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Sun July 08, 2007
(Chicks Dig The Longball) Interesting Home Run Derby will include Pujols, Fielder, Howard, Cabrera, Morneau, Ordonez, Guerrero, and veteran journeyman Player to be Named Later (34)
ESPN Amusing Someone had said something about the Red Sox being the best team in baseball? (39)
BBC Obvious Wimbledon trophy engraver develops repetitive strain injury (25)
Yahoo Cool The Philadelphia Phillies avoided losing their 10,000th game today (8)
(cbs sportsline) Cool A group of millionares, with nothing else to spend their money on, start a new football league that will fold like a lawn chair within the first year (50)
BBC Scary BBC's motoring programme "Top Gear" has been accused of causing damage to a pristine wilderness area in Botswana (15)
Yahoo Amusing Estonia dominates wife-carrying championship (11)
(Some Guy) Obvious ESPN to use 19 on-field cameras, pregame show featuring Reggie Bush, and pre-pregame-show documentary to cover David Beckham's first game in LA (33)
(NASCAR.com) Cool Car #07 finishes 07th on 07-07-07 (23)
ESPN Amusing Roger Clemens is older than five of the guys who showed up at the Yanks' Old-Timers Day (26)

Sat July 07, 2007
Seattle Times Spiffy And you thought blogs were useless: Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez reads one, changes up his pitches, shuts out the A's for eight innings (9)
AP Interesting First 'Winston Cup' then 'Nextel Cup' and soon to be 'Sprint Cup' (18)
(Inside Bay Area) Followup For those blaming MLB for "fixing" all-star vote for Bonds, Silicon Valley sports geeks admit electronically delivering 600,000 votes before deadline to put Bonds ahead (48)
ESPN Cool Start pedaling...Tour de France day one discussion thread (33)
(Some Guy) Cool Saturday Nights all right for racin: Pepsi 400 discussion thread (433)
St. Pete Times Florida Dad says Little League defamed him, demands apology. Bonus: article uses the word "bonk" (13)
(Some Guy) Interesting An interview with Daniel Negreanu hours before he heads to the tables at the main event of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas (31)
Yahoo Dumbass "Hey, I'm going to Spain" "Oh, for the running of the bulls?" "No, the goring of the idiots" (13)
(Some Hollywood Reporter) Amusing Leak the All-Star selections before TBS has a chance? That's a paddling (22)
(Some Guy) Unlikely He is just what heavyweight boxing needs. He is multi-lingual, educated, charming. He's also built like a toilet door and could floor a rhino with one punch. His name is ... Vladimir Klitschko? (30)
(SportingNews.com) Dumbass Nick Saban already linked to NCAA violations while at Alabama. The Bear approves (17)
ABC News Asinine Perez to Fans: "I say to my fans that I am not stupid," Fans to Perez: “Yes you are stupid” (14)
Yahoo Hero 586, no asterisk necessary (38)

Fri July 06, 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune Amusing Football season started early today in Chicago (22)
(Some Guy) Sad Study finds four out of 10 U.S. golfers would give up sex for a month to have the perfect golf swing (40)
(TSN) Interesting Sabres match Oilers 7-year, $50M offer for Vanek. It's gonna be a long cold winter in Edmonton (47)
SFGate Interesting Police continute to hound Michael Vick as they doggedly pursue their investigation against him. Rough (19)
Yahoo Dumbass Detroit Tigers infielder Neifi Perez -- hitting a whopping .172 with one homer and six RBIs -- suspended 25 games after testing positive for banned stimulant. Dude, whatever it is, it's not helping (21)
(Pirates) Interesting Congratulations, Pirate fans. Your walkout may have actually worked (28)
iWon Spiffy Chipper Jones homers twice, passes Dale Murphy for Atlanta Braves record (44)
Sports by Brooks Interesting French soccer star Zinedine Zidane to head(butt) soccer parade in Indonesia, surrender (26)
(Some Guy) Hero Interview with Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt (38)
iWon Amusing Tiger Woods shoots seven bogies for a 3-over score of 73... at his own tournament (76)
Sky.com Obvious London gears up to host first stage of Tour de France. In related news, street sweepers given chainmail gloves and biohazard suits to pick up discarded syringes and empty bottles of HGH (7)
CNN Dumbass Kobe Bryant apologizes to Mitch Kupchak for biatching and whining that he wanted to be traded. This, however, does not mean that he doesn't still want to be traded (10)
(Some Guy) Obvious USA eliminated from Copa America without having recorded a single point. Thanks for coming out, Yanks. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way back to NASCAR and football played with wimpy four-downs-a-series (222)

Thu July 05, 2007
(Some Guy) Unlikely NASCAR rumor: Daytona 500 might be moved to November (39)
(TSN) Interesting Hamilton, then KC and now possible new owners of the Predators in... Nashville? (23)
CNN Asinine Not News: Sportwriter makes a list of the best athletes to wear every number from 00-99. News: Larry Bird is NOT picked for #33. Fark: Derek Jeter finishes second for #2. To a horse (149)
(Sporting News) Amusing "Teams don't want to make the trip anymore," says Hawaii coach June Jones. "They come here, we kick their ass, they go home." (28)
Yahoo Spiffy Yankee's Mariano Rivera saves 424th game, moves into tie for 3rd place on career leaders list (61)
ESPN Obvious Grant Hill signs two-year contract to be injured for the Phoenix Suns (42)
Sports by Brooks Interesting Dan Patrick to leave ESPN. Rumored to be getting that gig as the Kingsford Charcoal guy. Dare I say, en fuego (85)
CNN Asinine Lance Armstrong convinced that Floyd Landis is innocent of cheating allegations. He's so sure he'd bet his left nu... oh wait, nevermind (50)
Yahoo Amusing Top 20 team sweeps both New York teams in one season (28)
Guardian.com Weird IOC awards the 2014 Winter Olympics to Russian town of Sochi, a coastal community on the shores of the Black Sea with a palm tree-lined coast. "Brezhnev" the drunken freedom loving dancing bear considered the early favorite for mascot (13)
ESPN Silly A-Rod may skip the All-Star Game with a pulled ovary (147)

Wed July 04, 2007
ESPN Sad After 18 seasons in the NHL, Jeremy Roenick decides to hang up his skates (53)
ESPN Obvious Aides to Yankees boss George Steinbrenner will have to pull out the old best of '98 DVD to celebrate his 77th birthday tonight (24)
Maxim Spiffy How to build the perfect horseshoe pit (15)
(Some Weiner) Hero Our long national nightmare is over; Joey Chestnut eats a record 66 hot dogs to defeat Kobayashi and bring the Mustard Belt home to America (92)
CBS News Scary Intrepid newspaper reporter goes into the octagon with a mixed martial artist to answer the question that none of us really want to find out: What does it feel like to get choked into unconsciousness? (23)
(NY Daily News) Followup Judge fouls out Isiah Thomas's attempt to throw out a sex harassment lawsuit against him. Here comes the full court press (7)
Washington Post Asinine No Fun League steps it up a notch, orders media to post no more than 45 seconds of footage per day, including clips and interviews, to their web sites (25)
(International Herald Tribune) Hero Takeru Kobayashi, despite a severe jaw injury and having a wisdom tooth pulled just week ago, will compete in Nathan's Famous Hot-Dog Eating Competition (54)
(Some Guy) Obvious Formula One embroiled in spying controversy that's way more interesting than the all the Formula One races ever driven (8)
YouTube Video New Wayne Rooney ad for Nike soccer boots, shot without a cut and that finishes with the viewer taking one to the face. This one makes Tiger Wood's golf ball-bouncing commercial look like amateur hour (69)
ESPN Obvious Bengals considering trade talk with Raiders for Dominic Rhodes after he violates league substance abuse policy (12)
ESPN Dumbass Last year the Orlando Magic gave up a #1 pick to get Darko, and now they're letting him walk to overpay Rashard Lewis while still losing 40 games a year (36)
ESPN Spiffy Seattle Supersonics prepare to name PJ Carlesimo their newest choketacular head coach (12)
CNN Interesting Amelie Mauresmo loses at Wimbledon, loses her "half-man" status and becomes a woman again (4)

Tue July 03, 2007
CNN Followup 751* (32)
(AOL Fanhouse) Dumbass Even LSU's Les Miles buys the SEC hype, will call his in-season losses "proof" that the SEC is too tough (47)
Yahoo Dumbass Cox blocked (6)
Boston Herald Cool Jacoby Ellsbury scored from second on a wild pitch last night to help beat the Rangers. This is so awesome I can't even think of a bad joke to make about it (30)
Yahoo Interesting NASCAR investigating reports that suspended crew chiefs were at last Sunday's race, participated in team meetings, and even communicated with the drivers during the race (45)
Sign On San Diego Spiffy Kiwis defeated by mighty seafaring nation of Switzerland in America's Cup (26)
Wall Street Journal Cool Nobody loves cornhole more then the people of Chicago (58)
Chicago Tribune Asinine Bud Selig blocks Cubs-Marlins Jacque Jones trade to limit debt for next Cubs owners. Has nothing to do with the fact that Cubs are threatening Selig's team's division title hopes (74)
Aftenposten.no Obvious Campaigns to secure Winter Games in 2014 involved corruption and bribery. Cap'n Obvious shocked (5)
(NHL.com) Interesting New York Rangers sign Chris Drury and Scott Gomez in a move that will shock all seven hockey fans (143)
Washington Post Obvious Just in case you needed another reason to spend all day on Fark, we're in the worst month of the year for sports (27)
Sports by Brooks Interesting Tennis hottie Maria Sharapova wants to be a Bond girl. Getting ready to star in "From Russia With 40-Love" and "You Only Fault Twice" (55)
CNN Cool Some mid-season baseball power rankings for you all to argue over (79)
CBC Spiffy Fed up with years of derision over their name, the Anaheim Ducks are building an all goon, all the time roster (20)
ESPN Cool Conrad Dobler, a man so mean he once made an opposing player cry, now an advocate for former NFL players with health issues. Bonus: once got in a fight outside a bar the night before disciplinary hearing with the commissioner. God I miss the 70s (16)
(Some Guy with a tear in his eye) Hero Derek Fisher released from NBA contract so he can care for his cancer-stricken 11-month old daughter (27)
Guardian.com Sad Sumo wrestling is dying (12)
Yahoo Interesting USA national football team is ready to take down Japan as world champions... in American football... wait, what? (27)
iWon Spiffy Clemens earns 350th win. Many of you farkers weren't even born when he got his first (60)
ESPN Spiffy How refreshing. A #1 overall draft pick who signs within a week instead of holding out all summer for a bazillion dollar contract (19)
BBC Silly "Of course Connors and McEnroe were grunters. Jimmy made a sound like a chimp on heat but Mac's was more like the satisfied moan of a bloke who had just let one go" (5)

Mon July 02, 2007
Sports by Brooks Scary Just when Kid Rock's music can't get any worse, he enlists golfer John Daly to sing on his new album (16)
MSNBC Unlikely David Beckham to "expect hell" in Major League Soccer (22)
ESPN Cool Where's the "reverse SAP" button on the tv when you need it? It's the Copa America matchday 2, U.S. vs Paraguay discussion thread (83)
CNN Interesting Ranking the NFL owners. Guess the worst (oddly, it's not Bill Bidwill) (79)
(Some Guy) Silly Allen Iverson slams $20 million dollar lawsuit against him. How silly is that? Not a game, not a game, but a lawsuit. C'mon, man. A lawsuit. How silly is that? (17)
NYPost Sad Yankee fans have probably seen Mount St. George's final eruption (25)
CNN Unlikely Bill Cowher is engaged in "secret" talks with the Browns, Panthers, Redskins, Iran (29)
CNN Interesting Kariya leaves Predators for another team with a future in Missouri (17)
Deadspin Followup Danny Almonte, former little league world series cheater, cut from low level minor league team. Don't worry about him, though, because of his advanced age, he's already eligible for social security (6)
ESPN Strange Are you ready for some "Mei shi gan lan qiu"? (16)
Yahoo Interesting Bad: Hank Aaron's 33-year-old home run record will fall to a steroid-enhanced slugger. Good: The new record might only last a decade. Bad: The next record breaker might be A-Rod (115)
(Rochester D&C) Sad Buffalo Sabres salvage loss of Daniel Briere by letting Chris Drury sign with the New York Rangers. Wait, that can't be good, either (61)
(Totallycrap) Cool Nice Overhead Kick (video) (17)
NYPost Amusing Mrs. A-Rod wears t-shirt with vulgar phrase on it to Yankee game; some letters are blurred in photo, so we'll never know what it said (64)
ESPN Obvious Everybody who's currently employed as a Major League Baseball manager, take one step forward. Whoa, not so fast there, Jerry Narron (19)
ESPN Spiffy Ryan Smyth makes sure trade to Islanders was a rental, signs with Colorado Avalanche (22)
CNN Obvious The Padres discover that when dealing with Milton Bradley - Some assembly may be required (12)



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