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To Watch Tonight...
• 8:00, ESPN2. NASCAR. Busch Series Carquest Auto Parts 300. I hope they let that stripper watch from her cell. • 8:30, ABC. NBA Playoffs. San Antonio Spurs @ Utah Jazz. I miss you, Hubie Brown. • 10:00, PPV. UFC 70. Chuck Liddell vs. Quinton Jackson. I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Snuka could take eith...
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What to watch as Hurley comes barreling into the living room in a van ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Anthony Peterson vs. Luis Ernesto Jose; junior welterweights, Lamont (Not Anthony) Peterson vs. John (Harper's Ferry) Brown, at Washington, D.C. [ESPN2] • College softball: NCAA Division I tournament, s...
The Future Of Sports Can Be Found On Google Patents
Using the invaluable Google Patent Search, the fine folks at Winning The Turnover Battle have dug up the most intriguing and odd sports patents making their way through the wacky inventors pipeline. Our favorite, the No Hang Basketball Net, is pictured....
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fig ... Never Mind, You Missed It
Notes on a day in baseball ......
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What to watch as you realize "Georgia Rule" may be the worst movie ever made ... • MLB: New York Mets at Atlanta. We miss the good ol' days with Ted and Jane in the stands. [TBS] • NBA: Eastern Conference finals, Cleveland at Detroit, Game 2. The perfect lead-in for Without a Trace. [TNT] • Soccer: ...
Somewhere Out There, There's An Elephant With Your Name On It
A few commenters mentioned this yesterday, and we think it's a fair question: When is it OK to laugh? The guy we wrote about who plummeted 75 feet off a cliff in his golf cart was, after all, a real person, with a family and pets and an active Netflix account. But the first thing we thought of when ...
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What to watch as all the clocks slowly begin to melt ... • MLB: Boston at New York Yankees. This one decides the series! Let's go! (Shotgun!). [ESPN] • MLB: New York Mets at Atlanta [TBS]; Chicago Cubs as San Diego. Considering the weather, the Cubs just may stay. [WGN] • Boxing: Women's, junior wel...
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What to watch while hiding from the flying robot police ... • MLB: New York Mets at Atlanta. The most humid rivalry in sports. [TBS] • NBA: Draft lottery, at Secaucus, N.J.; Western Conference finals, Utah at San Antonio, Game 2. You know which one you care about watching more. [ESPN] • NHL: Western...
We'd Classify This As A Waste Of Beer
With Leather had this yesterday, but it's too beautiful not to share with you as well: It's Port-a-John racing, in which you run on top of portable urinals and have beers thrown at you. This is exactly what our parents' wedding was like. This is from the Preakness ... of course....
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What to watch WATCHING JOHN RAMBO... • AFL: New Orleans at Philadelphia. Much, much better than the lawnmower races. [ESPN2] • MLB: Boston at New York Yankees. Some sort of rivalry exists, we read somewhere. [ESPN] • NBA: Eastern Conference finals, Cleveland at Detroit, Game 1. This just in: LeBron ...
AJ Hawk Has Brady Quinn's Back
Last week, we published some rather unusual photos of new Browns quarterback Brady Quinn and the wedding of his sister and Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk. Well, Hawk spoke this weekend about the photos and he isn't too happy....
To Watch Tonight...
• 8:00, ESPN. MLB. New York Yankees @ New York Mets. Tyler Clippard, to the rescue. • 8:00, FX. Movie. Dodgeball. I was never a huge fan of this one. I just kinda wanted to punch that pirate guy. • 8:00, Comedy Central. Movie. Office Space. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the ...
Mr. Gourcuff Is A Team Player
It's been kind of a slow day (other than the hockey, which has been awesome ... so I'm told), so why not end things with a picture of a French guy who looks like he's about to go down on his AC Milan teammate. The official caption:...
To Watch Tonight...
• 7:00, Speed. NASCAR. Nextel Cup: Nextel All-Star Challenge. Is there a dunk contest involved in this? • 8:30, Fox Soccer. MLS. New England Revolution @ Houston Dynamo. Yeah ... this isn't a big sports night....
Leonard Davis Gives A Damn About Your Horse
It's the biggest time of the year in horse racing, and you know what that means: total disregard for the health of animals while the rest of us drink bourbon and gamble. But not for Cowboys offensive lineman Leonard Davis. Davis is an equine hero....
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What to watch as a urologist reveals how Smallville really got its name ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Zahir Raheem vs. Cristobal Cruz, at Tulsa. In this corner, wearing the red trunks, Bugs Bunny! [ESPN2] • MLB: Atlanta at Boston. Braves return to Boston. Babe Ruth approves. [TBS] • NBA: Eastern Confe...
If Lastings Milledge Has Offended Any Of You Hos, He Apologizes
A while back we recorded the saga of the Mets' Lastings Milledge, whose new rap song, Bend Ya Knees, not only failed to capture the imagination of America's youth, but also angered his baseball employers. Milledge apologized on Thursday, probably ruining his street cred among all Triple-A/hip hop fa...
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What to watch while trying to figure out why Young Nahamkin is older than Old Nahamkin ... • MLB: Atlanta at Washington; Chicago Cubs at New York Mets. Bobby Cox and Lou Piniella smolder in their respective dugouts like dormant volcanoes. [WGN] • NBA: Eastern Conference semifinals, Detroit at Chicag...
The Return Of Tecmo Bowl
We don't know how we missed this piece of news yesterday, but The Fanhouse has the scoop: They're bringing back Tecmo Bowl!...
His Next Job Will Be To Take Over For Stu Jackson
This spry gentleman's name is Bill Hargrove — he's the round immobile object between the orange ball and the red ball — and he just bowled his age. You might not find this all that impressive, though we find it difficult to bowl our age, ourselves. (We are not a skilled bowler.) But readers, smile, ...