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Heat And Pistons, DANCE OFF!
As you rev yourself up for tonight's rather enormous Game 6 matchup between the Heat and the Pistons, we invite you to take in the Heat dancers and Extreme Heat dance team, firing themselves up for the game tonight. How can this not make you excited? How are you not fired up? Dance, Heat ... DANCE...

Leftovers: Praising Barkley And The Gang
• Why "Inside The NBA" is one of the best shows on television. [The New Republic] • Boy, the Phillies Eagles are doing anything they can to solve that wide receiver problem. [Philadelphia Will Do] • Man, Jim Caple is still doing that "24 College Avenue" series. [JimCaple.com] • Yeah, AJ Nicholson is...

Do Not Give Frank Solich The Date Rape Drug
Remember that alleged email that circulated a while back about Ohio football coach Frank Solich and how his drunk driving arrest was actually a case of him being dosed with GHB? Well, it turns out ... it's absolutely true. The Sporting News has learned that Solich's attorneys do plan on fighting t...

Bonds' Anti-Climactic Trip To Shea
We've been fortunate enough, during our time here in New York, to see the Shea Stadium crowd riled up a few times, including our favorite, John Rocker's return to Shea for the first time, in June 2000, since his infamous 7 train remarks. (As was typical at the time, the crowd booed him lustily, an...

A Rugged Sport From An Untamed Land, With Matching Accessories
Now it's time to check in on the manly sport of rugby, where only the strongest of the strong survive, especially in the violent, brutal wilds of New Zealand, where the weak are usually ground up and fed to crocodiles....

A Guide For The Casual Soccer Fan
So we know there are still a lot of stragglers around these parts either uninterested by the World Cup or intimidated by their lack of inherent knowledge of the proceedings. That's OK, of course: We are not a nation who grew up gathered around the radio listening to soccer games. We have some catc...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you tell the other Berea boys downtown what you're in for ... • MLB: New York Yankees at Detroit. New York goes for four-game sweep as Leyland increases to eight packs a day. [ESPN] • NBA Playoffs: Western Conference finals, Game 5, Phoenix at Dallas. As long as we know that Mark Cu...

Leftovers: Defending Arenas
• The real story of Gilbert Arenas' arrest. (The scoop: He doesn't seem to have done anything wrong.) [Washington Post] • Outstanding heckler Bryan Trottier hired by Islanders. [TSN] • Those scuffling Mavericks and their wives ... [Fox Sports] • Seriously, how did everyone miss on Tayshaun Prince? [...

With Nothing Between Sanity And Madness But A Thin Layer of Polyester
In truth, Kellia Ramares is dangerously obsessed. The middle-aged woman from Berkeley, Calif. has an unlikely fixation on Diamondbacks outfielder Eric Byrnes, in a way that prompted us recently to purchase an extra deadbolt for our back door, for no real tangible reason, just because. But as Ramar...

Sean Taylor Free To Visit All Kinds Of DJs Now
One of our favorite, quietly sublime stories of the last couple months involved Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor and his battle with a prosecutor who worked as a DJ in his spare time. (His MySpace page included the immortal self-description as a bulging-biceps, headphones-wearing prosecutor ...

Pistons Aren't Ready To Go Home Yet
You know if Ben Wallace is happy, everybody's happy....

Last Call For The Pistons?
As we bring you our favorite moment from Game 4 the other night, we eagerly look forward to Game 5 of the Heat-Pistons series tonight. Part of us understands this notion that the Pistons, considered dead by most everybody now, could have one last run in them. The other part wonders if Dwyane Wade's ...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Roddick comes over with a six pack ... • Boxing: Junior lightweights, Manuel Medina vs. Cassius Baloyi, at Airway Heights, Wash. Let the pummeling begin. [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Yankees at Detroit. And, the pummeling continues. Sorry Tigers, we're not going to take you seriously unt...

Leftovers: A Soccer Goalie Goal?
• The most impressive soccer goal you'll see for a while. [YouTube] • Jim Thome would like to take a road trip to ... Hawaii? [Philadelphia Will Do] • That Pat Croce ... what a character! [CNN] • Rudy Seanez is an ultimate fighter, apparently. [Nicholas Gannon] • This is FIFA's new twist on "media r...

Spell F-A-I-L-U-R-E, Kid
We'll confess: We love the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. We watch every minute we can, and apparently we're not alone, considering ABC is broadcasting the finals live tomorrow night in primetime. (To the network's eternal credit, Robin Roberts will be hosting, not Stuart Scott. Whew.)...

Steve Nash's Monstrous Chest Hair. See It. Love It.
A site we'd never heard of — but was probably inevitable — called Drunk Athletes has typically just posted the warmed-over Ben Roethlisberger, Matt Leinart, Dirk Nowitzki drunk pictures we've all seen countless times. Must give them credit today, though, because they dredged one up that was new to u...

Scott Sauerbeck Apologizes To His "Fans"
So, for those who might have missed it yesterday, Cleveland Indians relief pitcher Scott Sauerbeck was arrested with a female companion after weaving drunkenly through traffic and then hiding in some bushes behind a house. (That's his mugshot, there.) No explanation had been given for the sudden d...

Another Nasty, Evil Fan Speaks
Remember that story from the other day, when Cubs outfielder Jacque Jones was heckled by some Wrigley Field fans and were promptly berated by Jones' mother?...

Clemens Decides To Stay In Houston, Yep
Credit Newsday's Ken Davidoff with the big scoop: Roger Clemens is signing with the Houston Astros....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize that some people's faces were not made for high-definition TV (we're talking about you, Pete Postlethwaite) ... • MLB: Chicago White Sox at Cleveland. How sweet is it to be Jim Thome right about now? [ESPN] • NBA Playoffs: Conference finals, Game 4, Dallas at Phoenix. If...