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Last Call For All Spelling Bee Bets!
The Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee — so lovingly run down by Mr. Daulerio — begins tomorrow, and, as always, the great minds at Throwing Things will be live-blogging the whole thing. Even though Mike and Mike are calling this thing, we still can't wait: The Spelling Bee remains one of our favo...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. FMLB with Nate Ravitz: How come my baseball fantasies include elves and unicorns? • Noon. Stanley Cup with EJ Hradek: He once got our dead battery goin by mixin' bird feces and spit, cause there's like acids in it, eh? • 2 p.m....

We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Injury report w/Will Carroll: Well, my ass is sore and I have a small herpe on my ... oh, you mean the players' injuries? • Noon. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: Wearing a catcher's mask on a date. Rude? • 4 p.m. NFL w/blogger Matt Mo...

We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 9:15 a.m. ESPN host Stuart Scott: Hey Stu, could you holla at a playa if you're about to take the last danish? • 11 a.m. FMLB w/Tristan Cockcroft: We have no idea what this is. Some form of board game? • 1 p.m. Page 2's LZ Granderson: ...

Tom Verducci Really, Really Wants To Play Baseball
You might remember, from a couple of years ago, when Sports Illustrated baseball guru Tom Verducci played for five days with the Toronto Blue Jays during spring training. It was a clever idea, and well-written, as was his piece this year about serving as an umpire. But, like an athlete who has been ...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chattters ... • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: Is it ironic that people are more interested in the lottery than in the actual games? • 2 p.m.. Baseball America's Jim Callis: Is that a resin bag in your pants or are you just glad to see me? • 4 p.m.. AF...

Look, A Survey
The Gawker people have asked us to give you this survey. They have asked us to tell you that if you take this survey, you can have a chance to win "one year of the unlimited, three-at-a-time, Netflix subscription," by sending the answer to "what the last question asked" to [email protected]. They h...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m. Baseball with Joe Morgan: How about, just once, cooking with Joe Morgan? • 1:30 p.m. SC Special, Draft Lottery: We assume this is the NBA Draft, because the alternative is too scary to contemplate. • 2 p.m. NASCAR with Terry...

A Gruesome End To All That
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Baseball with Steve Phillips: If every baseball fan chipped in a couple of bucks, couldn't we match the Yankees' offer and keep Clemens out of baseball? • 2 p.m. NBA Insider John Hollinger: If David Stern had ever been in a fight...

Chelsea Are Your FA Champions
It must've been a rough morning for our pal David Hirshey. Not only did Chelsea get a 1-0 win when Didier Drogba scored in extra time, but it came at the end of a game that's been described as "rubbish football" and "cack."...

Interleague Play Is Back, If Anybody Notices Anymore
We've never had a major problem with interleague play. It's possible this is because our Cardinals get to play the Royals six times a year — and boy could we use the help — but mostly, it's because the game has been so twisted and pretzeled over the last decade that, hey, what's one more switch? Peo...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy League injuries: So are these real injuries, or ones we make up? • Noon. NBA with Chris Sheridan: Yeah, that Western Conference Finals party you're planning? If it's Jazz-Spurs, I'll be too dead to attend. • 3 p.m. AFL ...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. NCAA Lax w/Quint Kessenich: Ever accidentally swallow the ball? • 2 p.m. MLS with Fire's Chris Rolfe: Does it concern you that your team is named after a large disaster? • 3 p.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: My holy quest to obtain t...

The New (Old) Mind Behind US Soccer
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: What're you looking at? Well? (Throws elbow). • 2 p.m. Baseball America w/Jim Callis: What's with all the old pitchers? Is global warming somehow to blame? • 3 p.m. TENNIS Mag's Peter Bodo: What warrants th...

Baseball Players Are Athletes
Seriously, what happened to Antonio Alfonseca? He was always big, but ... wow. We suppose you can eat faster when you have six fingers....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. MLB Inside Rob Neyer: Is calculating OBP more fun after 2 a.m.? • 2 p.m. NASCAR with Terry Blount: In retrospect, should a pit crew even bother with the rear-window de-fogger? • 4 p.m. NFL with Pro Football Weekly: Is it so wrong...

We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Monday's Morning Buzz: Tank Johnson is in a tree in my front yard. Can the Humane Society shoot him with a tranquilizer gun and relocate him further back into the woods? • 1 p.m. AFL w/Rush DB Jeremy Unerti: Is there a more fut...

That Lovable Losing Bull Moose
The continued futility of Teddy Roosevelt to ever win one of the presidential mascot races at RFK Stadium has been well documented, but no one has ever thought to ask Teddy what he thinks of all the trouble he has been having. Finally, The Washington Post sits down Mr. Bull Moose for a loser's lamen...