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Sun July 01, 2007
ESPN Cool Denny Hamlin holds off late charge by Jeff Gordon to win the Lenox Industrial Tools 300 (8)
ESPN Cool Cristie Kerr wins the U.S. Women's Open, a nice footnote to her phallic trophy kissing career (5)
CNN Unlikely In a totally legitimate and not rigged result, Barry Bonds overcomes a 120,000 vote deficit in the final few days of balloting to make the All-Star game, which coincidentally will be held in San Francisco (31)
Chicago Sun-Times Amusing Cubs tickets: $85. Hot dogs and a beer: $20. Running onto the field during the game: $75,000 (9)
(Some Slugger) Spiffy Rick "The Real Wild Thing" Ankiel leads AAA All-Star voting but will skip game. By the way, he's making his comeback as an outfielder and leads the PCL with 21 homers (19)
Sign On San Diego Asinine Estimated cost for new San Diego NFL stadium now over $800 million – double original estimate. In other news, meaning of team name finally explained (14)
ESPN Unlikely Briere signs 8-year $52 million deal with Phillies. Wait....what??? (22)
MSNBC Sad Home owned by Tiger Woods destroyed by fire. Wife still hot (56)
(Some Guy) Spiffy The 2007 all-star selection thread. * (95)
Seattle Times Spiffy Short people got no reason to miss the Dwarf Athletic Association of America's National Games, held this year in Seattle (40)
ESPN Cool NHL Free Agency discussion thread. Who will your team pick up today? (95)
Seattle Times Interesting In the midst of a seven game win streak, and one game out of the wildcard, Seattle manager Mike Hargrove steps down (33)
The Tennessean Interesting Should pregnant college athletes lose their scholarships? The University of Memphis thinks so (87)
(MLB.com) Amusing After giving up three runs, Yankees reliever Scott Proctor lights his equipment on fire in the dugout (52)
ESPN Sad Evander Holyfield (44 years old) beats Lou Savarese (41) in actual sanctioned boxing match that people paid money to see. Methuselah was the referee, Abe Vigoda the announcer, and Bea Arthur the ring card girl (17)

Sat June 30, 2007
CBS News Sad Maria Sharapova wins third-round match at Wimbledon just before rains come, denying us the photo of the year (22)
ESPN Obvious Michelle Wie's "wrist injury" forces her to withdraw from US Open (31)
Yahoo Dumbass Attention whore Scott Boras declares best-of-nine World Series would fix baseball once and for all (36)
ESPN Dumbass Asking a cheerleader to flirt with the ref? Yup, that's a lawsuit. Bonus: defendant is Isiah Thomas (18)
(Sportsline) Cool Your 2020 World Series champion Mexico City Royals have won 5 straight (26)
Boston Herald Dumbass Trading for a 31 year-old with two bad ankles? Must be the Boston Celtics (15)
SFGate Sad DCCL* (55)
CBC Interesting NHL salary cap going up. In other news, there are apparently people paid to play something called "hockey" (25)
ESPN Hero 40 year old Kenny Lofton steals 4 bases in one game. Get off my basepaths (30)

Fri June 29, 2007
ESPN Cool Dave Blaney drives Toyota to its first pole in the Nextel Cup. Duke sucks (18)
ESPN Dumbass Tigers' Colon facing felony assault charges for punching teammate. And no, its not Bartolo, as there was no food involved (10)
ESPN Unlikely Cubs rally from two runs down at the bottom of the ninth, winning the game against the first place Brewers and extending their streak to 7, including a sweep of the Sox. I want to believe (52)
(Some Guy) Followup Wikipedia user admits to posting about the death of Chris Benoit's wife, calls it a "coincidence" (95)
Sports by Brooks Unlikely "Price Is Right" contacts Dan Patrick about hosting show; ESPN anchor would be required to spay and neuter Keith Olbermann (22)
ESPN Obvious If a football league folds and nobody cares, is it newsworthy? (34)
ESPN PSA Yankees GM refuses to comment on Joe Torre's future with the organization. Rut roh, Reorge (49)
(NZZ) Interesting Nielsen ratings fail to take into account other four fans, ratings steady as Swiss take 3-2 lead in America's Cup (11)
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Amusing Pirates fans, fed up with the team's losing ways, to walk out of PNC Park Saturday. You can catch them both over at Primanti's afterwards (40)
Deadspin Amusing You’re Mark Cuban. Your NBA team is upset in the playoffs. Do you C) Sue the coach of the other team for having confidential information and try to bar him from coaching? (41)
Yahoo Amusing The winners and losers of yesterday's NBA draft. Is it any wonder which list the Boston Celtics made? (66)
Guardian.com Stupid Men dressing more metrosexually at Wimbledon. "The big male influence has been David Beckham - I think that has made male players more in touch with their sexuality" (30)
CNN Sad San Diego Padres, feeling too much contentment in the clubhouse, rectify the situation by acquiring Milton Bradley (20)
Detroit News Obvious NASCAR racer Bobby Labonte; "Drivers are just contract labor". Now every stiff wants a job where he works two days a week & gets a life-size standee in every beer store (21)
CNN Interesting Former makeup artist for ESPN's "Cold Pizza" says commentator Woody Paige once grabbed her butt so forecfully she was "propelled forward and into the air." Yeah, she's suing (39)
Houston Chronicle Hero 3000 (61)

Thu June 28, 2007
(Some soccer fan) Cool Goooooooooooooooooooooooooo - USA vs Argentina - ooooooooooooooooo - Copa America discussion - oooooooooooooal (184)
ESPN Interesting Portland Trail Blazers expected to draft Greg Oden with No. 1 pick. Follow the entire draft here (641)
(Bloomberg) Interesting NASCAR driver Carl Edwards to drive car, co-owned by Red Sox, painted like baseball this weekend. Will let off the gas just before the finish line (32)
ESPN Spiffy 500 (no * needed) (120)
(myfoxatlanta.com) Followup Drug agents raid office of pro wrestler Chris Benoit's doctor (201)
CBC Sad Everybody say hello to the Kansas City Predators (95)
ESPN Sappy College Gameday will open the season at Virginia Tech. Good on you College Gameday, good on you (78)
ESPN Spiffy Ryan Howard becomes fastest player to reach 100 homers (72)
AFP Misc Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan combined to destroy Bangladesh as Sri Lanka won the first Test of their three-match series by an innings and 234 runs... Wait. What ?? (32)
(Some Guy) Amusing African soccer officials unimpressed with Ugandan team's claim they couldn't make tie-breaking match because of diarrhea (13)
Yahoo Cool Greg Maddux notches up his 340th career victory. Now get off his mound (28)

Wed June 27, 2007
ESPN Amusing Curt Schilling will continue playing World of Warcraft and eating fried bacon pizzas as a "job" until the All-Star break, despite there being absolutely nothing wrong with him (84)
ESPN Unlikely Cubs win sixth game in a row by sweeping the Rockies who swept the Yankees and took two out of three from the Red Sox. All hail your 2007 World Series Champs (43)
(Sportsline) Amusing You generally don't stay first in the power rankings when you get swept by the Royals. Buh bye Angels (25)
Sports by Brooks Florida Disney World bans Florida State football recruits for life. For being black in public (65)
Stuff Followup Ratings plummet as third viewer finds remote, misses "one of the best America's Cup races ever sailed" (31)
Fox News Dumbass Federal appellate court approves searches at Tampa Bay games, NFL likely to use ruling to permit searches at all NFL games. Freedom costs a buck oh-five (29)
ESPN Cool Last night your 2007 World Series champions scored five runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to beat the A's 8-5 (56)
(Sportingo) Interesting Oden, Durant and a whole lot more - NBA Draft madness is upon us (13)
Yahoo Unlikely Today's Kevin Garnett trade rumor has him going to Phoenix and Amare Stoudemire being sent to Atlanta (52)
The Sun Spiffy The star of Wimbledon was Tatiana Golovin's red shorts. The Sun is there (36)
Yahoo PSA If you're planning to sit along the third base line at Dodger Stadium, you might want to start bringing your baseball glove. Or at least a helmet (29)
Denver Post Stupid Nobody knows who Matt Holliday is, and nobody will... until he gets out of Triple A (24)
Denver Post Interesting Having fixed all other health care issues, congress may get involved if NFL pension system isn't fixed (14)
ESPN Cool The war of words is on between "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather and Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton and there could be a fight this year. It might not be as big as Mayweather-De La Hoya, but it'll be a MUCH better fight (21)
CNN Interesting The Washington Huskies are No. 1... in this list of the top 25 toughest schedules in college football (97)
Houston Chronicle Sad Former NFL players are crippled by multiple surgeries, dementia and a host of other problems -- not the least of which are the NFL and the Players' Association (22)
Sports by Brooks Asinine What nine points per game buys you these days: 28,000-square-foot, $20-million mansion (11)
ESPN Obvious Orioles finish off the Yankees with a walk-off walk (includes video) (61)
Yahoo Obvious Barry Bonds will donate something from his 756th homer to Hall of Fame, but not his shoes, bat or uniform. Enjoy the jock strap, fellas (25)
Yahoo Cool Youngest female golfer ever to qualify for the US Open. Dude, she's 12 (29)

Tue June 26, 2007
Yahoo Interesting Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson both penalized $100,000 and 100 points for rule infractions at Infineon, and they will have to do without their crew chiefs for next six races (54)
CNN Spiffy The CONCACAF Gold Cup final attracted 41 percent more viewers in the United States, even though it was only on Spanish-language stations, than the Stanley Cup finals, which was in English (97)
CNN Cool NFL fantasy football rankings. LT is first, and LJ is a suprising second, despite Herm Edwards' mission to run him until a leg falls off (84)
Yahoo Amusing Record seven different pitchers over the age of 40 scheduled to start tomorrow. Now get the hell off my infield (13)
(tvnz.co.nz) Followup America's Cup ratings up 50% after third viewer tunes in to epic third race (23)
ESPN Interesting NASCAR to DEI: "You can't sell the number 8 to Hendrick Motorsports because you don't own it. We do" (41)
Free Press Dumbass Buick Open officials not expecting a big drop-off in interest or attendance with Tiger Woods withdrawing from tournament (14)
CNN Interesting Momentous matchups: 10 showdowns that could shape the 2007 college football campaign (55)
(Fan Nation) Strange Boston Celtics kill four-team deal involving Kevin Garnett just because they didn't like what they would get -- which is totally out of character for them (20)
CBC Amusing You know times are tough for the CFL when 20 of the Edmonton Eskimo's players can't find a place to live (13)
CBS News Interesting The good, the bad, and the worst NFL offseason acquisitions (29)
ESPN Unlikely Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa deserve to make the All-Star game. Wait, what? (23)
ESPN Amusing Normal day at the ballpark: Cubs blow five-run lead in the top of the 9th. Not so normal: Cubs rally to win in bottom of the 9th (56)
Reuters Unlikely Baseball cards may have some value, just not the ones you have been sitting on since 1988 (26)

Mon June 25, 2007
Yahoo Obvious Kobe Bryant: I wouldn't mind playing for the Bulls. John Paxson: Uhhh... no (28)
(WWE) Sad WWE website reporting that wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife were both found dead today in Atlanta (1700)
Chicago Sun-Times Followup Cincinnati Bengals extend training camp invitation to Tank Johnson (44)
Arizona Star Ironic Arizona State's iconic football stadium collapsing due to rust and water damage. Architects hadn't accounted for maintenance workers hosing down stadium after each game (56)
Guardian.com Amusing New Zealand designer says America's Cup boats are evenly matched. Both fans on the edges of their seats (18)
Reuters Sad Sumo wrestling losing its popularity in Japan (23)
Yahoo Spiffy For the 17 tennis fans on Fark, here's your Official Wimbeldon Discussion thread. Just remember to wear white before posting (64)
Sports by Brooks Dumbass Kobe Bryant on owner of Lakers, as recorded on audio tape: "Dr. Buss is an idiot" (22)
London Times Obvious List of 50 greatest footballers provokes -- you'll never guess -- controversy (53)
ESPN Cool For the second straight year, it's the Beavers doing the pounding (29)
Reuters Obvious New Zealand's All-Blacks have accused South African Springboks of "dirty tactics" in Tri-Nations play. Sounds like somebody needs to shut the ruck up and GBTW (12)
(Some Nats Fan) Weird Nationals pitcher Jesus Colome sent to DL with a "soft-tissue infection in the right buttocks." Jeter reportedly gave A-Rod penicillin for the same thing (52)
ABC News Cool Wisconsin runners take part in race in which they are given beer instead of water at refreshment stations (19)



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