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Joel Zumaya Puts His Life In Rock's Hands
Remember in the American League Championship Series, when flamethrowing, red-eyeballed righthander Joel Zumaya was sidelined with a "right wrist and forearm inflammation?" It turned out not to matter, because the Tigers blitzed the A's in four games, but had there been some tighter games late, it co...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Chad Ford: When leather is outlawed, what will be the balls of the future? • 1 p.m. NFL with Keith Kidd: Terrell Owens, crazy enough to convince even Tom Cruise that a psychiatrist is needed? • 4 p.m. Football scientist ...

More Empty Rooms Discovered In The Drafty Mansion That Is Terrell Owens' Mind
It's tough being Terrell Owens. Enemies are everywhere. There are secret documents to be decoded and then left in an isolated mailbox for government agents to pick up. Then there's all the time traveling with Darren Daulton. It's a lot of work....

The Matsuzaka Has Landed
Well, the world of Red Sox fans can breathe a sliver easier this morning; Daisuke Matsuzaka has signed his (reasonable, really) deal and is now officially a target of the Boston faithful. We find it amusing that one of the first things he had to do when his plane landed was undergo a physical; tur...

Marvin Lewis' Reindeer Games
This has already made it around a bit, but because we're feeling festive and full of the holiday spirit this morning, so we thought we'd share this special video, put together to the tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" — not typically one of our holiday favorites — and concerning Marvin Lewis an...

NBA Roundup: Can AI Save The Heat?
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering if anyone physically balances their checkbook anymore ... • NBA: The Los Angeles Lakers Experience Featuring Vladimir Radmanovic doesn't put on a very good show in Dallas. • NHL: We are all just pawns in Sidney Crosby's game. • College basketball: Cincinnati Bearcats ...

Joey Porter Didn't Mean To Offend You; He Just Meant To Offend The Fag
Just because his team has been a disaster this year doesn't mean that Steelers linebacker/insano Joey Porter can't still stir some shit up. Yesterday, Porter apologized for calling Kellen Winslow a "fag."...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while saying goodbye to Peter Boyle ... • NBA: Phoenix at Miami; L.A. Lakers at Dallas. Kind of waiting until the last minute to make your move, eh Pat Riley? [ESPN] • College basketball: Xavier at Cincinnati. We call it Fifth Third Arena at Shoemaker Center to confuse the terrorists. ...

Smell Like Burning Tires
As far as NASCAR-branded products go, nothing quite compares to the NASCAR romance novels, but this one is at least in the ballpark....

Leftovers: A Logical Product Tie-In
• Get your Schwetty Balls! [CNBC] • Some Cowboys give up their kidneys for friends. [FanIQ] • Look, drunk hockey player pictures! [Mondesi's House] • It's Landon Donovan's wedding registry. The tights are for him, we bet. [The Big Lead] • Evel Knievel is pretty pissed at Kanye West. [The Sports Puls...

Year In Review: April
We're reviewing each month of the past year leading up to New Years Day. We call it, imaginatively, "Year In Review." We're digging through our archives pretty well, but if you think we should definitely feature something for the last year that we might overlook, email us at [email protected] with s...

Dan Marino, The Early Broadcasting Years
We'd never seen this old video, of Dan Marino, back in the Len Dawson "Inside The NFL" days, making a verbal flub and kind of getting a little pissy about it. (When you've scared Len Dawson, you've scared the world.) It's from 2000, when Marino was first trying out as a broadcaster — and was, and is...

Our Interview With John Rocker
Two days before Thanksgiving, at Local 138, one of our favorite watering holes in New York City, we sat down with, of all people, famed immigration expert John Rocker, and talked for about an hour. Really. We did this. See? Sometimes we interview people....

What Good Is Having A Younger Brother If You Can't Do This?
We weren't there, but we imagine that this was pretty much every day in the Manning family backyard, circa 1985. The small, helmeted figure, crawling in a stupor after smashing into a large object ... that would be Eli, and it really would explain a lot to current New York Giants fans....

Blogdome: Bavaro Is A Novelist's Novelist At Tight End
• Mark Bavaro tries on a new slant pattern: Novelist. [Pop Boner] • Ron Zook is setting himself up for failure at Illinois. (Ed. Note: If he gets us to a bowl game, any bowl game, no such THING as failure!) [Bored At Life] • Red Auerbach might not like Allen Iverson that much. [SLAM Online] • Why Fr...

D-Mat, D-Mat, Come Home To Us, D-Mat!
Because the land of Red Sox fans is an intense one, one that we approach gingerly and with palms spread wide open, we don't want any trouble here, we feel like we should check in on the Daisuke Matsuzaka business. We enjoy that the Red Sox Nation is up in arms and screaming about a player who sudden...

Come Celebrate Mo Vaughn's Birthday!
If you're hanging around the Meatpacking District of Manhattan tomorrow evening, we encourage you to drop by the 39th birthday extravaganza for former Red Sox and (gasp!) Met first baseman Mo Vaughn. (Oh, and the Angels: Don't forget, he ate up their clubhouse spread plenty too, and probably hit an ...

PETA Is Worried About Shaq's Hands
A few people out there have wondered if the entirely reasonable and in no way dramatically and insanely overstepping in the name of a somewhat noble (occasionally) cause folks at PETA have an opinion on David Stern's decision to be with leather again. Well, they do....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. College FB w/Barry Switzer: How about a nonsensical, drunken rant just for old time's sake? • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: Has PETA yet declared a Jihad on the NBA due to the return of the old ball? (Note: They have. We're just...