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All Hail The Pathos Of The NBA Draft Lottery
This is a weekly column from Leitch....

Even On Their Special Day, NYU Grads Aren't Allowed To Soil Yankee Stadium's Legends Suite
Meet your NYU Class of 2009:the smelly riff-raff. Do we know if the Yankees have hired snipers to keep the Legends Suite safe from the non-black AmEx-ers? [Subway Chatter]...

Yankee Stadium Doesn't Want Any Of You Smelly Riff-Raff Troubling The Rich Folk
If you want a human face to put on the new, already-insufferable Yankee Stadium, you'll find none better than the smirking man at left. Meet Lonn Trost, a man of lordly disdain for the not-rich....

Yankee Fans Should Relocate To Safeco Field
If you want to watch the Mariners play the Yankees up close, it's cheaper to fly to Seattle and spend an entire weekend, then buy two front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. [Kottke]...

This Column Must Register With The Local Authorities
This is a weekly column from Leitch....

How 'Bout 'Dem Ladies Killing Their Husbands Over 'Dem Cowboys?
" An Allen woman accused of killing her husband said she stabbed him in the heart after he turned up the volume of a Dallas Cowboys game, according to media reports." [DMN]...

The L.A. Times Pens The Mother Of All Steroid Columns
Here it is, folks. Served up piping hot by Kurt Streeter in Sunday's Los Angeles Times — the platonic ideal of a steroid-outrage column....

Lou Merloni Will Blow This Steroid Business Wide Open
Here's one more tidbit that should cap off Boston's excellent weekend of excellence—Lou Merloni's accusation that the Red Sox hired a doctor to instruct players on proper steroid use. Uh oh....

Here's Your General Housekeeping DUAN (N)
Some things of varying importance that need to be addressed. So DUAN seems the most appropriate post to do so since I've already lost your attention until tomorrow morning. It's time to purge....

The New Yankee Stadium: Where Apt Metaphors Are In Abundance
The fancy-pants stadium seats aren't selling. Fans are pissed . The A-Rod mess. 0-5 against the Sox. And now, fans are doing flying kicks. This is the 2009 Yankees season so far....

Shutting Down The Internet, At Least For Occasional Five-Minute Intervals
This is a weekly column from Leitch. It has words, and pictures. It's called Ten Humans Of The Week....

This Is Not Alexander Ovechkin's Strip Club Receipt
Like any young rich athlete, Alex Ovechkin likes to have a good time, but there are probably enough actual crazy stories about him out there that people don't need to be making them up....

The War On Braylon Edwards' Manhood
Does Braylon Edwards care more about his image than he does about catching footballs? Because lately it seems that he's not doing a very good job of protecting either one....

Yankees Reduce Prices From "Highway Robbery" To "Alleyway Mugging"
Have you heard about this NEW Yankee Stadium? It's just like the old one—only 14 times more expensive. So how do you sell $2,500-a-game tickets? Charge the bargain-basement price of $1,250!...

Ten Humans, Or Parts Thereof
Programming note: Our beloved Emeritus is traveling this week. Whether it's by air or through space and time, he refused to confirm. In his place, I will be presenting this week's Ten Humans. Sort of....

Cardinals Fans Unable To Head For The Mountains
Busch Beer is apparently very hard to come by at Busch Stadium this season. And this is a problem somehow? [Riverfront Times]...

I'm Kobe Bryant, And I'm Taking Over This Motion Picture
Spike Lee is denying the whole thing, but the New York Post is telling the tale of how Kobe Bryant supposedly hijacked Lee's documentary of him to present himself in the best possible light....

White Guys...Activate!
Bernhard Langer's putt-making ability is much better than his awkward attempt at a chest-bump immediately after he made it. Tom Lehman is equally culpable, but at least his intentions were good. [PGA Tour.com]...

The Saga Of Karen Sypher and Rick Pitino Appears To Be Coming To A Sad, Hatless End
As your weekend begins, take some time and read some of the recently filed indictment against Karen Sypher, the wacky woman who is now being charged with extortion of Rick Pitino....

Little Person, Big World: The Great Dave Flood Experiment Is Over
We all watched breathlessly when the Independent York Revolution employed 3-foot-2 batter Dave Flood this season during spring training. Would this mark a glorious new era in tiny strike zones? Um, no....