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Welcome, All Chorizos!
If you want to know why we love doing this site more than we've loved doing just about anything else in our lives, here's a good reason: We get to treat the addition of a new racing sausage in Milwaukee has one of the biggest stories of the day. Because IT IS!...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you accidentally press the button on the signal watch again, summoning a pissed-off Batman Superman ... • MLB: Chicago Cubs at New York Mets. Mr. Met needs fresh meat. (We'll be at this game, by the way.) [WGN] • WNBA: Washington at Connecticut; Seattle at Phoenix. Well of course yo...
Visiting The Scene Of His Namesake's "Crime"
What do you do when your real name is Mike Cooper — but you're not that Mike Cooper — and you've found your MySpace page inexplicably inundated over the last month or so?...
Leftovers: Saying So Long To Letterman
• Danica Patrick now set to not win races for a different team all together. [Indianapolis Star] • Adam Morrison will not be crying at the World Championships. [Fox Sports] • Yankees fans find something to complain about: The announcer. (With good reason.) [So, Do You Like ... Stuff?] • Troubled Tex...
A Look At The Sunday NBC Crew
Earlier today, new NBC broadcaster — it feels weird to type that; we haven't quite adjusted to the NFL being back on NBC — John Madden went to visit Oakland Raiders camp and hang out with his former player Art Shell, the new coach (again) of the Raiders. Since it's a slow, non-sexual-harassing day...
Was This Why Harold Got The Axe?
We can't say for sure why Harold Reynolds was fired from ESPN yesterday, because ESPN hasn't put out a statement or anything (and they don't have to), but we can tell you what the chatter in Bristol is: Everyone is hearing sexual harassment. Every single email we've received from the inside about ...
A.J Hawk's Shotgunnish Wedding?
If you were trying to book a wedding next March in Columbus, Ohio, over the last few months — not that anybody we know might have been — one of the primo spots in town was booked for a huge, lavish wedding between former Ohio State Buckeyes and current Green Bay Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk and La...
A Short Note On The Royals
It's the sentence we never thought we'd live to hear. But there it was, just sitting there in the notes column of the Kansas City Star's Royals gamer on Sunday. It is at once awesome in its randomness, and frightening for the images it conjures. Even more terrifying: we know that someone, somewher...
Blogdome: Back Off Of Reggie
• Listen, people ... Reggie Bush isn't going to sit out a year. Relax. [The Out Route] • So, how does the "new" RFK look? [Awful Announcing] • Whitey Ford and ... Salvador Dali? [Consumerist] • It's impossible not to have fun with the Detroit Lions. [Kissing Suzy Kolber] • The best fake training cam...
Well Worth Losing The World Cup
Want to know why alleged Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho struggled so much during the World Cup? It wasn't the world-class competition, the pressure of the international stage or being hypnotized by teammate Ronaldo's gut. It was orgasms and video games....
He Homers In Peace
For all the talk about how baseball's All-Star Game has become boring and irrelevant, it appears the Japanese All-Star game has figured out how to liven up matters: Aliens in the dugout....
Not Shaq And Kobe AGAIN?
The Christmas Day NBA doubleheader is the unofficial kickoff of the NBA season; it's typically the first nationally televised network game, the league's highest-profile moment, its chance to shine....
That's Quite An Offseason Transformation
Amazing find from The Wizard Of Odds: This appears to be a shot of Oklahoma offensive lineman George Robinson one year ago, and Oklahoma offensive lineman George Robinson from Sooners training camp today. We haven't been able to confirm it's the same guy — though we see no reason they'd change numbe...
Contagious Headbutting Sickness Strikes Again
Hey kids, time to drag out those scissors and the colored construction paper once again, because there's a horse in trouble. No, not Barbaro; he's relaxing in Pennsylvania watching premium cable. This time it's City Affair, a race horse in Britain which was — get this — headbutted by jockey Paul O...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11am. Baseball with Joe Morgan: How many phone books do you sit on to reach the microphone? By the way, have you talked to Harold today? Is he all right? • 1 p.m. Cold Pizza's Skip Bayless: Hey, how come you don't leave a reflection in...
The Closer: It's A Joe, Out Of Control
Notes from a day in baseball ......
Say Goodnight, Harold
In a world where a failed general manager can make a perfectly good living on television pretending to be a successful general manager, we supposed there just isn't much room for a failed second baseman....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while mowing your eyebrows ... • MLB: Maddux gets first win since June 9 as Cubs prevail 8-7 over Mets. • Tennis: Agassi Hardcourt Farewell Tour rolls over Xavier Malisse in Countrywide Classic. • WNBA: Because you've been dying to know, Connecticut 89, New York 71....
It's Carl Monday Night At The Ballpark
As you know, we're big fans of minor league baseball, particularly the odd promotions they put together from time-to-time. (We still think our favorite is the time a team gave away free vasectomies on Father's Day.) And a couple of weeks ago, we pointed you to the Dunedin Blue Jays' professional w...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as TiVo blackmails you with all those Lifetime Network shows you're recorded ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Texas. A chance for away fans to boo A-Rod for a change. [ESPN] • MLB: Red Sox at Athletics. Being big fans of both the colors red and green, we're torn. [NESN] • Softball: Phila...