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Leftovers: One Broke Red Wing
• Darren McCarty is not so good with the cash. [Detroit Free Press] • An opposing viewpoint on "Bonds On Bonds." [WSJ.com] • An in-depth look at the USA World Cup team, complete with profanity. [Noobsports] • Time for NASCAR bikinis. We guess this makes sense. [USA Today] • An impassioned defense of...
Careful: Sports Leagues Are Stealing Your Money
Ever since we wrote about the troubles we've been having with MLB.tv, we've been flooded with emails from angry customers. Power to the people!...
The Ninja Went Down To Georgia
Do ninjas count as "athletes?" Is there any possible way the art of being a ninja can be classified as "sports?"...
Random YouTube Finding Of The Week
As always, we reiterate that if you can't find something fascinating on YouTube, you're not even trying....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Ghana
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offsides (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: Ghana! And for World Cup previews tha...
Blogdome: Gambling As Player Incentive
• Should players be allowed to bet on their own games? [Sports Law Blog] • Darren Daulton could be the perfect Phillies manager. [The 700 Level] • This is the year the Yankees' playoff run will end. Count on it. [Sportszilla] • The Saudi Arabians won't have much access to porn at the World Cup. Whew...
MC Hammer's Tomahawk Chop
So we were playing around on MC Hammer's blog this morning. We absolutely love Hammer's blog, so you know. He actually did a post yesterday just to give a blog shoutout to God. Gotta love that....
Tiger Woods Actually Offends Someone
After he failed to chase down Phil Mickelson in The Masters over the weekend, Tiger Woods told reporters: "I putted atrociously today. Once I got on the greens I was a spaz." We blanched when we heard him use the term "spaz," if just because that's pretty much what every grade school teacher calle...
Help Wanted In Iowa City
As Illini people, we have no love lost for the Iowa Hawkeyes, but we still have a bit of sympathy for their fans. First came that brutal loss to Northwestern State in the tournament. Another downside to that? It made it less likely that Indiana would come in and swoop the disliked Alford out of Io...
Kids Bowl The Darndest Things
Kids. They leave their clothes everywhere, they're noisy as hell, and every time you take them bowling they show you up. It's embarrassing, really, when you're trying to impress that special lady with your skills on Lane 4, and over on Lane 6, some gnome is rolling a perfect game. Michael Tang of ...
The Miami Heat Bring Much Funk
So maybe this has been around a while, but this is the first we've seen of it: The entire Miami Heat roster has gone throwback, in the style of a 1971-72 team called "The Floridians." It's on the Heat's official site, and, honestly, if all official sites of teams and leagues had as much fun as thi...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL with Gary Horton: Pros vs. Joes; your thoughts? Aren't Bill Romanowski and Spike TV made for each other? • Noon: Lunch with Buzzmaster! This sounds more like a desperate, lonely plea than it does a chat title. • 2 p.m. Base...
Hey, He Wouldn't Have Complained About Playing Left
Yesterday, vice president Dick Cheney came out from his underground lair and threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals's home opener. As the video above shows, he was booed rather lustily. This could be because the crowd was mostly Democratic, or because Cheney's just not very popular, o...
The Closer: Sunny Days In The Queen City
Notes from a day of baseball: • 1. Clerical Mixup Has Reds In First. Hmmm, wasn't Cincinnati scheduled to suck this season? We know it's early, and there's a three-way tie up there, but the Reds are in first place in the NL Central, bringing back memories of those great teams in the '70s featurin...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while trying to guess the plot of The Simpsons movie ... • NHL: Red Wings beat Oilers 2-0 to clinch home-ice advantage, as Detroit is all of a sudden king of the professional sports world. • MLB: Mets beat Nationals 7-1 in boring, no-beanball affair. • Soccer: Donovan, Meola have rec...
"You're With Me, Leather"
Sorry, folks, but we still can't quite get over the psychological ramifications of the Chris Berman story we ran earlier today. Our brains are fried, and we don't believe in an afterlife anymore. We also agree with one of our commenters; the first ESPN anchor to use the phrase "You're with me, lea...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your home is lifted by cranes and moved to a better neighborhood ... • NHL: Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. Flightless Sea Fowl in peril due to global warming, 31 percent winning percentage. [OLN] • MLB: Seattle at Cleveland. We're sorry, but that grinning Indians logo could not be more...
Brett Favre Is An Even Better Man Than You Think
Sure, sure, we're all getting a little tired of Brett Favre's retirement talk. But The Hater Nation brings up a legitimate point: What if Favre is going to retire for the most selfless of reasons?...
Leftovers: More Money In Chicago And Boston
• Extensions, extensions, extensions, for a couple of very big baseball players. [BartCop] • Is LenDale White tanking his workouts on purpose? [Dave's Football Blog] • Big national trivia tournament — original home of Ken Jennings, "Jeopardy" Mormon at large — finishes its big tournament. [NAQT] • "...
ESPN Mobile Closeout! Everything Must Go!
You knew it was coming eventually, though, to be fair, we thought it might take a little longer: ESPN Mobile has lowered the price of its Sanyo handset to $99. Originally, it was almost $500....