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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your cat demands an iPod ... • Golf: American Century Championship, first round, at Lake Tahoe, Nev. At least Berman's not here. [ESPN2] • MLB: Pittsburgh at Atlanta. A more compelling matchup you'd be hard to find. [TBS] • Softball: KFC World Cup of Softball, round robin, USA vs. C...
Who Will Be the Next Sports Figure To Get Gastric Bypass Surgery?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
The Whitecaps Will Summon Your Inner Geek
We proudly present you with Rick Chandler's Minor Enterprise!...
ESPN Brings Who's Now In For A Tuneup
You might have thought there would be absolutely no way whatsoever that ESPN could possibly salvage those soul-destroying "Who's Now?" segments. It would be reasonable to think so. But they might have found the only out they had....
Is This The End For Our Hero?
We didn't get a chance to get into this yesterday, but we really need to give a full-throated, stand-up salute to Julio Franco, who very well might have played his final game....
A-Rod Would Really Prefer A Smaller Market, And Less Cash
The second half of the season has already begun to delight me: I got to laugh myself silly over Bay Area broadcaster Ted Robinson's speculation that Alex Rodriguez would be signing with the Giants for 2008. Sure, the Giants would love a second shot at one of their players breaking the all-time caree...
Finally, Some Damn Sports
Any other day of the season, tonight's abbreviated slate of baseball games would lack much noteworthy. But cripes, folks, it has been almost four days since we had any baseball. Around noon yesterday, we started to shake....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch following a long afternoon of cleaning up after Brett Favre • Major League Lacrosse: Philadelphia at New Jersey. Don't deny it; you know you are ALL OVER THIS. [ESPN2] • Soccer: MLS, Houston at Chicago. Our nipples explode with delight. [ESPN2] • Women's softball: World Cup, round robi...
If This Isn't A Sport, What Is?
What's a sport? We think competitive eating is a sport, and if you want to play around, we suppose rock paper scissors is a sport too. But how far can you push it? Claynation's Clay Travis makes the argument that counting is the new hot pseudo sport....
Jared Allen Knows Why He's Famous
Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Jared Allen tends to have a little bit of trouble with the whole "drive, then drink, rather than the other way around" thing. He had three DUI arrests in the span of four years, and he'll miss the first four games this season thanks to an NFL suspension....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering what the heck everyone is laughing about ... • Running of the Bulls: Six more people gored today as the bulls threaten to turn this one into a rout. • Soccer: U.S. Under-20 World Cup team beats nation of 1.7 million with a 20 percent unemployment rate. • Fencing: Braz...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your iPod demands more songs with fiddles ... • Boxing: Junior middleweights, Joel "Meat" Julio vs. Cornelius "Cornholio" Bundrage, at Hollywood, Calif. Who needs sleep? Not us. [ESPN2] • Cycling: Tour de France, Stage 4, Villers-Cotterets to Joigny, France. For all of your previous...
Barry Bonds' Last Friends In The World
Bud Selig can take some solace in the world: Not everyone is gnashing their teeth and rending their garments over Barry Bonds' impending destruction of Hank Aaron's home run record....