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Baseball Season Preview: Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Your Long National Nightmare Is Over
Over the weekend, Pro Football Talk reported that everybody's favorite mathematician Joe Theismann was likely out as Monday Night Football "analyst," with his likely replacement being the infinitely superior Ron Jaworski. Today, The New York Times gets in on the act, confirming it with ESPN sources....
Hirshey: England, Or Israel?
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. NBA Insider John Hollinger: Forget gay. Which players wear toupees? • 3 p.m. Baseball with Jerry Crasnick: Has Sosa discovered a way to cork his body? • 4 p.m.. Indycar drive Dan Wheldon: Do you ever just want to go like, 30 mph...
Fun With Misprinted T-Shirts
This seems to happen every year, but we still get a kick out of it: It's the Final Four T-shirt that gets put together a wee bit too early. Forgive Hoyas fans who buy this as a taunting joke and Tar Heels fans who grab it just to imagine what might have been, had they remembered the basic tenet of p...
NCAA Tourney Blogdome: Table For Four
Around the blog and back on Sunday's games in the NCAA Basketball Tournament ......
NBA Roundup: Saying Goodbye To The Big 5-0
Notes on Sunday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
From A Rote Tourney Comes A Thrilling Final Four
Of all the little traditions of college basketball, our favorite might be the cutting down of the nets. It's something unique to the game of basketball; in other sports, it's the fans who cause the on-field destruction after a victory. (And we're damn good at it too.) We do always worry a little abo...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while grooming your beard ... • College Basketball: Final Four is set; Roy Williams will not be participating. • NBA: Kobe Bryant; slacker. Lakers 115, Warriors 113. • NHL: Simon Says, So Sorry. Rangers 2, Islanders 1....
We've Got Our Four
I asked for a game that would be close at the end, and technically, I didn't really get it. Overtime, as it turned out, was a time for beating some Tarheel ass. Georgetown trailed the entire game, managed to tie it up on a late Jonathan Wallace three, and then Carolina just decided they didn't feel...
To Watch Tonight...
• NBA. Denver Nuggets @ Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron vs. Darko never gets the same amount of hype as LeBron vs. Carmelo. It's not fair. 8:00, ESPN. • Women's College Basketball. NCAA Tournament. George Washington vs. North Carolina. I think I've had about enough Tarheel blue for the day. 9:30, ESPN2....
That's A Whole Lot Of Points
That was a lively little half of basketball. The pace, you'd have to think, favors North Carolina. There are 94 points on the board already, a total that has to be as uncomfortable for Georgetown as the 27 dogtags that Patrick Ewing Sr. is wearing....
Sergio Garcia Treats The Cup Like Pacman Jones Treats The Ladies
That's just gross. And I'm sorry, Sergio, the velocity at which the spit propelled from your now disgusting-to-me face does not excuse your filth....
Wouldn't Be A Final Flour Without Florida
The wheels were very very slow to come off for Oregon. They fought and they battled, and they were in the game with under a minute left ... but it always sort of felt like a slow death march for the Ducks, as you knew that foul trouble and Florida's advantage in the paint would kill them at some poi...
LeftoverDome...
• Ron Artest might retire. Ron Artest might also eat a light bulb. I don't know what to tell you. [ESPN] • You know who Tim Floyd's sissy fit really hurt? People who bet on USC. [Just Call me Juice] • Maybe the Texans didn't handle the David Carr situation very well. [Signal to Noise] • So, Jonathan...
Florida Overcomes Some Ugliness
Florida spent the first ten minutes of the game handling the ball like the handsome gentleman who spent so much time attempting to fix the net. They looked extremely uncomfortable to start the game, turning the ball over and being totally out of sync....
Gators vs. Ducks, Coming At You
The tournament's lowest-remaining seed is about to take the court against the defending national champions ... though it's not quite the underdog story that those two facts might lead you to believe. Florida is favored by 7, though....
But Who Will Exchange Witty Banter With Jim Belushi?
You may have seen the last of Joe "Norman Einstein" Theismann in the Monday Night Football booth. Pro Football Talk is reporting that Theismann is out, and will be replaced by the great Ron Jaworski....
It's Too Bad They Won't Let Him Play Basketball Wearing One Glove
I don't know if this is Anthony Atkinson making a statement that no one really cared about Barton, or if it's just a man in his dorm room celebrating Michael Jackson's entire catalog. All I know is that I'd trust Anthony Atkinson, hero of the D-II national champion Barton College Bulldogs, to select...
Your SNL MVP, Peyton Manning
For a variety of reasons, I hadn't watched Saturday Night Live in a while. I considered giving it a go after Justin Timberlake cut a hole in a box, but I never got around to it. Of course, there was no way I was going to miss Peyton Manning hosting, and I was hoping that while I watched, I'd pick up...