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To Watch Tonight
What to watch, as explained by the Chicago Tribune's Rick Morrissey ... • College basketball: Mid-Continent Conference, championship game, at Tulsa; Horizon League, championship game, Butler at Wright State [ESPN]; Sun Belt Conference, championship game, at Lafayette, La. Getting to play your confer...

Baseball Season Preview: Pittsburgh Pirates
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Chinese Olympic mascots plot your next fevered nightmare ... • College basketball: Colonial Athletic Association, championship game, George Mason vs. Virginia Commonwealth, at Richmond, Va.; West Coast Conference, championship game, at Portland, Ore. [ESPN]; Metro Atlantic Conferenc...

A Game You And Your Nine Year Old Daughter Can Play Together
So there's this site — Tim Hardaway can tell you all about it — called Stardoll, where you can virtually dress up all the stars into whatever outfits you want them to wear. Apparently, it's a complicated endeavor, with competitions and rankings and all kinds of things that we would consider complete...

Don't Expect Your Rec League To Adopt These
These, friends, are the future of college basketball uniforms, and that future is: SPANDEX! OK, not quite Spandex, but there's certainly a skin-tight vibe going on for the four teams who will supposedly try out the new duds during their conference championships this week: Ohio State, Syracuse, Flori...

It's Casual Dress During Spring Training
This guy was spotted in the stands of the White Sox-Cubs spring training game yesterday, and though we're not quite ready for that kind of fierce crosstown rivalry business just yet — it's like trying to have an argument too early in the morning, before you've had your IV of coffee — we like the spi...

Probably Need More Hops To Do That, Son
This video has made the YouTube rounds for the last week, but it's still a hilarious answer to the question: What happens if, during a dunk contest, the dunker uses a human prop to jump over ... but doesn't quite clear it?...

Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....

'I Think Tigger Just Clocked Trev Alberts ...'
Hey, kids! From Every Day Should Be Saturday, a roundup of what went on at ESPN: The Weekend at Epcot Center in Florida. Follow along with their handy schedule and map, or just read some of the highlights below!:...

To Watch Tonight...
• Women's College Basketball. SEC Tournament Final. I'd look up who's playing, but... I don't want to. If you care, you already know. If you don't care, you're not going to. Fair enough? 7:30, ESPN2. • NBA Basketball. Utah Jazz @ New Orleans Hornets. Since "Jazz" was never really an appropriate moni...

Ron Jaworski Finds A Home
If I had to rank all of the professional football broadcasts that ABC's done in the last six months, I'd say that the Chicago Rush vs. Kansas City Brigade Arena Football game they just had was number one. It was their best effort. Beyond that, every broadcast involving Tony Kornheiser is tied for la...

To Watch Tonight...
• College Basketball. Austin Peay vs. Eastern Kentucky. One team will rule the Ohio Valley ... the other will be left to rule some other less prestigious valley. 8:00, ESPN2. • Movie. Any Given Sunday. Sorry coach, but I don't think I'm ready to die for that inch. 8:00, FX. • College Basketball. Pit...

NFL General Managers Make It Rain
The first twenty-four hours of the NFL's free agency period have come and gone. There was a flurry of activity last evening ... let's get ourselves caught up....

Week In Review: The Smokey Tornado
• Goodbye, Balls. • We guarantee you Dick Vitale's Betamax is flashing 12:00. • It's good to be Brian Urlacher. • Tommy Lasorda claims he doesn't pay for sex, but we know better. • We'll take a camouflage Bible over a neon bible, anytime. • Sorry! • You absolutely cannot kill Rulon Gardner. • Whom s...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you eat your Krispy Kreme (notice the words on the graphic in the upper right corner of the above video) ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Ricky "Let Sanctions Work" Quiles vs. Nate "The Vegan" Campbell, at Tampa. [ESPN2] • Motor sports: NASCAR Busch Series, Telcel-Motorola Mexico 200, fi...

Cultural Oddsmaker: Who'll Be The Least Popular During ESPN The Weekend?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him and let him know what you think....

Baseball Season Preview: Colorado Rockies
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....

Bad Dentist ... Bad, Bad Dentist
This man right here is Larry Rosenthal, and he's a dentist on Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood. He also lives in the building that the late Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into last October. This so bothered him that he's suing the Lidle family for $7 million. Not the city: Lidl...

NBA Roundup: Cowabunga, Dude!
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

Always, Always Be Wearing A Cup. Always.
All right, when a story starts with this lede ......