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Isiah Thomas' Secret Genius
While digging through the breathtaking True Hoop coverage, and after watching Jay Bilas look flabbergasted on "SportsCenter" this morning, we are pleased to report that one of the top stories the day after the NBA Draft is a familiar one: Isiah Thomas is an idiot!...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while Joe Mauer was raking you for another couple of hits ... • Wimbledon: Roddick, Federer, Venus, Sharapova, McEnroe, Laver, King, Connors all win. • Lee Shall Overcome: Derrek Lee's first homer in three months leads Cubs over Brewers. Cubs win! Cubs Win! • Soccer ... Yes, Soccer! ...
No Draft Dodgers Around Here
One thing anyone watching the NBA Draft tonight should be ready for? Many extreme closeups of Adam Morrison's mustache, inexplicably the centerpiece of NBA Live '07's advertising campaign. You've all been warned....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Germany runs out of beer (sad, really) ... • Boxing: Heavyweights, Dominick Guinn vs. Tony Thompson, at San Jose, Calif. There's nothing like 300-pound men clinching in high-definition to get us through the middle of the week. [ESPN2] • MLB: N.Y. Mets at Boston. Perhaps a new rivalr...
The Commenters Have The Means Of Production!
As anyone who has, oh, ever come to this site knows, the best work here can not be found in our random scribblings but in the comments. We continue to be proud to have the best commenters on the Interweb, and they even successfully fought off the pillaging hordes of 13-year-olds after that whole T...
Leftovers: Smell The Glove
• Gustavo Chacin's hairless cologne has now gone mainstream. [Fan 590] • The NBA is no longer with leather. [NBA.com] • This has nothing to do with sports, but when Axl Rose bites someone, we're going to mention it. It's who we are. [The Hater Nation] • Wintrop's coach heading to College of Charlest...
Louis Gossett Jr., Hoops Savior
So at Siena University College, there's a basketball player who's trying to be let out of his scholarship so he can transfer; if the University doesn't let him out, he'll have to pay his own tuition for the first year, wherever he goes. The player, Kojo Mensah, is running out of options and time, so...
Darko, Way Back When
As we prepare for the NBA Draft tonight, we encourage you to keep in mind that, well, nobody knows anything. Need proof? This pre-2003 draft video looking at the "unlimited potential" of Darko Milicic....
Championship Parades Are No Fun
We've always wondered what it would be like to go to a championship parade for one of our favorite teams, but every time we get excited about the notion, the bastards go and, say, lose eight games in a row and ruin it for us. But still. We imagine it Albert Pujols riding by in a float, throwing us c...
Blogdome: Dancing Penn State Kid
• All Penn State fans dance like this, you know. [The Blog That Yost Built] • Time for a thorough evaluation of baseball's managers. [Naughty Baseball] • This is, without question, our new favorite site. [Albert Pujols Club] • Vote Uggla! [Gheorghe: The Blog] • The fun new showdown thing on Armchair...
You Should Probably Just Be Visiting TrueHoop Today
We'll have more NBA Draft preview stuff later today, but until then, we happily show off this photo from The Realests, which we can guarantee you showed up on the dorm wall of some happy Washington Jesuit....
Fumbling Away Life's Savings
In a different life than this one, we covered the financial services industry; it was slightly more interesting than it sounds, but not much. We once wrote a story about former Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad and how he was starting a financial advisory business for athletes, who often are handed large...
A Sunshine Reunion With History Ignored
As all of Boston celebrates the return of Pedro Martinez tonight, Seth Mnookin, whose upcoming book about the Red Sox tells all these stories from the inside out, reminds everyone that just because everyone's all lovey-dovey now doesn't mean that the truth is the way everyone would like it to be....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. World Cup with Tommy Smyth: What's uglier, England's play so far or the current condition of Ben Roethlisberger's face? • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: Isn't Griffey overdue for his next injury? • 7 p.m. NBA Draft LIVE f...
Hirshey: France Is Dead, Long Live France!
Admit it: After weeks of watching the Beckhams , Ballacks , Figos and Tonis and the rest of the preening World Cup showponies parade their smoldering good looks and luxuriant manes around the field after a match, didn't it feel good yesterday to see a couple of ancient chrome domes like Zidane and B...
All Hail The Glorious People's Italian Football Collective!
Reverberations from Italy's 1-0 World Cup win over Australia on Monday continue. The Italians won on a disputed penalty kick in the final seconds of stoppage time, and it's caused a whole fuss. Australian assistant coach Graham Arnold told the Australia Daily Telegraph that "FIFA didn't want us here...
Nothing But Good Thoughts For Gammons
We join the rest of the sports world in sending every possible good vibe in the direction of Peter Gammons, who is in intensive care after suffering a brain aneurysm. Gammons was found slumped over in his car on Cape Cod and, after having surgery last night, is expected to be in that intensive care ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while trying to sneak your Viagra through customs ... • Net Gains: Federer, Agassi advance at Wimbly-don. • All They Found Was The Letter 'Z' Carved Into Raul Gonzalez's Shorts: Zinedine Zidane leads France over Spain in World Cup. • Crimson Slide: Griffey hits No. 550, but Reds blow...
What We're All About Here
Since apparently there's some new traffic coming here today, from perhaps the least likely of sources, we felt it important to introduce newcomers with a little glimpse of what we're all about. And that, friends, is, of course, the great Carl Monday. We're the guy at the computer. Really. That's us....