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PM Roundup: Is it Thursday Yet?
Published 7/2/2008 by Cousins of Ron Mexico at The Big Lead
... what I’m trying to say is… When are we going to get hoverboards? The video of the woman dying on the hospital floor. (Oneida Dispatch) Brian Cashman explains “the move” to A-Rod. (The Sports Hernia) A giant catfish swallowed a soccer ball. (Unprofessional Foul) The Chris Snyder video. (FanHouse) Perhaps I shouldn’t be encouraging athletes to give away more money. (The Magazine) Red Sox fans are so polite. (Red Sox Monster) ...

Weighed down by cash?
Published 7/2/2008 by Beavercat at PAFFL - Opinonated Fantasy Football News & Analysis
ESPN's new editor in chief, Rick Reilly, wrote a funny piece this morning on how athlete's have wasted fortunes by spending lavishly on crap . I love the pieces on Scottie Pippen (wasting money on Jets) or Jack Clark buying cars. It's a slow time in the NFL so we've got to find news somewhere :)

Rick Reilly Joke of the Week
Published 7/2/2008 by Ken Tremendous (noreply@blogger.com) at FIRE JOE MORGAN
Rick Reilly recently signed a 20-year, $480m contract to write articles for ESPN. This is the kind of excellent humor they're getting for their money: In a droll article about athletes going bankrupt, he muses: It's not just NBA players who have the fiscal sense of the Taco Bell Chihuahua. Some questions. 1. Why the Taco Bell Chihuahua? Did the Taco Bell Chihuahua famously live large? Did he make it rain in Chihuahua nightclubs? Are beagles famously more thrifty, or something? 2. The Taco Bell Chihuahua hasn't even been ...

ST. ANDREW'S NET: AYE CHIHUAHUA
Published 7/3/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip for your impressionable young children
Saint Andrew's Net is With Leather's daily link dump. It gives you the skinny on stuff that went up yesterday. Just like newspapers! Fire Everybody in the Whole World! has the further adventures of pill-popping '40s-era slugger Dash Dartwell. The chippies approve. Awful Announcing spots a moment from Skip Bayless where he occupies the side of righteousness. Fortunately my head exploding doesn't deter from my blogging output.   Chris Cooley tells of his rediscovery of his love of card collecting in his latest Yahoo! column. His love of supplementing his already sizable income then leads him to sell the ...

The Fundamentals
Published 7/3/2008 by Hoffman at ballerblogger.com
Seattle Supersonics Move The Sonics slideshow (Via Darrin Beene of the News Tribune) Grand Theft Hoops (Dave Zirin of SLAM) Loss of Innocence (Supersonicsoul) What do I say? (SonicsCentral) A long road to get the NBA back (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) A look back at better days in Seattle , featuring Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp (from Marcel Mutoni of SLAM) Warning: this video contains foul language. Free Agency From Davis to Artest, what free agents are worth (Charley Rosen of Foxsports) Free agent frenzy (Hoopshype) Other Worst Evers: The Minute Men (Basketbawful) Weighed down by too much cash? ...

Daily Rundown: July 3, 2008
Published 7/3/2008 by Laura J. Wurst at The Sports Girl
Baseball Rays are Shining.  The Tampa Bay Rays, with the best record in baseball, swept the Red Sox with a 7-6 win, leaving the Rays with a 3 1/2-game lead.  So far, neither team has won a game in the other team's park. Tennis Sibling Rivalry.  The Williams sisters will be ...

Perpetrate the Negative NBA Stereotype
Published 7/8/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
Anyone read Rick Reilly’s latest effort? Last week, the $17 million man piggybacked on a months-old Toronto Star story that claimed 60 percent of NBA players are bankrupt five years after exiting the league, and spun it into some humorous tips for rookies. However, based on the front-page ESPN headline: “Let’s face it: You will never be a top-50 NBA player. But you can spend money like one. Just follow this sound advice,” a copy editor somewhere in Bristol helped perpetrate a negative stereotype about the NBA that actually applies to all athletes. Forget for a moment that the The Star’s 60 ...

AM Abbott Lines, 7/8
Published 7/8/2008 by Andy at Press Row
What Are Abbott Lines? So here’s what you do, Dolphins: You do what Green Bay isn’t doing. You welcome Favre back to football. You trade lame-duck Jason Taylor (whom the Packers have coveted) to get him. You put McCown up for sale. And then you let Beck and Henne develop for a year under the unhurried tutelage of a master — thereby being as good a team as you can be right now while also letting the roots take on future success at that position. … The ”he-should-go-out-a-Packer” sentiment hardly fits, either. He surely would, if there were indications the Pack wanted him back. But there ...