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To Watch Tonight...
• NCAA World Series, Game 2: . Oregon State @ North Carolina. Let's all get behind the Beavers tonight. 7:00, ESPN2. • MLB: Houston Astros @ Chicago White Sox. Eventually, the Astros are just going to stop showing for games against the White Sox. 8:00, ESPN. • Movie: Braveheart. It would seem a litt...
Expanding The NCAA's Grip On Your Life
The men's NCAA basketball tournament is the one major postseason event that seems perfect. It's not possible for it to fail. It will be exciting. There will not be controversy about the champion. It is the single greatest gambling event that has ever existed. And there are coaches out there who want...
Leftovers...
• Transcripts of the messages waiting for Shandon Anderson on his answering machine. Poor Karl Malone. [Zembla] • Fun facts about each of the 16 teams in the World Cup's knockout round. Did you know that a Swedish playwright once tried to kill himself by running repeatedly into a tree? [I Dislike Yo...
Some Big Hockey Happenings This Weekend...
• The NHL entry draft went down yesterday, and it included a record 10 American players taken in the first round. This, of course, builds tremendous hope that one day the United States will have an international hockey team that will generate tremendous interest and hype, only to fall flat on their ...
To Watch Tonight...
• NCAA World Series, Game 1: Oregon State @ North Carolina. I sorta feel robbed when college baseball is on TV and the Wichita State Shockers aren't taking part. 7:00, ESPN. • IndyCar Racing: SunTrust Indy Challenge. Helio Castroneves won last year. If you miss this one, don't worry, there are only ...
Leftovers...
• A great recap of a day spent watching Togo and France at the World Cup. Man, that sounds like fun. I gotta get to one of these World Cups. [The Third Leaf] • Superagent Scott Boras has convinced someone, somewhere, that he is in fact God. [Farther Off the Wall] • An argument for the lifetime ban o...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as as you wonder why you can never get a date ... • Boxing: Featherweights, Gamaliel Diaz vs. Roberto Guerrero; super middleweights, Andre Dirrell vs. James Morrow; Anthony Dirrell vs. Marcus Don Hall, at Oakland. We're betting a couple of these middleweights aren't so super. [Showtime...
Leftovers: Til Death Do Us Root
• Get your favorite players face ... on your casket. [Eternal Image] • The French just won't leave this Lance Armstrong business alone. [Saved By The Blog] • Bill Plaschke, not exactly a soccer expert. [Fan's Attic] • Now this is a seriously pissed off junior high basketball player. [ABC News 49] • ...
Live Blog: France Vs. Togo
Ah, France. The French might have won the whole business two World Cups ago, but right now, they're looking like they could be in serious trouble. They need a win here, obviously, and then they have to either win convincingly or hope the Switzerland-Korea game doesn't end up in a draw. That's what...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Isiah And The Knicks
A.J. Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Send him all kinds of fan mail....
Hirshey: Gonzo About Ghana
David Hirshey will write regularly during the World Cup....
Non-Retired Guy Comes Out Of Non-Retirement To Non-Retire
Our long national nightmare is over: Roger Clemens is back. How did we ever make it so long without him? His "return," obviously, would have a little more resonance if he had, you know, ever left, but whatever. He's back. Playing the Twins. We hope Bat Girl comes up with a Lego version of him....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you try and erase the mental image of Angelina Jolie nursing Ted Williams (thanks, Letterman) ... • College World Series: Rice vs. Oregon State. Never before has an owl fought a beaver with so much on the line. [ESPN2] • MLB: Toronto at Atlanta. Can the losing streak reach 10 games?...
Leftovers: Do Not Anger The Canadian
• The U.S. ambassador to Canada says hockey isn't the best sport. Man, the Canadians are pissed now! [National Post] • The St. Louis Blues have a new owner. And he's a buddy of Jim Dolan. AWESOME. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] • A surprisingly funny Brewers commercial with Derrick Turnbow. [Brewers.com]...
Well, That Was Miserable
Yeah! Soccer! Reading through the comments from the United States-Ghana live blog — the United States lost, by the way, if you didn't hear — pretty much prepared us for the postgame comments of ESPN analyst Eric Wynalda (whom we've actually enjoyed thus far): "Bruce Arena screwed up this World Cup f...
A Helpful Tip For Ozzie Guillen, And It's Free
Last night, before yet another brutal pasting of the Cardinals — hey, look, the White Sox just put another 10-spot on the board, and it's only noon! — White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen apologized for his reference to Chicago Sun-Times and "Around The Horn" "reporter" Jay Mariotti as a "fag," but not t...
Live Blog: United States Vs. Ghana
Well, here we go: It's the game that will let us know whether we're gonna have a rollicking drunk Tuesday 11 a.m. party next week, or whether ... well, whether the United States will be playing during said drunkenness. As you know, the United States needs an Italian win and a win here, both of whi...
To Watch Tonight
What you'll miss as Lassie watches you drunkenly fall into the well one too many times and refuses to get help ... • College World Series, North Carolina vs. Cal State-Fullerton, at Omaha; Rice vs. Oregon State/Miami (Fla.) winner. Nowhere else will you ever see these five schools in the same paragr...
The Deal With The TRL Thing
Back when we announced the sale of the "You're With Me, Leather" T-shirts, we promised a free post for whichever reader was able to feature the shirt on national television. But we — obviously — never dreamed it would be the host of TRL....
Leftovers: Careful Of Nolan's Cattle
• Someone stole Nolan Ryan's cows. What? Did we read that right? [TMZ] • Bernie Kosar says he was a little wacky as a husband, but not a druggie. So you know. [Newsnet5] • Keith Hernandez, Mr. Hip! [Out Of Left Field] • It's drunk athletes as "The A Team," we think. [Gheorghe: The Blog]...