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Gotta Support The Team
When we were a kid, we would always stay in the stadium hours after Illinois football games ended so we could watch the players and press meet by the tunnel to the locker rooms; something about balding paunchy men interviewing people 30 years their junior fascinated us even then. We never quite ha...
Bret Boone's Dangerous Golf Cart Exploits
We love the Las Vegas Review-Journal's gossip column, because it's excellent about disproving that whole what-happens-in-Vegas-stays-in-Vegas bunk. Their big get today is totally-not-a-guy-whose-career-collapsed-once-he-got-off-steroids former All-Star Bret Boone, who went a little crazy at the Wy...
Athlete Run-Ins: When Shaq Wants Your Girl
Continuing our string of great athlete run-ins — and by the way, just because the book contest is over doesn't mean we still don't want your stories; send yours to [email protected] — is this tale from "Dan from New York." It's too long to fit in one little post — it's too long for a newspaper to ...
The Cavs' Super Secret Club (No Girls Allowed!)
Free Darko has a find that's making us giggle like an idiot: Apparently, Cleveland Cavaliers stars LeBron James, Larry Hughes and Damon Jones (known around here as "two-and-a-half men") have come up with a "secret handshake that involves two low-fives, then a wave, then posing with their arms cros...
World Series Roundup: McCarver's Buckner Moment
We don't mean to shrink last night's Amazing Scott Podsednik Moment into a moment of media criticism, but you're all going to be talking about it this morning, so we might as well lead off with it. Right before — like, a split-second before — Podsednik homered off Astros closer Brad Lidge, Fox bro...
Those Go-Go White Sox
As the White Sox start preparing for the Astros, we gleefully direct you to this Webshots album called, succinctly, Party With The White Sox Players. Featured are Paul Konerko and, most prominently, surly but "lovable" catcher A.J. Pierzynski. Make sure to check out the one where he's licking jel...
The Odd Career Move Of Leo Mazzone
Anybody else find it kind of strange that former Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone has left Atlanta to take the same job with Baltimore? We understand that he and Ike Turner manager Bobby Cox weren't exactly seeing eye-to-eye anymore — probably because of all the rocking — and we also understand t...
Blogdome: All Knicks, All The Time
• Not only is Larry Brown already insulting Stephon Marbury, but now former Knicks prez Dave Checketts wants to get into hockey. In St. Louis, even. [TrueHoop] • What's up with the Mets' new cable network, anyway? [Faith and Fear In Flushing] • A look back at the Baltimore Orioles 2005 season ... if...
When Bronson Arroyo's Rock Isn't Hard Enough
MTV channels its inner Page 3 today, looking at the worst music offerings from professional athletes. (We're going to assume "ESPN Hollywood" has done this story about six times.)...
Michigan Courts Make Society Safe Again
We know it's amazing that sports have been able to continue in the 10 months since the Pistons-Pacers brawl at The Palace in Detroit, but somehow, someway, athletic endeavors have been able to stagger on. In another example of the brutal ramifications of the actions of everyone involved, the three...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as your old high school gym teacher shows up on your porch and demands pushups ... • MNF: Saints at Giants. The hurricane just may have saved Jim Haslett's job. So that's something, anyway. [ABC] • MNF: Redskins at Cowboys. Stop by Jerry Jones' skybox and compliment him on his facelift...
NFL Roundup: Daunte's Blues
• If you somehow were able to make an emotionless, painless robot clone of Bea Arthur, and you pounded that clone in the face with a polo mallet for 25 minutes, then slammed that head in a car door 15 times, then severed the head with an exceptionally long and sharp toenail, then put the head in a...
About Last Night ...
You awake in a large metal container, wearing a bear costume, with a tranquilizer dart stuck in your ass ... • MLB: Andruw Jones belts 50th homer, but you guessed it, Braves still lose. • WNBA Finals: Sacramento Monarchs win Game 1 of ... oh forget it, you're not even reading this. • MLB: That big f...
You Fought The Law, And Shaq Won
By now, you've surely heard all about Heat center Shaquille O'Neal's assistance in apprehending a man who threw a beer bottle at two gay men in Miami on Sunday morning. We salute Shaq's continued effort to rid the world of crime and corruption; by our count, he has now taken out potential child mo...
Blogdome: Those Racist Sooners
• Did Oklahoma demote their quarterback because he was black? Or, with all the helmets and pads and everything, can anyone even tell? [BlackAthlete.net] • Arizona Republic columnist gets all swoony on Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner. Hey, what's wrong with that? We've g...
A Full Report on Marvin Jones' Weekend of Sex
Some pure gold from NFL Wives Club Yahoo Group today: A discussion of former Jets linebacker Marvin Jones, pictured above with his family. Apparently, someone had a weekend fling with the very married Jones and wrote into the group asking for info. The poster "Gata Negro," after reading a bio abou...
A Bad Way For Your Party To End
On the list of "Things That Are Not Smart To Do," we'd have to say that "Drunkenly Plowing Into Shaquille O'Neal's Wife" has to be pretty high up there. But that's what happened to some poor soul at the Video Music Awards last week, and, perhaps not surprisingly, the dude ended up on the floor in ...
Nothing Says Christmas Like A Good Blood Feud
God Bless The NBA. For the second consecutive year, commissioner David Stern and Co. have put together a Miami Heat-Los Angeles Lakers Christmas Day matchup, allowing broadcasters Al Michaels and Hubie Brown to look for significance in each sweat bead on Kobe Bryant's brow and each slight tilt to...
Roy Jones Jr. Knows How To Party
Man. We should have totally been a boxer. Our parties usually involve Risk....