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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. ESPN host Stuart Scott: The bike rack has been reinstalled, so quit complaining, OK? • 1:30 p.m. Bears RB Garrett Wolfe: The fact that I don't know who you are bodes not well for Chicago, or Cal (pick one). • 2:30 p.m. 49ers OT...
A Tree Grows In Bristol
We know the big ESPN interoffice complaint memorandum we posted on Tuesday was enormous and unwieldy, but seriously, folks: It's an absolute treasure trove of gorgeous goodness. So, for the rest of the week, we'll be highlighting two particularly hilarious and illustrative segments from the memo eac...
Why's Vick In So Much Trouble? Because He's An Idiot!
As we note the wide variety of products sold in the Falcons team store, we continue our daily dance with your friend and ours, Michael Vick....
German TV Is Shocked To Find Doping In This Establishment
We know we're gonna blow your minds here, but it turns out that there has been a bit of a blood doping scandal at the Tour de France! We know! In cycling! Of all places! You know, you think you can trust a sport. Anyway, a German television station has decided it's had just about enough, thank you v...
Beware The Tempest That Is The Chicago Cubs
Hey, thanks for reviving me; those smelling salts really did the trick. If you hadn't come along when you did, I would have missed my bus. It's just that something I heard a few minutes ago really shocked me, and I went down like a carp. Passed right out. Yep, just two little sentences, uttered in t...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while reading Strunk & White's Elements of Style ... • MLB: He owes it all to clean living ... Griffey collects 2,500th hit, Reds win. • Tennis: Marat Safin advances at ATP Countrywide Classic. Very nice! • Golf: Tiger, Choi first to top of leaderboard at British Open. But it's raini...
Our Secret Company Memo Is Leaked
As you might remember, we've brought in three new people to work the site on the weekends: Matt Sussman, J.E. Skeets and Unsilent Majority. Because they are new hires, they obviously have lots of questions about the corporate structure we have here....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after another typical commute on the Poplar Street Bridge ... • MLB: Mets at Padres. Maine vs. Maddux! Get it on! [Channel 4 Padres] • Cycling: Tour de France. Which object will collide with the bikes this time? [Versus] • MLB: Tigers at Twins. Unless it's Twins at Tigers. [ESPN]...
ESPN Would Rather Not Use Their Own Phones
We know the big ESPN interoffice complaint memorandum we posted yesterday was enormous and unwieldy, but seriously, folks: It's an absolute treasure trove of gorgeous goodness. So, for the rest of the week, we'll be highlighting two particularly hilarious and illustrative segments from the memo each...
Who Has Colorado Avalanche Fever?
Sorry, Colorado Avalanche fans ... you might have a rather unfortunate new mascot....
Your Afternoon Michael Vick Update
It's been about five hours since we did a Michael Vick update. About that time, don't you think?...
Is Rodionova Gonna Have To Choke A Bitch?
You know, a world in which athletic participants can't wing their equipment at fans who are heckling them ... that's a world we don't want to live in....
This might seem like a strange recommendation, but you really need to pick up a copy of Penthouse this month. Our own AJ Daulerio has an amazing story about a man who organizes and runs Las Vegas bachelor parties that will terrify and amaze you. You now have a reason to actually read it for the arti...
Your British Open Preview
Hey, one of them "Major" "Championships" is going on in the whole golf world this weekend, the British Open. It's at the Carnoustie Golf Links, which is in Scotland, and as we all know, if it's not Scottish, it's crap....
Can The Yankees Still Win The East?
• Look out, kids: Here come the Yankees. [Complete Sports] • Brewers fans will not be wearing buckets. [Bugs And Cranks] • Here come the fall video games. [PopJocks] • Limping toward history. [The Angry T] • Daunte Culpepper should perhaps not be his own agent. [Blog Of Hilarity] • A goatee shall sa...
Less Than A Week Until NCAA Football 08 Is Out!
Tuesday is the official on-sale date for NCAA Football 2008 — with special Boise State action! — and Peter Schrager at Fox Sports catches up with the guy who puts in all the player names to fill the "Illinois QB No. 7" listings. Apparently there's been some sort of controversy involving the guy, bu...