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Hey, The Masters Start Tomorrow
Even though it's dreary outside and we're kind of ill from it — we don't ask much from weather except for it to make up its mind — it is obviously springtime, because The Masters start tomorrow....
Everybody Should Have A Nittany Lion At Their Party
Looks like when it's offseason at Penn State, it's pretty tough for the beloved JoePa to keep a firm grip on the ears of his players. Because some Nittany Lions could be in some serious trouble after a weekend altercation....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m. Baseball with Joe Morgan: Has anyone ever seen Jon Miller and Karl Rove in the same place at the same time? • 1 p.m. Tennis Mag's Peter Bodo: Say hello to the other hobbits, would ya? • 3 p.m. Ex-MLBers Al Downing, Tommy Dav...
About Last Night ...
Yes, we think that the pan speaks for all of us ... • College women's basketball: Tennessee wins NCAA title; no one rips off their shirt a la Brandi Chastain. Bah. • MLB: Barry Me Not On The Lone Prairie ... Giants don't exactly impress Padres in opener. • NHL: Buffalo Goals Won't You Come Out Tonig...
CBS Is Taking Augusta By Storm
With the Masters just two days away, it's time to get in the swing of things, and by "swing of things," we mean looking like this....
Curt Schilling Faces The Blog Music
Yesterday wasn't the most pleasant day to be a Red Sox fan — a friend of ours who loves the Sox was lamenting last night that "the season is over;" Red Sox fans are the best — and no one took it harder than Curt Schilling himself....
This Was Not Done By Aliens
As someone who knows the open spaces and empty fields of the Midwest as well as anyone — we lost our virginity in one, after all — we understand how boring it can get out there, how it can feel as if you have no creative outlet and no one to listen to you....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested chat questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: Anyone want to trade for Jose Contreras? • 3 p.m. Boxing historian Bert Sugar: The better boxer; Charles Bronson in Hard Times or Clint Eastwood in Every Which Way But Loose? • 4 p.m. NCAA MBB w/Dou...
Looking To The Past To Overcome The Present
Now that Florida has won its second national title in a row, everybody's an amateur historian — which is good, because sports would be no fun if it has professional historians. The big question: Are the Gators one of the best teams ever? The answer of course is that there is no answer, which is why ...
About Last Night
What you missed while realizing that your dog is smarter than you are ... • College basketball: NCAA Tournament Final. Crikey! Those Gators are feisty! • NHL: What? Watch the NCAA game and miss my favorite player, Glen Metropolit? Blues 4, Stars 2. • Major League Baseball: Alex Rodriguez homers afte...
At This Rate, Florida's Gonna Win An Oscar This Year
It was rather difficult not to admire Greg Oden in this game, but Florida, man, those guys are good. Not the epic game we were hoping for ... but when you go 4-for-22 from the 3-point line, it doesn't really matter if you have a 64-year-old Bill Russell under the basket....
Give Us At Least ONE Shining Moment. One Will Be Fine.
All right, well, we think we can all agree that, as sports fans, we are owed an epic national title matchup tonight. This has been the least memorable NCAA Tournament of the last decade — except for those ones we can't remember — and the only thing that can salvage it is a Connecticut-Duke or George...
NCAA Championship Game Blogdome: Let's Play Two
What they're saying, blogwise, about tonight's National Championship game ......
What A Win Tonight Would Mean: Ohio State
A national title, or a championship in any sport, resonates for years beyond just one small victory for a group of tall men. It stands for something not just in athletics, but for a university as a whole, a matter of civic pride, an achievement disparate groups of people can all stand alongside, joy...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. MLB Insider Keith Law: If we declare war on Canada, who gets the Blue Jays? • 2 p.m. MLB Insider Rob Neyer: Can there possibly be this much inside information? The season is exactly one game old. • 4 p.m. NCAA MBB with Gene. So ...
An Opening Night Loss? No Problem!
On Faith And Fear In Flushing yesterday, Jason Fry wrote that the Opening Night game between the Cardinals and Mets at Busch Stadium last night was lose-lose for the Mets and win-win for the Cardinals. A Mets loss would remind of misery, and a win would just remind of what could have been; meanwhile...
NBA Roundup: Suns Over Mavericks Again. Gnarly.
Notes on Sunday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while calculating the trajectory for hitting Mike Francesa with a cup of ice ... • Baseball: Mets even NLCS with Cardinals 4-all. • NBA: Barbosa leads Suns over Mavericks 126-104. Affirmed. • Wrestlemania: Trump's hair emerges victorious, as we knew it would....
Opening Day Eve, Or Whatever They Call This
Tonight, The St. Louis Cardinals begin their defense of the World Championship. Providing the opposition for the World Champion Cardinals will be the New York Mets, who are not World Champions, and who the Cardinals beat in the NLCS last year en route to a World Championship. On the hill for the Met...
Buckeyes Tend To Look Old
The man on the left, Ohio State head coach That Matta, is two years younger than the man on the right, Florida coach Billy Donovan. There must be something in the water in Columbus that ages people prematurely. At this time next year, Mike Conley Jr. is going to look like Laurence Fishburne....