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ON 205TH MAGAZINE and track down photos of the top female tennis player in the world, Ana Ivanovic enjoying some time away from the court on vacation. Fortunately for us the paparazzi are never on vacation.
WALK OFF WALK’s bid for the Chicago Cubs was not accepted but Mark Cuban’s bid was. If Cuban were able to land the Cubs, our calendars would have zero Cuban-free ...
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Chicago Cubs
Ana Ivanovic
Mark Cuban
Adam LaRoche
Frank Shamrock
Rex Grossman
Mark McGuire of the ALBANY TIMES-UNION has this line today about the curious celebrity of Anna Kournikova : “ Kournikova’s career remains a prominent example of how sports, sex and celebrity congeal into the oleo that is entertainment in Deadspin Nation . ”
(Forget cheese, in Deadspin Nation, it’s all about free government mustard )
I know, there’s ...
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Golf
Anna Kournikova
Will Leitch
New York Islanders
Baltimore Orioles
Tiger Woods
Jack Nicklaus
• Seems the WNBA is becoming more like its big brother league everyday .
• Keith Hernandez doesn’t have time to respect the Reds’ Hall of Fame .
• Fans won’t be chanting for Melky Cabrera if he keeps this kind of play up .
• No wonder the Cubs were doing so well - they cheated in the MLB Draft !
• The Baltimore Ravens draft a four-year basketball collegian who ...
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Cincinnati Reds
Los Angeles Sparks
Detroit Shock
Keith Hernandez
Melky Cabrera
Chicago Cubs
Just when the Chicago Bears had finally squared away Brian Urlacher’s contract concerns, another Monster of the Midway is making a distraction by demanding a new deal.
(” I want this much in bonus money! “)
Mike Mulligan of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES reports that Devin Hester did not report to training camp before Tuesday night’s midnight deadline, nor did he show ...
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NFL
Chicago Bears
Devin Hester
Super Bowl
Sometimes working for a minor league team can be a real drag - literally .
Benjamin “Benny” Hill of MLB’s BEN’S BIZ BLOG reveals that the lovely(?) ladies(?) above are actually macho male employees of the Winston Salem Warthogs. Does this mean that baseball’s equal opportunity employment program also covers transvestites?
Possibly, but in this case, the ...
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MLB
Winston-Salem Warthogs
We get a kick out of Mike Leach because the Texas Tech football coach is never afraid to speak his mind. Whether he’s criticizing his own team’s poor play or being outraged by officials with purported pro-Longhorn sentiments , it’s always a joy to hear Leach lashing out.
And now Mike has revealed a new target of his ire - the Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport .
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NCAA Football
Texas Longhorns
Mike Leach
Texas Tech Red Raiders
Just when things are starting to turn around for the New York Yankees, Jorge Posada goes and gets himself put on the 15-day DL with an injured right shoulder. Worse yet, it not just some simple soreness - the Yankees catcher was discovered to have a torn labrum & rotator cuff damage. Doctors have recommended surgery.
However, Jorge doesn’t want to go under the knife just yet, ...
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Jorge Posada
New York Yankees
Joe Girardi
• THE WIZARD OF ODDS learns that if Rutgers can’t complete its football stadium work on time, coach Greg Schiano could be Penn State bound .
• Inspired by the Danica - Milka brush-up , Jeff Bartlett of the BEDFORD (IN) TIMES-MAIL proposes some other sports celeb scrapes he’d like to see .
• RUMORFICIAL finds Jessica Simpson back on stage & going a bit country, even ...
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NCAA Football
Greg Schiano
Penn State Nittany Lions
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
The Arizona Cardinals are a perennial sexy sleeper pick for NFL fans of wagering on the over/under of total games won, while at the same time remaining a bastion of mediocrity with which the city of Cleveland can follow. (Just kidding, Cleveland, you’re swell.) Given all that preseason hype, combined with that needy desperation and Ken Wisenhunt’s actual ability to turn the team ...
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Dallas Cowboys
Arizona Cardinals
Cleveland Browns
One of the more enjoyable stories of the 2007 season was the enormous rise of Kansas football, thanks in no small part to enormous coach Mark Mangino . And as the wins kept coming in Lawrence, shirts celebrating the grand girth of the KU coach kept selling. You’ve probably seen or at least heard of the some of the fat-focused fashions, such as “ Our Coach Beat Anorexia ” or ...
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NCAA Football
Mark Mangino
Kansas Jayhawks
You know how sometimes you break up with a girl, only she refuses to leave your house at first? And then she finally leaves but ends up coming back to hang out? But when she comes back, she uses your phone to call some other dude and try to hook up, all while telling you how much she loves you? Yeah, that’s a pretty poor metaphor for what’s going on in the Brett Favre -Green Bay ...
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Brett Favre
Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings
Brad Childress
Despite the good story and impressive feat of Padraig Harrington winning back-to-back British Opens (as well as Greg Norman being competitive ), Thomas Bonk of the L.A. TIMES passes on a shocker: without Tiger Woods , the PGA Tour’s TV ratings are taking a dive .
The details of the tournaments without Tiger, as far as eyeballs on sets go, do not bode well for the PGA Championship ...
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Golf
Tiger Woods
Michelle Wie
Natalie Gulbis
Anna Rawson
Paula Creamer
It’s not that unusual for basketball players to make the jump to football. (See: Gonzalez, Tony and Gates, Antonio .) People will argue Julius Peppers as well, but I see him more as a football player who dabbled in basketball.
And now the CARROLL COUNTY TIMES shoots up news of the latest hoopster trying to make the same transition: Joe Reitz (not seen to the left).
The difference ...
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NFL
Baltimore Ravens
Jonathan Ogden
John Harbaugh
Ray Lewis
They say if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying. Just ask Bill Belichick . Or Peter Cook . Well, after 100 years of losing, it looks like the Cubs have decided to try really, really hard - and have been fined $500,000 because of it .
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is reporting that the Cubs got the hefty fine after participating in a few underhanded dealings involving the draft, ...
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MLB
Chicago Cubs
Former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was inducted into the franchise’s Hall of Fame prior to Saturday’s game against the New York Mets. A member of the Reds for all 18 years of his baseball career, Larkin had a lot of people to thank for his success during his speech Saturday night, too many people according to Keith Hernandez .
During the broadcast, the former ...
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Cincinnati Reds
Keith Hernandez
New York Mets
I have never been to Yankee Stadium, so I have no idea about these “Bleacher Creatures” and their propensity to scream things at people on the field. But, for the similarly uneducated of “youse” out there, what they do is chant each player’s name to start off the game. When a player’s name gets chanted, he tips his cap to the fans.
Oooo’s and ...
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MLB
Melky Cabrera
Yankee Stadium
New York Yankees
Alex Rodriguez
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On Saturday, Milka Duno threw her towel at
Danica Patrick for yelling at her after a time
run for the Honda Indy 200 and we all called the minor flare up between the two female athletes a “cat fight.” What happened last night in Detroit, ...
BUSTED COVERAGE introduces us to Lindsey (she’s the one on the left) their early favorite for USC Song Girl of the Year for the upcoming college football season.
BUGS AND CRANKS pays a buck for a CD that includes Omar Vizquel’s priceless rendition of the Goo Goo Dolls single, “Broadway.” I don’t know what was the more surprising news in that sentence - ...
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Omar Vizquel
Southern California Trojans
Matt Barnes
Will Leitch
New York Mets
Gilbert Arenas
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The LONDON DAILY MAIL has a recent photo
of the stunning transformation of Anna Kournikova , taken
in Miami at a fashion show: The suddenly busty Kournikova has long fought off rumors of an eating disorder thanks to her oft-emaciated appearance ...
• A-Rod’s stripping seductress Candice Houlihan reports that some Red Sox fans have now christened her the “Yankee Skank “.
• Reserve infielder Tony Pena Jr . might be the perfect antidote to the Royals’ pathetic pitching woes .
• The Boston writer who broke the story on the Pats’ videotaping the Rams before the Super Bowl is apparently now out of a job ...
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Shock and Sparks Give Us Our First WNBA Brawl