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About Last Night...
• MLB: San Francisco 0, Oakland 1. As you may have been able to figure out from the score, Barry Bonds did not homer. Yet, even after that night of baseball, it still led SportsCenter. If only there was a "Diop on Diop" series....
And The Ones Get Sevens...
Screw "About Last Night!" After a night of basketball like that, it can be demoted to the two-spot......
LeBron Goes For It All Tonight
No. 1 email we've received over the last 48 hours: "Hey, asshead, still think LeBron's playoff debut is unremarkable?" (Answer: OK, maybe he's doing all right.)...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Costa Rica
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: Costa Rica! And for World Cup previews...
Roger Gets The Jordan Treatment
You know, it just wouldn't be the Internet without Roger Clemens steroids rumors. It's like they make the place whole....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.. Rattlers' WR/DB Randy Gatewood: What does nine years in the Arena Football League even feel like? Have you ever wished you could look up between plays and see a cloud? • 2 p.m.. Boxing with Dan Rafael: I say, that man struck th...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking 28 action photos of Bigfoot, all with the lens cap on ... • NBA Playoffs: Suns Branded — Elton scores 30 as Clippers force Game 7. Haven't we done this already? • MLB: Pujols has two hits and two RBIs to lead Cardin ... no wait, sorry, do-over. University of Illinois gra...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Boxing historian Bert Sugar: Go to bed old man! • 2 p.m. Chicago Fire's Chris Rolfe: What exactly did Andy Herron do to earn a six-game suspension? • 4 p.m. College hoops with Andy Katz: How many of these games have you played ...
We Are All Stunned
Well. It's little wonder the The NBA Is Back! platitudes are being brought back out there. This is downright fun....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while rockin' in the free world ... • MLB: Posada decides to carry Yankees for awhile longer, gets key hit in 4-3 win over Rangers. • NBA Playoffs: Attention Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. The Cavs have won in Detroit. We repeat, the Cavs have won! Please hold all bet...
LeBron's Chance To Take Over
Well, for those of you who are just now waking up from that Clippers-Suns epic last night, there's no time to rest, people. Two more games tonight, with the Mavericks trying to finish off the defending champions and, most compellingly, LeBron James and the Cavaliers continuing their unlikely quest...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: Cote d'Ivoire
The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to [email protected]. Today: Ivory Coast! And for World Cup preview...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. NHL playoffs w/E.J. Hradek: So, ever long for a job where the average working room temperature rises above 50 degrees? • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: Love the latest edition, but the chapter about Jesus secretly fatheri...
This Is Why Everyone Needs To Synchronize Their Swatches
In Paris, earlier today (or yesterday, or whatever that time difference is), the IAAF — perhaps the most useless acronym in sports; it stands for International Association of Athletics Federations, which is kind like saying you have a Collection of Associated Alliances — announced that sprinter Ju...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while braiding your sister's hair ... • NBA Playoffs: Here Come The Suns, And I Say, It's Alright. Marion's 36x20 lead Phoenix in 2OT, put Clippers on the brink. • MLB: Kazmir, 22, youngest AL pitcher to six wins since Vida Blue in '71; Devil Rays beat White Sox 10-7. • Tennis: Marti...
Stuart Scott, Out Of The Pool
So here's the strangest thing we've seen in a while (or at least since yesterday): Someone on eBay is selling an 11-inch-by-14-inch framed matted photo of Stuart Scott pouting on a tricycle....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m.. Boxer Rocky Juarez: OK, so originality isn't your strong suit. Let me guess: Is your dog named Rover? • 2:40 p.m.. IRL's Castroneves, Hornish: It was going to be 2 p.m., but, you know, traffic. • 3 p.m.. Writer and author Chris...
If Barry Bonds Falls In The Forest, Does He Make A Sound?
The photo at left kind of tells the whole story about public reaction to Barry Bonds these days. You have the guy on the left screaming insults, the guy on the right applauding politely, the guy with the camera phone snapping a dark, crappy picture for posterity, and the guy in the front row, far ...
The Closer: Fate, Thy Name Is Josh Beckett
Notes from a day in baseball:...
Somehow ... The Series Is TIED?
As we wait for Mark Cuban to sleep off what is almost certainly an enormous (and well-earned) hangover, we turn our morning attentions to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. (No offense to the Mavericks, of course; we are one step closer to the sublime possibility of David Stern handing the ...