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Japanese Baseball Curses Are Weird, Battered With 11 Herbs And Spices
Workers dredging a river to construct a walkway in Osaka, Japan may have inadvertently lifted one of the most notorious curses in all of sports, the mysterious 'Curse of the Colonel.'...

Meet Your New Dutch Baseball Overlords
The Dominican Republic, a team stacked from top to bottom with MLB talent, will not make it out of the first round of the World Baseball Classic because they couldn't handle the puny Netherlands....

When the best team on your non-conference schedule is Syracuse, and the Orange beat you at home, you're not very good. Kudos to Memphis for finishing the regular season, but likewise I'm undefeated at ping pong down at the MorningWood Convalescence Home and my court mandated community service hours ...

Play Football For Lane Kiffin Or Suffer The Minimum Wage Consequences
Tennessee's spring football practices begin today, but it's really hard to imagine how Lane Kiffin's tenure as head coach could get any more entertaining than it's been so far. (Fingers crossed!)...

This Here's What You Call A "Danwich"
I love this photo. The expression on Dan Patrick's face, with an Andrews sister on each arm, just seems to scream, "Hey, E.A. Fanboys — SUCK ON THIS ACTION."...

Stephen Jackson Is The Last Dragon
If the Warriors' Stephen Jackson is Bruce Leroy, the mystical martial artist who possesses "the glow," then who is the evil Sho'nuff, the Shogun of Harlem?...

Skip Bayless Blames Rick Reilly, Jeff Kent For America's Barry Bonds Hatred
The Starting Five's Michael Tillery unleashed Part II of his epic Skip Bayless interview and today we find out some of the reasons Skip became a full-blown Barry Bonds supporter....

Terrell Owens: "I Beat To My Own Beat"
That's a new one. I've heard "I drummer to my own drummer" many times, but not that. And that's one of the many enlightening things Terrell Owens told Buffalonians during his introductory press conference....

The New York Rangers Welcome Back Sean Avery After Lobotomy
"It felt good to be playing for this team again and getting the win. That's what I came here to do." [AP]...

Dust Off Your Old Varsity Jacket And Put On Your Listening Helmets
Yes, it's the monthly Varsity Letters reading series again. This month's theme: Plato's Ethics and Epistemology.Nooooo. It's actually a fun line up of readers with college hoops cred. Go watch. [Gelf Magazine]...

Jim Edmonds Would Like To Invite You To His Stripper Battle Royal
Here's something fun for Midwesterners looking for a bazoonga-infested activity on a lonely Friday night in St. Louis: It's a "Queen Of The Pole" party, with your very special guest, former Cardinal Jim Edmonds....

What Wedding Is Complete Without Soccer Players And Owls?
So what's with the rash of Harry Potter-themed weddings among European soccer players? And where's my invitation, you stupid owl? [Deuce of Davenport]...

Young Steve Downie's Crazy Head
So here's a story that will interest only a handful of hockey geeks out there, but I'm going to talk about it anyway. It's about consummate shit-stirrer Steve Downie....

And It's Tim Tebow In The Lead...
Or, sorry — "T.Tebeau." That's the name of a two-year-old thoroughbred that's for sale in Miami. In two years, we'll see Dan Shanoff riding him at the Derby. [Clay Nation]...


Pat Burrell's Vaunted Bat May Actually Be Made Of Maple, Porn Star Says
No idea who Sophia Rossi is, but she's apparently slept with a lot of people. Like Tommy Lee, for instance. Oh, and ex-Phillie (sniffle) Pat Burrell, who she wasn't too impressed with....

Muhsin Muhammad's House For Sale On eBay
For $1.9 million, you can own Muhammad's 6-bedroom house in south Charlotte. Panther. Swipe. [Charlotte Observer]...

Bubba The Love Sponge Is A Midget Racing Dad
Sirius Radio host and Hulk Hogan BFF Bubba The Love Sponge Clem has his own racing team, where his top driver is his son, six-year-old Tyler Clem. [10 Connects]...

ESPN "The Weekend" Not Much Fun For Bristoloids This Year — Especially Buster Olney (UPDATE)
This past weekend was ESPN's annual shmooze-fest at Disney World, where fans of the network can interact with living, breathing ESPN talking heads and touch them to see if they're real....