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Best Sports Weekend Of The Year
The NCAA Basketball National Semifinals. The opening of the Major League Baseball season. The NBA heads towards the stretch drive when games begin to matter. This is a serious sports weekend. Maybe the best of the year....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Selig orders a probe of your fantasy team ... • Boxing: Super welterweights, Anthony Thompson vs. Darnell Boone ; super lightweights, Victor Ortiz vs. Freddy Barrera, at Maywood, Calif. This had better not pre-empt Weeds. [Showtime] • Major League Baseball: Preseason, Chicago Cubs v...
Your NL East "Preview"
It is important to point out, before we start predicting our final division, that we have picked a team other than the Braves to win the division for five consecutive years. As if you needed any more assurance that our predictions are always wrong....
Leftovers: The Right Way To Pay Off A Ref
• It is apparently legal to bribe referees in Nigeria. Don't even pretend you're surprised. [ESPN] • Bring us the head of John Wooden! Seriously ... somebody bring it. [Yahoo Sports] • Scranton's sports columnist might very well be a pedophile. Seriously. [Delco Times] • We live in a great world whe...
It's A Final Four Pants Party
Obviously, the best story at this weekend's Final Four in Indianapolis is George Mason, but we've found the best story of that best story: It turns out that until this weekend, the George Mason fight song had no lyrics. Seriously; they had to write a whole batch just because the NCAA was asking fo...
Your AL East "Preview"
Obviously, the landscape of the American League East obviously changed dramatically yesterday, but we're gonna go ahead and try to forecast matters anyway. It's hard, but we must tredge forward, regardless. We must stay strong. Some bad predictions:...
The Week In Photos
We find all sorts of photos around this here inter-web. Here are a few....
The Day The Music Died
Each generation has its cultural touchstones, those moments when everyone remembers where they were, at that specific moment, from that second until the day that they die. Late at night, at a dinner party or social function, someone will mention the event, and the party will hush, and recollections ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch to get your mind off of your paralyzing fear of peas... • College Basketball: National Invitation Tournament championship, at New York; Exhibition, slam dunk and 3-point contest, at Indianapolis. Because college basketball isn't enough of a sick, gaudy, moneymaking spectacle as it is. ...
Your Daily Dose Of Billy Packer Bile
WJFK Radio in Washington, D.C., is, like most of the country, awash in George Mason Mania these days. How could they not be? And, this morning, the Junkies Radio show dug up an old interview with none other than Mid-Major Public Enemy No. 1 Billy Packer....
Leftovers: Live-Blogging Selig's Press Conference
• Did you miss Bud Selig's press conference on the steroid inquiry committee today? Fret not; it has been live-blogged. [Talking Baseball] • NHL refs has Jack Abramoff's back. [Hockey Dirt] • Nothing funnier than pretending your teammates are one of them gays. [The Toronto Star] • The Adam Morrison ...
At The Crossroads Of NCAA History
It is rare when one is fortunate enough to have, almost literally, a front-row seat to history, so we are envious of AOL blogger Chris Mottram, who not only runs an enjoyable blog called Saved By The Blog, but also happens to currently be a student at George Mason University. (He even has a class ...
Oh, You Didn't Forget About Kyle, Did You?
He might not drink like a champion, but his efforts have nevertheless clearly reached the level of "epic" and "historic" in recent years. His name is Kyle Orton. He is but one man, but his achievements will outlast us all....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Nationals
We're three days away from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. To...
Your NL Central "Preview"
Our personal favorite division has had a monotonous feel to it the last few years, with the Cardinals and the Astros advancing and meeting in the NLCS two consecutive times. (This, of course, is fine with us.) We also have a feeling that the NL Central is the only division in baseball with three ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize you have a hundred ring tones, but no one ever calls ... • NBA: Detroit at Philadelphia; Utah at Denver. Actualy that Pistons-Sixers game sounds good. Got a spare ticket, anyone? [ESPN2] • High School Boys Basketball: McDonald's All-American Game, at San Diego. Watching ...
Leftovers: Afternoons With Rickey
• You can't write too many words about Rickey Henderson. You just can't. [Yahoo Sports] • What kind of world do we live in, where a perfectly innocent Playmate can be hit in the face with a puck at a hockey game? [The Wade Blogs] • Celtics "guard" likes to drive his car very, very fast. [Daily News ...
Spring Training Fights, Zapruder Style
If you can't get enough of some good spring training bench-clearing brawl action, Boston.com has your fix: A complete frame by frame deconstruction of the Julian Tavarez-Joey Gathwright scuffle earlier this week....
Punting With Pat The Bat
Reaction to yesterday's Four Tiny Tidbits on the Philadelphia Phillies continues to pour in (OK, we've had two e-mails), with one reader recalling his own memories of current Phillies outfielder Pat The Bat Burrell and his childhood nemesis, Tom Brady. Let's go right to the action....
To Watch Tonight
What you missed while attending Kevin Federline's birthday party ... • National Invitation Tournament: Semifinals, at New York, Old Dominion vs. Michigan and South Carolina vs. Louisville. Somehow we knew that Rick Pitino would still be around in late March. [ESPN2] • NCAA Womens' Tournament: Region...