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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL with Chris Mortensen: You're with me, guy who looks a lot like thin(ner) Chris Berman. • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: I'm starting a magazine devoted exclusively to Choo Freeman and Shin-Soo Cho. Care to invest? • ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while studying for your last-minute fantasy draft (too bad you never put that effort into college) ... • MLB: Santana rocks ... Johan Santana becomes majors' first 17-game winner as Twins blank Rays. • Tennis: Jankovic overcomes crippling case of Dementieva to gain U.S. Open semis. •...
Joey Porter's Eye On Romance
The best reason for seemingly archaic magazines like Sports Illustrated to exist is to humanize our athletes, to take them off the stat pages and bring them to life through real, vivid prose. (That, these days, runs about 1,100 words.) We can think of no other example than this week's profile of Ste...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m.: Good Morning, SportsNation: Has anyone witnessed this? What is it? Does Al Roker do the weather? • Noon: MLB with Rob Neyer: Christ, Ryan Howard just hit another homer as I was typing this. • 2 p.m.: NCAA FB with Ivan Maisel: ...
All We Can Say Is, Crikey
This is probably not even considered inside the realm of sports, but when a guy in khaki shorts suddenly appears on your television wrestling a large emu — when no large emu wrestling had ever been on your television before — well, that's sports to us. We were saddened to learn of the death of "The ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while realizing that a bikini is no longer standard Monday wear ... • Golf: Tiger wins again. The rest of you are worthless and weak! Now drop and give me 20. • College football: Gary Cismesia, not just a rare skin disease anymore. FSU tops Miami 13-10. • MLB: Colors ... Manny's retu...
NFL Season Preview: Pittsburgh Steelers
(We're still taking the day off, but we thought we'd toss this out there for you, so you had something today. Plus, it's really good. See you tomorrow.)...
Roethlisberger's Appendix Does Not Survive NFL Roster Cuts
Ben Roethlisberger had an emergency appendectomy today, leaving him out for the Steelers opener this Thursday against the Dolphins. Funny, I thought his liver would be the first to go....
Chargers LB Steve Foley Shot Multiple Times
From KUSI in San Diego, via the Chargers page at the NFL Fanhouse, comes the news that Chargers linebacker Steve Foley was shot multiple times by an off-duty police officer....
About Last Night...
• FIBA World Championships: Spain 70, Greece 47. Spain's not falling for your old "let's all hide inside a wooden horse" trick. • MLB: Reds 1, Padres 7. Nice to see Jake Peavy remember that he's Jake Peavy. Complete game, 2 hits, 14 Ks. • College Football: Notre Dame 14, Georgia Tech 10. I feel pret...
Today In Soccer...
The Premiership is taking the day off, due to some Euro 2008 qualifying games, and some other international friendlies going down. But the big story right now is Carlos Tevez moving from Brazilian club Corinthians to Premiership team West Ham. A guy like Tevez, you'd think would prefer a bigger club...
Hugh Johnson Project - Update 1
• You know what I hate? "Oooo-EEE! Spendin' limit? Who cares? Not us, cuz them ain't our currrr-edit cards." That's what I hate....
Reality Intrudes For A Second
I hate to throw a bucket of cold water on everyone right before the big college football orgy, but I feel like I should probably mention that Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester was diagnosed with cancer yesterday....
About Last Night...
• Tennis: Roger Feder def. Tim Henman, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. At one point in his career, Tim Henman was 6-1 against Federer. Did those matches take place when Henman was 10 years old and Federer was 3? • MLB: Giants 2, Cubs 6. If you want us to take you seriously as a playoff contender, you can't let the C...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Good Morning, SportsNation: What the ... what's this? Is Joan Lunden involved? Will there be a cooking segment? • Noon: NASCAR driver Carl Edwards: Had enough Talledega Nights quotes to last you eight lifetimes yet? • 3 p.m. FF...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching the movie "Snakes on a DVD Three Months Earlier Than Planned" ... • Tennis: Take that, Cyprus! Agassi takes marathon win over eighth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 7-5, at U.S. Open. • College Football: Spurrier gets 150th win the old-fashioned way ... wi...
Deadspin HOF Nominee: Stephen A. Smith
It's fascinating to us, the long and strangely intricate association we've had with "Quite Frankly With Stephen A. Smith." It seems unusual mostly because just about every Web site we read has more viewers than the program....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon: NCAA FB with Todd McShay: We still say that this title sounds like a Nickelodeon sitcom. • 1 p.m. NFL with Keith Kidd: Can I take issue with ESPN's 'Top 10 Toughest Players in the NFL' list, even though I have no plans to read it...
About Last Night
What you missed while "topping it off," as they say ... • MLB: The Monroe Doctrine ... Tigers beat Yankees in ninth, avoiding doubleheader sweep. • Tennis: '24' ... Andy Roddick celebrates birthday by advancing in U.S. Open. Come on Andy, we're running out of time! • Softball: Meanwhile, in China .....
Fired Up In Buckeye Land
We're still a week and a half away from the second consecutive Jeez, Is It This Important Already? Bowl between Ohio State and Texas, but, as you would probably expect, they're appropriately fired up in the Columbus area....