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More Corporations Fighting Over Our Cash
Despite our rather obvious and unapologetic Midwest Bias, we do actually live in Manhattan. That means, of course, we pay triple market value for an apartment the size of your closet, we're constantly showing family members from back home the same four landmarks and, most important, we have never wa...
Minor Enterprise: Baby, You Can Drive My Car
Welcome to Minor Enterprise, where we preview, and occasionally review, the great events of minor league baseball. Each Wednesday we'll take a look at the promotions, players and mascots which populate our minor league ballparks; the unsung heroes of our national pastime. (Minor Enterprise not res...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Western Athletic Conference
We must confess that we can't wait each year for the crunch of shoulder pads; for cleats churning up chunks of turf and red-faced coaches screaming from the sidelines. But enough about lacrosse. College football season is upon us, and to celebrate, we're going to get back into tiny tidbit mode and p...
Blogdome: Your NBA Schedule Guide
• Here are the REAL NBA games to watch this season. [The Basketball Jones] • On the list of things that are funny, teammates cheering while they stand over a concussed Jeremy Shockey is pretty high up there. [WBRS Sports Blog] • How Brett Favre is like a snow globe. [10,000 Takes] • What's your top ...
Your Complete College Football TV Guide
We're starting to be able to sniff out college football, it's so close now. Exactly four weeks from tomorrow, as a matter of fact....
What Drives Bobby Abreu
Bobby Abreu made his debut for the New York Yankees last night, going 0-for-3 with a walk as the Yankees took over first place for the first time in almost two months. It's a love fest in the Bronx so far, which is to say, it has been about 24 hours....
Jay Mariotti Has Returned
Fret not, loyal Chicago-area readers: Your long national nightmare is now over. After a month-long "vacation" that followed Ozzie Guillen Fag-gate, Chicago Sun-Times "columnist" Jay Mariotti has signed a three-year deal with the paper, assuring his smiling face will grace the paper's pages four days...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: When will the grand jury hear testimony on the Rockies' soggy balls? • 3 p.m.. NCAA FB with Beano Cook: Who would have thought that Castro would retire before you? • 4 p.m.. LIVE from World Series ...
Your Bill Simmons-A-Matic
The folks at Chicago Sports Review have come up with a nifty applet: Your opportunity to write your own Bill Simmons column. It's like a mad lib, but it's actually pretty ingenious how they've put it together. It takes a while to fill out, but it's kind of worth it. Here's the first three paragrap...
Some Things You Hear That You Can't Unhear
We just don't get the French. The fastest-selling song in France, nay, in all of Europe, is Coup de Boule (The Headbutt), which was produced as a "joke" by a couple of music producers in Paris to ease the pain of their country's World Cup loss to Italy. But now France's loss is also our loss, as thi...
Save The Chorizo!
We can all agree that we give much love to the chorizo, slight discomfort with cheap ethnic pandering aside. The chorizo has taken the country by storm! Considering there isn't that much more to talk about in relation to Milwaukee Brewers baseball right now, you'd think the chorizo would be out ther...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while apologizing to just about everyone in the phone book ... • MLB: Good day for, Josh Willingham and the Marlins. Bad day for, Billy Wagner and the Mets. • Wolrd Series of Poker: Someone kept raising even though he didn't have anything, sending the tournament into a tizzy. But, is...
Boeheim Must Have Had Some Hand In This
We don't mean to imply that the Syracuse football team might not be so good this year, but they have a wide receiver who is five-foot-four. We think our family dog is taller than that....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you put the finishing touches on your new line of adult swaddling clothes ... • WNBA: Indiana at Detroit; Houston at Sacramento. Be the first in your family to watch an entire WNBA doubleheader. [ESPN2] • MLB: Blue Jays at Yankees. Come watch New York bask in its Abreu-ness. [YES Ne...
Can We Close Down Munchkin Gate Now?
You know, sometimes we worry about what we hath wrought....
Leftovers: Not Quite The Seventh Floor Crew, But ...
• Wait, Miami players suspended? Really? [Fanblogs] • The Red Sox made no trades. Here's what it meant. [SethMnookin.com] • So, what IS wrong with the MLS, anyway? [That's On Point] • Ladies and gentlemen, the Freddie Mac show. [AtlantaFalcons.com] • You know, we are starting to think we're cursing ...
Some Folks Are Still A Little Mad About That Scab Business
So, Cory Lidle has left the Phillies and is heading to the Yankees. In an interview, he said he was excited about pitching in the Bronx because "over the last few years I haven't had a clubhouse that expected to win with me." This got back to Phillies reliever Arthur Rhodes, who was less than please...
The Tigers' Doomsday Scenario
Few things tickle our fancy more than good old-fashioned fan panic. We have it every year with our Cardinals; no matter what might be going right, we're always convinced the sky is falling. We do not root for our teams to win; we root from them not to lose. Looking at us while we're watching an im...
Here Are Those Tirico Stories We Hinted At Last Week
Last week, while discussing Harold Reynolds' firing from ESPN for sexual harassment, we — in retrospect, somewhat flippantly — pointed out that what Reynolds was accused of paled in comparison to some of the allegations against Mike Tirico in Mike Freeman's 2000 book ESPN: An Uncensored History. We'...