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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as all the verbs in your latest book project go on strike ... • Basketball: FIBA Americas Championship, second round, at Las Vegas, Canada vs. Argentina, at Las Vegas [FSN]; Puerto Rico vs. USA. Winner of Warm Weather bracket will meet winner of Cold Weather bracket for title. [ESPN2] ...
Mark Cuban Doesn't Really Care About Steroids
Chalk us up as people who would love to see Mark Cuban be allowed to buy the Chicago Cubs — he says he still can't talk about it whether or not he has even submitted a bid — but we can't think his response to a question about steroids, in an interview with Portfolio magazine, is gonna help his cause...
EVERYTHING HE EDITS IS IMPORTANT
Surely, by now, you've heard of the genius that is Wikiscanner, the program that reveals which corporations are editing their Wikipedia pages. (Exxon cleaning up details on their oil spill, for example; Slate has a great story about it.) Well, it should probably come as little surprise that ESPN is ...
Eli Manning Makes 'Em Laugh
Roger Director, author of I Dream In Blue, a book about following the 2006 New York Giants that is released today, was at the Jets-Giants preseason game over the weekend and filed the following report. Kind of...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy BB with Nate Ravitz: Is it weird to have invented a Colorform dress-up game in the likeness of Lenny DiNardo? • Noon. MLB Insider Rob Neyer: What's it like on the inside? is it anything like the outside, only with more ...
Miss Teen South Carolina Has Discovered The Map To Our Hearts
She captivated the nation with her controversial stances on maps, and "the Iraq, everywhere such as." Yesterday we showed you the video of her performance at the Miss Teen USA Pageant, and like the rest of "U.S. Americans," you instantly fell in love. Now, here's more of Miss Teen South Carolina Lau...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while corraling your emu ... • MLB: Chase Utley is back, which can only mean ... World Series! Phillies 9, Mets 2. • Basketball: OK, this has got to be traveling, or carrying, or something ... U.S. easily handles Mexico in FIBA action. • Tennis: Roger Federer somehow beats the great ...
We'd Rather See Dirk
By now, you've heard that Mark Cuban is expected to be on Dancing With The Stars next year. We find this depressing in the same way that Cuban's "The Benefactor" program was depressing; we might make fun of Cuban a bit, but he'd a damn sight more worthy a human being than Donald Trump, and here he w...
The Last 25 Hours Are The Hardest
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. MLB with Steve Phillips: You're an expert ... at what point will the Mets collapse? • 2 p.m. Page 2's Patrick Hruby: Oh Page 2, you are so wacky and irreverent. • 4 p.m. LIVE from the U.S. Open: Is anyone here a marine biologist?...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while touchin' 'em all ... • Basketball: Team USA beats Brazil! Several Slavic nations unimpressed. • MLB: Wells' debut for Dodgers gives Kent a headache. • NFL: Reviews for Roethlisberger are mixed as Steelers beat Eagles 27-13 ......
New Jersey Nets Dancers Are INTENSE
If you think dancing for an NBA team is just about bleaching your hair blonde, suiting up in tight-fitting Spandex, and shaking what the good Lord — or a good surgeon — gave you, then 10 years ago you were actually correct. But times have changed, and in an era where Jason Kidd is no longer legally ...
Jeff Burton, Brought To You By The Color Orange
In a world where race cars are stamped with as many corporate sponsors that will fit on the sheet metal, it's really weird to see a car with no logo on the hood or sides. Seriously, it looks like Jeff Burton (#31) is driving an oversized Hot Wheels car in this Getty photo. There's a (logical?) reas...
Laundry Never Gets Done When The TV Is On
12 p.m. — Little League World Series: consolation game. Lubbock, Texas vs. Willemstad, Curacao [ESPN] 12:30 p.m. — World Track and Field Championships, Osaka, Japan [NBC] 1:00 p.m. — WNBA Playoffs: New York Liberty at Detroit Shock [ABC] 1:00 p.m. — Major League Lacrosse Championship: Los Angeles Ri...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while education South Africa and helping the Iraq such as countries ... • NASCAR: Carl Edwards flips out after the Sharpie 500. • NFL: Christ, even Jim Sorgi could beat the Lions. • Golf: Steve Stricker leads The Barclays after three rounds, as well as the Steve Martin lookalike cont...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you search for the world's most awesome sci-fi novel ... 8 p.m. — Nextel Cup: Sharpie 500, Bristol, Tennessee. Remember, men, it's not the size of the track, but how you use it. [ESPN] 9:30 p.m. — Women's Soccer: Finland at U.S. Look, there in the stands! A couple of Finnish lads...