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Hey, Kids, Let's Play Nintendo!
Thanks to SporTech Matter for this beauty of a find: It's the actual original 1987 television commercial for RBI Baseball, the Nintendo game that we (and, we suspect, the majority of you) spent most our youth playing until we were yelled at to go to bed....
Roger Gets The Jordan Treatment
You know, it just wouldn't be the Internet without Roger Clemens steroids rumors. It's like they make the place whole....
Maurice Drew Hates Your Nerd Ass Too
We received this photo of former-UCLA, now-Jacksonville running back Maurice Drew a while back, and we decided not to run it, mainly because it's hard to blame a guy when someone decides to take a picture of a guy holding a blunt next to him while sleeping. Besides, that fellow looks like a really f...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while very much enjoying Lima Time ... • PGA Tour: Bank of America Colonial, first round, at Fort Worth. If having a Fred Funk poster on our bedroom wall is wrong, then we don't want to be right. [USA] • MLB: Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay. It's every young boy's dream to one day wear ...
Come Gather Round, Children
Well, this should be awfully entertaining: It's the Terrell Owens Youth Football Camp!...
Leftovers: Those Youngs Are Awfully Angry Folks
• Tigers' Dmitri Young charged with domestic violence. [Detroit Free Press] • It's Vijay Singh's Sex Tips For Girls. [Utter Wonder] • Yankees fans and Red Sox fans apparently remember experiences somewhat differently. [Harvard Gazette] • The marketing director of Applebee's has resigned. "Just sit r...
We Are All Stunned
Well. It's little wonder the The NBA Is Back! platitudes are being brought back out there. This is downright fun....
LeBron's Chance To Take Over
Well, for those of you who are just now waking up from that Clippers-Suns epic last night, there's no time to rest, people. Two more games tonight, with the Mavericks trying to finish off the defending champions and, most compellingly, LeBron James and the Cavaliers continuing their unlikely quest...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as literature hooligans invade your book signing and a melee breaks out ... • MLB: New York Mets at St. Louis. Cardinals fans repeat the line we've heard on the X-Files so many times: "Mulder! I need your help!"[ESPN] • NBA playoffs: Conference semifinals, Game 5, Cleveland at Detroit;...
Leftovers: Plunking Barry
• Inside the night of the guy who kept trying to hit Barry Bonds. [ESPN] • What's funnier than Larry Brown and Isiah Thomas playing a game of chicken? Not much, really. [New York Daily News] • Inside the mind of Steve Nash's cat. [The Mighty MJD] • So BadJocks has officially gone dog nutty over hazi...
Random YouTube Finding Of The Week
OK, so this is pretty much the very definition of a random YouTube finding....
Isiah Thomas, Charming Fellow
As we prepare ourselves for the inevitable 15-jet-pileup that will be Isiah Thomas taking over as coach of the Knicks — because you know it's happening — we cordially invite you to take in this twice-told tale of Isiah, back when he was working with the Raptors....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after your citizens storm the Lego Bastille, and throw you into Lego prison ... • NBA Playoffs: Conference semifinals, Game 5, New Jersey at Miami; Game 5, Los Angeles Clippers at Phoenix. How ironic that the Nets' final moments will be shown on the network that gives us the series Wit...
Leftovers: CSI: Big Unit
• So, seriously, what IS going on with Randy Johnson? [SI.com] • Uh, Reggie Bush's hamstring is all right, right? Right? [Rotowire] • What would have happened to Steve Nash, had he not been a basketball player. [SPIN] • Minor league team responds to asshead who sued over not receiving free tote bag ...
Neil Everett's Death Wish
We're not sure whether or not to think Neil Everett is:...
Why Your Team Isn't Named "The Cute Cuddly Animals"
Where we grew up, in the humble burg of Mattoon, Illinois, there was a small town nearby called Fisher. The town was tiny, but large enough to have a piddly little high school. The nickname for the school's sports teams: The Fisher Bunnies. It was difficult to be too intimidated....
Dolphins Not Liable For Future Damages, So You Know
We don't mean to imply that the Miami Dolphins are covering their tailfeathers a bit with Marcus "New Mexico" Vick, whom they just signed to a free agent contract, but here's what was included in the official press release about the signing....
The Closer: Fate, Thy Name Is Josh Beckett
Notes from a day in baseball:...
Somehow ... The Series Is TIED?
As we wait for Mark Cuban to sleep off what is almost certainly an enormous (and well-earned) hangover, we turn our morning attentions to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. (No offense to the Mavericks, of course; we are one step closer to the sublime possibility of David Stern handing the ...
Hey, These Playoffs Are Getting Kind Of Fun
If you're one of those cynical souls who doesn't take Rasheed Wallace's word as gospel, we should be in for quite an intriguing evening of basketball. In the first game, we get to find out if this will be a forgettable early chapter in LeBron James' playoff career or if becomes something unique, spe...