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One Of Our Favorite Days Of The Year
Forgive us if the site devolves into prattle the rest of this week: Our copy of Baseball Prospectus 2006 just arrived in our mailbox — we have a big mailbox — and if past years are any indicator, we're not gonna get much work done this week....
Hide Your Eyes, Children
Your eyes are not deceiving you, unless you think that's a picture of a sane human being unworthy of ridicule, in which case, yes, your eyes are deceiving you....
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Peter Vecsey
Forgive the analogy, but it occurred to us that a Peter Vecsey column is a lot like going hunting with Dick Cheney. If you're loud and obnoxious enough to scare the little critters out of hiding and keep loudly blasting away, you're bound to hit something eventually. And those innocent people who ...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Giants
We're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested oddities on y...
Blogdome: Vince Young's Wonderlic ... Revealed!
• At last it can be revealed: What Vince Young's Wonderlic test sheet really looked like. [YAYSports!] • The Redskins-Cowboys rivalry has finally made its way to NASCAR. [The Hater Nation] • The Olympics taught us what Americans are all about. For better or worse. [Jon Swift] • Remember that old Yan...
You Fought The ESPN, And The ESPN Won
We're going to say something right now that's probably not very smart: Until we started doing this site, we had never paid for ESPN Insider, though we'd be reading it since the '90s. In fact, just about everyone we know who has ESPN Insider either uses, or once used, someone else's password. It's ...
Your Average Bass Fishing Fan
Anything that brings up both curling and fishing is golden in our book, so this post from Something Awful tickled our fancy....
Mark Prior Knows Not Of Your "Blogs"
In the past, we've received emails saying we should check out Mark Prior's MySpace page. We've grown increasingly skeptical of alleged athlete MySpace profiles, if just because, well, about 85 percent of the time they're fake....
Manute Bol, Being Boxed Again
Remember earlier this month, when we spotlighted former NBAer Manute Bol and his heroic efforts to shed light on the horrors currently going on in Darfur? Well, we still think his cause is noble, but some new news has us less convinced about him....
Oh, That's A Yellow Card, Sugar
Via The Mighty MJD, Sportshooligan and Flurl.com comes just about the most hysterical thing we've seen all week: The world's most flamboyant soccer referee....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. MLB Fantasy Focus: I don't care what the title of this chat says, my fantasy has and always will focus on a slumber party pillow fight between Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie. • 11 a.m. NBA with Marc Stein: Do you think that the...
Roger Clemens Grounds His Son
We kind of like that final scene in The Natural, where Roy Hobbs is playing catch with his son in a wheat field. But when the subject is Roger Clemens playing baseball with his son, a couple of other films come to mind. • The Great Santini. Dad: Robert Duvall. Son: Michael O'Keefe. Quote: "You go...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while dealing with tech issues that caused your site to start an hour later than usual ... • College Basketball: Pittsnogle leads West Virginia to 67-62 win over Pitt. OK, we're officially confused. • NBA: Cleveland Does Not Rock — Pistons beat Cavs for second straight day. • Tennis:...
Know Your Cuts Of Soccer Player
To end the day on an up note, here's another wacky soccer story. It's actually our favorite kind, because it involves meat....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize that the Wayne Industries logo in "Batman Begins" looks exactly like the Indiana University logo ... • College Men's Basketball: Pittsburgh at West Virginia, Oklahoma State at Oklahoma. Those flaming objects hurled toward the court must mean it's rivalry week. [ESPN] • N...
Yeah, Damon Back At Fenway Should Be Fun
A reader, calling himself (ominously) "the Hector Villanueva Posse," writes in from Boston to give us this photo of Johnny Damon memorabilia being drastically cut down in price in Boston....
Leftovers: Impeach (Reggie) Bush
• Texans considering trading first overall pick. Think anyone will take Carr along with it? [MSN Sports Filter] • Seventeen new members heading to Cooperstown, including the first woman. [Baseball Hall Of Fame] • Honestly, we think Kenny Williams could probably take Big Frank in a fight. [South Side...
J.J. Jumper: Give Him Something To Break!
The most terrifying mascot in organized sports has to be J.J. Jumper, the official mascot of the NCAA. (Because nothing gets the crowd more fired up than a mascot for a faceless, totalitarian organization. "Prop 48! Prop 48!")...
Reconsidering Bode Miller
To Winter Olympics naysayers, there is no bigger symbol of the event's waste and piffle than Bode Miller, the much hyped U.S. skier who was on the cover of seemingly every national magazine yet came away from the Games without a single medal. Hell, he barely even finished a race....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Devil Rays
We'll, we're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested odditi...