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McMichael's Wife Dropped From Fantasy Rosters
Just about two months after being arrested for throwing his wife from their car — it was his second arrest for spousal abuse within a year — Dolphins tight end Randy McMichael has pleaded out, accepting a misdemeanor of "trespassing," on his wife, in a similar way that Jason Christensen "trespasse...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. MLB with Joe Morgan: When you said "any team that makes the playoffs can go all the way," you obviously didn't mean the A's, right? • Noon. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: After writing License to Deal, how many showers did it take ...

Making Fun of Don King Is Funny (Until He Stomps You To Death)
The New York Post's Page Six reports this morning that failed real estate entrepreneur Donald Trump will be hosting a Friar's club roast of boxing "promoter" Don King. Past roastees have included Pamela Anderson, Chevy Chase and, most famously, Hugh Hefner. And now Don King, perhaps the only perso...

Family Man Gary Sheffield
What's the best way to start your morning? Completely unsubstantiated but undeniably juicy rumors about supposedly "Christian" not-steroid-addled-at-all outfielders! Of course!...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while writing a musical based on the movie "Fargo" ... • NFL: Patriots give Raiders the ol' Three Stooges eye poke. • MLB: Pitcher Kyle Lohse takes a bat to Twins' locker room, providing yet another reason to dump the designated hitter. • MLB: Coco Crisp home run helps Indians move i...

A Steroid Family Feud
We know it's NFL Kickoff Night, and we know it's kind of a bummer to finish our first day with a post about baseball, but we just find it tough to resist a couple of steroids guys feuding. (We always imagine them having counterintuitive arguments about who has smaller testicles.)...

To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as Gilligan ascends to Sitcom Heaven ... • Your excuse to eat vast quantities of junk food is finally here: Raiders at Patriots kick off NFL season. • MLB: Angels at Red Sox. Converging fronts of negative mojo from Yankees, A's fans collide over Fenway, causing it to rain. • U.S. Open ...

Leftovers: Bud Selig's European Vacation
• Ducks across the pond: MLB to play games in Europe in '07? [MSNBC] • Westbrook serves Eagles with divorce papers. Wonder where he learned that from. [For The Birds] • Say it ain't so: Red Auerbach sent to hospital. [CelticsBlog.com] • Pickup game: LeBron, Kobe, KG in for Katrina relief. [Minneapol...

Blogdom's Best: Tampa Bay Devil Rays
More than any other sport, baseball lends itself to individual blog obsession. Whether it's the glut of statistics, the constant opportunities for second-guessing or just the fact that you have something to write about every day, every Major League Baseball team has several blogs obsessed with chr...

Kicking Off The Season With Satan
According to the The Boston Herald, which is being amusingly hush-hush about the whole thing, tonight's special guest at the NFL Kickoff Festivities will be Ozzy Osbourne. What does Ozzy Osbourne have to do with football? Well, Kanye West doesn't have anything to do with football either, and if Ozzy...

Michael Jordan Freaks Charles Barkley
We know this has been on the Web for a while, but still ......

Today In Oddjack: NFL Kickoff Edition
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • So once again you've entered the office football pool, with dreams of finally winning it this year (sorry, we didn't mean to laugh out loud). Here are some things you should know. • Area...

Alex Rodriguez, American Hero
Years after a similarly themed — if ultimately failed — venture under the umbrella of The Sporting News, beloved Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is launching ARod.com today (welcome to the club, A-Rod!), joining Barry Bonds and Derek Jeter under the relative comfort of the MLB.com umbrella....

Today In MLB Blogs
We'd like to introduce a new feature, because features are fun and make the day just fly fly fly by. In case you missed it, former Sportingnews.com "new media" dropout Mark Newman has resurfaced at MLB.com to help Bud Selig sell something that you absolutely cannot find anywhere else (particularly...

NFL Sighs, Pretends It Doesn't Want To Strangle Kanye West
By now, you've heard all about rapper Kanye West's impromptu blasting of President Bush in the middle of a telethon. Whatever your thoughts on West's actions, it certainly puts the NFL in an interesting situation; West is scheduled to perform at the NFL Kickoff Ceremonies tonight. (Oh, the NFL sea...

Terrell Owens' Suspicious Charity
Now, far be it from us to accuse any athlete of being anything less than 100 percent magnanimous in all of his charitable endeavors ... but we couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at Eagles flapjaw wide receiver Terrell Owens' newest attempt to confuse human beings into mistaking him for a nice fell...

How Can We Be Lovers If We Can't Be Friends?
We were playing around on BarryBonds.com again today — honestly, it's like Christmas every day; we don't care if he plays again or not, as long as he keeps his site updated — and, on a page devoted to Barry's 40th birthday party, we found the above picture....

Welcome to Deadspin. We Come With a Pure Heart and Mirthful Disposition
Deadspin is the latest site from Gawker Media. We cover sports here. We're not interested in gambling lines, fantasy football or injury reports; we've got Oddjack for that. And we're not some lame-ass ESPN Hollywood Tom Brady's-schtupping-Annabeth-Gish "Culture of Sports" pap either. We see sports a...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: We are typing this from an 11th-story ledge outside the window of our office building, the only thing keeping us from plunging into the abyss being your assurances that we might somehow obtain Angels sta...
