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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters · 11 a.m. ESPN Golf School: Want to hear my haiku? "Behold the water/Set in blue stillness, sleeping/My clubs rest there peacefully." · 1 p.m. Special Guest Jennie Finch: Can the Chicago Bandits stay solvent on your poster sales alone? · 2 p...
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Possible questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. NFL with Gary Horton: Sitting at a computer all day making up stuff sure beats two-a-days in Bourbonnais, Ill., doesn't it, Gary? · Noon. Buzz and Showgirl: Do you do bachelor parties? · 2 p.m. 2012 Olympic Chat: Um, anyone ther...
Hopefully They Don't Change Logos Sometime Before, Oh, Eternity
From the great sports fan behavior chroniclers at Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer comes the tale of James Henry Smith. He is — or, was, rather — "one of the biggest Steelers fans in the universe," say his friends. As if to prove it, he was buried in his recliner, all decked up in his Steelers garb. Ho...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... 10 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: Ever hear of an entire team going down in a fantasy plane crash in the mountains, and resorting to fantasy cannibalism? Yep, happened to me. 11 a.m. MLB with Rob Neyer: I've just been beaten up by Kenny Ro...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · Noon. ESPN Golf School: Cell phones on the course — would you smash them with a wood or an iron? · 3 p.m. College Football With Ivan Maisel: How come we never see you at SEC games anymore? · 4 p.m. Recruiting With Tom Luginbill: Which ...
Oh, Yes, We Can Definitely Hear You Now
Right now, half the country is looking at this picture and saying, "Hey ... did I go to college with that guy?...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. NFL With Gary Horton: When you're charting and ranking grown men in tight pants, do you sometimes think, "You know, this is not how I thought life would turn out?" · 3 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: You're not an ESPN pers...
Bill Simmons Picks His Own Greatest Hits
With tonight's NBA Draft just about five hours away, our main man Bill Simmons clocks in with the50 greatest moments in NBA Draft history. Of course, that's not really what it is; what it really is is a collection of Bill's favorite one-liners from all his draft diaries. One imagines Bill staying...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB With Rob Neyer: Now, don't take this the wrong way, but would you say Bill James is a pitcher and you're a catcher, or vice versa? Because we have a guess. · 2 p.m. NBA Draft With Chad Ford: Hey, so who is new Cavs general ...
Brad And Grace
Meet Brad Wackerlin. He lives in Lake of the Hills, Ill., is 33 years old and hey, sorry ladies, he just got married. He is also unnaturally obsessed with former Cubs first baseman Mark Grace. How obsessed? Well, he has 2,000 different Mark Grace baseball cards, runs two Mark Grace Web sites — Ma...
OK, Sometimes Peter Gammons Freaks Us Out A Little
From today's Peter Gammons column:...
The Bizarro Bill Simmons
From the great Yard Work satirical blog, here's an imaginary (but just barely) selection from Bill Simmons' mailbag:...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB with Buster Olney: If you want to write a real bestseller, you should out all the gay Yankees. The entire infield, right? Come on Olney, give! · Noon. MLB with Steve Phillips: Hi, I'm an advertising executive in Manhattan. ...
This Week In Weird Foreign Sports
We tend to find European sports terminology hilarious, mainly because it points to how equally absurd American sports terminology is. We all might know what "a blooper to shallow left" means, but to anyone not intimately familiar with baseball terminology, that's just nonsensical babbling. So here...
Bill Simmons Translator: We Were Little, Swarthy People. No, Really
ESPN Page 2 columnist/national movement Bill Simmons has filed an unusually brief missive about last night's Game 7. You know what that means: It's time for The Bill Simmons Translator!...
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We Have to Ask ... Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 11 a.m. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: Are sports agents technically rodents, or members of the weasel family? · 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: Hey, wasn't that Tyson trying to sell his pigeons on eBay? · 4 p.m. Poker with...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... · 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: Isn't this June? Instead of devising a seven-month plan to acquire Mark Brunell, shouldn't I be, oh, I don't know, having a life? · Noon. ESPN Golf School: Once again I've strained a tendon trying to lea...
Bill Simmons Translator: He Loved "The The!"
Now that ESPN Serious Journalist Bill Simmons has gotten pretty much every single prediction of the NBA Finals completely wrong, we thought we'd check in with him after last night's Game 6 with ... yes ... The Bill Simmons Translator!...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... Noon. Live From Wimbledon: Next year, how about a division for monkeys? 1 p.m. College World Series: Seriously, is anyone watching? 4 p.m. Baseball with Gary Gillette. Does the 2005 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia make a better doorstop, or b...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Stump the Schwab: Just about any question involving world history, science, geography or simple arithmetic should do it. • 2 p.m. MLB with Rob Neyer: I think I just heard a noise downstairs. Can you come over? I promise I won't s...