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The Closer: Mets Host Enormous Sleepover
Notes from a day in baseball:...
Heat Take 1-0 Lead Despite Lottery Distractions
It is perhaps telling that, the morning after Shaquille O'Neal and his Miami Heat looked strangely dominant in a Game 1 win over the Pistons, the NBA event that garnered the most online attention was the draft lottery, which was won by the Raptors, who now conveniently aren't run by a moron....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while telling everyone you meet "you're no Jack Kennedy." ... • NBA Playoffs: Introducing Antoine Walker, Gary Payton and Jason Williams; remember them? Heat beat Pistons to take Game 1. • Soccer: Well, this can't bode well. U.S. loses to Morocco 1-0, plus Claudio Reyna strains hamst...
Eastern Conference Pants Party: Pistons Vs. Heat
As disappointed as some of us might be that we didn't get our LeBron-Wade Eastern Conference Final, we have a feeling it'll end up happening someday, somehow. Let's not get greedy just yet. Let's just watch to see if those workmanlike Pistons — who, for all their lack of popularity today, were Ameri...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you're just hanging around with Madonna ... • MLB: Atlanta at San Diego. Peavy is still pissed. And we can't really blame him. [TBS] • NBA Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 1, Miami at Detroit. Didn't we all see this coming? Yes. [ESPN] • NHL Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 3, ...
ESPN Rocks Down Alison Road
An intrepid tipster sends us this beauty of an invite, encouraging ESPN employees to come to the Bristol cafeteria this Friday for that "Mike And Mike In The Morning" wedding and see the Gin Blossoms rock the buffet line like it has never been rocked before....
Leftovers: Praising Gado
• Samkon Gado is a hot running back, and a much better guy. [Associated Press] • Star Alabama linebacker, with degree in criminal justice, arrested for various misdeeds. [SportingNews.com] • A proposal for just ending the NBA playoffs right now. [Blogcritics] • Barbaro? Still alive. [Louisville Cour...
Ghosts Of Web Site Past
We don't know why, but we guess we kind of thought that Web sites representing companies that were obviously proven fraudulent and felonius would, as a matter of courtesy, either disgorge themselves from the Interweb, or, at the very least, stop updating....
When You're Talking Sex, You're Talking Enron Field
On Sunday, the Houston Astros shutout the Texas Rangers 5-0 in Houston, securing a series win over their in-state rivals. To celebrate, a Houston policeman at the game decided to have sex with two women. Makes sense!...
Why Matt Drudge Shouldn't Be Allowed To "Write" About Sports
Last night, at about 11 p.m., we started receiving emails about a supposed interview the Drudge Report had linked, stating that Barry Bonds had claimed not only would he pass Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, but also Japanese slugger Sadaharu Oh. That's the headline right there. We followed the link to W...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Germany
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: Germany! And for World Cup previews th...
Blogdome: Spurs Say Goodnight
• A montage of angry, frustrated Spurs photos. [The Association] • The CFL has become the Betty Ford Clinic of the NFL. [Deadly Hippos] • For those of you who need to brush up on your amateur baseball draft. [Rubber Arm] • Now that she's making $1 million a year, maybe it's time for Pat Summitt to s...
Mariotti Now Universally Acclaimed As Lazy, Slobbish, Gassy
It's tough to decide whom to dislike more: White Sox catcher AJ Pierzynski or Chicago Sun-Times and "Around The Horn" gasbag Jay Mariotti. Particularly if you're a Cubs fan. After the big interleague tussle last weekend, Pierzynski was on "Pardon The Interruption" yesterday and went after Mariotti...
Football, The Anime Way
Inspired by our scary Japanese baseball video yesterday, the gang at The Postmen dug up this apparent Japanese anime instructional video for how to play the game of American football....
A Ball Just Doesn't Go As Far As It Used To
It's official: Barry's balls are shrinking. Um, we mean the worth of Barry's balls is ... no. What we mean to say is, oh forget it. Let's start over. Baseball collector and comic book artist Todd McFarlane is not as interested in Barry's balls as he once was ... Dammit!...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Boxer Fernando Montiel: Welcome, Mr. Montiel. Please bear with us while Pat Buchanan goes through your pockets and Orrin Hatch checks your ID. We apologize for the inconvience. • 1:30 p.m. IRL's Michael Andretti: You're my secon...
Seminoles Institute New "Anti-Cocaine" Policy
Some bad news for Jon Kreft, that Florida State recruit who was arrested for having cocaine in his ass (that's a crime??!!): The Seminoles have rescinded their scholarship offer. He clearly has failed to met the exemplary moral standards expected of the students of Florida State University....
Pat Robertson Is The Strongest Man Alive
CBS Sportsline's SPIN columnist Clay Travis points out the following dubious claim, as professed on noted televangelist Pat Robertson on his Web site:...
At Last, Nash And Nowitzki, Together Again
While trying to find video of a time when Mavericks coach Avery Johnson's voice was deep — we imagine it just one day rising, like reverse puberty — we came across this apparent promotional video for the Mavs. "The Avery Bunch" are heading to the Western Conference Finals, where they will face the P...