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THE Ohio State University
You know you're having a rough week when your kicker is busted for selling weed. Jonathan Skeete, a freshman kicker for Ohio State, was busted late last week for selling a half pound of marijuana to an undercover officer, according to the Ohio State student newspaper, The Lantern (good job, kids!). ...
To Watch Tonight
What To Do Tonight Instead of Interacting With Other Humans Texas Rangers at Chicago White Sox. ESPN's Game of the Night, with Orlando Hernandez, who escaped Cuba, facing Chan Ho Park, whom Texas would love to go back to Korea. Atlanta Braves at San Diego PadresOffensive Native American mascot battl...
USA Today Keeps Its Finger On The Pulse
Lots of hot topics in sports news these days: Steroids. Amphetamines. Racism in the NBA. That thing on Scoop Jackson's lip. But USA Today is keeping us abreast of the hot issues: Native American mascots! The nation's best-selling hotel doormat rips the lid off the Massive, Late-Breaking Controversy....
Bill Simmons Watch: Where's Bill?
The backwards-hat-wearing world screams to the heavens: Where's Bill? Everybody's favorite couch potato/Pretend O.C. Fan/treadmill philosopher/new dad has been away from ESPN's Page 2 for nearly two weeks now as his wife (the Sports "Gal," as is the local parlance) gave birth to their first child, a...
Old Golfer Hangs Up Whatever Golfers Wear On Their Feet
A little more than a week after the St. Andrews Golf Course told him they wouldn't honor him, Jack Nicklaus has announced that this year's British Open in July will be his final event. In other news, Murder She Wrote is on ARTS at 8 a.m. this Friday....
Nate Newton: Overachiever
We always loved Nate Newton. Frankly, it's impossible not to like the former Cowboys defensive lineman. This is a guy who, in November 2001, was busted for carting 213 pounds of marijuana. He met bond, and six months later, he was arrest for the same offense, this time with a mere 175 pounds. He spe...
As Long As We Get Hootie In Chaps, We're Fine With It
Burger King Signs Exclusive Licensing Deal With NFL...
Kicking and Screaming
This is always fun: At a girl's rugby game — little girls are playing rugby? — in Rohnert Park, Calif. on Saturday, a parent punched a referee in the face when he was told to move his Camcorder off the field. Not a big deal, right? Refs are getting decked at kid's games all the time; that's why we h...
Careful Of The Hairs On the Gatorade Bottle
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice aren't just the only two black Republicans: They're also the only two black Republicans who want to be NFL Commissioner. Thomas told the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel that he would "lo-o-ove to be the NFL commissioner" when P...
Terrell Owens and Stephen A. Smith: Joined At The Mouth
We just heard this: Stephen A. Smith is apparently not just the guy screaming in our faces on SportsCenter every night. It appears he also writes columns. And they're causing some fuss too: His column on Sunday detailed a secret, intense riff between Terrell Owens and Donovan McNabb, essentially acc...
Mitch Albom "Cleared" By Bosses; Free To Whore Himself Out Again
The Detroit Free-Press has completed its "investigation" of Mitch Albom, making sure he's not making any more crap up, and for now, their resolution appears to be: Hey, Mitch, keep writing books! We need the publicity. An "exhaustive" report in Monday's Free-Press analyzes Albom's methods and past s...
Jerry Rice: Will Catch For Food
SI's Peter King has quite the scoop in his Monday Morning Quarterback column today: Jerry Rice's agent is begging an NFL team — any NFL team — to hire him. His agent Jim Steinberg sent a fax to every team that said:...
Page 3 Cell Destroyer Of The Day
In its neverending pursuit of Finding The Way Athletes REALLY are, ESPN's Page 3 asks C-List sports stars what their favorite television shows were. (Mercifully, none of them said "Teammates." We might have had to kill someone.) It's news you can use, people. Red Sox lefthander Mike Myers loved "M*A...
You Know, That's What They Got Capone For, In The End
One would think Oakland would be the only place they would be nice to Jason Giambi. Nope! Authorities have announced that Eric Anduri, the fan who dumped a beer on Giambi during a game Saturday, will be charged with battery, public intoxication and — our favorite — "throwing an object on the field."...
British Soccer Fans Same Batch of Wimps As American Fans
We are reminded of the late, lamented comic Mitch Hedberg's explanation for why he didn't protest anything; "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." Manchester United fans have been talking a tough game for months about how they would boycott the team because of Malcolm Glazer's imp...
ESPN Shows It Cares About The Fans Voice
Advertisement that just ran on ESPN News: "ESPN gives you your chance to be heard! Watch The Pulse, Saturdays at 1 p.m. on ESPN News."...
Slow Sports Day for ESPN
All right, fine, so nobody got in a fight last night, no NFL players were busted with a prosthetic penis in their bag and hey, Teammates isn't on again until Tuesday! But still: There must be something more to fill Sportscenter than a dewy-eyed, soft-focus, John Tesh-scored Jeremy Schapp feature on ...
Goodbye, Raymond
As you might have heard, tonight is the last night for "Everybody Loves Raymond," a television show that apparently is watched by a lot of people, though nobody we know. It's easy to forget — what, with all the hijinks and wacky misadventures — that the character of Raymond is supposed to be a sport...
Racing Fans Confused By Long-Haired Driver
The Indianapolis 500, the car race whose decline from prominence has officially eradicated the only reason to ever step foot in Indiana, is two weeks away, but qualifying was yesterday, handing race organizers the only publicity angle they ever have (save for tires flying into the stands): Chick Dri...