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College Helps You Spell
One of the main reasons to enjoy the College World Series: The brilliant, obviously university-educated, fan signs in the crowd. That one's from a Mississippi State fan....

Malcolm In The Middle Front Row
The Los Angeles Times has a nifty collection of celebrity photos taken at sporting events on their site today, which got us to thinking: Which LA team had the best celebrity sightings in the fall/winter seasons? One might automatically say the Lakers win this, but not so fast. Let's do a quick tally...

Real Jews Root For The Red Sox
Via Bar Stool Sports — and we're slightly late on this — we learn that American Jewish Life Magazine (not edited by David Hirshey) makes the solid case that all Jews should love the Red Sox and hate the Yankees....

We Like The Way He Talks And He Likes The Way We Talk, Mmm Hmm
With the news yesterday that running back Quincy Wilson has become the 10th Cincinnati Bengal to be arrested in the past 14 months, we now need the measured, no-nonsense sports commentary of Kige Ramsey more than ever. If you're unfamiliar, just think of him as the Jason Whitlock of Youtube ... if, ...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m. MLB with Joe Morgan: You know, with Bob Barker gone, there's an opening on a certain game show. Interested? • 2 p.m. True Hoop's Henry Abbott: You think ESPN might hire Harold to do a baseball blog? • 3 p.m. NASCAR with Terr...

The Pirates Mascot Loves The Onion Rings
It can be difficult to keep the fans entertained at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, so they've tried a new technique: reenacting already historic television scenes. We might not know the official ending, but we know how it really ends: The Pirates lose....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while playing the German version of Wii Hole In One golf ... wait, what did it say on the screen? • MLB: Giants lose (we didn't even have to type that; just "right-click," "paste," as usual). • College baseball: Ward, I'm worried about the Beavers ... OSU's 12-6 win over Arizona Stat...

John Amaechi Is Keeping Busy
Anybody wondering what John Amaechi has been up to since his coming out — first as a former NBA player, secondly as a gay man — in his book Man In The Middle for ESPN Books? Anybody? Somebody was, right?...

And Suddenly, Figure Skating Is Fun Again
Just in case you haven't heard, Kristy Swanson was arrested Saturday night in Kingston, Ont. after a fight with Marcia O'Brien, who is the ex-wife of Canadian figure skater Lloyd Eisler. Swanson is dating Eisler. People magazine has the details, of course, and says that O'Brien filed a complaint, le...

Covering Everyone Within Three Rows With Beer
This video's a month old, but ... sorry, it's a basic Deadspin rule: Drunk Red Sox fan videos must be featured. We don't make the rules, we just follow them....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. MLB with Buster Olney: Wait, you mean that yourself and Chipper Jones aren't cartoon squirrels? • 2 p.m. AFL's Crush QB John Dutton: Football and air conditioning ... as God intended? • 3 p.m. NASCAR driver Kurt Busch: Could the...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while entertaining your octopus ... • MLB: They've got the blues ... Padres 11, Cubs 3. • Golf: Today Tiger Woods, tomorrow the Falklands! Angel Cabrera wins U.S. Open. • Tennis: Shazam, Andy! Roddick wins fourth Queen's Club title....

About Last Night...
• MLB. White Sox 6, Pirates 1. Mark Buehrle pitched well, and for a change, other White Sox did various other things well, too. • Arena Football. Dallas Desperados 67, NY Dragons 13. Thirteen points in an Arena game? I've got to believe that Tom Walsh was involved. • WNBA. Minnesota Lynx 83, Los Ang...

We've Just Begun To Tap The Potential Of The Wii
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Kobe's Still Feeling Grumpy
If the Los Angeles Lakers do indeed plan on making some moves to surround Kobe Bryant with some more talent, they might want to speed the process along. Kobe's hanging out in Barcelona, and he's not getting any happier....

What, Like House Of Pain Was Gonna Do Anything?
Seems like there are a lot of scuffles outside of nightclubs these days. And more and more, it seems like these scuffles are accompanied by someone pulling out a gun and shooting it into the air ... because nothing defuses a situation better than spontaneous gunfire....

For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
12:00, ESPN Classic. Bowling. 1994 Active West Thunderbird Open. 1:00, NFL Network. NFL Europa. Cologne Centurions @ Frankfurt Galaxy. 1:00, NBC. Golf. U.S. Open Championship, Third Round. 2:00, ESPN. College Baseball. NCAA World Series, Game 3. Arizona State vs. UC Irvine. 3:30, FOX. MLB. Giants @ ...

About Last Night
• MLB. Rangers 7, Reds 6. Sammy Sosa's 599th home run dramatically lifts the Rangers to just 17 games under .500. • WNBA. Chicago Sky 73, New York Liberty 66. Having already equaled their win total from last year, the Chicago Sky are neither blue nor falling. • MLB. Mets 2, Yankees 0. Sooner or late...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch from the comfort of your giant toilet ... • Boxing: Super middleweights, Lucian "I Love Big" Bute vs. Sakio "Super Happy Fun Time" Bika, at Montreal. [ESPN2] • College World Series: North Carolina vs. Mississippi State. F### everything, we're live-blogging this one. [ESPN2] • Golf: U.S...

MLB Reminds You That It Owns The Rights To Richie Sexson's Batting Average
Now that Bud Selig has this steroids problem completely under control, he's turning his lawyers loose on the real enemy: Unlicensed fantasy baseball leagues. We eagerly await the first major enforcement incident. We see police shouting instructions into a house through a bullhorn, followed by a paun...