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"This Is The Parts Where They Say Who They Thinks Gonna Win"
In his nightmares, this is what Chris Fowler imagines every viewer of College GameDay is like....
NFL Pants Party: AFC South
Because the season starts, oh, tomorrow, we figured it was probably time to start laying out some of the predictions for you, division by division. So here's a quick roundup of predictions from around the series of tubes we call the Internet....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NFL with Chris Mortensen: You're with me, guy who looks a lot like thin(ner) Chris Berman. • 2 p.m. Baseball America's Jim Callis: I'm starting a magazine devoted exclusively to Choo Freeman and Shin-Soo Cho. Care to invest? • ...
You Take It ... No, You Take It ... No, YOU Take It!
From the Magazines That We All Loved As A Child And Now We Need To Be Reminded, In Fact, Exist Department, the St. Louis kids at The Sporting News learned today they have finally been sold, to, of all people, Si Newhouse and the Conde Nast empire....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m.: Good Morning, SportsNation: Has anyone witnessed this? What is it? Does Al Roker do the weather? • Noon: MLB with Rob Neyer: Christ, Ryan Howard just hit another homer as I was typing this. • 2 p.m.: NCAA FB with Ivan Maisel: ...
Waiting Patiently For Art Modell To Die
I know this is perverse, but I can't quite decide just how perverse. Actually, I probably know, but choose not to acknowledge it, because I also find it amusing....
Reality Intrudes For A Second
I hate to throw a bucket of cold water on everyone right before the big college football orgy, but I feel like I should probably mention that Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester was diagnosed with cancer yesterday....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Good Morning, SportsNation: What the ... what's this? Is Joan Lunden involved? Will there be a cooking segment? • Noon: NASCAR driver Carl Edwards: Had enough Talledega Nights quotes to last you eight lifetimes yet? • 3 p.m. FF...
Yeah, Your Mother. Seriously, Your Mother
We do love a good athlete-journalist feud — considering it's rare that either species acknowledges the other as an actual human being enough to hate them — but there's something special about the bizarre "fight" between Chicago Tribune writer Eric Zorn and Chicago-born speedskater Shani Davis....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon: NCAA FB with Todd McShay: We still say that this title sounds like a Nickelodeon sitcom. • 1 p.m. NFL with Keith Kidd: Can I take issue with ESPN's 'Top 10 Toughest Players in the NFL' list, even though I have no plans to read it...
Embrace Me, My Sweet Inflatable You
The competitive sex doll rafting community is still reeling over Tuesday's shocking conclusion to the Bubba Bobble Challenge Sex Doll Races tournament near St. Petersburg. We briefly touched on this yesterday, but we want our readers to know that we are going to stay with this story, and all of it...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11:15 a.m: Baseball with Joe Morgan: When your chat is 45 minutes, and you arrive 30 minutes late, it's like having an extra day off! • 1 p.m. Football with Mel Kiper: Fantasy Football Rule No. 28: No one is less fun to participate in ...
Deadspin HOF Nominee: Clinton Portis
Before he was co-opted by The NFL Network and Daniel Snyder's presumably slave-waged garmentmakers, Redskins running back Clinton Portis consistently provided us immeasurable entertainment pretty much every Thursday for two months....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. The Buzzmaster! No ... seeing you just reminds me of Dan Shanoff leaving. Go away! (Sob). • Noon Baseball with Rob Neyer: How many times have AL left-handed batters struck out on a Tuesday this season, huh, smart guy? ... Oh. •...
Palmer Looks Strangely Fine And Normal
We're not sure what we were expecting out of Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer last night, but, all told, we would have been less surprised to see his leg fall off than what he actually did. Anytime we had seen Palmer talk, he appeared hesistant and nervous about stepping back on a field after his k...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. NBA with John Hollinger: Where were you when I was betting my paycheck on the Phoenix Suns? • Noon NFL with Scouts, Inc.: Where were you when I became a 49er fan? • 4 p.m. Argent Mortgage Indy winner: We think it's Marco Andret...
Tiger Wins In An Un-Tigerly Fashion
The man wins even when he isn't trying to win. Tiger was shaky down the stretch (!), holding a three-stroke lead with six holes to play, and ending up in a playoff with Stewart Cink. Four holes later, Tiger Woods was the WGC-Bridgestone champion....
Sometimes, Newer Really Is Better
I guess if we can ask that Wiffle Ball be put on television, that we have to go along with the Vintage Base Ball Federation. Jim Bouton, former major league pitcher and author of Ball Four, is starting up a league that simulates the way baseball was played in the 1800s, from the uniforms to the equi...
The Lastings Milledge Ho-Down
We've had several people ask us this morning: Hey, how about those Cardinals? Actually, a few variations on the them, a 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould type of thing....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. USC DE Lawrence Jackson: Wasn't this headline unnecessarily harsh? • 3 p.m. Fantasy FB Injury Report: Terrell Owens re-injured his hamstring, and I'm not feeling so hot myself. • 3 p.m. Cal DB Daymeion Hughes: Hey, did you hear ...