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Blogdome: The Phallus In My Hometown
• Here's what's most famous about the hometown of the new Japanese Devil Rays pitcher. [Gheorghe: The Blog] • Reggie Bush's new lady. [The Big Lead] • Reggie Theus' unusual fan club. [Amachi's Former Playground] • Are they ever going to announce that DirectTV deal? [The Luke Report] • They're testin...
Inside The Awful Illini Car Accident
As most of you have heard by now, two Illinois basketball players — center Brian Carlwell and shooting guard Jamar Smith — were injured in a car accident last night in Champaign. Smith suffered a concussion, but Carlwell is currently listed in critical condition at Carle Foundation Hospital, a hospi...
Dan Hawkins REALLY Wants You To Practice More
Colorado Buffaloes head coach Dan Hawkins was hired because he's not the type of guy to lure his players in with strip clubs and booze, unlike his predecessor. We respect that; nobody wants that for college students....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Baseball with Rob Neyer: Annoying baseball minutiae, could we have missed you more? (By the way, you're toast, Neyer.) • 2 p.m. NBA Live Bring it Home: Bring what home? Who are you? Where is Dan Raphael? • 4 p.m. NCAA MBB w Doug ...
Deep, DEEP Inside The Westminster Dog Show
Starting yesterday and concluding today, the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden features the finest athletic specimens at MSG since ... well, since the last Dog Show. We don't consider competitive dog preening a sport, but we do find it funny, and we think Best In Show is one of the funni...
And THAT'S What Carlos Zambrano Thinks
If you are fortunate enough to root for a team that has an intense rivalry, you probably have someone on the opposing team you raise your level of hate for. Red Sox fans have it for Jeter and A-Rod; Patriots fans have it for Peyton Manning; Raiders fans have it for the rest of humanity. As a Cardina...
NBA Roundup: In Praise Of The Pistons
Notes on Monday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Schottenheimer Finally Walks The Plank
We'll return to our film, The Road To Dennis Green, after these messages....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while monitoring bidding on the Lisa Nowak NASA astronaut diaper ... • College basketball: Gonzaga's problems mushroom mount, as Santa Clara ends the 'Zags' 50-game home win streak. • NHL: Keith Primeau leads Flyers past Red Wings. Wait, um ... what? • NBA: Pistons beat Clippers for ...
Why West Virginia Is So Good At Home
Just to make sure we end your day on as lowbrow a point as we can possibly muster, here's the reason UCLA lost to West Virginia on Saturday. This guy. Let this be a lesson for all of you: Do not come into this guy's house and expect to escape alive....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your guitar gently weeps ... • College basketball: Louisville at Pittsburgh; Oklahoma State at Texas [ESPN]; Santa Clara at Gonzaga. This game's gonna end really late. Do we have enough weed? [ESPN2] • College women's basketball: Texas at Oklahoma. What is this teamwork and fundamen...
Leftovers: Zook Looks About Right
• If Big Ten football coaches were like South Park characters. [Photobucket • That Dice-K beer commercial? It's causing a little bit of (dumb) trouble. [To The People] • There sure is a lot of drama with the Wizards right now. [No One Appreciates Me ...] • Tracking the Super Bowl, play by play, for ...
The Celtics Fan Suicide Watch
So the Celtics have lost 18 in a row, and if they don't sneak out a win at home Wednesday against the Bucks, a West Coast road trip might very well inspire them to break the record for all-time losing streaks. We thought we'd check in and see how the Celtics blogs are holding up....
What Kind Of Bet Would The Pink Taco Make?
When mayors make their yearly dopey bets on certain sports series — "If the Colts win, you'll give us your deep dish pizza, and if your Bears win, we'll give you some dreary dead-end manufacturing jobs!" — it's silly, but kind of cute, in a "white people in suits trading beans" type of way. But when...
Welcome To Las Vegas, NBA Stars! Enjoy!
We are just a wee few days away from the NBA All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas, or, as we like to call it, "Caligula." The city of Las Vegas is all geared up, and while there's still plenty of talk about whether or not this means there will ultimately be a team in Vegas, we prefer to stick to the point:...
Excuse Me Sir, Is That A Beach Ball? <i>Next!</i>
Oh, to have been at the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer tryouts on Saturday; what a glorious display of talent that must have been. They're calling it the Beckham Effect, in which 800 hopefuls from as far away as Japan and Australia showed up for a "chance" to play alongside David Beckham this coming MLS ...
Can They Hold An NCAA Tournament Without Duke?
Much discussion today about a potentially big fun NCAA Tournament question: Is it possible that Duke could miss the field of 65? The Blue Devils have lost four in a row and have a ton of road games coming up. It still seems rather unlikely, but the real question is whether we should legitimately be ...
Blogdome: In Case You Missed The Pro Bowl
• All the Pro Bowl wrapup you could possibly need. [Foul Balls] • Why do people talk about the Fab Five with such reverence? [Precogs] • If Sidney Ponson actually makes it to a spring training, how much will he weigh? [Mop Up Duty] • Is there a curse of Larry Csonka? [Milk Was A Bad Choice] • Joe Ma...
Looking For Glove In All The Wrong Places
We're going to approach this gingerly and with much caution ......
Hirshey: Thierry Henry Makes It Difficult To Keep Up Decorum
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....