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Merriman Weighs His Options
Shawne Merriman has a PCL tear in his left knee, now all that's left to determine is what he and the team plan on doing about it. At this point Merriman can get back on the field with his unstable joint, or he can opt for one of two surgical options. A partial reconstruction could get him back on th...
For Your Viewing Pleasure: Bite Me; It's Fun!
• Now — Sport-adjacent: "Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Dallas Cowboys" marathon [HBO] - Hard Knocks: For people who prefer their soap operas encased in Lycra. • 12:30 — Sport: 2008 Beijing Olympics [NBC] - According to NBC, we will enjoy gold-medal finals in individual rhythmic gymnastics, tea...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after a day at the Boobs on Bikes Parade ... • Little League Baseball: Pool play, in South Williamsport, Pa., Curacao vs. Guam (6 p.m., ET); Lake Charles, La., vs. Hagerstown, Md. (8 p.m., ET) [ESPN2] • Olympics: Boxing (5 p.m. to 8 p.m., ET) [CNBC]; gymnastics, synchronized swimming, ...
Margarito Questions De La Hoya's Machismo
By the grace of God it doesn't appear that Oscar de la Hoya and Manny Pacquiao will be able to settle on financial terms for a proposed fight. This means that the door has re-opened (albeit by a crack) for the possibility of a real farewell fight against Antonio Margartio. Of course it should come ...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Week
ESPN scoured its message boards to find its boldest, cleverest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ... • "Incredible. If he isn't the greatest Olympian ever, who is?" — StlrsfanforlifePrevious ESPN Featured Comment of the Week, plus a Featured Deadspin Response or two ......
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after carving Olympic symbols into your child's head ... • Boxing: Light middleweights, Joel Julio vs. Jose Varela, at Hollywood, Fla. (9 p.m., ET). I'm wearing a mouthpiece while I watch this, and no one can stop me. [ESPN2] • MLB: Texas at Boston (7 p.m., ET). You mean they have pitc...
Charlie Weis Would Not Like To Discuss The Beer Olympics, Thank You
At the annual Notre Dame media conferenceNotre Dame head coach Charlie Weis used a brilliant Rosenhausian tactic in response to the Jimmy Clausen might-be-drinking photos that have caused such a clamor in South Bend recently. Instead of "Next question", Weis chose the equally effective and equally d...
Jimmy Clausen's Drinking Game Prowess Prompts Investigation By Notre Dame
Jimmy Clausen is the starting quarterback for Notre Dame. Last year he, along with the entire team, had a horrible season. Which was disappointing because Clausen, the nation's consensus top quarterback, committed to Notre Dame in such an understated fashion: By pulling up in a limo to the College ...
Ken Lucas Owns A Hyperbaric Chamber, And A Black Eye
Panthers' wide receiver Steve Smith got into it with cornerback Ken Lucas earlier today in training camp, the fracas resulting in Lucas being sped off the practice field in a cart with an ice pack over his left eye. But that's not what caught my attention about Lucas. While looking up background on ...
Guy, Yes, Maybe, Guy, Guy (Your Results May Vary)
Having once lived in Westwood for 13 months, one would think that I would have noticed hundreds of UCLA coeds running around in their panties three times a year. But nope. The UCLA Undie Run was news to me when I read about it this morning (is this a relatively new phenomenon?). The latest installme...
I Hereby Demand That This Be Added To The Olympics
Where else but on Japanese television would one find something called Human Trebuchet; in which a person is flung by a large, wooden contraption into a distant net? And it looks pretty easy to build ... and suddenly, you are never late for an appointment again....
Brett Favre Seriously Considering Unretirement, NFL Live Says
According to Chris Mortensen on ESPN's NFL Live, Brett Favre is seriously considering coming back to the NFL for one more season. Mortensen said Favre told Packers' coach Mike McCarthy that he has the "itch to play again." ESPN's NFL Live broke the news exclusively at the 4 p.m. hour. Packers' conr...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the Von Trapp children invade your dreams/say goodbye to Will ... • Arena football: Wild card playoffs, New York at Dallas (7:30 p.m., ET). I have Desperados Fever. (Help me) [ESPN] • Boxing: Super featherweights, Breidis Prescott vs. Juan Carlos Rodriguez, at Fort Lauderdale (10 p....
First Hillary, Then 'Sex And The City,' And Now This
In a pivotal evolutionary moment reminiscent of that scene in Jurassic Park where the Velociraptor figures out how to work the doorknob, Candace Parker of the Los Angeles Sparks threw one down in the waning seconds of a win over the Indiana Fever on Sunday. No, it wasn't the first dunk in WNBA histo...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while hiding your baby from John McCain ... • Boxing: Light middleweights, Roger Gonzalez vs. Cornelius Lock, in New York City (10 p.m., ET). That's Cornelius "Master" Lock. And that's your nickname of the month. [ESPN2] • College World Series: Stanford vs. Miami (Fla.), in Omaha (7 p....
Charles Oakley Can Have Fun Without Michael Jordan, Apparently
A reader who was partying in Vegas this weekend — for the record, we have never partied in Vegas; we don't think our heart could take it — ended up spending the evening with a shirtless Charles Oakley. We are pretty certain we won't look that good shirtless when we're 73. A full set of photos from...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its boldest, cleverest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
Kobe Bryant, Experienced Drinker
Of all the weird, vaguely insane things that Kobe Bryant has done in his weird, vaguely insane life — this is still our favorite — the most public and quietly strange might have been his claim at his press conference last night that he would go home and “whine about it tonight ... lot of wine ... lo...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......