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Writing Up "Assault" In Joey Porter's Contract Was A Grand Idea
You might have thought Joey Porter punching guys in a Vegas hotel would be bad for his team. (Or calling opposing players "fags." Or attacking you with his dogs. Or pretty much anything else Joey Porter does.)...
Land Of The Giants
One would think that a team with four seven-footers in the starting lineup wouldn't need a last-second shot to win. But this is the American Basketball Association, where the official rules more resemble Calvinball than anything. Why didn't someone inform us earlier that, in their finale against the...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: Pirates' reliever Josh Sharpless ... just a crazy dream, or will he someday be mine? • 2 p.m. NCAA WBB with Nancy Lieberman: Is a woman's heart not unlike a 1-3-1 halfcourt trap? • 4 p.m. AFL with Scouts...
Tony Dungy Makes It Clear That Only Straights Should Have Unhappy Marriages
Much debate last month surrounded lovable Colts coach Tony Dungy's appearance at an event for an anti-gay-marriage group (among other things) and whether or not Dungy would come out (so to speak) and endorse the group's platform. Well, he has. He "embraces" a ban on same-sex marriage....
We Won't Have What She's Having
We forget sometimes that, as fledgling as some leagues in the United States are, there are even more desperate-for-publicity soccer leagues over in England. The league being "promoted" here in this slightly NSFW video is The NPL, which, according to Soccernista, is "six steps below the Premiership."...
NBA Remembers That Jordan Is An Executive
So last week, while taking a break from golf to watch the NCAA Tournament, Michael Jordan had the following to say about soon-to-be-former Texas phenom Kevin Durant....
NBA Roundup: Cat Scratch Fever
Notes on Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while planning the heist of the century ... • NBA: Sun Gods: Phoenix clinches the West for third straight year. • NHL: Toronto 2, New Jersey 1 ... and oh, look, another fight. • College women's basketball: You cannot stop Duke, baby!...
Ozzie Guillen Is Back, And Man, He's The Best
You know baseball is almost upon us when Ozzie Guillen is saying crazy things again....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you get bored admiring your whale ... • College basketball: MasterCard National Invitation Tournament, quarterfinals, Florida State at Mississippi State; North Carolina State at West Virginia. They have to take you Kent, you're a legacy. [ESPN] • College women's basketball: NCAA ...
Come Out To The Ballpark ... And Die!
Talking your family to the ballpark can be a dangerous proposition. You could be hammered by a line drive. Lightning could strike the night you're honoring a great journalist. Milton Bradley could start pummeling you, just because it's a Tuesday....
Leftovers: What's The Natural's PECOTA?
• What Roy Hobbs' stats might have been. [Blogger] (via Rob Neyer's new blog) • It can't be easy being a baseball player named Joe DiMaggio. [Yahoo! Sports] • If you haven't seen The Dugout's take on Sidney Ponson, man, we feel sorry for you. [The Dugout] • Here's that excellent Klosterman essay eve...
OJ Mayo, Signing Off In Style
So on Saturday night, incoming star freshman O.J. Mayo, who was no longer in trouble over that marijuana business, played his final game as a high school player. How's it go? Well, he earned a technical foul and was thrown out of the game....
ESPN Not Yet As Fledgling As You're Hoping
Much talk around that whole media-insider sports world today — that is to say, the people who follow sports but don't actually like them anymore — about the February NetNielsen ratings, which showed Fox Sports ahead of ESPN.com for the first time. Combined with the recent departure of EIC John Papan...
We Are More Depressing Than Baseball Prospectus
Casual / non-mathematical fans like to talk about how the guys at Baseball Prospectus are grumpy Guses, always spoiling their fandom with their "facts," "figures" and "logical, reasoned analysis." But the folks at Get Untracked have compared BP's season previews to Deadspin's baseball season preview...
Checking In On The Pants Party
On this tournament off-day, we thought we'd check in and see how our D—-spin Pants Party pool on ESPN was going....
'Oh, Messieur!'
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Blogdome: Bush Honoring Florida Again
• The Gators visit the White House. [Loser With Socks] • And, suddenly, Tim Floyd is a good coach again. [extrapolater] • What are Hawks fans supposed to be thinking now? [Sports Gone South] • The good folks at Ducksnorts have a book. [Ducksnorts] • A look at the letters in Josh Heytvelt's defense. ...
Baseball Season Preview: Houston Astros
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Simon Avoids The Hoosegow, And Other NHL True Crime Stories
Look, if your average office cubicle dweller went looking for trouble with a hockey stick down at Dunder-Mifflin, things would probably have turned out differently. Dwight taking a hack at Kevin's neck with a large, ax-shaped weapon most likely equals jail time. Chris Simon doing basically the same ...