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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. High school sports with Chris Lawlor: What the fungus? Hey! Leader! Leave those kids alone! • Noon. Bonds 756th home run auction: Just one question. Do I get one of those paddle thingies? • 2:30 p.m. Lacrosse with John Grant Jr.:...

Beautiful Montana, A Sorry Place For Sports

It's a slow, lazy, hot August Friday, with not much more happening than the occasional parsing of words in a Ron Mexico plea. So The Angry T gives us a vaguely interesting debate: What is the actual worst state for sports?...

Tim Kurkjian is awfully excited about the Rangers scoring 30 runs. (Honestly, we lightly mock, but we think it's pretty awesome to see someone having this much fun at their job.) [Best Week Ever]...

FIU Must Protect This House!

You might remember, during Miami announcer Lamar Thomas' insane rant during the Miami-Florida International fight last year, when he said something to the effect of, "you don't come into our house pulling that," or some similar nonsense. Well guess what, Lamar? Ned and his band of FIU faithful are a...

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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Howard Bryant on Mike Vick: Oh good; I was waiting for you to weigh in before I formed an opinion on this case. • 1 p.m. NCAA BB with Andy Katz: We've missed you, Andy! Did you miss us? Are you aware that basketball season is abo...

Those 30-Run Rallies Will Kill You Every Time

Little did you know that when you watched Maracaibo, Venezuela beat the Netherlands, 21-2 in the Little League World Series on Tuesday, that it wouldn't be the most embarrassing wipeout of week. Meet your 2007 Baltimore Orioles, who lost 30-3 to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. For Texas, it was the...

Spree Could Probably Use That Cash About Now

Sure, it was all fun and games to make fun of Latrell Sprewell for turning down a $21 million contract a few years ago because he "had to feed his family." Well, that family, which has apparently been floating around on a Milwaukee boat, is about to get hungrier....

We Have To Ask ...

Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA FB with Bruce Feldman: Hey, Jimmy Claussen stole my beer. And my car! • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: So when do we get robot umpires? Because it would be cool to see Piniella argue with one. • 4 p.m. NFL with Scouts...

R.I.P. Eddie Griffin

We send our condolences to the family and friends of former Timberwolves guard Eddie Griffin, who was killed last Friday when his SUV hit a moving train. Word of his death in Houston only came out yesterday....

The true wide receiving (and center field) star for our Illini ... is from Mattoon! [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]...

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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m. How do you know what to type without someone whispering into your earpiece? • 2 p.m. NASCAR with Terry Blount: Still raining? (Pulls out checkerboard). Feel the excitement. • 3 p.m. Fantasy sports w/M. Berry: You know there'...

Get Your Filthy Piece Of Clothing Here

At 5 p.m. ET today, Matt Murphy, that guy in the Mets jersey who caught Barry Bonds' 756th home run, is going to announce whether or not he's going to sell the ball. Forgive us, but by the looks of an eBay page he just set up, we think we have a pretty good idea of what he's going to do. (We kid, by...

More Pants Parties, But Remember To Pay Up

We had a grand time this past weekend at the Atlanta Pants Party this weekend, and watching Brandon Webb extend that scoreless innings streak was put a small part. And there are more coming, fellow humans....

An excellent analogy that finally explains Wily Mo Pena. [Baseball Prospectus]...

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Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m.. Samuel L. Jackson: Have you had ENOUGH of these mother###### snakes on this mother###### plane? That's gotta be one charmin' mother###### pig. OK, Samuel L. Jackson lines not from Snakes on a Plane or Pulp Fiction. Go! • Noon....

Something tells me that jail is not the best place for Erik Brown. The former Louisville player — now in jail for arson — says that Rick Pitino helped the CIA implant a chip in his brain. [Lexington Herald-Leader]...

Oookie Agonistes

Compared to much of the sports blogosphere, we lead a blessedly sheltered life here at Deadspin Nation. Admission is limited. There are standards of discourse during business hours. The worst of the trolls are jettisoned with all haste. But in most of the uncharted wilds of the internets, lawlessnes...

I thought about linking to the video for "Technologic," but "Around the World" is much less likely to turn up in your nightmares....

Mia Hamm Would Never Stand for This

Strangely enough, this is only the second time Al Jazeera has made an appearance on Deadspin. Sidebar: This is one of the "related videos." Awesome....

Premier League

Sorry for the late start, but had some problems connecting to the wifi here in downtown Chicago. Man U versus Manchester City is already underway, then Arsenal v Blackburn, and finally the big match of the day, Chelsea Liverpool. I'll try to keep running updates as the matches go on and giving some ...