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To Watch Tonight...
• College Football. South Florida Bulls @ Cincinnati Bearcats. No, wait. It's gotta be your bull. 8:00, ESPN. • Movie. Through the Fire. In a few months, they'll release the Platinum edition on DVD, which will include coverage of the Fabolous hit. 8:00, ESPN Classic. • Reality. Dalls Cowboys Cheerle...

Live From Game One
Jalopnik's Ray Wert is a man who loves the Tigers and has fragile emotions—particularly when being left out of Gawker media bets. He was at game one of the World Series last night....

So I Guess The Cardinals Are Serious About This
The Cardinals went into Detroit last night and took down Cousin Mose in his own barn, taking game one away from Justin Verlander and the heavily-favored Tigers....

World. Freakin'. Series.
I don't know if you heard, but the Cardinals won the National League Championship Series. They'll be the guys heading to Detroit tonight to finally get the Tigers off of their lazy asses to play a little baseball. The 2006 World Series gets underway at 7:30 on Fox, and with any luck, Tim McCarver...

To Watch Tonight...
• MLB World Series. St. Louis Cardinals @ Detroit Tigers, Game 1. I hope the Tigers can borrow the Pistons PA announcer for a few games. 7:30, Fox. • College Football: Georgia Tech @ Clemson. I wonder if they'll mention this guy. 7:45, ESPN. • College Football: Southern Mississippi @ Virginia Tech. ...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as militant squirrels stage a coup to liberate your nuts ... • College football: West Virginia at Connecticut. UConn has a football team? We mean, UConn has a football team! [ESPN] • Golf: Champions Tour, AT&T Championship, first round, at San Antonio. Please set all cell phones to "vi...

World Series Pants Party: Tigers Vs. Cardinals
Holy cow, we can't believe we're actually doing a prediction roundup for the Cardinals, who are in the World Series, against the Tigers. We're not over shock yet; it actually comes in waves, which is kind of what shock does, we suppose....

A Friendly Wager, If You Will
In the tradition of opposing mayors/governors placing ridiculous "bets" on their cities' teams winning the World Series — "OK, if your team wins, we'll give you rising gentrification figures and eroding public schools; if ours does, we'd like some of your famous baked ham" — we have decided to acc...

Cultural Oddsmaker: What Will Tiki Do Next?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....

Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Denver Nuggets
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. So come with us now as we present five tiny tidbits on each team, just to get you in the mood. Today we begin the Northwest Division, so do us a favor and send your tips to [email protected]....

Revenge Of The Nerds
Our first thought when we heard of the NFL "terror threat" on Thursday? Al Qaeda is slipping; Osama is just phoning it in at this point. As Sportsocracy pointed out (in a post we mentioned on Thursday), three of the seven prospective terror targets were hosting afternoon games. What, the terrorist...

Hopefully He Won't Get Confused And Sing A Car Commercial
Before Game 1 of the 2004 World Series, we were talking to our father, little pregame discussion of how these Red Sox were going down, man, when he stopped. "Holy shit," he said. "The guy from Aerosmith is singing the national anthem. Damn, that makes me feel old." Our father, who missed the Diane W...

Fun With Extinct Clothing
We're sure this happens all the time, but it's still funny when Major League Baseball accidentally slips and posts it. Last night and up until early this morning, you could buy this sweatshirt from MLB.com, prominently featuring the upcoming World Series matchup between the Detroit Tigers and the ...

Playoff Blogdome: NLCS, Game 7
Scanning the blogs following the Cardinals' 3-1 win over the Mets in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series ......

Now That's A Pleasant Way To Spend An Evening
It's 3:30 in the morning, and we have just returned from a night of screaming, biting, man hugs and other general insanity with 20 other Cardinals fans in the enemy territory of Manhattan. We are covered in champagne — seriously — and just about as giddy as a human being can be. The Cardinals are in...

The Fight To Lose To Detroit Ends Tonight
This photo is from the 2004 National League Championship Series, in which Jeff Suppan outdueled Roger Clemens — and laid down a perfect squeeze bunt, for good measure — to send the Cardinals to the World Series, where they went to Boston and ... well, we don't remember much after that....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as The Cat In The Hat makes a mockery of your housecleaning efforts ... • MLB: National League Championship Series, Game 7, St. Louis at New York Mets. We'll be hablaing some espanol with Lou Piniella as we watch. [Fox] • College football: North Carolina at Virginia. With 10 losses bet...

A Cards Fan And A Mets Fan Discuss Game 7
You've followed your team every day for six, nearly seven months. You've sweated one-run games in May, stayed up until 2 a.m. for the 14-inning marathon in July, cursed rainouts in August and finally felt some release come September and October. This has been your life — not their life; your life — ...

Game 7, The Weirdest-Case Scenario
We thought our brains had processed every possible scenario for Game 7 tonight, up to and including Preston Wilson being attacked by a mule. But New York Magazine's Sam Anderson — an excellent writer, by the way — has come up with one that we hadn't considered, in Choose Your Own Adventure form....
