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Tyler Clippard, Dane Cook Fan
Yankees fans rejoiced — well, maybe rejoiced was the wrong word — when rookie Tyler Clippard avoided a sweep at the hands of the Mets on Sunday night. And, as Newsday pointed out yesterday, it brought all kinds of new friends to Clippard's MySpace page. So we're happy to send a few more over....
JoePa Will Put Your Ass To Work
We love Joe Paterno. Whereas many coaches would discipline their players for a campus fight by suspending them or — more likely — not doing anything at all, the Penn State legend is forcing them to clean the inside of the stadium....
Quite A Big Game Tomorrow (Now THERE'S A Headline!)
• Previewing the Champions League final. [That's On Point] • The Yankees are trying to distract you. [Rumors And Rants] • Imagining a Jazz-Suns Game 1. [Bright Side Of The Sun] • The Rob Deer school of hitting. [Bugs And Cranks] • Legitimate reasons to hate the Spurs. [The Realests] • The Capitals, ...
Time For The Drama Of Postage Being Opened
Tonight's the NBA Draft Lottery, which, if you've watched the last half of the season, you know is the most important night of the past 365 days for half the teams in the league. Which is depressing, but whatever....
You Dissed Kenny! You Bastards!
The "political" blog Newsbusters has been watching SportsCenter lately, and the folks there are calling shenanigans on tanned, nimble-footed ESPN personality Kenny Mayne. The site puts it thusly:...
Ken Griffey Jr. Should Be A Billionaire By Now
A sun-splashed Saturday afternoon, on a Little League Field somewhere in America:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m. Baseball with Joe Morgan: How about, just once, cooking with Joe Morgan? • 1:30 p.m. SC Special, Draft Lottery: We assume this is the NBA Draft, because the alternative is too scary to contemplate. • 2 p.m. NASCAR with Terry...
Oh, Yeah, He Just Remembered
Every time someone has something new to sell, particularly a book, they need to come up with some sort of revelation, a hook, something no one has ever heard before. (For ours, we're going to confess that we're actually bald.) And sometimes they might need to make it up. We're just saying....
We'd Classify This As A Waste Of Beer
With Leather had this yesterday, but it's too beautiful not to share with you as well: It's Port-a-John racing, in which you run on top of portable urinals and have beers thrown at you. This is exactly what our parents' wedding was like. This is from the Preakness ... of course....
Donyell Marshall Apparently Doesn't Care Enough About LeBron's Legacy
It is only through the filter of Michael Jordan, the man whose ghost still floats above everything LeBron James does both on and off the court, that LeBron's 10-point performance in the Cavs' 79-76 Game 1 loss to the Pistons can be considered a failure. It was the best of all possible scenarios for ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while fighting right down to the last jibe ... • NBA: June rapidly approaches, and we still have four teams left ... Pistons take Game 1 over Cavaliers, 79-76. • MLB: Wang, Rodriguez lead Yankees to 6-2 win ov ... wait, what? Yankees beat Red Sox? • MLB: How long will it take for the...
Cavaliers Get The Chance To Make Us Care
At this point, most of the NBA world is so afraid of a Spurs-Pistons final that they're willing to do anything to prevent, even rooting for a listless, clearly distracted LeBron James to fulfill some sort of imaginary destiny. We'll find out if he can start it off tonight. Surely, if the Bulls can w...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch WATCHING JOHN RAMBO... • AFL: New Orleans at Philadelphia. Much, much better than the lawnmower races. [ESPN2] • MLB: Boston at New York Yankees. Some sort of rivalry exists, we read somewhere. [ESPN] • NBA: Eastern Conference finals, Cleveland at Detroit, Game 1. This just in: LeBron ...
ESPN's Odd Way Of Scooping The Competition
Anyone who has ever even taken a journalism course knows the value of — and lustful desire for — a good scoop. Ideally, a scoop comes about through hard work, diligence, well-placed sources and a healthy dollop of luck. Or, if you're ESPN, through air time bribes....
Oden, Durant Just About To Be Decided
• Looking toward tomorrow's NBA draft lottery. [CNBC] • The Champions League final is Wednesday. [Shades Of Red] • Danny Almonte, chillin' in pro ball. [Joe Sports Fan] • Peter Angelos is even more evil than you thought. [The Fingerman] • Carlos Zambrano, still hiding that injury. [Goat Riders Of Th...
Someone In Oklahoma Is Sad
The great folks at Post Secret — via Burnt Orange Nation — have dug up this little mailing, which features a sad, scorned lover of an Oklahoma football player lamenting the need for their union to remain a secret. Oklahoma last won a national championship in 2000, which theoretically narrows it down...
Italy Is Gaining On Us? Inconceivable!
One thing we know about yacht racing: When you change your dock-out song and still lose, it was not meant to be. For the first time in 24 years, there will be no U.S. team in the Louis Vuitton Cup final. Luna Rossa of Italy beat the Americans to clinch the best-of-nine semifinals, 5-1. Yes, we have ...
Welcome, Jezebel: Turn To The Worship Of Her God Baal
The classy, bombastic lovely ladies seen here are the editors of the newest site from our benevolent benefactors at Gawker Media, Jezebel, which launched today. The basic premise of the site is mapped out in a manifesto about the five biggest lies that women's magazines spew. Personally, we've alway...
Fun With Ambidexterity: It's Pat!
A while back we told you about Creighton's Pat Venditte, whose main claim to fame — besides being a college junior who looks like he's 12 — is that he can pitch with both hands. OK, perhaps not that impressive when you put him next to the Amazing Rubber Boy, but we have trouble picking up a fork lef...