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To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you get home a little bit earlier than anticipated ... • Arena football: Los Angeles at Arizona. Can't wait for this; my hovercraft is full of eels. [ESPN2] • College baseball: NCAA Division I, super regionals, teams TBA, at Wichita. We love college baseball, in a non-professiona...
Boston Media Will Now Officially Cover Anything (And So Will We)
Because no Boston Red Sox stone shall be left unturned over NESN, Scott's Shots points out an odd video that features Manny getting intimate in his hotel room — watch yo mouth! — with his hairdresser, named LMonstro. (You have to sit through an annoying ad to watch the video.)...
There Is Such A Thing As Too Much Sports Cream
• Apparently you have to be careful with your Ben Gay. [ESPN] • ESPN really loves themselves some Patriots. [The Big Lead] • More fun with Julian Tavarez. [The Smittblog] • The umpires in baseball might be out of control again. [Out Of Right Field] • Well, somebody's into the MLS, anyway. [Informati...
Your College Hoops Video Game Just Got More Annoying
You might have thought it strange or #### to see J.J. Redick fitted in those motion capture sensors for the NCAA video game last year, but that's nothing compared to the three Florida fellas on the cover of this year's game....
That Girl In The T-Shirt Ads Is Just Not That Into You
To keep the comments as fresh and outstanding as they've been up to this point, we've commissioned Commenting Guru Rob Iracane to write a bi-weekly Comment Ombudsman column. It runs every other week. This is that week....
So A Blogger And A Pig Walk Into A Press Box ...
There are many ways to be thrown out of a college baseball press box (removing our pants and using them to try and snag foul balls has always been our favorite). But University of Louisville reporter Brian Bennett has discovered a new one. For the heinous crime of blogging from the press box during ...
Gilbert Arenas Has A Lot Of Baby Stuff To Buy
The Washington Wizards say that they're not surprised that Agent Zero plans to opt out of the final year of his contract, turning down the team's offer of a three-year extension. Arenas signed a six-year, $65 million deal with the team in 2003, but says that he can make bigger money through free age...
NBA Finals Blogdome: Spurs Vs. Cavs, Game 2
Views Of The NBA Finals, Game 2, From Around The Internets ......
We Congratulate The Spurs On Their Fourth Title
Well, it's certainly starting to look like we're all witnesses to Tim Duncan methodically steamrolling to his fourth NBA title. (That would tie him with Shaq, by the way.) What was most distressing about the Spurs' 103-92 Game 2 win over the Cavaliers last night was that it was over so early; the ou...
Miami Cops Just Want To Have Fun
Before we get into "The Sopranos" and Tim Duncan and an odd new reality "show" ESPN's starting, we thought we'd bring up this little nugget of potential amusement, from yesterday's Palm Beach Post, via our man Lt. Winslow. It appears that the cops who arrested Tony La Russa back in March were comple...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while trying to parallel park ... • MLB: Milagro Beanball War continues: Braves 5, Cubs 4. • Tennis: Nadal beats Federer for French Open title. Cue the Spanish National Anthem! • NBA: "Bring Out LeBroom," Spurs take 2-0 lead on Cavaliers....
Roger Goodell's MySpace Page
• Roger Goodell's MySpace page [Joe Sportsfan] • Lewis Hamilton: F1's Tiger? [The F-1 Blog] • More fun with LOLSports [Dear Mr. Supercomputer] • Niedermayer vs. Selanne: In Hotness [SportSquee] • A couple Jeff Weaver converts [Enjoy the Enjoyment] • Kobe Bryant gets Mantle book treatment [LA Observe...
Chad Johnson and Rags to Riches: A Love Story
Let me propose something: The love-child (fine, if you insist: "love-foal") of Chad Johnson and Rags to Riches could be the greatest racing machine in the history of the world....
What's Eating Gilbert Arenas?
No athlete — let alone NBA player — captured the attention of blogo-savvy fans over the past year like Gilbert Arenas. His personality and antics jibed with our sensibilities....
Federer Tries to Put Away Pesky Nadal
So this is what we've been reduced to in men's tennis: Roger Federer is so dominant that the only match worth watching is the one where there's a good chance he'll lose....
To Watch Tonight
What you wish you could watch as your spouse says you've wasted enough of the weekend already by blogging ... •Boxing: Miguel Cotto vs. Zab Judah, 9 p.m. [HBO-PPV] •College Baseball: Super-Regionals, 7 p.m. [ESPN] •MMA: Dynamite!!USA, 9 p.m. [Showtime]...
Meanwhile, in "Beast vs. Beast" Racing...
Having already established that Chad Johnson racing a horse at 4:53 p.m. today is THE racing event of the day/week/month, it's a wee bit harder to get excited about the Belmont Stakes....
The Ben-Gay Tragedy and More
• H.S. track star dies of Ben-Gay O.D. [NY Post] • Is Clemens bad for Baseball? [Shakedown Sports] • Bee King O'Dorney is o-r-n-e-r-y [Say Hey] • What was Schilling thinking as no-no went no-no? [Ghosts of Wayne Fontes] • About that "creamy" Homer Bailey... [Homer Bailey Facts • Jose Reyes' "Spanish...
French Open: Whoever Wins, Ana Wins
You COULD be watching the French Open women's final this morning. Or you could simply watch this video clip of sultry photos of Ana "You Got Serbed" Ivanovic. For our convenience, I am doing both....
The Substitute Has Arrived
Good morning! Dan Shanoff here. (First things first: I cannot dunk, obviously. That photo to the right was taken on a 7-foot rim, and even then I needed a boost.)...