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What to watch while waiting for Aunt Lou to finish cooking dinner ... • MLB: Texas at Detroit. We won't predict anything here. Nope, don't wan to jinx either team. We are silent, because (Detroit will win World Series). Doh! [ESPN] • NFL: Preseason, Kansas City at New York Giants. Let the sobbing (C...

Take This Grass, Or Kevin Brown Will Shoot You Where You Stand
Remember Kevin Brown? Awesome for the Marlins, injured for the Dodgers, pissy for the Yankees, kind of a dumb hot-headed Hoosier type? Of course you do. Good ole Kevin Brown....

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What to watch as the Aflac Duck finally develops nuclear capability ... • Little League Softball: World Series, championship, at Portland, Ore. We do not have money on the Pequannock, N.J. team! [ESPN2] • MLB: Detroit at Boston. We thought interleague play was over. Oh, wait. [ESPN] • Tennis: ATP, W...

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What to watch as the team on CSI: Miami scrutinize your pants ... • Little League Softball: World Series, semifinal, teams TBA, at Portland, Ore. Wait, Little League what? So it's come to this, ESPN? [ESPN2] • MLB: Chicago Cubs at Houston. Oh, you know you'll watch. [WGN] • MLB: Orioles at Yankees. ...

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What to watch while being nine years old and having to listen to this "Joe Morgan" guy lecture you for HOURS about the best way to get the runner from second to third with no outs ... • MLB: San Francisco at San Diego. It was so much more fun when Petco fans went bonkers over Bonds. [ESPN2] • Little...

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• MLB: San Francisco Giants @ Los Angeles Dodgers. Rivalry game. Let's see if we can make it to the stadium by the 4th inning, Dodgers fans. 8:00, ESPN. • College Basketball: 2006 Duke @ Florida State. The game that made Florida State believe they deserved an NCAA bid. 8:00, ESPNU. • College Footbal...

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• MLB. Little League World Series Regional. I know it makes me a bad person, but I kinda like it when the kids cry. 7:00, ESPN. • Soccer. FC Barcelona vs. New York Red Bulls. The world's best vs. MLS's worst. 7:30, Fox Soccer. • Soccer. Real Madrid vs. Real Salt Lake. I think the "Real" works better...

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What to watch as you find there's still nothing better on HBO than Sopranos reruns ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Edner Cherry vs. Daniel Alicea, at Chester, W.Va. If his nickname isn't Cherry Bomb, it should be. [ESPN2] • Little League: All-Stars, regional final, at St. Petersburg, Fla.; regional fina...

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What to watch as Waldo gives up and finds himself ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Chicago White Sox. Can no one stop this pinstriped juggernaut?[ESPN] • NFL: Preseason, Indianapolis at St. Louis. Sure to be a sellout, if only to enjoy the AC for three hours. [Fox] • Tennis: ATP Masters Series, Rogers...

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What to watch after taking Stampy out for a walk ... • Boxing: Trans America middleweight championship, Verno Phillips vs. Teddy Reid, at Ledyard, Conn. It's every young boy's dream to win a Trans America championship, especially if he's named Teddy or Verno. [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Yankees at Chica...

It's A General Manager Blood Feud!
We don't mean to imply that when you're screwed over by Washington Nationals GM Jim Bowden, it might be time to re-evaluate one's career choices, but ......

The Closer: In Which We Inadvertantly Prop Up The White Sox
Notes from a day in baseball:...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the Soloflex in your den files for divorce ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Chicago White Sox. While you're waiting for the game to begin, why not head over to Hawk Harrelson's blog and watch as he takes shots at Mickey Rooney for no apparent reason. [WGN] • Tennis: ATP Masters Series...

Go Toward The Light, Emmitt
You thought that finishing his career flat on the turf of Sun Devil Stadium was the most embarassing final image of all-time rushing champ Emmitt Smith one could come up with....

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What to watch as Madden's HOF induction speech enters its fifth hour ... • Basketball: Men's national team, USA vs. China, at Guangzhou, China. For those attending, here's how to get there. Find Hong Kong, then go north until you hit "a prosperous metropolis full of vigor." Oh, and also, here's who ...

Oxnard Must Be An Entertaining Camp
Few athletes give us more joy, in a "Jeez, look how far this idiot has fallen" type of way, than former Eagles dope Freddie Mitchell. Last time we checked in with him, he was considering offers from Jon Bon Jovi's team in the Arena League....

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• MLB: Phillies @ Mets. I could gaze into Mr. Met's beautiful eyes for hours. 8:00, ESPN. • NFL: Raiders vs. Eagles. Whichever team has more fans arrested by halftime wins. 8:00, NBC. • Movie: Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo. Yeah, ball hair. What we need is a strike here. 8:00, FX....

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• NASCAR. Busch Series, Kroger 200. Talledega Nights taught me all about the slingshot maneuver. 9:00, TNT. • World Cup Soccer. Czech Republic vs. United States. If the MLS All-Star Game didn't convince you that we still suck at soccer... Oops. 10:00, ESPNU. • NFL. Green Bay Packers Intrasquad Scrim...

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What you missed while deciding, apropos of nothing, to work late on Friday ... • Boxing: Anthony Peterson vs. Jose Soto, at Memphis. What division is this? Flyweight? Paperweight? Pantyweight? [ESPN2] • Extreme sports: X Games, at Carson, Calif. Have you ever taken your bike off of some sweet jumps?...
