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Your World Champion Chicago White Sox
Well, huge congratulations to the Chicago White Sox, winners of the World Series, a sentence that makes us feel crazy just to type it. People — including a few people already on our comment boards — may say that the White Sox caught all the breaks and only won close games, including last night, bu...
Can The White Sox Become All-Time Greats?
Well, as Fear And Faith In Flushing sadly put it yesterday, we've reached that depressing point when we realize the baseball season is almost over. The White Sox could win their first World Series since before the Red Sox began all their suffering, and the Astros, as pretty much headline writer in...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as, somewhere, someone is buying this CD (shudder!) ... • World Series, Game 4: Roof open? Roof closed? We say bring back the multicolored jerseys — that'll turn the tide. Chicago White Sox at Houston Astros, tonight. [Fox] • NHL: Lightning at Devils. Continental Airlines Arena, prepar...
Leftovers: Wait, We Thought It Was Dime BAG. Sorry.
• Big 10-years-of-NBA-madness issue of hoops mag Dime hits the streets. We like it, so here it is. [DimeMag] • Bobby Valentine conquers Japan, wants U.S. next. [Japundit] • Testaverde gets vote of confidence from Jets' coach Edwards. Poor guy. [Hartford Courant] • Arsenal's Henry: ban racist fans....
Astros Are Texas Toast
News And Notes From A Crazy, Crazy Game • You know what would have been kind of funny? If Astros manager Phil Garner, just a split second after throwing that chair, realized that Craig Biggio's wife had been standing right behind him. "God-DAMN it ... oh. Uh, sorry, Patty." • Does that home run p...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as a giant flatbed truck hauls your house to a better neighborhood ... • World Series, Game 3: Chicago White Sox at Houston Astros. Minute Maid Park doffs its lid, hoping fresh air will turn the tide. [Fox] • NHL: Florida at Pittsburgh. It's getting a little chippy in here. [OLN] • Fig...
Leftovers: Cops, Uncensored
• We are shocked to learn that Tonya Harding got into a fight with her boyfriend, and that someone was arrested. [Towleroad] • Saints fans, all seven of them, blast Benson for disloyalty. [Freep] • NBA fans surprised that longtime No. 2 man Granik is leaving, because they had no idea who he was. [B-...
Previewing The Inevitable Umpiring Fiascos
As mentioned regularly here, we're not that much into gambling, mainly because we find watching sports stressful enough without our parents' rent check riding on it, but thankfully our pals at Oddjack has a stronger taste for vice than we do. And he has unearthed a useful tidbit today, one we've a...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Bud Poliquin
There must be a school out there, some sort of Hogwarts-inspired academy where columnists go to learn the art of lousy column writing. It can't just be a coincidence that our worst sports columnists, people such as Woody Paige, Jay Mariotti and this week's featured guest, Bud Poliquin, are all see...
Giants Owner Wellington Mara Dies
Longtime Giants owner — and just about the only sports owner we can ever remember professing affection for, if just because he was old and spindly — Wellington Mara has died at the age of 89. Mara was one of the most influential owners in sports history, pioneering the notion of sharing television...
Mark Blount Shocks Us Again
You thought you knew Celtics roster filler Mark Blount. You thought he was just the portly guy who played just hard enough to get an ill-advised free agent contract, and then spent the rest of his time inhaling Cheetos. But nope. Turns out, according to our friends at YAYSports!, Blount is the typ...
Sky Closing In On Astros
For the first time this postseason, the roof at Enron Field/Dick Cheney Field/Minute Maid Park will be open this evening, and that has just about everyone but the White Sox unhappy. In the other postseason games, the roof was closed, and it made for a deafening atmosphere that greatly benefited th...
To Watch Tonight ...
What to watch as the CSI folks go through another 12 gross of plastic Ziplock baggies ... • MNF: New York Jets at Atlanta Falcons. Both starting quarterbacks are hurt and/or gimpy, which always makes for terrific ratings. [ABC] • NHL: Detroit at Columbus. The Blue Jackets make their first appearance...
Leftovers: Saints Fans Got The Blues
• Report: Los Angeles Saints in our future. Can't wait. [The Scores Report] • Got Controversy? MLB not amused by milk/steroids ad. [Straight Cash, Homey] • Packers' fans in mourning, and a few fantasy football players aren't too thrilled either: Ahman Green out for the season. [Mr. Critic] • Texas s...
That Taste? It's Veggie Deep Dish
In the best response we've seen yet to FOX broadcaster Tim McCarver's ultimate foot-in-mouth moment last evening, the mad, depraved geniuses at Yard Work put on their miner's helmets to figure out what, exactly, that taste was in Brad Lidge's mouth that McCarver declared "not there."...
NFL Roundup: Portis' Head
• Contrary to popular belief, Redskins running back Clinton Portis was not doing an impersonation of Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams chasing a fly ball while doing that cartwheel in the end zone yesterday. Good guess, though. • We're not saying that Cincinnati was getting a little too excit...
World Series Roundup: McCarver's Buckner Moment
We don't mean to shrink last night's Amazing Scott Podsednik Moment into a moment of media criticism, but you're all going to be talking about it this morning, so we might as well lead off with it. Right before — like, a split-second before — Podsednik homered off Astros closer Brad Lidge, Fox bro...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as some of the greatest literature of all time sits languishing on the shelf ... • Boxing: Junior lightweights, Agnaldo Nunes vs. Isidro Granados. We hope this doesn't end like our last fight — with a broken pinkie and endless apologizing to waitresses at Hooters. [Showtime] • College ...
World Series Pants Party: White Sox vs. Astros
Well, someone's going to end a whole lot of frustration in the next week and a half, so even if the folks at FOX probably aren't that happy, the rest of us should have a grand time in the White Sox-Astros World Series. This is one of those great World Series where you can kind of sense that fans o...
Leftovers: $%&#!&! Edition
• Atlanta Thrashers coach in obscenity filled tirade, which is always fun. [The Walking Wizard] • Tommy Maddox's kids taunted on the school bus for dad's sucky play for Steelers. Now that's a tough football town. [Stepping Stones] • Senators-Panthers postponed due to high wind, flying cows. [Newsday...