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Barbaro Finally Responds To Fans
As we have widely documented extensively and in excruciating detail, all kinds of gentle-hearted simps have been sending letters to the injured Barbaro over the last few months....
Question Seems Perfectly Logical To Us
Former Minnesota Twins Bert Blyleven occassionally takes time out of pleading for Hall of Fame election — justifiably, if you ask us — to broadcast Twins games for Fox Sports. The other evening, he was put in the unfortunate position of having to talk to former "American Idol" contest Ace Young (a...
Sport We Don't Understand No. 86: Mountaineering
Whenever someone asks us why we have never climbed Mount Everest, we always reply: too crowded. Seems these days as if the last mile to the summit is like a noontime line at Starbucks. But at least we figured that if we ever encountered trouble, there would be plenty of people around to help us ou...
With Nothing Between Sanity And Madness But A Thin Layer of Polyester
In truth, Kellia Ramares is dangerously obsessed. The middle-aged woman from Berkeley, Calif. has an unlikely fixation on Diamondbacks outfielder Eric Byrnes, in a way that prompted us recently to purchase an extra deadbolt for our back door, for no real tangible reason, just because. But as Ramar...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m.. Kansas City Wizards star: Since there's no name here, we assume you had trouble finding one. May we suggest Yura Movsisyan? • 3 p.m.. NHL with Barry Melrose: If I take the Stanley Cup to the movies, do I have to pay for two sea...
Sean Taylor Free To Visit All Kinds Of DJs Now
One of our favorite, quietly sublime stories of the last couple months involved Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor and his battle with a prosecutor who worked as a DJ in his spare time. (His MySpace page included the immortal self-description as a bulging-biceps, headphones-wearing prosecutor ...
Look, Up In The Sky ... It's Our Cleanup Hitter!
This photo, from yesterday's USA Today, features several Colorado Rockies players — including Matt Holliday, our official fantasy baseball find — looking up toward the heavens, saluting the real reason for their surprising play this year: God. (That seems like a good place to look, anyway.) No, se...
"Eat My Goal!"
Fellow Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge fans will enjoy this classic clip previewing the 1994 World Cup ("He must have a foot like a traction engine!"), which seems to us the perfect way to spark even non-soccer fans into at least a little World Cup hilarity. It's like he was parodying ESPN anchors wi...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while authorities dug for Jimmy Hoffa under your garden shed ... • NBA Playoffs: The moment the Heat lost the Conference Finals to the Pistons. Here's another angle. And another. Sit down! • MLB: Pujols gets 65th RBI to lead Cards over Astros 4-3, as ghost of Hack Wilson begins to ge...
Pistons Aren't Ready To Go Home Yet
You know if Ben Wallace is happy, everybody's happy....
Last Call For The Pistons?
As we bring you our favorite moment from Game 4 the other night, we eagerly look forward to Game 5 of the Heat-Pistons series tonight. Part of us understands this notion that the Pistons, considered dead by most everybody now, could have one last run in them. The other part wonders if Dwyane Wade's ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Roddick comes over with a six pack ... • Boxing: Junior lightweights, Manuel Medina vs. Cassius Baloyi, at Airway Heights, Wash. Let the pummeling begin. [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Yankees at Detroit. And, the pummeling continues. Sorry Tigers, we're not going to take you seriously unt...
Be A Part Of Our World Cup Coverage
We know there has been some discussion around these parts about coverage of the World Cup. We find this bewildering. We are hardly huge year-round soccer fans — we're not sure we could name more than three players in the MLS — and have much to learn about the sport, its supporters, its stars and, so...
Leftovers: A Soccer Goalie Goal?
• The most impressive soccer goal you'll see for a while. [YouTube] • Jim Thome would like to take a road trip to ... Hawaii? [Philadelphia Will Do] • That Pat Croce ... what a character! [CNN] • Rudy Seanez is an ultimate fighter, apparently. [Nicholas Gannon] • This is FIFA's new twist on "media r...
The Virtual Ghost Of Scott Kazmir
One of our favorite aspects of this here Internets is something that should be self-evident: Its inherent appeal to obsessives. No matter what you care about, there's someone out there who cares just as much, probably more. Get it out there, someone will find you. We wonder, sometimes, if the Web ...
Spell F-A-I-L-U-R-E, Kid
We'll confess: We love the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. We watch every minute we can, and apparently we're not alone, considering ABC is broadcasting the finals live tomorrow night in primetime. (To the network's eternal credit, Robin Roberts will be hosting, not Stuart Scott. Whew.)...
Random YouTube Finding Of The Week
It's the end of the game, and you never know what's gonna happen if you just release a buzzer-beater heave from all the way across the court. What could possibly go wrong?...
World Cup Preview: Group A
The World Cup is almost here! So that you aren't caught flat-footed, we're previewing each group, in no particular order, to explain why your team has no chance to win (you'll thank us later). Today: Group A! If you have any thoughts on a particular group, send them to [email protected]. Operators...
Blogdome: Starbury's Ashes
• So, wait: Does this mean fans can just kill Stephon Marbury, or not? [The Sports Pulse] • Hasselbeck kicks Hasselhoff's ass any day of the week and twice on Saturday. [12 Seahawks Street] • They test for drugs in snooker? What is snooker again? [Armchair GM] • Seriously, what's Joe Theismann's pro...