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About Last Night...
• MLB: Mets 6, Blue Jays 1. Tom Glavine wins #286, and is now tied for 25th all-time with Robin Roberts. SportsCenter, Good Morning America, 286 wins... is there nothing that woman can't do? Game recap here at MiracleMets.net. • Track and Field: Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin win 100m events. American ...
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What you missed while getting in some extra toadying at the office ... • World Cup: Brazil 4, Japan 1. OK, Ronaldo is fat. But to paraphrase Lincoln's quote on Grant, "Tell me what food that Ronaldo likes. I would like to send some to my other players." • Perfect 10: Braves still stick in the well, ...
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What you missed while you and the other Wiccans were celebrating the summer solstice ... • MLB: No streak for you! Marlins can't reel in 10th straight win, lose to Bedard, Orioles. • World Cup: Several Portugese players injure themselves trying to pronounce "Gelsenkirchen," but beat Mexico anyway, 2...
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What you missed while driving to the bad part of town to score some Kryptonite ... • Tall Men Hugging In A Non-Sexual Way: Wade's 32 leads Heat to first NBA title, 95-92 over Mavs. • X-Men: Xavier Nady's two homers lead Mets over Reds 9-2. • Word Association Football: England wins Group B after 2-2 ...
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What you missed while mushing from Nome to Fairbanks ... • NHL Finals: Hurricanes prove that water beats oil, although it took %@*!$# long enough to do it. • MLB: Extra! Read all about it! Big Unit, Yankees foiled by Phillies, Myers, 4-2! Hey mister, it costs fifty cents! Hey! • World Cup: Generalis...
"To The Wing ... To The Center ... Back To The Wing ..."
Those suffering through World Cup fatigue are invited to watch this famous "Simpsons" clip, from when Mexico and Portugal come to Springfield to "decide once and for all which is the greatest on earth!" Many, many big laughs, but our favorite comes at the end, with the different perspectives of the ...
The Direction Recruiting's Obviously Going
For a little Monday morning pick-me-up, here's a famous Mr. Show sketch about college basketball recruiting. It always makes us laugh, mainly because we imagine Billy Donovan and, say, Mike Davis having conversations like this all the time....
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What you missed while telling your General Custer stories to the kids with, remarkably, no profanity ... • NBA Finals: It's still quite possible we'll never see a road Finals win in our lifetimes. Heat lead Mavericks 3-2. • World Cup: You cannot stop Fred, you can only hope to contain him. Brazil be...
Checking In At The World Cup...
Brazil 2-0 Australia. It might just be me, but does Brazil seem a little but underwhelming thus far? They seemed lethargic in their 1-0 win over Croatia, and all anyone could talk about afterwards was Ronaldo's apparent tubbiness, and Australia really gave them all they wanted today. They do not l...
About Last Night...
• MLB: Dodgers 4, A's 5. Congratulations to those die-hard fans who stuck it out for 17 innings and were then rewarded by seeing a dramatic game-winning... walk. • Boxing: Jermain Taylor draws with Winky Wright. And people complain about the ties in soccer... • MLB: Orioles 4, New York 2. 8 innings,...
About Last Night...
• MLB: Orioles 6, Mets 3. Mets go 9-1 on a road trip, then lose their first game back at home to the sad-sack Orioles and Erik Bedard, he of the 5.60 ERA. • Golf: David Duval shoots a 68. I don't have any idea how it happened, but it's sort of exciting. If you aren't familiar, Duval is sort of the R...
The Batting Stance MirrorMan
The guy is in a workplace like any other, with an office like any other, wearing drab corporate garb like any other. But then his friends put a camera on him and shoot him some instructions ... and his hidden, and rather brilliant, talent is discovered....
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What you missed due to jet lag ... • NBA Finals: Road Worriers — Heat beat Mavs to even series 2-2. • World Cup: They're not booing, they're saying "Rooooooney!" England advances to second round. • MLB: Todd Hollandsworth's three-run homer leads ... Todd Hollandsworth? You cannot be serious. Anyway,...
Dmitri Young's Rehab Experience
In case you haven't heard, Tigers designated hitter Dmitri Young is still evading police after failing to make a court appearance for a charge that he choked his girlfriend at a Detroit hotel. Several sources say he's at a rehab facility, but no one, including his lawyers, seem to know for sure....
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What you missed while searching for ... a shrubbery! • NHL Finals: They're baaack! Oilers win in OT to come within 3-2 of Hurricanes. • MLB: Better Living Through Chemicals: Giants beat D'Backs as Bonds hits No. 717. • World Cup: Germany beats Poland in penalty time, leaving fans on both teams worke...
The Kids, They Like The Golf
We've been trying to fire ourselves up for tomorrow's U.S. Open — the amount of morale-pumping required to maintain a face-painting level of excitement for televised golf is sometimes more than we can muster — but we just can't quite regurgitate the same Tiger vs. Phil stories. Sorry. We don't have ...
Random YouTube Finding Of The Week
Many have said the reason YouTube — and its recent competitor Veoh — has become so popular is because you can watch clips of varying length and entertainment value. But the reason reason is, obviously, that people can point cameras at themselves and do incredibly stupid things....
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What you missed while recreating the Battle of Waterloo entirely with chickens ... • NBA Finals: Not quite time for Miami fans to get excited yet, but it's a start. Wade leads two-point win over Mavericks. • MLB: Glavine roughed up, but Mets beat Phillies anyway. • World Cup: Goooooooo oh, forget it...
Live Blog: Korea Republic Vs. Togo
As you would probably expect, it's not good when your coach leaves the team immediately before the biggest three matches of your life. Of course, it's also not good when your team is Togo, so there's that....
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What you missed while furiously scrubbing red-white-and-blue paint off of your face ... • NHL Playofs: Hurricane Recchi puts Carolina one step from Stanley Cup. • World Cup: George and Yortuk Festrunk, the two wild and crazy guys, feel a bulge in their tight American pants at this result: Czech Repu...