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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Recruiting with Craig Haubert: Honey, why is Reggie Bush peeking into our son's bedroom window? • 2 p.m. Bracketology with Joe Lunardi: The top bracket has collapsed! My God, it's all crumbling! Run for your lives! • 4 p.m. NFL ...
Jay Mariotti Can't Figure Out Why Everyone's So NEGATIVE
We enjoyed the countless emails we received yesterday informing us that "Around The Horn" host Tony Reali — an affable fellow whom we imagine being ultra intense about rec league softball, for some reason — yelled out "don't take my Deadspin away from me" at the end of the program yesterday. (Shocki...
Man, That Commenting Feature Is Totally ####
So after all the fun everybody had with ESPN "Conversation" last week, we thought we'd check back in today and see how it was all going over there. And we found something fascinating: They have a program that specifically censors the word "gay."...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA Insider Chad Ford: Are three members of the same NBA team who go looking for fights officially considered a gang? • 2 p.m. Boxer "Sugar" Shane Mosley: Are you the only person to have lost two times to a guy named Winky? • 2:3...
When Will The Media Elite Stop Tearing Down Our White Heroes?
Every debate needs comic relief, and God bless him, Rush Limbaugh is always good for that. The former director of promotions for the Kansas City Royals in the early 1980s, and at one time the word's fifth-leading importer of OxyContin (behind Brazil), Limbaugh has become in recent years obsessed wit...
Welcome To Indianapolis, Mr. McLeod
"So, Keith, welcome. Glad to have you on the Pacers."...
Ron Zook Will Turn Your Conventional Wisdom Upside Down
Our beloved alma mater, the University of Illinois, is having a mediocre year in basketball and has won, like, four games in two years, even forcing us to sit through a 33-0 loss to Rutgers last year that mostly resembled a cock fight between a rabid rooster and an egg. But worry not, fellow alums: ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. National Signing Day: For, like, anything in particular? Will there be snacks? Do I have to go to work? • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: May I openly loathe A-Rod now, or simply hold him in secret utter disdain as usual? •...
NBA Roundup: It's Not Easy Being Celtic
Notes from Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
Remembering The Long-Dead "The National"
Old-time media people might remember the short-lived "The National," a daily national sports newspaper founded by Frank Deford and featuring a lot of names you probably didn't know in the early '90s but certainly do now (Chris Mortensen, Keith Olbermann, Scott Ostler). As romantic as the idea of a d...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Baseball with Rob Neyer: Juan Gonzalez? Sammy Sosa? Whoa Mr. Peabody, what year is it? • 1 p.m.. NFL w/Scouts' Matt Williamson: Can we at least have one freakin' week off? • 4 p.m.. NCAA MBB w/Doug Gottlieb: What offense would Je...
Mmmmm ... Super Bowl Ad Controversy
Well, that was $2.5 million well spent. Not only did the "Snickers car mechanics kiss" Super Bowl ad horrify Rex Grossman, but it has also angered gay and human rights groups, NASCAR fans, makers of other candy, lovers of motor oil, Puppy Bowl III participants, Muslims and most species of fish. (In ...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m.. Page 2 columnist Eric Neel: Are you havin' a laugh? Is he havin' a laugh? • 3 p.m. Senior MLB writer Jayson Stark: Because an early February day before camps open is no time for a junior MLB writer? • 4 p.m.. NFL w/Scouts' Rodd...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA Insider Chris Sheridan: Wouldn't it be funny if a big fight broke out during the All-Star Game, and Stern was forced to suspend everyone? • 2 p.m. Bracketology with Joe Lunardi: Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain int...
The Day ESPN.com Stood Still
Seriously, everyone: What we witnessed today was one of the most amazing Web "uprisings" we can imagine. We suspect there will be quite a few "all right, maybe we should rethink how we do this" meetings in Bristol tomorrow, and it's entirely thanks to you. We didn't even have to prod you; it was a b...
Fun With ESPN! It's Almost Too Easy!
OK. So we couldn't resist. What's going on at Bill Simmons' "comments" page is among the most hilarious things we have seen on the Web in a long time....
If You See These People At Large, Turn Them In IMMEDIATELY
Sure, you might look at this picture and think you see the kindly, warm-hearted parishioners of The Fall Creek Baptist Church in Indianapolis. It might make you feel warm; it might make you long for home. You might see nice old ladies during an Hawaiian-themed event. You might see that....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy baseball focus: Ah, Feb. 1, the day the baseball stat nerds burst out of the starting gate like Secretariat. • Noon. NBA Insider Chad Ford: Today the Inquisition stops in ... Dallas! Did we just see you brush up against...
New ABA Coach Has Cleanest Rain Gutters In His Neighborhood
We love the Dodge City Legends' motion offense; the one in which their center sets picks at the top of the key. Because it's important to keep the tallest player in the history of organized basketball as far away from the basket as you can at all times. You've probably heard of Sun Ming Ming, a nati...
NBA Roundup: Even The Celtics Are Glad To See Kobe Back
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......