m Page 6691 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Rudy Ruettiger: Think you'd have any trouble making the current Notre Dame roster? • 2 p.m. MLS w/Rivas' Jonathan Bornstein: Can we blame lack of interest in soccer on global warming? • 3 p.m. Fantasy sports w/Matt Berry: I got V...
It's The AFC East Pants Party
OK, it appears we are finally back. Boy, it's been a fun day to work for Gawker Media; it was extremely enjoyable to have people tell us what was happening on our site, since we couldn't see it and couldn't update it. Awesome. Anyway, to the AFC! Hard to imagine anyone other than the ole' Patriots...
Can One Courageous Squirrel Make A Difference In The NL Central?
When St. Louis Cardinals fans look back to identify the turning point in the 2007 season, they need go no further than Tuesday night. That's when one brave squirrel dared to make a difference, turning defeat into victory and giving wavering Busch Stadium fans a rallying point for this year, and all ...
The Picturesque Word Stylings Of Darco Milicic
Sure, I took Serbian in high school — who didn't? — but it's really rusty. So let's leave it to AOL Fanhouse to translate the worst bit of this Darco Milicic tirade against the refs following Serbia's loss to Greece in the European championships. Fanhouse surmises that one of the lines is:...
U.S. Open Roundup: Federer is Not Evil
Dylan Stableford, a former editor at MediaBistro, is writing occasionally about the U.S. Open for Deadspin. Take it away, Dylan....
A-Rod Will Keep Hitting Them Out As Long As You Keep Teeing Them Up
The two-home-runs-in-one-inning phenomenon, usually found only in Little League and the softball game at your company picnic, appeared at Yankee Sradium on Wednesday in the form of a limping, self-satisfied Alex Rodriguez. The two clouts in an eight-run seventh led New York over Seattle 10-2, effect...
About Last Night
What you missed while living the dream ... • MLB: Jake Peavy's meltdown brought to you by the number 3. Diamondbacks 9, Padres 6. • Tennis: Roddick helpless to stop Federer Express at U.S. Open. • WNBA: Pure Shock Value ... Detroit beats Phoenix in playoff finals in highest-scoring game in league hi...
It's The NFC West Pants Party
We wrap up the NFC with the NFC West, and take this brief opportunity to remind you to join the Pants Party Pick 'Em Group....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after the Killer Maneating Terror Of Coney Island is finally captured ... • MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs. First place ... fun while it lasted. [ESPN] [WGN] • Tennis: U.S. Open, men's and women's quarterfinals, at New York. How can we go on without Rafael Nadal? (I'll miss h...
Peter Angelos Hates The Homeless
Our old pal Dave Zirin, who's over at SI.com now, has been keeping an eye on some of Orioles owner Peter Angelos' labor practices over there in Ballmer. And whatever your politics are, it's pretty difficult not to be disgusted....
It's The NFC South Pants Party
To the NFC South! We don't want to speak out of turn here, but we think the NFC South might be our least favorite division in football. There's the Saints — that's Kenny Chesney in that picture, of course — and then ... ugh....
If These Two Kids Can't Make It, Who Can?
We feel obliged to point out that Shaq got divorced. We do not know why we feel obliged to point this out. But we are anyway....
The Fantasy Assassins
Considering most of you — unless you happened to draft using Yahoo's fantasy game last night — have already held your fantasy football drafts, you are, today, in the lone moment over the next three months when you won't be tinkering with your team. Right now, you are strong; your team is awesome! An...
Bill Belichick Ruins Yet Another Family
Danny Baugher dreamed of being a punter. He went to the University of Arizona, and signed late last year to the Patriots' practice squad. Big hopes, big dreams, this kid. Booming leg. Ten cent head. But just a strugglin' kid, hoping to catch a break. And then Bill Belichick sent him down the spiral ...