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It's Barbaro's World, We Just Live In It
Well, it's finally happened: Barbaro is now getting letters from other horses. We know this is true because the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine is screening all e-mail to the Barbaro message board these days, and this one got through:...
The Greatest YWML Reference Of All Time (So Far)
So, Saturday morning, we woke up, full of enthusiasm for a beautiful New York City afternoon, and we checked our email. There were, strangely, 211 new email messages; that's a lot for a weekend. We weren't sure what we'd missed; did Carl Monday do a story on Fred Smoot or something?...
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Big East Conference
Thought we were done previewing things? How could you think that, with your NCAA Basketball Tournament office pool a mere five months away? You've got to start studying now if you want to impress that chick in reception. So who's with me? Let's Gooo! Please send contributions to [email protected]....
Blogdome: Watch Yo Mouth, Pete
• Pete Carroll: Vulgarian. [The Wizard Of Odds] • You know, Mario Williams is starting to look like a No. 1 pick. [WBRS Sports Blog] • Does it really matter who the UNC football coach is? [Bored At Life] • Some Yankees fans will miss Gary Sheffield a bit. [Yankees Chick] • What a disastrous game for...
You Need Sunglasses To Watch This Team Play
College basketball is slowly tipping off, with a bunch of high-profile schools taking turns writing a check to places like Savannah State and Florida A&M and letting the backups get some work in while cruising to uninspired 25-point victories. (Our Illini begin this process tonight against old nemes...
Hirshey: Who Doesn't Love Some Dynamo?
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....
Nothing Says Old-Fashioned Like "Citifield"
This, friends, is the new stadium for the New York Mets, still out in Flushing and expected to open in 2009. It is designed, like most stadiums are these days, as a throwback to the old-timey fields of the '50s, with smidgens of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds mixed in with, you know, big skybox...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. BCS expert Brad Edwards: Your parents must be so proud. • 3 p.m. NFC West with Rodd Newhouse: Which is worse, the NFC West or the National League West? • 4 p.m. Bracketologist Joe Lunardi: What hare we bracketing, huh, Joe? The B...
Any Room At The Inn For Rutgers?
The new BCS Standings are out, and it's a happy day for those of us who realize that Rutgers is the only huge story left — outside of Saturday's Ohio State-Michigan game, that is — that's really worth firing one's self up about. The Scarlet Knights are No. 6 in the new BCS poll, which is actually ...
NBA Roundup: Ming Went The Strings Of My Heart
Notes from today's games in the National Basketball Association:...
NFL Roundup: Strange Thoughts In East Rutherford
News And Notes From Week 10 in the NFL....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while enjoying the wonders of the Ohio Library System ... • NFL: Where's the Stanford band when you need them? Hester's return of a missed FG leads Bears over Giants. • NBA: Bobcats have 28 turnov ... oops! (Comical sound effect) make that 29 turnovers in 108-101 loss to Nuggets. • N...
NFC Supremacy Is Sort Of On the Line
There's a switch on Rex Grossman's back that goes from "Spectacular" to "Scott Mitchell," and it's not a dimmer switch. It's one or the other. So far this season, he's been Christ-like, or he's been Train Wreck Rex....
NFL Week Ten, Update #4
• The Raiders, and I probably shouldn't be so disappointed about this, couldn't seal the deal against the Broncos. No interceptions from Andrew Walter (weird) and 3 interceptions from Jake Plummer (not weird), and the Broncos are your winners. There were 109 total rushing yards... combined. Even the...
To Watch Tonight...
• NFL: Chicago Bears @ New York Giants. It's getting cold, Kyle Orton. Time to thicken that beard up. 8:15, NBC. • NBA: Houston Rockets @ Miami Heat. Tracy McGrady called Yao Ming the best center in basketball last night. I guess we'll see. 8:00, ESPN. • College Basketball: CBE Classic: Columbia @ D...
NFL Week Ten, Update #3
• Andrew Walter has so far completed more passes than he hasn't. And none of them were to Broncos or anything... no joke. He's 10-of-17 for 100 yards with no interceptions, and the Raiders are actually leading the Broncos. Of course, Jake Plummer sometimes makes that possible, all by himself. He's t...
LeftoverDome...
• A fellow at The Sports Frog shares a nice Bill Walsh memory. [Sports Frog] • Dan Shanoff is losing sleep about the BCS picture, but I think he's got a good handle on it. [Dan Shanoff] • If the A's get their way, their new stadium would be so technologically-advanced that you'd need to actually be ...
NFL Week Ten, Update #2
• Seems like a lot of these games still have a way to go before being over. The Eagles/Redskins game is one of them, but in a manner of speaking, it's been over for quite some time. It's kind of a statement game for the Eagles and those who had written them off. Statement game for the Redskins, too,...
Wedgies Vs. Crack
Too few headlines feature the word "wedgie," and I thank Whittier Vocational Technical High School and the school administrators for helping to rectify that. A few players on the the football team are accused of giving wedgies to younger team members. And since that violates the school's hazing po...
NFL Week Ten, Update #1
• The Titans are beating the hell out of the Ravens because they're racist. Travis Henry has displayed tremendous vision through his Klan hood, running for 78 yards and a touchdown. Vince Young has a rushing touchdown, Drew Bennett has 74 yards receiving, and the Ravens have been unable to run the b...