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Big Money Undefeated in 7 of 7 NBA Games Reffed by Scott Foster
You'll recall that Foster was the referee who received more than 134 phone calls from Tim Donaghy. Now, R.J. Bell, a sports betting expert, has examined the lines in the games surrounding those telephone calls. He found that when the line moved two points or more (described as a significant line mov...
Camby Trade: Mark Warkentien is no Garry Kasparov
So the Denver Nuggets traded the only guy on their roster who sometimes kinda-sorta plays defense — Marcus Camby, the 2007 Defensive Player of the Year — to the Los Angeles Clippers for...wait, what was that again? The option to exchange second-round picks with the Clips in 2010 and a $10 million tr...
698 Georgia Fans Donate $10,000 for Right to Buy Season Tickets...Curse Matthew Stafford
It's wonderful to see so many Georgia natives embracing higher education. Just wonderful. Georgia only had 698 season tickets come open and they fill the requests based on a complicated system called "who gives us the most money?"...
John Daly and Butch Harmon in Catfight on Eve of British Open
After swing coach Butch Harmon said Daly was more interested in drinking and having a good time than he was in being a good golfer. Daly, who is more interested in drinking and having a good time than being a good golfer, took offense. Now he's finally firing back from England. Sort of....
Gisele Bundchen's Buttock-Baring Shorts Can Finally Be Seen As They Were Originally Intended
Plenty of online pants-stirring commotion occurred a few months ago when photos of Tom Brady's girlfriend Gisele Bundchen getting a butt-buff were loosed upon the internet masses. Finally, V magazine's fall issue was released and the photos of Gisele doing her whole giraffe-wearing-Daisy Dukes routi...
Kornhesier Crabgate, The Next Day: Shocking New Details Emerge
Now it seems that key sources are backing off from their claims that ESPN chatterbox Tony Kornhesier had acted like a pompous ass at a Delaware seafood restaurant recently. Here's the original item from the Pulp Culture Blog in the Wilmington News Journal, which claims that Kornheiser threw a fit wh...
Newt Gingrich Pleads With The Packers To Keep Brett Favre
Brett Favre's aligning himself with some interesting people during his messy unretirement quest. First it was Fox News' Greta Van Susteren and now he's picked up an endorsement from another figurehead of conservative punditry, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich....
Babe Ruth's Teammate Speaks: 100-Year-Old Bill Werber
And Bill Werber brings some strong trash talk. Specifically he refers to current players as "a grubby-looking bunch of caterwaulers." A caterwauler? According to dictionary.com that's the sound a cat makes when it's in heat. So, yeah, I can see that. Werber tells stories about playing cards against ...
Morning Blogdome: On Tummy Lincecum's Fortuitous Illness
• Tim Lincecum may have saved his career by missing the All-Star game: So says one San Francisco Gate blogumnist: "Giants pitchers should avoid these mid-summer "classics" at all cost. You remember Atlee Hammaker's seven-earned run outing in 1983. He was never the same after that embarrassment." [SF...
Uggla Implodes, Big Papi's Madonna Hi-Jinx, and Bud Selig Loves Him Some Sarah Jessica Parker
What they're saying out there about Tuesday's All-Star Game ......
Worst Getaway Attempt Ever
UFC champ-turned-whack-a-mole Quinton "Rampage" Jackson got himself into a bit of trouble on Tuesday, fleeing the scene of an accident, evading police, and then being arrested at gunpoint by Newport Beach police. Not only was our protagonist riding on rims at the end of the pursuit, but another stic...
This Time It Counts (Well Into The Morning)
Each weekday morning Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed from the night before. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see with your coffee, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....
MLB All-Star Game Live Blog
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." I can think of a better way to summarize the Yankees' strategy for trading deadline maneuvers. Ben Sheets and Cliff Lee will go about two innings, whereas Joe Buck and Tim McCarver are scheduled to go the distance. Follow all the commissioner-man...
The Second Coming Of Josh Hamilton Begins Tonight
Here's Texas Rangers slugger and True American Christian Hero, Josh Hamilton in his pre-Jesus days when he got arrested in May 2005 after his bomb-tastic 24th birthday party in North Carolina....
MLS Player Leaves Soccer Headed to Priesthood
Yep, American soccer has arrived. And I say that as a big soccer fan. Chase Hilgenbrinck, a reserve defender for the New England Revolution, is retiring at the age of 26 to enter a Maryland seminary. Hilgenbrinck will spend six years at the seminary before he can become a priest. Per the AP....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while cleaning mashed potatoes from various orifices ... • MLB: All-Star Game, at New York (8 p.m., ET). No doubt all players will be totally giving 100 percent. [Fox] • WNBA: New York at Connecticut (7 p.m., ET); San Antonio at Phoenix (9 p.m., ET). I know two of these nicknames. That...
Tim Lincecum Being Tended To By Paramedics In NYC Hotel?
Apparently, Giants' young gun Tim Lincecum was seen being tended to by paramedics at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. "Could be just the flu", the tipster said....
Remember To Have Sympathy For Jim Leyritz Tonight
Former Yankees' catcher Jim Leyritz, seen above, wobbling and ivehashjushacoupladrinksh-ing for Fort Lauderdale police before his DUI arrest last Dec. 28th is upset. That night Leyritz, 44, was involved in an accident with 30-year-old Plantation, Fla., native Freida Veitch. Veitch had a BAC of .18, ...
A-R-T-E-S-T still spells "crazy"
Ron Artest is kind of like El Nino: Not fully understood but capable of wreaking unspeakable havoc when you least expect it. Although, honestly, we probably should have anticipated that he'd go a little crazy(er) after watching Baron Davis, Elton Brand and Corey Maggette get rewarded with bags of f...
Afternoon Blogdome: Alyssa Milano Intends To Shed Her Baseball Player-Dating Past Forever
• For the love of the game, not the players: Apparently, Alyssa Milano has decided that dating baseball players is no longer beneficial to her personal well-being."They are grown men playing a little boy's sport. That makes them childish," she said. Based on the stunning post-Milano regressions of B...