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The Closer: Markakis For President
Notes from a day in baseball:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while blowing up your new football without aid of a pump ... • Tennis: Agassi, Serena Williams fail to get U.S. Open seedings. We will not sleep tonight. • MLB: Takeout Piazza ... Mike Piazza's single drives in only run of game as Padres beat Dodgers. • Motor Sports: NASCAR fines Car...
It's Always Better To Stay On The Couch
Ugh. Remind us why we go to games in person again?...
Your Madden Power Rankings
This will be our last Madden post of the week, promise....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as all the people in your photo album come to life and begin plotting your demise ... • Little League World Series: Pool play, at Williamsport, Pa.: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia vs. Barquisimeto, Venezuela; Columbus, Ga. vs. Lemont, Ill. Stacked on each other's shoulders, the Saudi Arabia tea...
NFL Season Preview: Atlanta Falcons
We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of people paintin...
Leftovers: So Who's The Starter Again? Nice, Coach
• Yeah, see, they're having all kinds of trouble with Sun Devils football. [San Jose Mercury News] • Brady Quinn's sister, not pregnant. So that's clear. [NBC Sports] • A very entertaining interview with former SI scribe Bill Scheft. [The Big Lead] • So, Shaq, whaddya been up to? Cool, cool ... [NBA...
Today's Ohio Moment
Last night in Columbus, the Ohio State football team held an open practice for fans to witness and then ask for autographs, handshakes and reacharounds afterwards. It's a nice fan-friendly move, and it's a positive way to start off a season that requires a trip to Austin just two weeks into the se...
Marathon Man
Sometime during the night not long ago, Dean Karnazes sat bolt upright in bed and exlaimed: "Fifty marathons in fifty days ... in all fifty states! That's it!" Unfortunately, there was no one there to humanely smother him with his own pillow, and so here we are....
How Are Those Steroid Guys Doing, Anyway?
During the whole steroid frenzy of last year, baseball caught a bunch of guys you'd never heard of and didn't think much about: Jorge Piedra, Mike Morse, Rafael Betancourt, so on. No one cared much about these guys, but hey, baseball was GETTING TOUGH....
Eric Karros Wants You To Know He Finds Erin Andrews Hot
We know it's somewhat of a popular parlor game to rank the attractiveness of female sideline reporters, and it makes a modicum of sense, considering the job of sideline reporter isn't inherently, you know, demanding....
Kornheiser's Second Evening Of Fun
Lovable Grumpy Gus Tony Kornheiser broadcasted his second "Monday Night Football" game last night, and it has created decidedly less conversation — "buzz," if you will — than his debut did a week ago. We only watched a few minutes of the game, so we don't feel qualified enough to make much judgment....
Blogdome: Clueless Cornhusker?
• Is it perhaps time to wonder if Bill Callahan has the slightest idea of what he's doing. [Dirty Laundry] • Sometimes it's important to remind Ozzie Guillen of what country he's from. [Ron Karkovice Fan Club] • This Vikings fan could use a new jersey. Help him out. [The Ragnarok] • Is there a Russi...
NFL Season Preview: Denver Broncos
We are officially less than a month before the start of the NFL season, so it's probably time to start previewing the monster. The key to the NFL's success — other than fantasy football and gambling, of course — is the rabid nature of its fans. That is to say: You don't see a lot of people painting ...
Revisiting The Old Miller Lite Ads
In the wake of these "Man Law" Miller Lite commercials, we thought we'd hop in the DeLorean and find one of those cheesy great old Miller Lite commercials. You know: the inexplicable ones where a collection of faded sports personalities — Billy Martin, Dick Butkus, Bubba Smith, that type — would be ...
Little League President Will Hold Breath Until Yankees Give Him More Cash
We knew it would be fun having Staten Island as a representative in the Little League World Series, and indeed, they haven't disappointed. First, the team had a, um, colorful game in pool play on Sunday, which ended with a slap. Then today we learn that Staten Island Little League president Bob Jo...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon College FB with Ivan Maisel: Who has longer, deeper, more fulfilling naps: Bobby Bowden or Joe Paterno? • 2 p.m. Boxer Alfonso Gomez: Will we someday remember your strange, violent sport the same way that we remember the film Roll...
More Fun With The G-Man
We have no inherent dislike of Bryant Gumbel, but sometimes we think there's some sort of slow gas leak in his home. Greg Gumbel's wacky brother has really done it this time, angering his NFL overlords (he was hired to do play-by-play on eight NFL Network games this season) when he made a rude com...
Football, Women, Old Guys ... Instant Reality Show!
You know, if you get enough middle-aged white men in a room in Los Angeles, there's really no telling what they'll eventually come up with....
Younger Barfield Tells His Story (On MySpace, Of Course)
Yesterday, we told you about an incident in which the son of former Blue Jays slugger Jesse Barfield pushed his dad down the stairs. We haven't had any official followup to that story, except in the one place athletes actually speak anymore: Their MySpace page!...