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We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. The Morning Buzz. • 10 a.m. MLB with Joe Morgan: It's a question we've often asked ourselves ... why is Joe Morgan competing with our morning buzz? • Noon. Ex-Cowboy George Teague: Forget Terrell Owens and posing on the Dallas ...
The Day After For The 0-1 Teams
One of the joys of writing about sports on the Web is how every day is a little more important than it would be if glimpsed from a wider perspective. Fortunately, during the baseball postseason, there is no wider perspective: Everything matters in every possible moment. (If you don't believe us, ask...
Michael Lewis' Next Book Will Be About Field Goal Blockers
To start us off today, we'd like to bring you the most amazing blocked kick we've ever seen, from Mr. Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant. The high school kid must have figured out the snap count or something, and pretty much could have called a fair catch. You see something like this, and you wonder how it d...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while time tripping to the planet Tralfamadore ... • ALDS, Game 1: Derek Jeter uses five point palm-exploding heart technique on Tigers. • ALDS, Game 1: I just want you to Hurt, like I do ... Frank Thomas, why don't you come out and take another bow? Frank Thomas, folks! • ALDS, Game...
Philadelphia Prepares For Battle ... And It's Never Too Early
Apropos of nothing, we've decided to attach a picture of Donovan McNabb doing shots to this post. Forgive us....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as militant squirrels break in and shave the cat ... • College football: Southern Mississippi at Tulsa. Baseball? Feh! [ESPN] • MLB: American League Division Series, Detroit at New York, Game 1. They report, you decide. [Fox] • New York Media League Basketball: There's a reason they ca...
Live Playoff Blog: Padres Vs. Cardinals, Game 1
You know, it's absolutely perverse that we are expected to sit here and live-blog a Cardinals playoff game. How, exactly, does one spell a primal scream of pain? Last year, during the NLCS, we realized that we were literally running back and forth, stomping our feet, howling at the television screen...
Leftovers: Yeah, Fire The Bum
• Joe Girardi, obviously a horrible manager who deserved to be fired. [ABC News] • Pete Rose is fat. There, we said it. [Fox Sports] • Brett Favre is Cal Ripken, that's all. [Awful Announcing] • This Illini locker room celebration after their victory made us very happy ... [CSTV] • ... but this news...
Playoffs Pants Party: Mets Vs. Dodgers
All told, we'd rather listen to "I Love LA" for the five-millionth time than "Our Team, Our Mets." This is probably the most intriguing series of the four, with teams from the two largest media markets in the country, which is probably why it starts on at 4 in the afternoon....
Us Against The Music
Little housecleaning matter here: Tomorrow night, right before the Tigers begin securing their 2-0 ALDS lead on the Yankees — sorry — we will be reading things aloud. Using our voice, and perhaps some spackle....
Ah ... When The Catchphrases Felt Only SLIGHTLY Warmed Over
Here's your little blast for the past today: As difficult as it is to believe that Hootie and the Blowfish were ever considered cool — we're not sure that actually ever happened — it's, these days, just as difficult to comprehend ESPN being, you know, down with the kids. These two unique cultural cu...
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Detroit Pistons
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. Let us celebrate with five tiny tidbits on each team. Today we continue with the Central Division, so do us a favor and send us your tips at [email protected]....
Live Playoff Blog: Twins Vs. A's, Game One
Well, all right, we did this last year, so let's rev it up again. We know you're stuck at work while there's a freaking playoff game on, and we know that, at times like this, the MLB GameCast isn't quite enough....
Blogdome: A Different Type Of NBA Coverage
• Introducing the excellent idea that is the True Hoop Wiki. [True Hoop] • One added bonus from the shortening of college football games: More gambling! [The Sports Oasis] • Tiger Woods is a bandwagon fan. [The Fan's Attic] • Ouch. [The Dar Speaketh] • An oddly dead-on look at which sports related t...
Go Wildcats!
Hey, when your team scores the game-winning touchdown, and you happen to be standing next to a cheerleader ... well, it's an exciting moment. We'll just say that....
Fortunately, No Sports Fans Actually Gamble On The Games
Good news, everybody! You may soon be free to fritter away your child's college education on something even more completely useless than online gambling. You know ... like college!...
For Those Who Like Their Sports Bouncy And Confusing
The sport is bossaball, and it's sweeping the nation (what nation, we have no idea). On second thought, judging from this video, it's possibly Brazil; because there's about a zillion shots of female bikini dancing and relatively little bossaball footage. From the bossaball web site:...
Hirshey: We Like Our Ukrainians FLAMING!
David Hirshey, now able to eat during daylight hours again, writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Contender winner Grady Brewer: What, you win the whole thing, and no cameo appearance in Rocky VI? • 2 p.m. Boxer Nikolai Valuev: Could you say "I must break you" just once, for my kid? • 3 p.m. NFL draft with Steve Muench: And ...
Someone Should Probably Do A Report About This
We don't want to make too big of a deal out of this; we are talking about a guy's family here. But it appears clear that that our favorite investigative reporter, who makes a side living busting repeated drunk drivers, should probably keep an eye closer to home....