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What you missed while observing the playful antics of Nibbles the elephant seal ... • NBA: Escape From LA ... Kobe's 50 can't save Lakers vs. Clippers. • NHL: What's weirder; the fact that Atlanta hosted a playoff game, or that the Rangers won one? • MLB: Brandon Inge clobbers Blue Jays, kicks a Mou...
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What you missed while re-reading Cat's Cradle. Kurt Vonnegut was with us for awhile, and now he's gone. So it goes. • MLB: Felix Hernandez crashes the Matsuzaka-Suzuki pants party. • NHL: Canucks are having so much fun in the playoffs, they didn't want Game 1 to end. • NBA: Palace Ball: Pistons clin...
Naked Swimmers Dancing
When you're a swimmer at the University of South Carolina, we suspect life can become boring from time to time. Therefore, one must streak!...
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What you missed while winning your fifth consecutive danceoff ... • MLB: Alex Rodriguez manages to stem the boos for one more game. • NASCAR: Well, it certainly is a nice day for ... oh Christ, it's Waltrip! Look out! • NBA: Miami Heat ask Dwyane Wade to return to the injured list. Charlotte 92, Mia...
It Seems Difficult To Lose 57-1
We're kind of suckers for these types of stories: One team so much more talented than another team that it absolutely eviscerates them at a too-violent-for-small-children level. This is one of the better ones in a while; Bridgewater State (Mass.) beat Newbury 57-1....
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What you missed while chatting with the cops ... • MLB: Holy crap, Pavano won a game! Yankees 8, Twins 2. • NBA: Mavericks clinch home court advantage; Nowitzki settles in front of TV. • Tennis: With a name like Juan Monaco, how can you lose?...
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What you missed while playing full contact Monopoly ... • NBA: Wade is back for Heat, but not at full strength, evidently. • MLB: The Giants are who we thought they were! • NHL: Islanders win shootout, trip to playoffs (no soup for Toronto)....
You'd Think He'd Run Inside
I'm not sure exactly what sport this is (I can find no evidence of a Shirtless Snow-Diving Jackass League), but it was under the category of sports on YouTube. Maybe there's a winter roof-diving subdivision of gymnastics. The flip is textbook, though I'm not sure he really stuck the landing....
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• MLB. Padres 3, Rockies 2. Do not underestimate the strategic advantage provided by camouflage uniforms. • NBA. Nets 120, Wizards 114. Jason Kidd and Vince Carter become the first teammates to have a triple-double in the same game since Jordan and Pippen in '89. Jordan and Pippen would not have req...
A Slight Departure From Billy Packer
With the NCAA tournament gone, and CBS putting Billy Packer back in his cryogenic chamber for 11 months, I thought we were entitled to some commentators with more of a sense of joy....
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• NBA. Lakers 112, Sonics 109. Kobe comes up just short in his effort to make his point total to double Smush Parker's minute total. • MLB. Devil Rays 6, Blue Jays 5. Akinori Iwamura: 4-4, HR, and a bunt single in the 9th that put him on board to score the winning run. • MLB. Cardinals 4, Astros 2. ...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who's the Next Minor League Mascot to Get All Dirty?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
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What you missed while in custody for attacking people with fresh fruit ... • MLB: No soup for you! Daisuke Matsuzaka fans 10 in seven innings in Yankees Red Sox debut. • NHL: Brodeur, Devils are Kings of the Atlantic. • NBA: Heat are in the playoffs, and those Cavs jerseys are making us thisty for o...
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What you missed while playing ping pong with Hurley ... • MLB: Cubs ... win? Lilly administers 4-1 beatdown of Reds. • NBA: Zero goes down, as do Wizards' playoff hopes, most likely. • NHL: We spit on your 6-on-3 advantage! Caps 3, Thrashers 2....
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Yes, we think that the pan speaks for all of us ... • College women's basketball: Tennessee wins NCAA title; no one rips off their shirt a la Brandi Chastain. Bah. • MLB: Barry Me Not On The Lone Prairie ... Giants don't exactly impress Padres in opener. • NHL: Buffalo Goals Won't You Come Out Tonig...
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What you missed while realizing that your dog is smarter than you are ... • College basketball: NCAA Tournament Final. Crikey! Those Gators are feisty! • NHL: What? Watch the NCAA game and miss my favorite player, Glen Metropolit? Blues 4, Stars 2. • Major League Baseball: Alex Rodriguez homers afte...
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What you missed while calculating the trajectory for hitting Mike Francesa with a cup of ice ... • Baseball: Mets even NLCS with Cardinals 4-all. • NBA: Barbosa leads Suns over Mavericks 126-104. Affirmed. • Wrestlemania: Trump's hair emerges victorious, as we knew it would....
There Are Ways To Support Your Brother That Don't Involve Murder
I really wish Demetrius M. Pepper was either less devoted to his brother, or better at stealing cars. Pepper shot and killed a 60-year-old woman, and shot a store clerk, in the process of stealing their cars so he could get to South Carolina's spring game and watch his brother Nathan, a junior Gamec...
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• College Basketball. Ohio State 67, Georgetown 60. That was not especially awesome. • College Basketball. Florida 76, UCLA 66. Nor was that. Sigh. • NHL: Atlanta 3, Boston 2. That might have been awesome, but I really wouldn't know....
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• NBA. Rockets 107, Lakers 104. The Lakers lost, but Kobe just averaged 40 points for the month of March. He should at least get a little plaque or something. • NHL. Devils 3, Flyers 1. It ties New Jersey for the lead in the Atlantic Division. How about that? • NBA. Heat 92, Timberwolves 77. 22 and ...