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Today In The Premiership...
• Aston Villa 1-1 Tottenham. The day could've been so much worse for Juan Pablo Angel. Instead of missing the net on a penalty kick, three minutes later heading one into his goal, losing the game, and ending up in the trunk of a hooligan's car with his head wrapped in duct tape and his shoes on fi...
Perhaps This Could Have Waited
I realize that we probably shouldn't expect a lot of dignity from the New York Post, but... well, this is a bit much. The above cartoon ran in the New York Post yesterday, and while I haven't seen a ton of outrage about it, the person who sent in the tip says that several radio guys were freaking ...
One Series Almost Over, One Just Getting Started
For a while last night, it seemed like there was a pretty good chance that the Tigers/A's series would actually be over before the Mets/Cardinals game. The Cardinals posted a manly three-run ninth inning to finally win a 3-hour and 58-minute game that did not go into extra innings....
About Last Night...
• MLB Playoffs: Tigers 3, A's 0. 3-0. Not just last night's game, but the series, too. • College Football: Pitt 52, Central Florida 7. Pitt was able to hang on to that 38-0 halftime lead behind the power of LaRod. • MLB Playoffs: Cardinals 9, Mets 6. Six to nine. TeeHee....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NFC East with Chuck Knox Jr.: Is it true that when you played Frisbee with your dad, you walked it back and forth to each other instead of throwing it? • 1:30 p.m. Duke's Josh McRoberts: Just looking at your point totals against ...
Playoff Blogdome: Cardinals at Mets, Game One
Canvassing the blogs on the Mets' 2-0 win over the Cardinals in Game One of the NLCS:...
Everywhere One Looks, It's Beltran
Yesterday, we talked about the 2004 National League Championship Series between the Cardinals and Astros, and how it was the best series we had ever seen. We, stupidly, did not mention the words "Carlos Beltran," which was odd, considering the guy showed up in our nightmares for months afterwards. (...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while painting a tunnel entrance onto a boulder to fool the Roadrunner ... • MLB: That happened fast ... we mean, that really escalated: Glavine, Beltran, Mets get off on good foot vs. Cardinals in NLCS Game 1. • College football: Boston College 22, Va. Tech 3. Steve Aponavicius: Kno...
All Right, Weaver, Put Down The Smokes And Let's Go
The weather reports appear to be clear as one could reasonably hope for this evening, so it looks like the Cardinals and Mets are finally going to kick off their NLCS, with Jeff Weaver taking on a now very rested Tom Glavine. Because of the rainout, the series is going with five games in five days, ...
What They Did On Their Day Off
Though the woman in this photo apparently didn't get the memo, anyone in the New York City area yesterday, when not preoccupied with planes coming out of the sky and Alec Baldwin all full of bustle, knew there wasn't going to be a NLCS game last night. It was pouring rain and was just getting wors...
We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Boxing historian Bert Sugar: Max Baer, the Terrell Owens of his era? • Noon. NCAA FB with Todd McShay: What exactly is a Nittany? • 2:30 p.m. Inside College Hockey: OK, I've been in here long enough. I'm cold, and lonely. Can y...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while feeding the one-eyed fish (not a euphemism!)... • MLB: Tigers take 2-0 ALCS lead over Athletics behind Alexis Gomez ... wait, who? • NBA: Sans Jackson and O'Neal, Pacers still beat Nets 103-89. • NHL: Detroit, sports capital of the world. Red Wings 9, Phoenix 2....
Look, Naked British People!
Just to be crude, and because we can't imagine you can look at Tiger Woods that much longer, we decided to toss out a little bon mot for you: A top 10 list of female streakers at British sporting events. (Link NSFW)...
Rick Ankiel, Six Years Later
As we await tonight's hopefully-not-rained-out NCLS Game 1, we think back to 2000, when the Cardinals and Mets last met under these circumstances. This is known, of course, as the Rick Ankiel series, when the blistering lefthander, whose curveball was one of the most gravity-defying things we had ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: Joe Torre, Alex Rodriguez, Donald Rumsfeld all apparently keeping their jobs. Thoughts? • 3 p.m. NCAA FB with Beano Cook: Back when you played, how difficult was it to keep Martin Van Buren in the ...
Lawrence Phillips Hits Bottom, Is Sure He Can Go Lower
And so in the end, Lawrence Phillips leaves us the way we always knew he would: receiving up to 20 years in prison for running into three kids with his car after a pickup football game. The former Cornhuskers /Rams /Dolphins /49ers /Bobcats /Alouettes /Stampeders /Dragons running back was convicte...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking your ferret to the DMV ... • MLB: ALCS, Game 1: Fools! No one can stop Brandon Inge! Tigers 5, Athletics 1. • NBA: Ha! We told you! NBA regular season creeps ever closer as Dwight Howard, Magic top Bobcats 107-90. And hey, Adam Morrison wasn't bad. He didn't cry either. ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. World's Strongest Man: Can you help me move this weekend? • 3 p.m. NFL draft with Steve Muench: You're such a Muench, really. • Wraps. Read Monday's chats: No, I refuse. What am I, a dancing bear?...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong With This Idea?
Yahoo's Time Capsule Project begins today, in which people from around the world are encouraged "to submit text, images and video that reflect human nature" to be included in a message that will be beamed into space. So that the world of sports isn't left out, we are submitting the video above, whic...