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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy baseball focus: Once Indians catcher Kelly Shoppach breaks into the starting lineup. you shall feel my wrath! • 2 p.m. NASCAR with Terry Blount: Should a pit crew have a team dance? • 4 p.m. Tennis with Sam Querrey: Why...
Look At All The Dumb Athletes!
Every year, as the NFL Draft approaches, the results of each player's Wunderlic scores inevitably leak out. This appears to serve only one purpose: To allow us to mock athletes for being so stupid. This is, we believe, a perfectly healthy aspect of being a sports fan; we are so cognizant of our phys...
Don't Piss Off Jon Bon Jovi
You know, we haven't decided if Jon Bon Jovi's part-ownership of the Arena League's Philadelphia Soul makes the league more interesting, or less. On the one hand, a "rock star" who writes about just the perfect karaoke song owns a sports franchise and screams and yells from the luxury booth. On the ...
NBA Roundup: Golden Opportunity
Notes on Monday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
The Daily Closer: A-Rod Will Accept Your Apology Now
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while chatting with the cops ... • MLB: Holy crap, Pavano won a game! Yankees 8, Twins 2. • NBA: Mavericks clinch home court advantage; Nowitzki settles in front of TV. • Tennis: With a name like Juan Monaco, how can you lose?...
Ladies And Gents, It's The NHL Playoffs
And you thought we forgot about hockey! Canuck, please!...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Luc Longley carries you and the TV out of the burning house ... • Arena Football: Georgia at Philadelphia. Nicknames? We're lost. Anyone? [ESPN2] • Baseball: New York Yankees at Minnesota. Welcome to the Snow Globe. [ESPN] • NBA: Pistons at Knicks. It's all right now, I learned my l...
Which One Is Mothra Again?
On Wednesday, Daisuke Matsuzaka will make his Fenway Park debut ... and it's not just a big day for him and the Red Sox, it's also huge for the Japanese baseball fans. Because it's not only Dice-K out there; he's going to face Ichiro Suzuki. If only they could pull Hideki Matsui off the DL for a day...
Leftovers: Welcome To Milwaukee!
• The Indians and Angels will play in Milwaukee. So, which team does the Jumbotron say to root for during "Take Me Out To The Ballgame?" [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel] • A look at a possible new Cubs owner. [CNBC] • Here's why Jesus bailed on Tiger Woods. [Five Tool Tool] • Minnesota football players ...
Make The Refs Give Their Salaries!
In a nice touch, the referees in the United States Hockey League, over the weekend, will be wearing pink referee uniforms this Friday to promote breast cancer awareness. Not only that, but they will be donating their entire game salary to the American Cancer Society, plus their per diem and an aucti...
Carmelo Anthony Would Rather Not Be Bothered While Eating A Slurpee
You know, we're trying to think what bothers us more: Carmelo Anthony punching a Knick at Madison Square Garden or a friend of his decking an autograph-seeker at a 7-11....
Another Way To Assure Your Child A Life Of Misery
In an example of creative nomenclature that could only have come from Ohio, a couple has named their child "Tressel Hayes Huffines."...
Who's Sorry Now? Old Leatherface Edition
Does WFAN have an ombudsman? Because someone needs to tell the network to place Don Imus in a block of ice and shove him toward Greenland, where he can be unfrozen sometime in the future when they figure out a cure for old. Why was Imus racially taunting the Rutgers basketball team again? Not even h...
Blogdome: Zach Johnson Fever
• A final Masters recap. [Dogs That Chase Cars] • OK, Detroit, take another wide receiver. [The Smittblog] • Not a fun weekend to watch baseball in Cleveland. [Kid Cleveland] • Braves fans are feeling pleased with how matters are going so far. [Bad Braves Fan] • How to fix soccer. [Ghosts Of Wayne F...
ESPN Has Some Hamster Problems As Well
We've been using Yahoo for all our fantasy games for the last, oh, 10 years, so we weren't quite abreast of what was happening with ESPN's Fantasy Games, but it appears they're having all kinds of problems....
Last Chance For Midwest Pants Party Tickets
A while back, we let you know about The Deadspin Midwest Pants Party, coming this May to U.S. Cellular Field. Well, this is the last week to get tickets, so we figured we'd remind you....
Hirshey: Staying Awake For The MLS (Halfway, Anyway)
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. MLB with Buster Olney: Mind if I call you Bob? • 3 p.m. After Jackie author Carl Fussman: Will you be promoting this on Imus in the Morning? • 4 p.m. Page 2's Patrick Hruby: No, I have no idea why the Pulitzer Committee is ignor...
The Big Lead, Schrutebag And The Feisty New Ombudsman
Say what you will about ESPN executive editor John Walsh, but he definitely made a fascinating choice hiring Le Anne Schreiber as the Leader's new ombudsman. Schreiber weighed in on the whole Schrutebag-Big Lead issue over the weekend, and she pulled no punches....