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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. MLB with Gary Gilette: So, as editor of the Baseball Encylopedia, can you summon stat nerds to do your bidding, like Aquaman can call whales and stuff? • 2 p.m. NFL with Sean Salisbury: I'm guessing, like, 80 percent of the quest...
Vikings In Desperate Need Of Dramamine
All kinds of developments from the Vikings orgy boat story over the weekend. The highlights:...
Anybody Recovered From The USC Game Yet?
Honestly, you just know Nick Lachey was wetting his pants in South Bend on Saturday. We still haven't quite come down from the high of USC's thrilling 34-31 victory over Notre Dame, a game that somehow made everyone on both teams into a legend. Most of the Notre Dame fans we know aren't even angry...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: My downfall? Let's just say it started the way many of them do — with Darren Sproles, a supplemental draft and the consumption of many domestic beers. • 3:30 p.m. College FB with Bob Davie: That Notre Da...
Help ND Alums Keep Coach Weis From Dying
If you weren't officially excited enough about the Notre Dame-USC game already, let this wet your whistle: It's WeisWatchers, (another) Irish fans site. (Honestly, Irish fans, they're a little weird. In a good way, don't hate us.) The idea of the site is for all Irish fans in the South Bend area t...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. MLB with Larry Bowa: ESPN has scheduled a 20-city tour for you and columnist Bill Conlin, and you have to travel the whole thing in the same car. Ha — just kidding, come down from the light fixture. • 1 p.m. Midnight Madness Mara...
Dan Dickau Loses A Potential Best Pal
The kids over at Yay!Sports have this fun game they've decided to play with chats with NBA players on NBA.com: They ask them : "Freestyle a bit for us and I'll be your best friend." (The bit is derived from an actual question to LeBron James in an AOL chat; apparently the joke made him "LOL" so ha...
The Dirty Sheets Of South Bend
People are so excited about the USC-Notre Dame game this weekend that even travel arrangements are making the news. The fine folks at HotelChatter have taken a look at one of the worst hotels near Touchdown Jesus you could possibly find, the Knight's Inn South Bend, where one guest checked into th...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL with Alan Grant: I know you like to inject race into every subject you discuss on Page 2, but really, a lack of dark towels in the ESPN men's room? • 1 p.m. FSU's Booker & Washington: What a coincidence that you both were f...
Will The Boss Rock Touchdown Jesus?
We keep hearing about all these rumors, so since we are who we are, we might as well publish them. Whispers abound all around South Bend that tomorrow's pep rally for the Notre Dame game against the undefeated USC Trojans — recently moved from the Joyce Center to Notre Dame Stadium — will feature ...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Penn State QB Michael Robinson: Isn't it kind of odd having a coach who conducts practice from a Rascal scooter? • 1 p.m. Football with Mel Kiper: Just saw on Court TV that your hair has filed for emancipation. Your thoughts? • 4...
Pick Your Most Hated Announcer
The finals of the great Road From Bristol bracket (non-ESPN edition) has arrived, just in time for FOX's coverage of the two championship series. The final two competitors are both baseball broadcasters, one known for being an unabashed homer, the other bringing more ballast than a war corresponde...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NFL with Len Pasquarelli: Try as we might, my wife and I just can't get pregnant. Is, like, Vinny Testaverde available for other, you know, "fill-in assignments?" • 1 p.m. MLB with Rob Neyer: Do people do that thing where they dr...
SI And Mike Price Bury The Bodies Together
Sports Illustrated announced this morning that it and former Alabama coach Mike Price have "amiably resolved" the lawsuit Price filed against the magazine for a story it ran in 2003....
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Fantasy Football Focus: "We've got a couple of sleeper picks at quarterback," you said. "You can't go wrong with Michael Vick and Tim Rattay," you said. "You can thank us later," you said. I'd like to thank you now. What's your...
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: The George Foreman Grill, now, does that really drain the grease as advertised? How many burgers can you fit on there? • 2 p.m. MLB analyst Jeff Brantley: Forget pitching. Please analyze that magical 1993...
Shane Battier, Philosopher King
Ah, Shane Battier. Can't go wrong with that guy for pure, unadulterated dorkdom. We know, role model, future politician, hard-working solid forward, all that, we get it. Dude's still square as a chessboard, exciting as rocks. We're not telling you anything you didn't already know....
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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. NFL with Michael Smith: Man, oh man, you look so much like that kid on Everybody Hates Chris that it's actually distracting me from my breakfast ... • 2 p.m. NCAA BB with Steve Lavin: Once again you've put off sending out those...
Macha Out As A's Manager
Just to show you the magical power of blogging, we are the first people on the Web to break the news that Ken Macha is leaving as manager of the Oakland Athletics. According to Peter Gammons, Macha wanted more money than general manager Smilin' Billy Beane wanted to pay, so he's now a "free agent....
Blogdome: Hello, Toronto!
• Toronto: The place where NBA careers go to die. [True Hoop] • When Juan Gonzalez is your main defender, you have problems. [The Sports Frog] • Quien es mas macho? Bruce Weber, or Bill Self? [Illini Wonk] • The key moment in yesterday's Cards-Padres game involved Mark Loretta, Chris Carpenter and a...