ti Page 2012 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Chris Henry's Scheduling Conflict
The Sports Oasis brings up an excellent point regarding the suspension of Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry: How much money he will lose will depend entirely on when the Bengals' bye week is....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Football draft expert Mel Kiper: Who needs draft predictions with Berman blurting out the results ages before they're announced? • 1:30 p.m. Boxer Shane Mosley: Wouldn't the world be a better place if everyone's nickname was Sug...
Pac Man Jones Will Take A Year Off
This might ultimately be for the betterment of the league, but man, it's gonna make 2007 considerably less fun around here....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy baseball focus: Once Indians catcher Kelly Shoppach breaks into the starting lineup. you shall feel my wrath! • 2 p.m. NASCAR with Terry Blount: Should a pit crew have a team dance? • 4 p.m. Tennis with Sam Querrey: Why...
Look At All The Dumb Athletes!
Every year, as the NFL Draft approaches, the results of each player's Wunderlic scores inevitably leak out. This appears to serve only one purpose: To allow us to mock athletes for being so stupid. This is, we believe, a perfectly healthy aspect of being a sports fan; we are so cognizant of our phys...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. MLB with Buster Olney: Mind if I call you Bob? • 3 p.m. After Jackie author Carl Fussman: Will you be promoting this on Imus in the Morning? • 4 p.m. Page 2's Patrick Hruby: No, I have no idea why the Pulitzer Committee is ignor...
Tiger, Or The No Name?
In almost every sport other than golf, we are conditioned to root for the underdog. When it comes down to the final moments, when two competitors face off for the ultimate prize, we feel compelled to get behind the guy trying to win his first title, rather than watching the old champion get another ...
Jim Nantz Is The Master
If you love scrambling for pars and conservative golf (as opposed to all the extreme high-risk golf out there), you should love today's Masters coverage. The course continues to play very tough, with most of today's players being well over par. A few have gotten to red numbers, though, with Tiger Wo...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Who's the Next Minor League Mascot to Get All Dirty?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy League injuries: Ow, my hair! • 2:30 p.m. Inside College hockey: Let's go right to the action, shall we? • 3 p.m. Force's WR Chris Jackson: Think Tampa Bay could use you now? We do....
Joe Tiller Has Had It Up To Here With Your HTML
The life of a college football coach is fraught with peril. Boosters are constantly breathing down your neck, players are temperamental and inconsistent and, of course, there's always the possibility that some crazed fellow will end up finding all your cellphone records. But if you're Purdue coach J...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested chat questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Baseball insider Keith Law: ESPN hasn't talked about the gyroball for more than two hours now. What's going on? • 3 p.m. NHL with analyst Barry Melrose: Hitching their wagon to the World Extreme Cagefighting network ... wis...
Tiger Will Even Beat You At Passing Gas
As Tiger Woods begins his march for yet another Masters victory, we look deep into the soul of a champion, try to figure out what makes him who he is, why he is dominant, who he is inside. For some insight, we check out this quote from golf announcer David Feherty, who describes an ongoing contest h...
F-Rod Is A Big Fan Of The Bottom Of His Cap
In his new book The Cheater's Guide To Baseball, Derek Zumsteg looks at all the different ways baseball players and managers have cheated (or tried to cheat) throughout the years. It's a highly entertaining book; our favorite part is "Tips For Doctoring Bats For Amateur Players."...
Help This Fat Man Have A Heart Attack!
We don't usually pay much attention to these, well, blatant Internets grabs at attention, but we kind of liked this one: A 435-pound-man is auctioning off his running in the Boston Marathon. All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. We think he's probably got a while to go....
Hey, The Masters Start Tomorrow
Even though it's dreary outside and we're kind of ill from it — we don't ask much from weather except for it to make up its mind — it is obviously springtime, because The Masters start tomorrow....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m. Baseball with Joe Morgan: Has anyone ever seen Jon Miller and Karl Rove in the same place at the same time? • 1 p.m. Tennis Mag's Peter Bodo: Say hello to the other hobbits, would ya? • 3 p.m. Ex-MLBers Al Downing, Tommy Dav...
Teddy Roosevelt's Gonna Do What He Has To Do To Win
So poor Teddy Roosevelt, in the grand president mascot races at RFK, can't catch a break: He didn't win at all last year, and he's resorting to desperate measures ... like, say, rappelling from the roof of the stadium on Opening Day yesterday. Poor guy: He still didn't win. The Bull Moose party, the...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested chat questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: Anyone want to trade for Jose Contreras? • 3 p.m. Boxing historian Bert Sugar: The better boxer; Charles Bronson in Hard Times or Clint Eastwood in Every Which Way But Loose? • 4 p.m. NCAA MBB w/Dou...
Joel Zumaya Is Just Like The Undertaker
Sometimes we forget that the men we watch and obsess over on the baseball diamond are mostly children themselves, not just in age, but in a state of perpetual arrested development. They are gleeful imps, lucky to be allowed to frolic for a living....