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To Watch Tonight ...
What To Watch After You've Been Cut By The Denver Broncos ... • MLB: A's at Angels. Doesn't it seem that these teams play each other every day? • WNBA Playoffs. The excitement is palpable.* • U.S. Open tennis. Hey, why is the court blue? * = may not be true....
The Waste Of The Superdome
A look at the Superdome from the inside up. Those who were in the Dome during the hurricane say the bathrooms were overrun with trash and the heat was "unbearable." Which makes it pretty much like every football Sunday, actually....
The New "He Hate Me"
Wide receiver Peerless Price has been nothing but a disaster for the Atlanta Falcons since he was signed as a free agent from the Buffalo Bills; fantasy owners have been wanting to behead him for years. Well, the Falcons finally took care of the whacking today, cutting Price from the team....
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler • Your pathetic attempts to deceive your friends into revealing their fantasy football plans have amused us, until now. • Attention everyone, soccer star Wayne Rooney needs a name for his chil...
Blogdom's Best: Make The Bad Mustached Man Go Away
News And Views From The Disaffected and Bored ... • It has come to this: People are blatantly begging the Orioles to dump Rafael Palmeiro. On anyone. [Camden Chat] • If Cubs fans could actually bury their team under six feet of dirt, you know they totally would. [Bleed Cubbie Blue] • Tennis players ...
Screw Steroids; It's All About Compression Socks
You know, athletes don't just use steroids as performance enhancers; that wouldn't be any fun. The Guardian UK takes a look at some of the more unusual tricks of the trade for runners and other athletes, including compression socks, cashew nuts and porridge....
Skip Bayless vs. Stuart Scott: Whom Do You Hate More?
We have reached the finals of The Road To Bristol, the ongoing, months-long battle to discover, once and for all, the most loathsome ESPN "personality."...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 12:30 p.m. NFL With John Clayton: Honestly, though, we think you could actually beat Salisbury in a fight. Come on, go for it. • 1 p.m. NFL With Gary Gillette: Wait, who are you? Do they let you on TV? • 2 p.m. MLB With Peter Gammons: ...
Dudes on Skates, Punching Each Other
We can't believe this wasn't on Pay-Per-View, but this weekend was the first annual Battle of the Hockey Enforcers, which just eliminated the middle man and just had hockey players beat the crap out of each other. The winner was Dean "The Machine" Mayrand, a Toronto resident (obviously), though mo...
Today In MLB Blogs
We find it hard at times to keep up with MLB Blogs because of its the breakneck pace. When visiting Replaying the Past, for instance, we often have to take a breather to collect our wits, stop our heads from spinning and have someone from the clinic across the street take our blood pressure. It's ...
Wells Digs His Own Hole
It's always amusing when Boston elderly punk David Wells pops off, but we have a suspicion that when he verbally attacked commissioner Bud Selig after his six-game suspension for bumping an umpire was upheld, he might have got himself in some real trouble this time....
O.J's Night Out on the Red Carpet
We know we're gonna end up getting yelled at for this, but we can't help it: We're obsessed with O.J. Simpson. We always have been. We watched the case like crazy, we bought a Simpson Bills jersey (but, uh, it was to honor Nicole) and we even watched that dopey teenager's interview with OJ on ESPN...
We're Not Sure Whom We're Supposed To Hate
David Pinto at brings up something we were kind of curious about: If admitted steroid abuser Jason Giambi hits a home run off suspended steroid abuser Ryan Franklin (which he did last evening), uh ... whom are we supposed to get mad at? Would Nationals manager Frank Robinson say it just didn't ha...
Eventually, You Know They're Just Going To Shoot Him
As if New Yorkers hadn't been terrorized by Knicks general manager Isiah Thomas enough, he is now cutting in front of them in DMV lines....
Respect the Reds' Authority!
When you're a Cincinnati Reds fan — particularly a Cincinnati Reds blogger — life has been pretty rough this year. Despite a nice little run of late and the inexplicable fortitude of Ken Griffey Jr.'s hamstrings, it's still a chore to write about the Cincinnati Reds every day, every year....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while calling for the assasination of Hugo Chavez ... • A's complete four-game sweep of Orioles. Strangely, Rafael Palmeiro seems weak and powerless lately for some reason. • Lions make it official, Have the word "hapless" painted on their helmets. • Agassi needs only 69 minutes to a...
Oliver Stone and Jose Canseco in the Same Room. Yep
We won't lie: We'd totally watch this movie. According to Newsday, Oliver Stone (of course) is doing a movie about "a steroid conspiracy, and he has met with whistleblabber Jose Canseco to be a part of the project. Stone, whose Troy flopped and is supposedly working on a 9/11 movie with Nicolas Ca...
To Watch Tonight ...
What To Watch Instead Of Endless Hurricane News ... • Monday Night (Exhibition) Football: Rams at Lions. Remember when they wore the yellow sportscoats with the circle on the pockets? We're wearing one now. • MLB: Dodgers at Cubs. Look ... all the Chicago players are vomiting milk. • U.S. Open, Day ...
Leftovers: Much Ado About Cycling
• Call the CSI guys: Cycling Tour to probe Armstrong doping reports. [SF Gate] • Ronaldo denies link to drug ring, says all those baggies are for very tiny sandwiches. [Reuters] • T.O. misses charity event, but no one seems too worked up about it. [MSNBC]...
Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Giving NCAA football its props. • The A's, the O's, Erik Bedard and you. • Paul Maholm: Straight from Double-A Altoona to your heart....