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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. USA-Czech World Cup chat: Does pulling out my hair and screaming incoherently count as 'chatting?' • 3 p.m. MLB with Steve Phillips: If you had gone with this steroid thing, you'd still have a job with the Mets. • 4 p.m. Paul Shi...

Arrrrgh. Angry Pirates. Fans.
Some pissed-off Pirate Fans are mad as hell, and... well, they probably don't have any choice but to continue taking it. They can start a website and a club, though, to band together and express their anger with Pirates management. It's at IrateFans.com, which is PirateFans.com, without the P. Get i...

Terrell Owens, Symbol For The Youth
You know, this is the NBA Finals, the World Cup, the start of some obviously exciting baseball pennant races and, of course, ant soccer. One would think it would be our one Terrell Owens-free time of the year....

You Can't Fight In Here! This Is The War Room!
Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face. We can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily f...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. CWS with Kyle Peterson: Yes, you played in the majors, but you won only five more games than I did. This makes you an expert commentator? • 1 p.m. College FB with Bruce Feldman: North Carolina really has a player named Richie R...

The End Of The Kyle Boller Era Of Joy
Yesterday, after much debate and "controversy," the Baltimore Ravens finally traded for Steve McNair. Until McNair's legs fall off — we have Week 8 in the pool — he will take over the starting job for Brian Billick and his Nevermores....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Baseball with Jayson Stark: Now it can be told: I, too, took steroids. In the break room at T.G.I. Friday's, where I work. I calmly await the authorities. • 2 p.m. Chivas USA coach Bob Bradley: You play in the Home Depot Center i...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. World Cup with Dale Johnson: Wouldn't if be funny if Iran won the whole thing? Hello? • Noon. Boxer Bernard Hopkins: Do you think Jesus would have been a boxing fan? • 3 p.m.. Right to Play with Jim Caple: Hey, no fair crossing u...

Roger Clemens! Pitching! It's Like He Never Retired!
Well, it's a big night in Lexington; Roger Clemens is coming to town, to pitch with his son Koby at third base. It's the first of three minor league stints for Roger, all of which, of course, have a definitive financial incentive for Roger Clemens. (The other two games are for teams Clemens partia...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Baseball with Rob Neyer: The baseball draft just won't seem real without Berman blurting out the picks before they are officially announced. • 1 p.m. PBA Tour's Kelly Kulick: Is it wrong to love a sport that involves talcum and r...

A Tragic Weekend In Baseball
We sent our best thoughts and wishes to former umpire Eric Gregg and his family after his massive stroke yesterday at his home in suburban Philadelphia. Always one of our favorite umpires, he lost his job after the ill-fated umpire walkout of 1999. Like anyone else who went to a Phillies home game...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m.. NBA with Marc Stein: So, on that Nowitzky-Nash man-groping at the end of their last playoff game ... when will my sight return? • Noon. Sports Biz with Darren Rovell: I've never seen you, but I'm totally picturing Darren, the ...

Accompanying The Heat And Tom Petty To The NBA Finals...
And your NBA Finals are set: It's old school vs. new school. It's a friendly, non-threatening German vs. The Diesel. It's a young, energetic, wide-smiling head coach vs. a crusty old man who hasn't smiled since 1983....

Taking Steps Towards Shaq...
A Dallas win tonight could set up a Finals matchup between two of the most media-friendly guys in the league: Shaquille O'Neal and Mark Cuban. I believe it would be the first appearance in the NBA Finals for any team that was owned by a man with his own blog....

Ross Verba Is Once Again Employed
Ross Verba is an NFL offensive lineman. Well, he used to be, and then he wasn't, and now, I suppose he is again. Here's a quick list of things you should know about Ross Verba:...

Today In Soccer...
• Your World Cup Togo Update: The Togoans, or Togoites, or Togolese players, whatever it is that they're called, are demanding 155,000 euros each to even play in the tournament, plus 30,000 euros for each win and 15,000 for each draw. The government says "No, we're poor, and you suck." It might tu...

Shaq Gets His Big Ass Back In The Finals
Things may have finally gotten rough enough for Pistons guard Rip Hamilton, who loves to spout his slogan, "If it ain't rough, it ain't right," which has always sounded slightly dirty to me....

Heat And Pistons, DANCE OFF!
As you rev yourself up for tonight's rather enormous Game 6 matchup between the Heat and the Pistons, we invite you to take in the Heat dancers and Extreme Heat dance team, firing themselves up for the game tonight. How can this not make you excited? How are you not fired up? Dance, Heat ... DANCE...

You Is Talking Loco ... And We Like It!
We hear words like "beauty" and "handsomness" and "incredibly chiseled features," and for us, that's like a vanity of self-absorption that we try to steer clear of....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Chris Sheridan: Are we as a nation prepared for Nowitzki-mania? Do we know enough German? Do we have enough Hasselhoff CDs? • 1 p.m.. College Baseball w/Will Kimmey: Ping! Go the strings of my heart. • 3 p.m.. Desperados...