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Your NL West "Preview"
Whew, last one. We'd like to point out a couple of the pictures above. First, we enjoyed choosing a picture of Tony Clark for the D-Backs one, considering he's the opposite of a Diamondback this year. Second: Steve Finley is on the Rockies? Wow!...
Baseball Season Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Your AL West "Preview"
All right, last one of the day until tomorrow ... we think this is actually the easiest division to pick, which is why, obviously, we're going to have it entirely wrong....
NBA Roundup: The Number 23
Notes on Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Tom Jackson Might Refer To Him As A "Retard"
We've never met Brian Giles; it's possible he spends his evenings studying Proust and calculating Pi. But we doubt it. The following tidbit is from The San Diego Union-Tribune (via The Smittblog), and we're just going to reproduce it in all its glory....
The 49ers Welcome You To Pleasantville
In a perfect world, the 49ers would have a sparkling new stadium near Candlestick Point. There would be parks and open markets and milling shoppers, and ample free parking for all. Also, Alex Smith would never, ever be sacked. These are things as San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom sees them, and he's ...
Baseball Season Preview: Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
NBA Roundup: Saying Goodbye To The Big 5-0
Notes on Sunday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
NBA Roundup: Fun After Fifty Club
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
What Tommy Lasorda Dreams ...
This is Tommy Lasorda during a Dodgers spring training game yesterday, dozing off during a spare moment and having visions, of course, of "swirly moves."...
NBA Roundup: Kobe Bryant, Scapegoat?
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Baseball Season Preview: San Francisco Giants
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
NBA Roundup: Forget About It Jake, It's Milwaukee
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
NBA Roundup: From Now On We Call It Nashville
Notes on Sunday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Barry Bonds Delivers One Into Your Gap
In the years that I've stopped paying attention, the memorabilia business has gone in directions I couldn't have anticipated... namely, up the ass....
NFL General Managers Make It Rain
The first twenty-four hours of the NFL's free agency period have come and gone. There was a flurry of activity last evening ... let's get ourselves caught up....
NBA Roundup: Cowabunga, Dude!
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Barry Bonds Never Can Say Goodbye
The most telling exceprt from KGO radio's big interview with Barry Bonds on Tuesday? It wasn't that Bonds has apparently been getting death threats (there's enough nuts out there to make that sadly inevitable). Nor was it that Bonds says he feels "exhausted" (honestly, when hasn't he?). We're not ev...
Book Excerpt: Tommy Lasorda Knows What He Likes ... Sweet Heavens, Does He Ever
SportsByBrooks has grabbed a hold of some of those excerpts from that madam book involving Tommy Lasorda and ... uh ... holy crap....
We Hope You've Already Eaten This Morning
We're sorry about this, but we really do have to show you the video of Clippers guard Shaun Livingston's brutal knee injury last night. We're not sure what they're cleaning the floor with over there, but it's either rubber cement or battery acid. Imagine if someone would have actually been guarding ...