out Page 223 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
About Last Night ...
What you missed while counting your chocolate peanuts ... • NHL: All right all you Penguins, outta here, single file! Ottawa 3, Pittsburgh 0. • MLB: I'm The God! A-Rod, walk-off homers, and you. • NASCAR: Pole dancing ... In which Jeff Gordon finds a primo parking space....
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What you missed while alphabetizing your Lionel Richie CDs ... • NBA: Lord Nelson ... Warriors in playoffs! • MLB: No. 9 ... No. 9 ... No. 9 ... A-Rod leads Yankees over Indians. • NHL: Rangers! Every ten years, whether the world is ready or not....
How Virginia Tech Touched Our Little World Here
As you've surely noticed, we haven't gone into the Virginia Tech horrors too much around these parts; we felt we had nothing we could possibly add to something so unfathomable. But there are still ways the tragedy has touched our little world over here....
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What you missed while chasing Clocky with a hammer ... • MLB: Can a guy get a little offense? Matsuzaka falls to 1-2 as Red Sox lose to Blue Jays 2-1. • NHL: Rangers making this look very easy, which is quite unusual for them. • NBA: Warriors are one win from a playoff berth. If you're 12 or younger...
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What you missed while rethinking your decision not to play Little League ... • MLB: Barry Zito finds that Rockies are generally good for what ails ya. • Boston Marathon: Swing low, sweet Cheruiyot. • NBA: McGrady, Rockets get them some playoff home court. Houston 120, Phoenix 117....
Time Once Again To Play The Mark Trail Drinking Game
Somewhere out west — we think it may be Idaho — is a land where the native fish are frisky and plentiful; and occasionally leap from the stream to blurt out answers to mysteries....
Apparently, The Weather Was Warm In LA This Weekend
Over the weekend, the University of Southern California athletics department hosted a fundraiser for physically challenged athletes. Ostensibly, the highlight was supposed to be a swim race between USC coach Pete Carroll and, uh, physically challenged athlete Will Carroll Ferrell, but it turns out t...
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What you missed while scouting preschool for soccer talent ... • MLB: Pujols is back, we'd say. • NBA: Mavericks beat Spurs as the refs get a little testy. • NHL: Hot Wings ... Detroit 2, Calgary 0....
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• NBA: Grizzlies 133, Nuggets 118. That powerful scoring combination is finally starting to click: Chucky Atkins and Tarence Kinsey each had 28 for the Grizz. • MLB: Red Sox 8, Angels 0. Curt Schilling, untouchable. 8 innings, 4 hits, 4 Ks, 0 ER. • NBA: Magic 104, 76ers 87. Orlando clinches a playof...
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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. ...