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Good morning… CRM here for another weekend of sports blogging. You can send all your linky goodness to me at alumnigonzo@gmail.com.
This is Sarah Harding from the British group, Girls Aloud . (You may have heard of the them because Cheryl Cole is also a member.)
Quick reminder, I’ll be in the house this evening live-blogging MMA’s second primetime network debut. ...
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NCAA Football
ESPN
We get our first Olympic look at Coach K’s USA basketball team tonight when the LeBron-less Americans play the Sam Dalembert-less Canadians. Dalembert was recently dismissed from the Canadian hoops team , but he probably could care less, especially since the team isn’t Beijing-bound and his 76ers will be the talk of the NBA’s Eastern Conference once the preseason begins in ...
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NBA
USA
LeBron James
Philadelphia 76ers
Spain
Argentina
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Fifa Beach Soccer Girls Dance by Machochip It
took place during a beach soccer game, so you
obviously missed it. Anyone else think this had the feel of Olympic volleyball players working out? ( Sport Fiends )
Joanna Krupa … Man, this Roundup is weak… Not my fault though… Nobody is sending links today… This had best not be the case this weekend or I’ll just ignore the blog and spend my time in Saratoga at the track… I’ll do it!
I’ll be doing a live-blog for the EliteXC card tomorrow night. Hopefully, it will be better than the s***-show we ...
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MLB
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His clownish antics and penchant for gambling aside
… more people should be listening to Charles Barkley.
Good stuff here.
There’s just something humorous about this sight, isn’t there? Bill Simmons, the most widely-read person on the internet and his new co-worker, one of the most famous print writers ever, Rick Reilly. The love between the two them has been well documented in Blogrifca. (See here , here , here and here .)
Simmons, the homegrown star seems to either have an outright hatred of ...
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NFL
ESPN
Bill Simmons
Rick Reilly
Steve Spurrier might have accomplished more than any other SEC coach, but is the best right now? Intern Parrish opines.
So I was surfing around the internet this week and came across a Tennessee Website that ranked the SEC coaches based on their accomplishments, and Steve Spurrier was No. 1 . Ranking the SEC coaches is not an easy task, since five coaches have won a National Championship, ...
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NCAA Football
South Carolina Gamecocks
Steve Spurrier
Giambi has nothing on Slick. The card is from the early 70s. Fist-bump to The Commission for the sweet find.
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NBA
Pat Riley
Max Wasserman, our numbers specialist, takes a look at the probability that an athlete who tests positive for PEDs, isn’t actually guilty of cheating. The results may surprise you.
With baseball in full swing, the Tour de France nearing its end, and the Olympics only two weeks away, it seems like this is an appropriate time to discuss the one thing all three sporting events have in ...
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MLB
A mess of a season for the Seattle Mariners just got uglier: For two games this summer, two sections at Safeco Field will be peanut-free. Baseball without peanuts? Intern Bill is angry, too.
Aw! Muffin! Does your precious little crotch fruit need extra protection ? That’s ok! We here at Hippieville, USA are glad to help. Instead of calling our September 9th game between the Mariners and ...
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MLB
Seattle Mariners
Safeco Field
And you thought sports were entertainment! Eight months after making mention of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor following a foundation-shattering loss to lowly Louisiana-Monroe, Alabama demigod Nick Saban dropped a Saving Private Ryan reference at SEC media day. Looking ahead …
When the Tide are drubbed by Clemson: The Longest Day
When ‘Bama loses by 40 at Georgia: Cold Mountain
When ...
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NCAA Football
Nick Saban
Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks
Alabama Crimson Tide
Penn State Nittany Lions
It’s an interesting question : If Tiger cleared $105 in endorsement money last year, and LeBron bagged $28 million, and Shaq $15 million … why is baseball’s highest-grossing endorser Alex Rodriguez, at a paltry $6 million? There are only three baseball players among the Top 20 of SI’s Fortunate 50 (A-Rod, Jeter and Manny), while cats like Floyd Mayweather Jr. ($20 ...
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MLB
Alex Rodriguez
Manny Ramirez
Mets 3, Phillies 1: The Mets are alone in first place for the first time since April 19 thanks to Oliver Perez, who had a season-high 12 strikeouts and allowed one run in seven 2/3 innings. He’s 1-0 with a 0.35 ERA in 26 innings against Philly, who started Eric Bruntlett at shortstop because J***y R*****s showed up late to Shea. After the game, Charlie and Jerry Manuel announced ...
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MLB
Jimmy Rollins
Toronto Blue Jays
St. Louis Cardinals
Pittsburgh Pirates
Tim Redding
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Pandemonium in Peoria last night: a rough minor
league game turned into an all-out rumble, and 17
players were ejected. As managers barked at one another and benches emptied, pitcher Julio Castillo of Dayton hurled a baseball into the Peoria ...
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MLB
A reader claims his wife made him watch So You Think You Can Dance, and to that poor guy, we honor his request of Cat Deeley … poor LC - got dissed by Ronaldo ! … we maintain that this girl from Laguna Beach trumps everyone from the Hills … a four-day school week because of gas prices? … Merriman won’t stand for someone taking the name ‘lights out ‘ ...
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MLB
ESPN
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Iowa’s Lolo Jones is certainly one of the
cutest Olympians who will be competing in Beijing -
just for kicks, let’s remind everyone about Elka Graham , Dominika Kopcik , and Katie Mocco -but once she collects her Gold medal in the ...
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Olympics
They’re back.
This week, Chase Field in Arizona has been overrun by swarms of Cubs fans as the annual series between the two bitter rivals came to the Valley of the Sun. The total distance traveled by these loyal Chicago fans? Less than 20 miles. Yes, this town has been overrun by Cubs fans who have lived outside of Chicago for the last 30 years. Fans who are so loyal that many of ...
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MLB
Chicago Cubs
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Remember Darius Miles? He was one of the
many casualties of the disaster that was the 2000
NBA draft . (Can you believe the best player from the entire draft went 43rd ? If you want to call it the worst draft in NBA history, you will get no argument ...
I didn’t run this by Jason, but on behalf of The Big Lead.com, I would like to offer Brett Favre a contract to write for this blog. Brett would become a cornerstone of our new TBL NFL Blog Network. The TBL NFL Blog Network is set up so that we here at The Big Lead can better cover the NFL in the coming season. Brett’s connections with the various teams in the NFC North - Be it ...
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NCAA Football
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The second comment on t his post at
the DC Sports Bog correctly summarizes what you are
about to read about the latest kerfuffle between the Redskins and the Washington Post: “You will have more freedom in Beijing when you cover the ...
Greatest Halftime Show, Perhaps Ever