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Terrell Owens: Portait of a Franchise Killer as a Young Man
Surprisingly, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens used to be a little kid —with hopes, dreams, aspirations of making life miserable for his future employers and teammates—and the Philadelphia Eagles still, for some reason, have a little online scrapbook of T.O. as a pup on their Kids Club ...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the ghost of Ken Lay enters your bedchamber, rattling chains, crying "Scrooooge!" ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Joel "Freezer Repair" Casamayor vs. Lamont "Oatmeal Cookie Dough" Pearson, at Phoenix. We freely admit it; we made up the nicknames. [ESPN2] • MLB: Boston at Chicago White S...

Lick Your Lips And Prepare To Enjoy Ozzie Guillen
Ozzie Guillen: Gay community icon? He's on his way, as an alternative lifestyle supper club in Chicago has named a drink after the Jay Mariotti-bashing manager of the White Sox. And by the way; white socks with black shoes? How tacky, Chicago. From the Chicago Sun-Times:...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you go into the hatch to press the button ... • MLB: St. Louis at Houston. We can't take much more of this, guys. [ESPN] • LPGA, HSBC World Match Play Championship, first round, at Gladstone, N.J. We're pulling for Annika Sorenstam, only because Virada Nirapathpongporn is way too...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as firemen sift through the burnt rubble of what used to be the back end of your house (it was quite a party) ... • Boxing: Light middleweights, Jerome Ellis vs. Neil Sinclair, at Colorado Springs. Isn't Colorado Springs more than a mile above sea level? Just how I like my boxing; with...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Ozzie Guillen issues his beanball orders for the All-Star game ... • MLB: Cardinals at Braves. A trip to Atlanta! Desperate times call for desperate measures. [ESPN] • WNBA: San Antonio Silver Stars @ Los Angeles Sparks. Lord, let us be thankful for what we are about to receive. Um,...

To Watch Tonight...
• MLB. All-Star Selection Show. See which Devil Ray gets to help decide home field advantage in the World Series. 7:00, ESPN. • MLB. New York Mets @ New York Yankees. Rubber match. Subway series. Subways and rubbers. Ick. 8:00, ESPN. • Movie. Remember the Titans. If Julius was so damn good at defens...

Dirk To Cuban: Pipe Down, Sparky
Dirk Nowitzki is taking his leadership role on the Dallas Mavericks seriously. He's not calling out another player, he's not even calling out a coach. He's got issues with team owner Mark Cuban. From an article in the Dallas Morning News, here's Dirk on Cuban's courtside behavior:...

To Watch Tonight...
• MLB. Baltimore Orioles @ Atlanta Braves. Leo Mazzone must be all torn up inside. 7:00, TBS. • NASCAR. Nextel Cup, Pepsi 400. Restrictor plates, baby. They should have Frank the Tank come take those off. 7:30, Fox. • Basketball (well, kinda). City Slam, New York Regional. You know, just in case you...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you discover that the latest Bin Laden tape has no DVD Easter Eggs ... • Boxing: Light welterweights, Juan Urango vs. Naoufel Ben Rabah, at Hollywood, Fla. Or, why not rent the movie Hard Times instead?[ESPN2] • MLB: Baltimore at Atlanta. The Braves' comeback starts ... now! OK ....

Cultural Oddsmaker: Fourth Of July Fiesta!
A.J. Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Send him all kinds of fan mail....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you've done your part for charity ... • NASCAR Busch Series: practice for Winn-Dixie 250, at Daytona Beach, Fla. Yeah, we tried to use that line to get out of a speeding ticket once. [Speed Channel] • Golf: PGA Tour, Buick Championship, first round, at Cromwell, Conn. This had be...

Illini Reunited In ... Utah! Go Jazz!
Forgive us a tiny bit of indulgence here, but our ultimate takeaway from the NBA Draft last evening was not the million Portland trades, Isiah Thomas' fumbling, Dan Patrick and David Stern's pissing contest or even the insane convergence of Michael Jordan and a guy who cries with two second left in ...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Germany runs out of beer (sad, really) ... • Boxing: Heavyweights, Dominick Guinn vs. Tony Thompson, at San Jose, Calif. There's nothing like 300-pound men clinching in high-definition to get us through the middle of the week. [ESPN2] • MLB: N.Y. Mets at Boston. Perhaps a new rivalr...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you question a world in which God allows this to happen... • Golf: ING Par 3 Shootout, final day, at Gaylord, Mich. We've been golfing for 15 years. What is this "par" you speak of? [ESPN2] • WNBA: Sacramento at Seattle. Let's see, OK ... the nicknames are, Monarchs, and ... damn it...

Last Post On Mariotti/Guillen, Honest
OK, we promise: Last Ozzie Guillen-Jay Mariotti related post of the week, unless one of them ends up being caught drunk on camera, forcing us all to become dirty voyeurs....

Jay The Joke: For All Your Jay Mariotti Mocking Needs
For skewering of our friend Jay Mariotti, quite frankly, we like to think we take a back seat to no one. Well, excepting perhaps Jay the Joke, a new blog dedicated to, as they put it "uniting Cubs fans and Sox fans through a common hatred of Jay Mariotti." And in so doing, does this blog not unite...

The Manly, Manly Sports Reporters
So we've been noticing something goofy going on with the coverage of the Ozzie Guillen-Jay Mariotti story; on the whole, the sturm und drang seems to be directed away from Guillen, who, after all, is Ozzie Guillen, a guy whose rantings whom we all kind of accept like the drunk uncle at Thanksgivin...