World Cup, and we're gonna live blog the thing for you....
Zack Randolph Is SPEED RACER
And come with us, dear readers, to watch how an offense can find itself escalating ......
Last Call For Pool Entries
This picture, of Germany and Costa Rica fans this morning already revving up, proves once again: We are all in the wrong country for drinking over the next month. That said, we're only a little more than an hour away from the start of the World Cup, which means if you're wanting to enter our Deads...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. CWS with Kyle Peterson: Yes, you played in the majors, but you won only five more games than I did. This makes you an expert commentator? • 1 p.m. College FB with Bruce Feldman: North Carolina really has a player named Richie R...
Mark Cuban's Courtside Blogging Madness
Last night's NBA Finals Game 1 Mavericks victory over the Heat was an impressive one, and a fun one to watch; we feel optimistic about the series as a whole. (Though a scary part inside us keeps whispering nasty matters about a sweep.)...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while reading up on this sport called "soccer" that they speak of ... • NBA Finals: Terry's 32 help solid-hoofed herbivorous mammals beat the Heat in Game 1. • French Open: Say it with us; Justine Henin-Hardenne. No, once again you've mispronounced it. Anyway, she's in the finals aft...
So ... We've Got Some Affidavit Names
Everyone's guessing about who the blacked-out names in the Jason Grimsley report are, and it has been a fun parlor game so far. But we all knew eventually the names would get out. And we've been digging around ... and some sources have given us some names....
NBA Finals Pants Party: Mavericks Vs. Heat
We all used to complain that the NBA playoffs took too long to finish, that there were too many games, that it was just all too much. Now, the complaints are about having to wait too long for the Finals to start. Yeah, we'd call that progress....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the Yankees prepare to call you up if there's one more injury ... • MLB: Boston at New York Yankees [ESPN], Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati [WGN], Atlanta at Houston [TBS]. Warm up that remote thumb, Kookie. You got some serious surfing to do. • NBA Finals: Game 1, Miami at Dallas. As th...
Leftovers: Angry Big Ben
• Ben Roethlisberger is angry with Pittsburgh media coverage. Because they've been so critical of him in the past. [Times Online] • You, too, could win the right to buy Mike Mamula's lunch. [Philadelphia Will Do] • What the Phoenix Suns can teach you about your workplace. [Zembla] • Why are the Mets...