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Seventies Underwear: Strangely Inventive
This might be old, but we haven't seen it before, so here it is: underwear advertising from a Playboy magazine in 1977 (they're all Jockey ads)....
Roy Keane Does The Celtic Jig
Famed Manchester United Hero-In-Exile Roy Keane has signed with Celtic until 2007, a move that could further signify the end of the Manchester United era. Our soccer expert chimes in with a report:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL with Gary Horton: Until I saw this, I thought "Scouts, Inc." was a movie starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas. • 1 p.m. Texas Tech QB Cody Hodges: No Heisman again this year. As John Belushi said in Animal House, "Seven years of...
Watch Your Back In Park City
On the list of Stories We'd Rather Not Report But Have To Anyway, we point out that Utah Jazz point guard — and University of Illinois legend — Deron Williams was arrested (along with another, more anonymous, rookie) over the weekend for giving false information to police. Apparently, there was a ...
Leinart Responds To Party Photos
As you might have heard yesterday, USC quarterback Matt Leinart was spotted at NYC hotspot Marquee after finishing third in Heisman voting on Saturday night and according to the emailer who sent us the photos, he hit on a Texas woman — described as "one of the nicest people" by one of our commente...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while inflating the giant, glowing, somewhat frightening front yard lawn Santa ... • NBA: Unstoppable Heat stifle Bucks as Riley goes to 2-0. We are so on this bandwagon. • NBA: Back from injury, Grant Hill leads Magic over Knicks. (Don't tell anyone, but it was a hernia). • NHL: Mar...
John Daly, True Man Of Genius
Tiger Woods might have the endorsements, but no golfer, among real Americans, is more popular than John Daly. This collection of photos, which are new to us but might have been around a while, confirms why. The guy gets drunk, he gets rowdy and he does crazy things. (In some of these pictures, h...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as, despondent over recent events, the curtains hang themselves ... • NBA: Phoenix at Dallas; Houston at Golden State. We're not used to seeing the Warriors this far up in the standings — it's kind of disorienting. [ESPN] • College Basketball: Stony Brook Seawolves at Hofstra Pride. It...
Athlete Run-In: Kirk Hinrich, Gryffindor
Today's second — that is to say, final — athlete run-in story is about a guy we probably misidentified yesterday: Bulls point guard Kirk Hinrich, whose Facebook site is probably not actually this site. But anyway, this story, well, this story might not be true either, but you knew that already. Bu...
Leftovers: Sword of Damocles
• Sporting News: Reeves "consultant" job means Capers is out with Texans. [MSNBC] • White Sox acquire Javier Vazquez from Arizona for Orlando Hernandez, Luis Vizcaino and minor leaguer. That's the word on the street from Huggy Bear, anyway. [Dils] • Time Warner may sell Braves, or merge them with Am...
Year In Review: February
So we were thinking that, you know, the year is, like, almost over. All the magazines are doing year-in-review type stuff, so we figured, why should we be any different? Therefore, for the next 12 days, we will be looking back on each month on the calendar, pointing out the weird/important/amusing s...
Kyle Orton, A Cop With ATTITUDE
Our affection for Bears quarterback Kyle Orton is well-documented, so we couldn't help but point out this photo, taken last Monday at Crobar in Chicago. (Linebacker Brian Urlacher was there as well, but he doesn't photograph as well, and besides, we don't want to taunt Michael Flatley any more tha...
Tracking The NBA Death Pool
From the Creepy And Mean Yet Fascinating department comes this entry from upstart NBA blog The Association: The NBA Death Pool. Which NBA player/coach with no business playing/coaching will drop dead at just the wrong moment?...
Barry Zito's Suddenly A Zesty Italian!
In response to our light tapping of Alex Rodriguez for playing for the Dominican Republic in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, reader Gerald Smith emails us to set us straight:...
Blogdome: If You Don't Know Him By Now
• We're probably never going to stop chuckling to the notion of Kobe Bryant and Jannero Pargo dancing to a Simply Red song. [J.E. Skeets] • Yeah, we agree: The Sagarin college basketball ratings make no sense. [Critical Fanatic] • We'll confess: It weirds us out when people get all excited about a h...
Blogdom's Best: Hating The Steelers
Previously we have examined the great fan blogs of the NFL and Major League Baseball, and what an interesting journey it was. But every great story needs a strong antagonist, and to that end we now present the anti-blogs — those Web chronicles devoted to abhorrence and loathing — what the French c...
Kornheiser To Klosterman: Come Get Some!
It's always funny when writers fight — imagine fourth grade girls, except with more slapping — and it's even funnier when both writers take paychecks from ESPN. Unfortunately, as much as we might like to make this little tidbit into a fight, it's mostly just an old guy with a microphone tossing pe...
Athlete Run-In: The Mystery Of The Mustache
Today's first athlete run-in story answers a question we've had for a long time: Has Don Mattingly ever not had that mustache? (We were scared enough when Bruce Bochy shaved his.)...
Matt Leinart's Big Post-Heisman NYC Adventure
We present the above picture, with the following story, without comment, sent anonymously to us this morning....
A-Rod, The World's Free Agent
Much talk this morning about Yankees hero of the working man Alex Rodriguez telling a radio station that he is leaning toward playing for the Dominican Republic in the upcoming World Baseball Classic rather than the United States. A-Rod has never, in fact, lived in the Dominican; he was born in Ne...