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Draft Star Warming Up In Underoos
Meanwhile, as Utah's Andrew Bogut talks about the large numbers of big black stiffs, North Carolina guard Marvin Williams — his only real competition for the first overall pick — merely sounds happy to be watching cartoons, drinking Capri-Sun and playing kiss tag....
Bogut Obsessed With Big, Black Stiffs
NBA Draft is tomorrow night, and Utah center Andrew Bogut is expected to be the first pick by the Milwaukee Bucks. Bogut is not considered a can't-miss prospect, and he thinks it's maybe because he is white. In an interview with Sam Smith of the Chicago Tribune, Bogut points out that there are ple...
David Beckham No Longer Fantasized About In Prison
Apparently, athlete culture's a little different in England than it is here. Soccer "megastar" David Beckham — also, in England, you don't necessarily have to be all that good at your sport to be the most famous — lamented to the soccer press that he is losing all of his gay fans to rugby star Gav...
The Bizarro Bill Simmons
From the great Yard Work satirical blog, here's an imaginary (but just barely) selection from Bill Simmons' mailbag:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB with Buster Olney: If you want to write a real bestseller, you should out all the gay Yankees. The entire infield, right? Come on Olney, give! · Noon. MLB with Steve Phillips: Hi, I'm an advertising executive in Manhattan. ...
The Curse Of Don Novello
The San Francisco Giants, thanks largely to a balky knee that has absolutely nothing to do with steroids, are 14 games under .500, 11 games behind the first-place San Diego Padres and appear stuck in a rather large ditch with poor plumbing and a strange puddle of something green. But a new theory ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while hiding from your pit bull ... · We So 'Horny: Texas wins College World Series. · Yankees Salvage Win In Ninth Over Mets: Trained snipers on roof slowly lower rifles aimed at Jason Giambi's head. · Zoom, Zoom: Tony Stewart wins NASCAR Save Mart 350....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch now that Elimidate has been cancelled ... · Wimbledon, Day 5: Federer and Roddick try to liven up this dying party. · It's a small world after all: LA Dodgers vs. LA Angels at an undisclosed location near Disneyland. · Subway Series: Wouldn't this be the worst time ever for a newspaper...
Left On Base: Sorenstam Hanging Around Like A Demented Barnacle
· U.S. Women's Open: Sorenstam surges to, well, ninth. [The Golf Blog] · Larry Brown plans hospital stay, and we're not feeling too well ourselves. [MSNBC] · Somehow a red card just doesn't seem sufficient: Soccer star robbed during interview. [SI.com] · A monster hangover, plus this: Dolphins wave ...
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...
Tracking The Sportswriter Hacks
Yesterday, we speculated how much backtracking each of the major sports pundits would do if they were wrong about last night's Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Here's a look:...
Blogdom's Best: The Nationals (wha?) Are Buyers Buyers Buyers
· A 2,000-word treatise on whom the Washington Nationals should trade for as they (huh?) make a run for a division title. [Capitol Punishment] · Confused Philadelphia phans aren't quite sure what they're supposed to yell at Boston fans. [The 700 Level] · Cubs fans have officially jumped the cliff: T...
This Is What You Get For Drafting Someone From Miami
More details have come out from the arrest of Redskins safety Sean Taylor, and they're ugly. According to The Washington Post and police reports:...
Today In MLB Blogs
Humor. Who knows exactly how it works? Some things just strike us as amusing. For instance we were watching a rerun of the TV show "M*A*S*H" last night and witnessed the following exchange: Frank Burns: "Listen Bub, I'm a pretty fair doctor myself. You can ask any of my patients." Hawkeye: "We're...
Well, If Any Of You Are Bored Tonight ...
Via the indispensable NFL Wives Yahoo Group. Free admission for the ladies. And you can meet the Vikings' Larry Ned! Get there early!...
Bill Simmons Translator: We Were Little, Swarthy People. No, Really
ESPN Page 2 columnist/national movement Bill Simmons has filed an unusually brief missive about last night's Game 7. You know what that means: It's time for The Bill Simmons Translator!...
We Have To Ask ...
We Have to Ask ... Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: Are sports agents technically rodents, or members of the weasel family? · 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: Hey, wasn't that Tyson trying to sell his pigeons on eBay? · 4 p.m. Poker with...
Page 3 Wakes Up And Publishes — Barely
Well, it's Friday, so that must mean it's time for Page 3's editors to remember that they're, in fact, editors and update their "page." To show they mean business, they actually post two stories today. (We know!)...
ESPN Acknowledges It's Sucking The Life Out Of Sports
The New York Post's resident prude Phil Mushnick digs up an internal memo at ESPN that admits they're constantly stealing scoops from other non-ESPN journalists and claiming them as their own. We've noticed this several times — we almost expected a crawl this morning that said "ESPN's Marc Stein r...
Mementos Lost To Time
ESPN business reporter Darren Rovell answers a question we've always had: What happens to all the merchandise they make for the team that loses in the championship game? Rovell tracks how merchandisers made "2005 NBA Champions" apparel for both the Spurs and the Pistons — it's only the third time ...