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Let's Start Guessing Where LeBron Will Play In Two Years
The summer of 2010. That's when LeBron James will shun Northeast Ohio, get a plane ticket, head to New York City, play basketball, and win a championship with either the Knicks, the Nets, or an amalgamation of the relocated Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Clippers, the Long Island Clizzers....
Lenny Dykstra's Mansion Is Up For Grabs
In the market for a new place? Lenny Dykstra is selling his $25 million home (marked down from $27.5 million due to various chewing tobacco stains on the furniture and carpets). Presumably he's getting rid of the palatial estate on the Sherwood Country Club in LA because it's too big for he and his ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as a new era dawns ... • Arena Football League: Playoffs, wild-card round: Orlando at Cleveland (7 p.m., ET); Grand Rapids at Arizona (9:30 p.m., ET). Let's go on a Rampage! [ESPN2] • MLB: New York Mets at St. Louis (7 p.m., ET). Kyle Lohse goes for 10th win. Will goes for 11th jumbo p...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
Kevin Love: Hero Of The Cheez Doodle'd Masses
For those of you who didn't catch The Stephen A. Smith Heckling Society of Gentleman's 2008 NBA Draft offering, well, it's worth the 9 minute work break. One of the most amazing snippets of the video: it appears new Minnesota Timberwolves big man and UCLA product Kevin Love is much more SAS-savvy th...
New Zealand Hockey Initiation Is, Uh, Special
In these days of summer swelter, the thought of going for a Crocodile Mile-type slide to cool me down is enticing. That doesn't make viewing these pictures or the video after the jump of what appears to be a standard initiation rite in New Zealand hockey: stripping down to your skivvies and sliding...
Downward Facing Dog FTW!
Because National Public Radio is into recherche subjects like competitive yoga, one of their correspondents filed a story from a yoga dojo (yeah, I know that's not the right term, they're actually yoga studios *sniffs own fart* but that's froufrou) in Oregon that is at the leading edge of competiti...
Ladies Still Swarm The Swami
Busted Coverage got their bra-unfastening hand on a few photos of Chris Berman hugging up on some lovelies at the U.S. Open. The girl in the fuchsia (that is what that color is, right?) shirt would seem to be getting a little personal, until I tell you Berman had one of those glowing arc reactors ...
Sir Sidney Gives Up No Runs; Probably Ate Them All
Sidney Ponson made his unceremonious (only to Ponson, as ceremonious occasions usually have bacon gravy) return to the Yankees in the second half of a two-ballpark doubleheader yesterday with the cross-Gotham Mets. And he laid into them like they were an Aruban judge, tossing six shutout innings in ...
Say Hello To A-Rod's New Friends
A pretty outstanding tidbit that was missed in all the madness yesterday: You remember when the Brewers ended up staying at the same hotel as a Furries convention? Well, that happened again this week, in Pittsburgh, and guess what team ended up in the Pittsburgh hotel this time?...
Here Kid, Have A Mercedes
So there's this occupation in European soccer called boot boy, which is a kind of apprenticeship in which a young player does chores around the clubhouse (so I'm told). The pay is low, but I hear the tips are fabulous. This item is a couple of weeks old, but it's the first I've heard of it: Birmingh...
Jason Giambi Has Become A '70s Porn King
Jason Giambi has dyed his mustache. That made this happen. Heavens to Betsy....
SuperYid Youkilis Drubs The Hardly Punchless RedBirds
Slate's Robert Weintraub, like many of us, loves the old purple prose of early 1900s sportswriting, the Grantland Rices, the men who painted epic tales of warriors, grizzled combatants and lardywarks too manly to wear gloves. In an occasional series, Weintraub writes about the week's best baseball g...
Youth Golfers Get Blindsided By Boob-Infested Golf Outing
A golf team of pre-teen youngsters got a little more than they expected when they showed up for their junior club golf outing on Monday. Due to a scheduling "miscommunication" the lucky kids got to share the clubhouse with the annual Shotgun Willie's Charity Golf Tournament, an event sponsored by a ...
Much Excitement In The Area Where The Allegheny And Monongahela Converge To Form The Ohio River
Wouldn't it be ironic — in a fun, cosmic sort of way — if the turning point for the Pittsburgh Pirates' franchise came on Tuesday night? It was the first time since 1960 that the New York Yankees had played in Pittsburgh, when, as you surely recall, Bill Mazeroski won Game 7 of the World Series with...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while wondering why it's always Ohio... • MLB: Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs. I'm told they're not fond of each other, and with good reason. [ESPN] • NBC: Olympics: U.S. Olympic Qualifying, Women's Gymnastics. Make.It.Stop. • Show: Weeds, in case you missed Monday's season premier....
For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure
• 12:15 — Documentary: Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed. Don't worry, it's only an hour and fifteen minutes, and it's tremendous. [HBO] • 1:30 — MLB: St. Louis Cardinals at Boston Red Sox. [TBS] • 1:30 — Formula One: Grand Prix of France. There will be cheese; BYOW. [FOX] • 1:30 — IndyCar Racing: ...
Olympic Qualifying Is Intense
In case you weren't aware, Olympic qualifying is underway, and the resulting pictures are quite a bit more entertaining than the trials themselves. Continue after the jump for four more faces of agony from yesterday's diving and gymnastics events....