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For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
8:00, ABC. Golf. British Open, Final Round. You can still catch a few holes of Tiger breaking out whoopin' stick if you hurry. 1:30, ESPN. IndyCar. ABC Supply Co./AJ Foyt 225. Well, if nothing else, President Bush approves. You're doin' a heckuva job, Indy. 2:00, TNT. NASCAR. Nextel Cup, Pennsylva...

About Last Night...
• MLB: Padres 3, Giants 4. The Giants have now assumed the presitgious position of NL West leader....

Over The Line? Yes, I'd Say So
There's a sporting event going on in San Diego this weekend that's described here in the LA Times as "a beer-fueled nudity fest." It's a tournament for a game called "Over-the-Line," which is kind of like softball, but weird. The rules state that... ah, who am I kidding, you haven't been able to c...

To Watch Tonight...
• Movie. The Rookie. Man, there's really nothing on tonight. 8:00, ABC. • Soccer. FA Archives. Manchester United vs. Tottenham Hotspur. It's an old game, but I bet you don't know who won. 8:00, FSC • Boxing. Baldomir vs. Gatti. You might also see a replay Shane Mosley vs. Fernando Vargas, if you're ...

Vlade Looks To Avoid Contact
A link in a previous Blogdome went to this post at To the People about Vlade Divac's noble interest in purchasing a heretofore government-controlled newspaper in Belgrade. That is not going to be happening now. Why? Well, mainly because Vlade Divac doesn't want to be killed. Vlade made this sorta ...

Jose Canseco Gets Familiar With Chico Police
You can take Jose Canseco out of the big leagues, but you can't take the big league out of Jose Canseco. Just hours after his victory in the Golden Baseball League's home run derby, Jose Canseco was involved in some kind of an incident with a woman outside of an Oxford Suites hotel room. No one wa...

Sergio Garcia Tries To Break The Duck
Despite Tiger Woods being awarded the British Open title yesterday afternoon by Pat Forde, the rest of the field decided to show up and play today anyway. And Tiger still does have the lead, but just by a stroke. Sergio Garcia shot a course record-tying 65 today to get himself to within 1 of Tiger...

Boyz N The U
There was some drama on The U's campus yesterday, as Hurricanes safety Willie Cooper was shot in the ass. His roommate and teammate, Brandon Meriweather, in a move that would make Ray Lewis proud, then "pulled a pistol from his pants pocket and fired three times at the person," according to the AP...

Floyd Makes Us Proud
Floyd Landis did what Floyd Landis does this morning, cruising past Spaniard Oscar Pereiro to put himself in position to claim the Tour de France tomorrow. Pereiro started the day 30 seconds ahead of Landis, and finished it about a minute behind him. I don't know anything about cycling, but I kno...

For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
9:00 am, ABC. Golf. British Open, Third Round. The Open continues until 2:30 or so, and we're getting a bit of an early start today to accommodate it and the Tour de France. 1:00, FOX (East). MLB. Cubs @ Nationals, Astros @ Mets, A's @ Tigers. The winners of the Tim McCarver sweepstakes this week?...

About Last Night...
• MLB: Padres 2, Giants 8. Big night for the Giants. They're just a 1/2-game back in the NL West now, and they acquired Shea Hillenbrand, who could totally kick Felipe Alou's ass....

Week In Review: Goatriders, Tornadoes And Carl Monday's Goodbye
• The brilliant (and somehow underrated) final chapter in the Carl Monday-Mike Cooper odyssey. • Jimmy Johnson ... TOPLESS! • Keep your wives away from Bill Belichick! • Curt Schilling, man of the online people! • You can absolutely not go wrong with a Bob Knight instructional video outtake. • No ...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your Cardinals hat finally floats back to earth ... • Boxing: Super middleweights, Allan Green vs. Anthony Bosante, at Tulsa. It's a party; burritos and talcum for everyone! [ESPN2] • MLB: Twins at Indians. Bob Wickman, we hardly knew ye. [Sports Time Ohio] • MLB: Cubs at Nationals....

Cultural Oddsmaker: Insane in the Membrane
A.J. Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Send him all kinds of email....

Leftovers: The Rainman Reigns
• Shawn Kemp arrested for marijuana possession. You think you know a guy. [Houston 2 News] • Big glitch in PSP version of NCAA Football 2007. [PSP Fanboy] • Shea Hillenbrand would like to tell you something. [The Phat Phree] • Mark Schlereth, philosophizer. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]...

Tiger Woods, Back To Normal
As Tiger Woods soars to the top of the British Open leaderboard, doing what he can to re-establish his dominance of the sport, we are pleased to see that he has still not learned how to avoid the awkward high-five. That's just simply Tiger being Tiger....

Short People In Riding Pants Running
Because nothing amuses us like jockeys, here's a neat — if not necessarily new — promotion they're trying at Calder Race Course this weekend: A jockey race! Because nothing's more compelling that five-foot-tall guys sprinting....

Sir ... Do We Get To Win This Time?
Deadspin, John J. Born 7-6-47 in Bowie, Ariz.. Of Indian-German descent: That's a hell of a combination. Joined the army 8-6-64. Accepted special forces, specialization: light weapon, medic, helicopter and language qualified. 59 confirmed kills. Two Silver Stars, four Bronze, four Purple Hearts. Dis...

Ben Roethlisberger, Pure Country
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, fresh off his apparent facial reconstruction that has somehow made him much more normal looking (and vaguely lobotomized) than he did before his motorcycle accident, is going to appear in a country music video. That in itself is no big deal. It's...

Blogdome: A Pink Tie Domi?
• Those NHL jerseys ... well, heck, they're PINK! [copyranter] • Which baseball player would a guy least want to have sex with his sister? [Rivalfish] • A look back at the classic WizzNutzz takedown of Scoop Jackson. [WizzNutzz] • Some good old-fashioned rugby violence. [The Red Terror] • The name t...