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To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as your children file for emancipation ... • MLB: Yankees at Devil Rays. Yanks try to win a series, finally, over last-place Tampa Bay. • WNBA Finals: Sacramento Monarchs vs. Connecticut Sun. Admit it, you're pumped. • MLB: Brewers at Diamondbacks. Milwaukee (72-72, NL Central) 20 game...
You Fought The Law, And Shaq Won
By now, you've surely heard all about Heat center Shaquille O'Neal's assistance in apprehending a man who threw a beer bottle at two gay men in Miami on Sunday morning. We salute Shaq's continued effort to rid the world of crime and corruption; by our count, he has now taken out potential child mo...
Mark Cuban Would Rather You Not Count His Fans
Everybody's favorite punctuation-resistant NBA owner Mark Cuban has had a busy offseason, hollering at New York Times reporters, apologizing for cutting Michael Finley and remembering the exact moment he stopped being one of us and became dirty, grimy rich....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 9 a.m.: Dan Shanoff's Morning Quickie: After actually having met you, we have to say that this tragically titled feature couldn't be creepier. • 1:30 p.m. Sugar Shane Mosley: OK, HBO on Saturday. Your fight, or rerun of The Sopranos? H...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as your hairline recedes considerably faster than the New Orleans floodwater ... • MLB: Padres at Giants. Barry throws down his crutches, returns to lineup. • Pickup basketball: NBA players' Hurricane Relief Game. • MNF: Eagles at Falcons. That lovable Terrell Owens plucks at your hear...
Leftovers: Kansas City People Are Weird
• Hunkalicious Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer author hangs out with some seriously weird Chiefs fans. [Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer] • The different species of asshole Little League coaches. [Flak] • Even the Bering Sea can't knock down Larry Csonka. [USA Today] • Getting their Irish up: Notre Dame ri...
Michael Jordan Freaks Charles Barkley
We know this has been on the Web for a while, but still ......
The Surprising Sincerity of Stephon Marbury
We feel like you're expecting us to somehow poke fun at Knicks guard Stephon Marbury's emotional breakdown when discussing Hurricane Katrina, but we really can't. The guy was legitimately devastated, and he's also avoiding one of our pet peeves: Attaching charitable donations to some sort of athle...
Ahman Green, Pleader
For anyone who might have forgotten, Packers running back Ahman Green had some trouble with the law early this year; namely, he and his wife had a scuffle that started with a bunch of hollering and ended with some broken plaster and a visit from the 5-0. (Three days after the incident, Green filed...
A Bad Way For Your Party To End
On the list of "Things That Are Not Smart To Do," we'd have to say that "Drunkenly Plowing Into Shaquille O'Neal's Wife" has to be pretty high up there. But that's what happened to some poor soul at the Video Music Awards last week, and, perhaps not surprisingly, the dude ended up on the floor in ...
Bill Simmons: This Is Who He Is
We have to say, when we saw the headline to the new Bill Simmons column, titled "This Is Who I Am ...," we got very excited. Who is Bill, exactly? Was it going to be a Scoop Jackson-esque Crash Davis rant, with stuff like, "I believe Tom Brady posters should be on the ceilings of every unmarried ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while chasing ghosts with your three friends and a large Great Dane ... • MLB: A's win seventh straight, set stage for disappointing their fans once again in playoffs. • Roddick ousted in U.S. Open despite good looks. • WNBA Playoffs: Indiana Fever beat New York Liberty. Honestly, we...
To Watch Tonight ...
What To Watch After You've Been Cut By The Denver Broncos ... • MLB: A's at Angels. Doesn't it seem that these teams play each other every day? • WNBA Playoffs. The excitement is palpable.* • U.S. Open tennis. Hey, why is the court blue? * = may not be true....
Flava Flav, The Video Baller
Tired of playing video games as players who can dunk, pass, shoot and do all those types of things? The upcoming NBA Live takes care of that for you by allowing you to play as rappers, including Flava Flav, Method Man and Common. We can't wait to see Flava Flav's turnaround jumper; we suspect he'...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while endeavoring to make your whites whiter and your brights brighter ... · The good: Brett Favre ... you look mah-velous. · The bad: Royals lose record 13th straight, file for emotional bankruptcy. · And the ugly: Tiger's 5-over 75 at the PGA Championships....
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as groundhogs destroy your home's foundation ... · ESPN football: Chargers at Packers. Drew Brees, a jug of wine and thou. · Those incredible homers over at TBS present San Francisco Giants at Atlanta Braves. · WNBA: Minnesota Lynx at Detroit Shock. When they were naming this team, we ...
Well, That Didn't Take Long
It has been four days since NBA commissioner David Stern announced that Las Vegas would host the 2007 NBA All-Star Game. And players haven't taken long to start marking their territory:...
Richardson Nailed For A Costly Dunk
We know that a new paternity suit in the NBA can hardly be classified as "news" anymore, but hey, it's still pretty fun, right? Today's hammer fell down on Warriors dunk dude Jason Richardson, who is being sued by a former paramour — that means "lady he used to do it with" — for a monthly child su...
Isiah Thomas Freaks Us Out Sometimes
We're watching the Knicks press conference introducing Larry Brown as the team's new head coach. General manager/demolition expert Isiah Thomas introduced him by saying, "when I first met Larry Brown, Russia was invading Afghanistan." Uh ... Isiah ... what?...
Who Has Larry Brown Mania? Anyone? Anyone?
The time was 1:30 in the morning, and we had just finished a failed attempt to talk our girlfriend into having sex with us. In our frustration, we turned on ESPNews, and apparently the world had exploded. Graphics were flashing everywhere, anchors were jumping up and down on their desks and Linda ...