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Sun June 22, 2008
(ESPN) Cool Mark Martin, who retired at the end of 2006 only to come back and run part time schedules the last 2 years, is now set to make one last run at a Championship taking over the Hendrick Motorsports #5 car for the full 2009 season (40)
(Some Racing Guy) Interesting Kyle Busch dominates in Sonoma, capturing 5th win of the season (17)
(News.com.au) Obvious Soccer legend Pele robbed by armed youths. Apparently no one told them they weren't allowed to use their hands (23)
(ESPN) Obvious Sunday Night Baseball, Chicago-style: where the one thing Cubs and White Sox fans can agree on is that Joe Morgan farking sucks (180)
(NYPost) Strange Mets manager likens fans to fertilizer. No shiat (26)
(NASCAR) Spiffy Right turns in NASCAR... Dogs and cats living together... Mass hysteria. It's the official Toyota/Save Mart 350 discussion thread (281)
(Some Euro Guy) Spiffy Will they go for height, distance, or extra style points? Italian national grass-diving team vs. Spanish national grass-diving team today in your Euro 2008 discussion thread. It's gonna get Messi. LGT viewing options (509)
(CNN) Dumbass Three weeks later, SI's resident hater Allan Muir is still having a hard time coming to terms with the Red Wings Stanley Cup victory, claims that their draft success over the last two decades has just been "dumb luck" (33)
(LA Times) Obvious Sports bloggers are realizing they need to have more journalistic integrity and not just pull stuff out of their ass (34)
(Major League Baseball) Cool Jim Edmonds becomes the third player in Cubs' history to homer twice in one inning and the Cubs match a team record four home runs in the same inning in their victory over the White Sox. Suck it, San Diego (73)
(FDNM) Cool 62-year-old Bill Lee knows how to keep college kids off his lawn: striking them out over six innings to get a 10-6 win (12)
(Newsday) Interesting Mike & The Mad Dog may have done their last show together. That's a bad job, just a terrible job. You gotta give them a lot of credit, but gun to my head, I think they'll be back (32)
(Yahoo) Asinine 17 is the new 10 as Olympic gymnastics changes its scoring system (16)
(CNN) Cool Meet an 8 yr old kid that can name every MLB player (37)
(Breitbart.com) PSA Khan survives knockdown to TKO Gomez in fifth, extend perfect record. Next up: some cocky starfleet guy (8)

Sat June 21, 2008
(Yahoo) Obvious Smug levels in Boston expected to reach dangerous levels as the Red Sox honor the Celtics (48)
(Awful Announcing) Video Lou Pinella and Ozzie Guillen rapping in a new Chicago area Chevy commercial (30)
(NJ.com) Sad NHRA driver Scott Kalitta killed at Englishtown (111)
(YouTube) Amusing Red Sox pitchers Jonathan Papelbon and Manny Delcarmen present Milli Vanilli's "Blame it on the Rain Delay" last night (24)
(FanNation) Dumbass NBC golf blowhard Johnny Miller apologizes for saying Rocco Mediate looks like "the guy who cleans Tiger's swimming pool" and wondering "guys with the name of Rocco don't get on the trophy, do they?" (39)
(AP) Interesting How does the NBA respond to disgraced referee Tim Donaghy after he mouths off unconvincingly about game fixing? They slap him with a bill for $1.4 million. OH SNAP (28)
(Yahoo) Amusing Red Wings fan avoids jail time in Denver because an octopus is not a missile (29)
(ABC News) Sad It's getting so you can't even stage the cross-America Cannonball Run without a bunch of hippies whining about carbon footprints and gas guzzlers (21)
(Some Euro Guy) Spiffy Will the Netherlands Van der Vaart all over Russia tonight? Or will the Russians Semak the Dutch down? Euro 2008 discussion thread (380)
(NBC 10) Scary Soccer player exhibits "lack of sportsmanship" for biting a referee's face (with classic OM NOM NOM NOM picture) (76)
(Some Guy) Strange The world's greatest athlete is... Roman Sebrle. Oh, of course. Wait, what? (20)
(The Sun) Cool A football finale for the ages...scoreless for 119 minutes, 2 goals in 90 seconds, and a game winning penatly shootout save. This is what you might call Turkish delight. The Sun is there (55)
(TSN) Strange Today's sign of the Apocalypse, the Toronto Maple Leafs allow Mats Sundins agent to speak with.... the Montreal Canadiens (23)
(Major League Baseball) Amusing Ambidextrous pitcher faces off against switch-hitting batter. Hilarity ensues. (with video) (65)

Fri June 20, 2008
(Globe and Mail) Interesting Car racing for the blind. "it's like slam-dancing, but with cars" (6)
(WRAL) Obvious Judge agrees that Duke football sucks so bad it allows school to break contract with Louisville for opting out of football series (15)
(Fox Sports) Asinine Its great to be a Boston sports fan (if you ignore Patriots' postseason like this writer did) (96)
(ESPN) Sappy Bill Werber, oldest living former Major Leaguer, turns 100 today. Reminisces playing with Ruth, winning the World Series, and credits long-haired hippies for the reason why he no longer watches baseball (22)
(TSN) Cool Blue Jays fire coaching staff, re-hire coaching staff from 15 years ago (46)
(CNN) Spiffy Northside vs. Southside. Wrigley vs. The Cell. Santo vs. The Hawk. Old Style vs. Miller Lite. Friendly drunks vs. mullet-headed mongoloids. The Cubs-White Sox series begins today (245)
(New York Daily News) Followup After telling Joba to get off his lawn, Goose Gossage rips Jose Reyes. Yankees fans who wished he'd STFU suddenly interested in subscribing to his newsletter (23)
(Boston Channel) Strange Curt Schilling hasn't ruled out bloody sleeve appearance in All Star game (14)
(Yahoo) Amusing Rays sweep Cubs. Book it (62)
(Kansas City) Obvious Further proof of American League superiority: The Royals sweep the Cardinals in St. Louis, the first time the Redbirds have been swept in 24 series (37)
(ESPN) Interesting ESPN picks the biggest bandwagons in history. Let's see, you've got Yankees, Red Sox, Lakers, Bulls, the industrial revolution... wait, what? (48)
(Some Guy) Asinine Swiss TV station plays the old Nazi version of Germany's national anthem before Euro 2008 match. You know who else liked the old version better (30)
(ESPN) Spiffy It's Turkey vs. Croatia today at the second quarter final of Euro 2008. Bonus: If the Turks win, there will be civil war on the streets of Berlin next Wednesday (329)
(TSN) Cool Official NHL Draft Day Discussion Thread (630)
(Boston Globe) Sad Curt Schilling to have likely career-ending shoulder surgery, allowing him to campaign full-time for John McCain (37)
(NextAutos.com) Stupid Millionaire Formula One racing drivers threatening to strike over expensive driver's licenses (24)
(ESPN) Amusing Advice for bandwagon fans: "Somewhere in Alaska, there is a sad man walking the streets, stuck forever with a tattoo he got on his chest in 1993, of the Charlotte Hornets' logo." (106)
(Reuters) Strange Switzerland's national railway has told its workers to stop using their normal orange reflective vests after confused Dutch football fans started following them on to the tracks (6)
(BBC) Unlikely It's time again for the annual swamp soccer world chanpiomships. Maybe Portugal could win this one? (12)
(Chicago Tribune) Amusing Cubs vs. White Sox. The most important question of all: Whose fans are fatter? (257)
(Yahoo) Interesting Cristiano Ronaldo will undergo surgery to repair damage to his right foot. No word on plans to repair damage to his pride, haircut (37)
(SFGate) Interesting San Francisco Giants rookie outfield Brian "Rabbi" Horwitz wants to be remembered for talent, not religion. Maybe someday he'll make the cover of the "Famous Jewish Sports Legends" leaflet (38)
(Sports by Brooks) Sad Woman involved in Pacman Jones Vegas club melee found dead - She may have been purposefully pushed off of building (33)
(Deadspin) Amusing Jason Varitek and former Red Sox teammate Kevin Millar made a bet about the NBA Finals. Millar obviously bet on the Lakers, because his at-bat song today was Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" (30)
(Some Euro Guy) Spiffy Germany steamrolls Portugal for stunning 3-2 victory, sends Christiano Ronaldo back to diving school (33)
(Deadspin) Dumbass In a column that's surely her well-reasoned opinion and not an attempt to get cheap publicity by being "contrarian", a columnist for the SF Gate rips Tiger for being an "idiot" for playing in the US Open injured (29)
(ESPN) Cool Add "blocking the plate" to Joba's skillset, which now includes relieving, starting, and possibly field-dressing an elk on the Stadium mound (41)

Thu June 19, 2008
(AP) Obvious If you bet that Charles Barkley would be playing poker at a casino a month after paying a $400k debt, your gamble paid off. Dumbass tag folds (34)
(WGAL) Interesting International gymnastics routines used to be closely guarded state secrets, immune to all but Jason Bourne. Now, coaches, gymnasts just check out competition on YouTube (4)
(MSNBC) Hero Supermom gives birth to six, runs marathon. The whistling noise was deafening (100)
(New York Daily News) Misc A-Rod to bring BFF Derek Jeter some bon-bons and a new purse to a girls night in after new poll rates Derek as baseball's most overrated player (56)
(Yahoo) Obvious Mariners fire head coach during normal waking hours (18)
(Fox Sports) Obvious Actual headline: "Jackson didn't make right moves versus Celtics". Oh, really? (21)
(STLToday) Obvious Enough already with Boston area teams winning championships. Enough with the preening and gloating and this nonstop Boston "Me" Party (55)
(Channel3000) Strange Bob Uecker's boat smashed by 550 freighter. Juuuust a bit outside (110)
(Major League Baseball) Scary Prince Fielder just legged out an inside the park home run. Wait, what? (37)
(CNN) Cool The wackiest sports firings of all time. Willie's not even close (12)
(Sports by Brooks) Obvious Once able to bench press 450 lbs, former pro wrestling icon Lex Luger now can't lift a 1-pound dumbbell (45)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Intent on continuing to bring overrated and underperforming football to the masses, NBC renews TV contract with Notre Dame (31)
(1010WINS) Strange NHL wants to fire the NY Rangers' owners. NY Knicks' and NY Mets' fans ponder how to do the same (48)
(ESPN) Cool What does it mean with 40,000 Germans and 10,000 Portugese descend on Switzerland? It must be the first quarterfinal game of Euro 2008 (249)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Amusing Chicago White Sox GM Ken Williams stirs up crosstown rivalry by flaunting 2005 World Series trophy, congratulating Cubs on 100th anniversary of theirs (125)
(Yahoo) Obvious Celtics and Lakers early betting favorites to win 2009 NBA title, especially among NBA referees (38)
(New York Daily News) Obvious When Texas Rangers outfielder Milton Bradley refers to your newly signed pitcher with, "Wow, that dude's got issues," you might have made a serious judgment error (19)
(New York Daily News) Amusing New Mets manager: "I'm a gangster" (22)
(Yahoo) Interesting A-Rod homers for fourth straight game as Yankees win sixth straight (119)
(Now Magazine) Interesting David Beckham strips off for Emporio Armani again and sports a sizeable bulge. The wonders of Photoshop (36)
(Charlotte) Dumbass This week's "NFL running back arrested after fight at nightclub" story brought to you by J.J. Arrington and Rocky Mount NC (22)
(Washington Post) Hero Washington Nationals ban shirtless men from the ballpark for "indecent exposure" (30)
(Major League Baseball) Scary Cubs' starter leaves game with shoulder discomfort. No, this isn't a headline from 2006, 2005, 2004, etc. (58)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Custard pie throwing has some pretty complex rules" (5)
(BBC) Amusing The hottest controversy in cricket? Something baseball discovered over a century ago, the switch hitter (58)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Russia puts two balls into Sweden's goal to advance to Euro 2008 quarter finals. In related news, submitter willing to donate his two balls to help console the hot, sad, female Swedish fans (17)
(Boston Globe) Sappy Celtic's Ray Allen on his child being in the hospital during the playoffs: "I want to be with these guys but you know, the little fella's who I want to be with most" (39)

Wed June 18, 2008
(Yahoo) Cool NHL adopts rule changes to icing and faceoffs. Tens of American hockey fans rejoice (83)
(London Times) Sad "The life of a modern rugby tourist is far from beer and Skittles." Skittlebrau surrenders (9)
(The Earth Times) Obvious Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari says Euro 2008 is a World Cup but without Brazil or Argentina - sorta like a World Series without Montreal or a NASCAR race without Honda or Kia (36)
(Sports by Brooks) Unlikely Since you rarely hear of someone named "Adam" shooting up strip clubs, Adam "Pacman" Jones officially drops nickname (17)
(TSN) Spiffy Eighth time is the charm as NHL finally to OK sale of the Edmonton Oilers to Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz. Jim Balsillie last seen wringing his hands, cursing Gary Bettman (12)
(CNN) Stupid Sports Illustrated's Frank Deford claims the Cubs won't go all the way this year because of 1908, coincidentally the same year Deford became a sportswriter (28)
(Sports by Brooks) Amusing For his first NBA Finals postgame interview, Adidas endorser Kevin Garnett tries to blurt out company's marketing slogan - but gets it wrong (with video) (72)
(The Two Minute Drill) Amusing An open letter to the city of Boston: STFU (92)
(Bugs and Cranks) Sad "Thieving bastards" -- The MLB team made up of the worst contracts in baseball history (46)
(Some Guy) Dumbass "Hey want to go to the Yankees game and bring an American flag for 'God Bless America'?" "You bet I do. Let me just put on my pot leaf t-shirt and I'll be good to go" (456)
(Aint-It-Cool-News) Obvious Spike Lee's new film is about a black time traveler that goes back in time to save his father from dying, then kill Reggie Miller prior to the 1995 NBA playoffs (71)
(The DIrty) Unlikely According to Javon Walker, he was in his hotel room the whole time until some thugs beat and robbed him and dragged him into the street (33)
(Houston Chronicle) Amusing Astros reliever Doug Brocail's habit of screaming at himself after bad pitches almost caused an umpire to charge the mound last night. Astros habit of stinking out the joint caused them to lose the game (16)
(Major League Baseball) Sad At last, the National League has finally managed to balance out with the American League. Just kidding -- all but two of yesterday's interleague contests resulted in AL victories (75)
(Major League Baseball) Followup Phillies get shut out 3-0 by the Red Sox. Phillies fans are reminded that one game is a small sample size. Red Sox fans say, "See you in the World Series." (212)
(ESPN) NewsFlash Tiger Woods decides to fake his injury for the rest of the season (143)
(Major League Baseball) Obvious New Mets manager Jerry Manuel sparks team to victory in first game. Just kidding, Johan Santana got lit up and Jose Reyes threw a hissy fit after pulling his hammy (15)
(ESPN) Spiffy On the final day of group play for Euro 2008, Russia has to beat Sweden to snatch the second group spot in the quarter finals, while Greece will try to come from behind against Spain or, barring that, each other. LGT listings (59)
(AJC) Unlikely Braves pitcher Mike Hampton begins "Fake Comeback 2: Electric Boogaloo" with painless simulated game before minor-league rehab assignment (15)
(LA Times) Followup LA Times columnist Bill Plaschke pays tribute to Paul Pierce's MVP performance. Just kidding... he's still accusing him of faking a knee injury (54)
(AJC) Stupid In a move guaranteed to tick off both PETA and Native American groups, Chick-fil-A is placing a tomahawk-chopping mechanical cow atop Braves stadium in Atlanta (46)
(Free Press) Cool 8 the Gr8: Larionov heads into the Hall of Fame (31)
(Sports by Brooks) Interesting Brett Favre bows out of celebrity golf tournament. Maybe because NFL training camps will be in full swing at the same time (18)
(Boston Herald) Dumbass ESPN suspends columnist Jemele Hill after she compares rooting for the Celtics to rooting for the Nazis (82)
(ESPN) Obvious Injured Colon joins injured Wang on disabled list (20)
(ESPN) News NBA trophy, thread, goes green (334)
(590 KLBJ) Interesting Soccer team of six homeless men and their homeless coach go to National Championship. This would make a great short comedy bit (13)

Tue June 17, 2008
(Livenews) Strange France soccer coach takes novel approach to dodging tough questions after his team is kicked out of Euro 2008: a marriage proposal on live TV (7)
(Some Guy) Amusing Dan LeBatard on golf not being a sport: "You can't be eating an apple during key moments of athletic triumph. It isn't a sport when someone carries your stuff and the most grueling thing you do is walk" (88)
(USA Today) Cool Boston tries to nail down another sports championship, while L.A. tries to force a Game 7. Lakers @ Celtics Game 6 discussion thread (9pm ET, ABC) (1191)
(ESPN) Stupid Bill Simmons compares Paul Pierce to Michael Jordan (54)
(Stuff) Spiffy Paul Avery, the Michael Jordan of competitive sheep shearing, has won another Golden Shears championship (12)
(Sports by Brooks) Unlikely Doug Christie, 38, says he's being blackballed by NBA teams because of his wife's reputation (26)
(WGAL 8) Obvious Terrell Owens gets this season's attention whoring off to early start by missing first two days of minicamp (28)
(ESPN) Misc Good news for people who like bad news... for Duke. Continued suckage vs. UNC likely (17)
(ESPN) Spiffy For all those folks pushing the "any AL team can beat any NL team" mantra, Phillies crush the BoSox (174)
(Baltimore Sun) Interesting Tejada is still hitting .300 with good power, and the Orioles have dropped their bullpen ERA by two runs. The Tejada trade is the baseball equivalent of that elusive creature: The amicable break up (17)
(Boston Herald) Followup ESPN apologizes for saying that cheering for the Celtics is like rooting for Hitler, even though it is (230)
(Yahoo) Followup "So they were all like, 'Don't do that no more,' and I was like, 'Whatever,' and they were like, 'Okay, you're good now'" (17)
(Yahoo) Strange After going undefeated in three World Cup qualifying games, Madagascar fires their head coach. Wait, what? (40)
(The Local (Germany)) Obvious Carl Zeiss creates world's tiniest football field, where the world's tiniest violin will be played when the German side loses on Thursday (9)
(BBC) Amusing Why Olympic mascots suck, and how not to have sucky mascots at your Olympics (25)
(WCBS 880) Obvious New York Mets fire manager Willie Randolph. Who had June 17th in the pool? (131)

Mon June 16, 2008
(Sports by Brooks) Obvious Oakland Raiders WR Javon Walker found unconscious on Las Vegas street corner. Looks like what happens in Vegas doesn't stays in Vegas (58)
(CNN) Followup It turns out that the final Hall of Fame Game was last year (21)
(ESPN) Obvious Seattle Mariners GM Bill Bavasi fired; MLB saddened over loss of favorite doormat (43)
(Sports by Brooks) Amusing Julius Erving irked by photo-seeking fan who mistook him for Bill Russell (24)
(Fox Sports) Cool Tiger gets within three majors of Nicklaus, fourteen ahead of Mediate (265)
(Telegraph) Interesting Euro 2008 championships a surprise hit among Nazi war criminals (28)
(Some Germany Fan) Spiffy When Germany battles Austria for the second group slot in the quarter finals and Poland plays Croatia for no particular reason, it must be Euro 2008. LGT TV listings (76)
(US Open at Torrey Pines) PSA Rocco vs. Tiger at Torrey Pines, Day 5 (1138)
(Metro) Followup Report finds "evidence of anti-social behaviour" prior to Manchester soccer hooligan rioting. O RLY? (9)
(CNN) Stupid USA USA USA -- suck it, Barbados. USA USA USA -- eight-nil, biatches. USA USA USA... wait, what's that? The World Cup is not for two more years? (101)
(ESPN) Cool And they've got to get themselves back to the Garden -- L.A. ekes out 103-98 Game 5 victory (94)
(ESPN) Interesting ESPN's all-star predictions: It's not every player on the Cubs, surprisingly (104)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Turkish soccer team scores three goals against Czechs in final 15 minutes in amazing come-from-behind victory. Guess they have more in common with the Greeks than they thought (52)
(AP) Sad Cardinals catcher trampled on a tag play and removed on a stretcher. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG (47)

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