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Jake Gyllenhaal Wants To Kiss You
Look at that face. That's the face of a life well lived; that's the face of a guy who needs his life story told. That's the face of a guy who has bedded plenty like you, Kolber, you ain't nothin'....

Busy Times In Beantown
• Is history coming full circle in Boston? [Bugs And Cranks] • That was kind of an odd Pirates trade, wasn't it? [The Parrot] • More on the sad end of Rod Beck. [Red Sox Monster] • Is the lady from the famous Brian Urlacher photo the same lady on that reality show? [Mr. Irrelevant] • More remembranc...

NFL Season Preview: Chicago Bears
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....

Beckham May Someday Play, Maybe, Who Knows?
Our hallowed land has been graced with the presence of David Beckham for almost three weeks now. And he has played for about 14 minutes. Some MLS teams are handling it better than others....

Ron Mexico Speaks! (Kind Of)
It's not exactly the time you'd expect Michael Vick to start giving a lot of interviews, but yesterday, for the first time, he spoke publicly about the whole dog fighting business. He didn't say much....


We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NHL with Scott Burnside: Welcome back to the Death Star, NHL; here is your Berman bobblehead. Please pee in this cup. • 1 p.m. WEC fighter Carlos Condit: Cage? Fighting? Suddenly Michael Vick is very interested in this chat. • 4 ...

Steve Bartman Is Not Impressed
Perhaps you've already heard of Italian soccer superfan Massimo Pecorino, who has erected gravestones on a local mountainside; one for each loss suffered by his favorite team, Inter Milan. It's an idea that could catch on ... in this photo we see the aftermath of a typical Knicks' season....

Sometimes The Internet Is Scary
From the People Will Auction Anything Online file ......

It's A Golfer Fight!
Via Sports By Brooks, we discover that Golf.com is featuring a regular column by an anonymous current Tour pro. Because he's anonymous, he's not mincing many words....

No One's More Fun Than OJ Simpson
If you haven't seen this highlight reel of O.J. Simpson being interviewed by some Website we've never heard of, it's worth checking out. We don't quite understand the mindset of pranking O.J., though; we mean, the guy killed two people. You think you can really embarrass him?...

The Day That Aaron Boone Went Yard
And methinks the one kid in the video is a little too much into the butt-slapping, probably. He's wearing No. 12, which that season was Kenny Lofton ... shouldn't he switch places with No. 2? Anyway, The Shot Heard Round The Leggo Box is also good (hmm, is that a row of Jar Jar Binkses in the stands...

About Last Night
What you missed while you, Malcolm and Reese finally find Dewey ... • MLB: Ladies and gents, we give you the first place Arizona Diamondbacks. • Swimming: I don't know what a natatorium is, and if I fell in a pool I'd probably sink. Brendan Hansen doesn't have these problems at the U.S. swim champio...

A Big Trading Day, And In Baseball Too
It is perhaps baseball's misfortune to, on the one day a year everyone looks for baseball trades, have its thunder stolen by an NBA trade, but then again, no one's been waiting six years to see where Joel Pineiro would finally be traded....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you've finished drug testing the high school band ... • MLB: San Francisco at Los Angeles Dodgers. Barry not expected to play today. Just to mess with his head, this should be the one game that Hank Aaron attends. [ESPN2] • WNBA: Detroit at San Antonio; Sacramento at Seattle. Yep...


He Might Be A Fire Hazard
One of our favorite rituals of the Olympic Games is the selection of the people to carry the Olympic Torch. The best is still O.J. Simpson at the 1984 Summer Games. Bet Peter Ueberroth would have loved to have that one back. It's possible China might have a particularly fun carrier itself....