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About Last Night ...
What you missed while making Scott Baker look like a chump... • MLB: Clay Buchholz tossed a no-hitter for Boston. There's one guy who didn't have to pay for sex last night! • CFB: Cal avenged last year's humbling defeat to Tennessee in a primetime shootout. They also covered the spread, which means ...
About Last Night...
What you missed while welcoming hip hop back from the dead vacation... • Baseball: Scott Baker took perfection into the ninth against the Royals. The Big Lead is still engorged. • Football: Michael Strahan surprised nobody when he decided to return to the Giants. Jean's gotta get paid. • Boxing: Sha...
Prepare Yourself For Simmons In Spandex
You thought that whole Bloomin' Onion sauce on the shorts was the most disturbing image you'd ever have of Bill Simmons? You know NOTHING....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m.. Injury report with Stephiana Bell: Ow, my penis! • 1 p.m. Sugar Ray Leonard, A. Gomez: Which Gomez? • 4 p.m. LIVE from the U.S. Open: No amount of capitalization will make up for the soul-numbing boredom of a golf chat....
Fancy Handbags, And Face Paint
As we've mentioned before, we find the whole "hey, ladies, you can like sports TOO!" thing to be rather silly. It seems like pandering, and they always have this subtext of, "So now you can understand what you're husband's talking about, and therefore leave him alone!" But that said, we are amused b...
And, At Last, It Begins (Kind Of)
As much as we look forward to the beginning of college football season, it still takes us by surprise when it actually begins: It's actually kicking off tonight. In the spotlight game, it's Louisiana State, ranked No. 2 by just about everybody, travels to Mississippi State. The LSU fans are excited...
A Conversation With Dave Zirin
We've joked about being politically agnostic in these parts before, but that's not actually true. Like any breathing human, we have all kinds of political thoughts; we just don't think they belong on a sports site. Sports are one of the few realms that, if you try hard enough, can be separated from ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. MLS with DC's Jamie Moreno: Ow, my shorts! • 4 p.m. Football Scientist KC Joyner: Are you telling me ... that I just put an abnormal brain ... into a 7-foot tall ... 52-inch wide ... three hundred and fifty pound gorilla? • 10 p...
In One Way, The Illini Already Are Champions
The college football season is but three days away, and to the hardcore fan, that means only one thing: The Fulmer Cup has been awarded! And yes, this year's winner of Every Day Should Be Saturday's yearly ode to collegiate athlete malfeasance is one that hits us close to the heart. Somewhere aroun...
Red Sox Fans Try To Explain The President Of Red Sox Nation Thing
We do not speak the language of Red Sox Nation. We do not dislike the Red Sox, or their fans, and we do not think the city of Boston is racist. We love Boston! We just don't understand the Red Sox Nation thing; it just scares us. That said, many of our best friends are Red Sox fans, and they're at l...
Start Collecting Pennies For Bonds' Ball
It might be time to start pouring some funds into your Paypal account, because Matt Murphy's auctioning off of Barry Bonds' 756th home run ball has begun. It's rather pricey....
Andy Rooney Is Quite Old
Editor's Note: Given our longstanding love of Andy Rooney — we remind you that we own every book Andy Rooney has ever written — we've been trying to avoid any discussion of his recent and now infamous baseball column all week. Alas, inertia has overtaken us. To save our broken heart, we decided to h...
ESPN's "Fans" Seem To All Have espn.com Email Addresses
If you watched "Monday Night Football" earlier this week, you might have noticed a new segment called ESPN's Rowdy Friends, in which fans are encouraged to shoot videos of them acting like idiots — which is what networks and leagues think we are, as they remind us daily — so the "best" ones can be ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m.. Morning Buzz: Have you noticed that ESPN's chat lineup is becoming less and less noticiable on their home page? • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: New slogan ... Excitement? You Bet Your Ass! • 2 p.m. Virginia Tech QB Sean Glennon...
Bruins Nation Taking Down USC, One Coach At A Time
Hell hath no fury like a UCLA fan with some dirt on someone in the USC football program. The Internets are abuzz today with the news that Todd McNair, USC's running backs coach, was convicted accused (and pleaded out) of dogfighting and animal cruelty back in the 1990s. The Los Angeles Times did up ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy BB with Nate Ravitz: Is it weird to have invented a Colorform dress-up game in the likeness of Lenny DiNardo? • Noon. MLB Insider Rob Neyer: What's it like on the inside? is it anything like the outside, only with more ...
Driving Your Way To The Bigs. Literally.
This is Tom Shearn. You've surely never heard of him, because, jeez, why would you have? He's 30 years old and just made his major league debut yesterday for the oddly surging Cincinnati Reds. (They're only 6 1/2 out of first in the NL Central, by the way.) And he's got quite the tale to tell....