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About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching Chewbacca wrap Christmas gifts ... • NBA: Someday they'll write a book about the Knicks' amazing 2006-07 season. And someone will read it to Isiah. • College basketball: Big Baby, meet Spencer Hawes. Washington 88, LSU 72. • NHL: In which Columbus falls out of the suck...
Burn, Carmelo, Burn
So here's a great pickup from Darren Rovell's SportsBiz CNBC blog: In the wake of the fight last week that left the Nuggets without Carmelo Anthony for 15 games (and with Allen Iverson, which still seems odd), Northwest Airlines has booted Anthony off the cover of its January 2007 edition. (The Fr...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you come down from the high that was the Poinsettia Bowl ... • College basketball: Memphis at Arizona; LSU at Washington. Big Baby tossing fish in Pioneer Square! Run for your lives! [FSN] • College basketball: Arkansas at Texas. Can the Frank Erwin Special Events Center contain the...
Those 1987 Mets Were True Method Actors
On the list of lazy pre-Christmas time videos to whittle away the remaining office hours with, this one might be the most cringe-inducing. It's part 1 of a half-hour "musical adventure" — here's Part Two and Part Three — involving the 1987 Mets, some extremely annoying children and a "nerd" who illu...
Leftovers: Do Not Taunt The Mara Family
• The Mara family perhaps takes the Giants a bit too seriously. [New York Post] • These people are awfully serious about their cannon, apparently. [Foul Balls] • The greatest sports movie actors. [Fox Sports] • Uh ... goodbye, Pittsburgh Penguins. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]...
Which Politicians Are Secret Roiders?
So here's an idea. Frustrated by the incessant nattering about steroids from politicians in his and every other sport, tennis player Rafael Nadal says it's time to start testing politicians for steroids....
Meet The Ms. Dice-K
As we begin to learn a bit more about Daisuke Matsuzaka, the newest sliver of heroin to the junkies of Red Sox Nation, we, as we all tend to do, take a look at his homelife. Specifically, his wife, Tomoyo Shibata, who, according to the outstanding research of UmpBump, has caused a stir in Japan for ...
The Compete Rocky Fight Canon
We promise this will be our last Rocky Balboa post of the week, but it does open today, and it has even gathered some excellent reviews. So we can't help but point you in the direction of Chowdaheads, which has helpfully put together a linear compendium of all Rocky's fights in YouTube form. We show...
Soccer Player To Enjoy A Year Of Imaginary Freedom
Tired of American sports figures causing mayhem with actual weapons? We present Gary Charles, a former professional English soccer player who was arrested recently for threatening a bouncer with an imaginary knife. From the BBC:...
Blogdome: A Hunting Tale
• A sad, touching story of hunting, and fathers. [Bleacher Guy] • Jeff Bagwell didn't retire five years ago? [The Fan's Attic] • Away from the Pro Bowl with you, Mr. Owens. [WBRS Sports Blog] • How important are free throws, anyway? [Rotopoll] • Get your fake Brad Childress mustaches here. [The Fanh...
Year In Review: September
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...
Bless This Pitch
So here's something potentially quite fun: The Vatican is considering fielding a soccer team....
Darryl Strawberry's Advice For The Lovelorn
All right, all right, break it up! Stop it! Now can't you two see that you're still in love with each other? You've been searching all over for happiness when all the time it was right here in your own backyard. Now give each other a hug. Come on!...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: What, no taser? • 2 p.m. 07 Madden Nation's DJ: Why do I recall Madden 94 more clearly than the actual '94 NFL season? And what happened to the ambulance? • 3 p.m. NCAA FB with Beano Cook: Thanks for those ...
More Fun With Bruce Weber
Since we already devoted a whole post to a game that pretty much only we care about, we're not gonna bore you (again) with details of our Illini's 73-70 win over Missouri last night, the seventh straight win in the series. (Though it was a rather outstanding game, and some people even live-blogged...
Iverson, The Day After
What is left for the City of Brotherly Love, in the wake of the Allen Iverson trade yesterday? Jeff Garcia? Actually ... yeah, Jeff Garcia! Even the Flyers have lost a franchise-record seven straight. Darren Daulton, Philadelphia needs your time machine now more than ever....
Desmond Howard, Mythical Bowl Expert
We don't mean to be smug about this, we really don't: Live television is awfully difficult, with all the flashing lights and camera cues and clock countdowns, and the possibility that a single screwup will end up pointed out and mocked by little twerps like us. It's hard. We appreciate it....
NBA Roundup: All Suns, All Bulls, All The Time
Notes on Tuesday's doings in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while "caught up in the whirlwind" ... • NBA: Phoenix Suns don't really seem to care what the ball is made of ... • College football: Of course we'll all remember where we were the day that TCU won the Poinsettia Bowl. • College basketball: Looking toward an Ohio State-Florida matchu...
Our Yearly Boring Obsession With The Busch Braggin' Rights Game
It's time for our yearly Busch Braggin' Rights game post. Last year, when we headed back to Illinois for the yearly Illinois-Missouri basketball matchup in St. Louis, we marveled at just how poorly coached Missouri was. Quin Snyder, who can still FIRE UP HIS TEAM with the best of them, was fired l...