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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA MBB with Andy Katz: Ever take an elbow to the face while rebounding? A knee to the face? Ever get a rebound? • 3 p.m. Notre Dame's Derek Landri: Any regrets at missing by one year the opportunity to annihilate Jimmy Clausen ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while letting the Wookkie win ... • College basketball: Duke vs. North Carolina ... like a walk through a bad neighborhood in just about every way. • NBA: Kobe, meet the Suns. Suns, Kobe. • NHL: We're no experts, but this has to be some kind of penalty. Avalanche 4, Red Wings 3, OT...
About Last Night...
• College Basketball: Marquette 75, Pitt 71. And Georgetown is your regular season Big East champion. • Arena Football: Georgia Force 69, Arizona Rattlers 65. Three of every 10 throws by Chris Greisen went for touchdowns. 25-of-30, 337 yards... 9 touchdowns. • NBA: Spurs 97, Rockets 74. That's eight...
The Back Of Ron Artest's Head Is A Canvas
With the NBA's trading deadline passed, Ron Artest finally felt it was safe to have his love for the Kings proclaimed boldly on the back of his head. He debuted the new look in last night's win over the Lakers....
Today In The Premiership...
• Liverpool 0-1 Manchester United. They were playing with then men. Liverpool was controlling most of the play. Things were looking up for Chelsea, who desperately needed Manchester United to stumble... but two minutes into injury time, Cristiano Ronaldo set up for a free kick, it deflected off goal...
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....
About Last Night...
• College Basketball: (11) Southern Illinois 71, Drake 59. The Salukis have an RPI ranking of 5. Hm. Did not know that. • NBA: Sixers 117, Grizzlies 112. Three game win-streak for the Sixers... look out for these guys. • NHL: Hurricanes 3, Penguins 2. Sidney Crosby's the youngest player in NHL histo...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who'll Be The Least Popular During ESPN The Weekend?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him and let him know what you think....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy League injuries: Ow, my pants! • 1 p.m. Boise State quarterback Jared Zabransky: How come my Playstation NCAA '08 won't run the Statue of Liberty? • 2 p.m. Bracketology with Joe Lunardi: Is it true the upper brackets ar...
Bad Dentist ... Bad, Bad Dentist
This man right here is Larry Rosenthal, and he's a dentist on Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood. He also lives in the building that the late Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into last October. This so bothered him that he's suing the Lidle family for $7 million. Not the city: Lidl...
Joey Porter Might Take This As Somewhat Of A Lack Of Respect
One of the funniest pieces by one of the funniest writers we know: The Mighty MJD's great Letter From Joey Porter's Pit Bull, in which the canine shows the same distaste for perceived disrespect as his notoriously batshit insane owner. Porter is amazing to watch because everything infuriates him; if...
About Last Night
What you missed while shooting the curl ... • NBA: It's obvious that a freak radiation accident has given the Mavericks super powers. • Baseball: Zito vs. Soriano, Round One. • College basketball: Virginia beats Virginia Tech; Virginia Graham has mixed emotions....
Idaho, Remaining On The Cutting Edge Of Video Game Technology
So this is enough to make one happy: The cover boy for the new EA Sports NCAA Football 2008 game is ... Boise State quarterback Jared Zabransky!...
Sorry: More On Livingston's Knee Injury
First off, in no way are we dismissing the severity of Shaun Livingston's devastating knee injury from Monday. We simply can't imagine going through that ... we got queasy watching Marcia Brady getting hit in the nose by the football. But that being said, there is no denying that Livingston's knee n...
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...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1:30 p.m. Texas DB Aaron Ross: More of in Texas: Books or longhorn hood ornaments? • 2 p.m. NHL with Scott Burnside: My sweater is pulled over my head, my brother is pummeling me and we're banging things with sticks. In other words, we...
Slightly Deep Inside The Brain Of Agent Zero
The best piece of writing we've ever read about Wizards space cadet Gilbert Arenas was the famous Wizznutzz psychological profile of Agent Zero, which includes this brilliant factoid: "Gil was at the birth of his daughter! It wasnt a tom cruise scientology "Silent birth" but Gil did put his Halo gam...
NBA Roundup: Upon Further Review, Cornbread Maxwell Is Sorry
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while planning your lunar eclipse party ... • College basketball: Texas fought the Law and the Law didn't win. • NBA: Suns finally lose to an Eastern Conference team, and it's, wait ... who? • NHL: No sooner does Bill Guerin make his debut for Sharks than he is sadly devoured by Pred...
Jerry Glanville Is Movin' On Up
So you know how Jerry Glanville is now the defensive coordinator at Hawaii? That's a job that has always made sense; if you've made your money in football, and still want to be a part of it but don't want to live the insane, 20-hour-day of the modern coach, kicking back and coaching defense in Hawai...