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About Last Night ...
What you missed while fighting the Crazy 88s ... • MLB: LaLaWood Fables ... Dodgers sink slowly in the West, Angels soar. It's the circle of life. • WNBA: It seems like only yesterday that you didn't care that the WNBA season had begun, and now you fail to care that the Finals are almost over. Weird...
Finally, A Way To Encourage Americans To Watch Soccer
Tired of watching all your soccer matches on regular, boring sports stations, with "highlights" and "scores" and "information?" Our Italian friends have just the solution for you....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you arrive a day late for the party ... • WNBA: Finals, Game 3: Detroit at Phoenix. Hey, throw some of them free tickets my way, gals. [ESPN2] • MLB: Yankees at Blue Jays. Begin dome-closing sequence ... now. [Yes Network] • Soccer: Euro 2008 qualifying, England vs. Israel. Dropping...
Rugby Fans Are Charming
It can't be easy to work as a spot-live TV reporter covering the aftermath of a rugby game. There are, after all, drunken rugby fans. Frankly, we're surprised this doesn't happen more often....
Well, Shoot, Then Just Let Tubby Toss It
Giants dead man walking Tom Coughlin hasn't announced a starter for Sunday's game against the Packers yet, but it seems pretty likely, in the wake of Eli Manning's partially separated shoulder, that Jared Lorenzen is gonna take snaps for the NYG next week. (At least, Chris Mortensen says so, and he'...
Do You Have Irish-Wolverines Fever?
If you didn't get your fill of quality football from that train wreck at Monster Park last night, worry not: You still have the Notre Dame-Michigan game to look forward to this Saturday. Yes, the 0-2 Fighting Irish travel to the 0-2 Wolverines in a game that has all the intrigue of two 80-year-old m...
It Won't Be Much Longer Now
Last year, on August 14, 2006, we admitted that if this annoying team actually won the World Series, we'd feel they didn't deserve it. We have changed our viewpoint on that. (Obviously.) But we were off by a year and a month: This Cardinals team stinks. We'd almost rather watch the Buzzsaw....
Inside The Yankee Stadium Proposal Prank
Click to view Last week, the kids at College Humor pulled off what we'd have to consider a prank of epic proportions; one guy put a fake marriage proposal on the big screen at Yankee Stadium as his friend, the object of the prank, sat agape with his girlfriend, who, amazingly, said "yes" before he ...
A Plea To Roger Goodell
• Get to Kevin Everett's bedside, right now. [The Fynal Cut] • Draft Kevin Durant overreacts to the knee injury of Greg Oden. [Draft Kevin Durant] • More mascot fighting. [Home Run Derby] • Your waiver wire madness, all you need to know. [Kissing Suzy Kolber] • What kicked Chris Duncan in the junk? ...
Beano Cook Will Park Wherever He Damn Well Pleases
Alternate headline: Despite Will's Best Efforts, The 49ers Still Converted The Field Goal....
September 11: Perspectives From Bayless, Mariotti And Paige
It's the six-year anniversary of September 11 today, and we're not gonna make a huge thing about it, because everyone should grieve / remember in their own personal way. To commemorate the occasion, though, we thought it might be fun to step in the way back machine and see how three of our great pol...
Do Not Even THINK About An NFL Player Dogfighting
Our pal AJ Daulerio, reporting for Philadelphia magazine, heard a rumor about a potential dogfighting case involving members of the hometown Eagles. Like any diligent reporter, he made a few calls, including one to the Eagles' office, and he found nothing, and reporting nothing. But that wasn't the ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m. Hall of Famer Joe Morgan: Any statements of the obvious you didn't cover last week? What color is grass? • Noon. Graham Hays on women's World Cup: When will they complete the shootout tiebreaker? • 2 p.m. NASCAR with Terry B...
Meet The World's Next Great NFL Prognosticator
Seriously: It's kind of amazing to watch. This is not something we had considered about Kige: That he might, deep down, be Matthew McConaughey from Two For The Money, or whatever that stupid movie was called. We hope he will be able to resist the siren song of Big Money Vegas when Al Pacino calls. B...
Introducing The SSW
For years — OK, a couple of days — Slate writer Robert Weintraub has been tinkering with a concept called The SSW. He might have finally mastered it. This morning, we allow him to introduce his invention to the planet....
The Patriots Are Always Watching
As this photo from the Patriots-Jets game would seem to indicate, New England may be guilty of stealing New York's defensive signals from the sidelines during their game on Sunday. Of course, why they would do such a thing is another matter ... it's like Lisa Simpson peaking at Ralph Wiggum's test a...