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Wed July 23, 2008
(ESPN) Obvious NBA's ridiculous free agency rules force a young player to choose between playing in Atlanta or Athens. Apparently, this isn't a difficult decision (15)
(Gainesville Sun) Florida Ordinary: Gators get awesome football recruit. Extraordinary: He's 15 (15)
(The Tennessean) Obvious Tennessee Titans discover an amazing new way to practice. Apparently, if you put lights on the practice field, you can practice at night (12)
(Deadspin) Dumbass Yankees' idiotic "Roll Call" finally causes an error (35)
(Yahoo) Dumbass Alexander Ovechkin admits in an interview that he gave police officer 10 Capitals tickets after he was let off for doing three times the speed limit. You're doing it wrong (33)
(Kansas City) Obvious University of Kansas football players wish KU fans would stop wearing t-shirts such as "Our Coach is Phat" and "Our Coach Beat Anorexia" because it could hurt Mark Mangino's feelings (45)
(WTMJ) Ironic Ah, America's national pastime. A team called the Brewers who's sponsored by a South African-owned beer company takes the NL wildcard lead over a team owned by a Belgian beer conglomerate (71)
(ESPN) Cool How do you know when the WNBA has officially arrived? When the players get into a brawl on a Tuesday night in Detroit. Video catfight goodness (55)
(Sporting News) Amusing Mets get started on their collapse to the Phillies a little early this year (50)
(LA Times) Sad Jerome Holtzman, Hall of Fame member and dean of American baseball writers, takes his place in the big pressbox in the sky (13)

Tue July 22, 2008
(Deadspin) Stupid Florida QB Tim Tebow declines nomination for Playboy's All-American team due to his religious beliefs. Article includes pic of Tebow obviously taken at Bible camp (61)
(ESPN) Spiffy D'backs acquire Rauch to assemble tallest pitching staff in majors (38)
(Nola.com) Strange Media slapfights, disgruntled superstars and a QB who is in the NFL by being the undetectably retarded younger brother of a good QB. How exactly did the Giants win the Super Bowl again? (97)
(CBS New York) Asinine Yankee Stadium lifts ban on sunscreen on heels of really recent, totally unheard-of idea that prolonged exposure to the sun gives you cancer (50)
(Sports by Brooks) Cool When he's not losing it at the blackjack tables, Charles Barkley is spending his dough on college tuitions for busboys (25)
(Some Steeler Fan) Amusing After 34 years, someone finally notices that the final score on the Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl IX championship ring is wrong (307)
(Some Guy) Stupid Website promoting tourism in America wants you to check out an Arena football team that no longer exists (23)
(WRAL) Interesting Durham Athletic Park, which gained national prominence with the movie "Bull Durham," follows the lead of Susan Sarandon (25)
(Some Guy) Video Greg Oden auditon to host the ESPYs. "I'm kind of a big deal... people know me" (28)
(SFGate) Spiffy Randy Johnson goes 13-0 lifetime against Chicago Cubs. Book it. Done (61)
(Yahoo) Spiffy And you thought you had a bad Monday: Royals pitcher Jimmy Gobble stuffs the strike zone but gets carved up for 10 runs by Detroit hitters, who had already mashed their way to seven-run lead, so it's all gravy. Turkey (18)
(The Sun) Weird Golf legend Nick Faldo has hired the best possible iron to run to the hills at the Ryder cup: Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain, hired as part of his backroom staff to motivate the team. Up the irons (18)

Mon July 21, 2008
(BBC) Obvious "I swear to God, we're only two generations from North American kids being born with castors on their feet" (48)
(ESPN) Asinine After being DQ'd for a rules violation against the women of the LPGA last week, Wie ready to tee it up against the men of the PGA this week. Hell, she's earned it, right? Right? (59)
(Some Guy) Obvious Sportswriter: Danica Patrick is a whiny jerk who gets a free ride because she is a hot chick (96)
(Wordpress) Obvious Statistical analysis indicates New Jersey Nets are preparing to tank the next two seasons in order to sign LeBron James in 2010 (26)
(ESPN) Amusing Titletown USA: Ann Arbor. Yes, you read that right. Stop laughing. No, seriously guys, Ann Arbor (162)
(Fox Sports) Cool After proving they can win without him, Giants cut dead weight (85)
(Deadspin) Obvious In a NYT op-ed, Buzz Bissinger writes about a trip to the College World Series that ended with him getting in a shoving match with security that left him bloody and in handcuffs. No word on how he plans to blame this on bloggers (24)
(Canoe) Amusing Ravens sign replacement QB Shane Falco (67)
(New York Daily News) Sad Good: The Hudson River is now clean enough to suport jellyfish. Bad: NYC Triathlon swimmers also like to swim in the Hudson River (44)
(ESPN) Cool Brewers trade for Ray Durham. Cubs expected to follow up by trading for an even older, more injury prone player (69)
(Barstool Sports.com) Strange How do NBAers spend the offseason? Well, for Baron Davis and Steve Nash, it involves riding a tandem bicycle near Santa Moncia pier, dressed like nerds (50)
(New York Daily News) Stupid Even though the Yankees swept the A's this weekend, NY sports media not satisfied because the Yankees didn't dominate. Won-loss record surrenders (42)
(FanHouse) Amusing Bengals QB Carson Palmer has nice things to say about college football fans in Ohio. Just kidding, he hates OSU and their fans, raves like a lunatic (115)
(Major League Baseball) Cool If you tuned out the Mets due to their early season losing streak, it would amaze you now that they are tied for first place (35)
(MSNBC) Obvious Lo, how the mighty have fallen. Angels sweep Boston for first time in seven years (93)
(Chicago Tribune) Sad Kerry Wood, disabled list for the 12th time in his career, book it, almost done (45)

Sun July 20, 2008
(Major League Baseball) Hero Phrase you thought you'd never hear #53129: "Aaron Miles walkoff grand slam" (43)
(Some Guy) Amusing Sometimes the pictures just speak for themselves (20)
(Washington Post) Cool After Phillip Daniels tears his ACL, Jason Taylor dances his way to Washington (37)
(madison.com) Stupid 250 people eat a dead beetle for admission to a minor league baseball game. Might be due to the "all you can drink" part of it (9)
(YouTube) Video Video of the Danica-Milka cat fight. Unfortunately it ends before they rip each others' clothes off and wrestle on the ground (93)
(Yahoo) Followup Oklahoma City's new NBA team will be called the Thunder. Submitter wonders what AC/DC song fans will be hearing at every single game over and over again (116)
(Yahoo) Spiffy The Open closes, Harrington wins his second, Shark left circling the drain (20)
(YouTube) Cool Doug Flutie heads into College Football Hall of Fame. LGT video of one big reason why (42)
(Detroit News) Sad Experts predicting two branches of the military withdraw will by December... from NASCAR (25)
(ESPN) Cool Old and Busted: Cubs playing like the Red Sox playing like the Patriots and the Celtics. New Hotness: Cubs playing like the Red Sox playing like the Bruins and the Blackhawks (54)
(IndyStar) Spiffy Danica Patrick & Milka Duno recreate "Kill Bill Volume 1" at Ohio raceway. Not really, but since you're already fantasizing (52)

Sat July 19, 2008
(Yahoo) Dumbass Oops, Wie did it again (42)
(ESPN) Cool Old and busted: Red Sox playing like Patriots and Celtics. New Hotness: Red Sox playing like Bruins (108)
(Yahoo) Cool UFC vs Affliction who will escape without getting teabagged tonight? (100)
(ESPN) Spiffy Through three rounds, 53 year-old Greg Norman leads the Senio... What? He leads the regular British Open? Seriously? Alrighty then. Through three rounds, Greg Norman leads the 2008 British Open (57)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting At least nine separate groups looking to acquire a baseball team that hasn't won a World Series since '08 -- 1908 that is (17)
(MSNBC) Sad Sandlot baseball is almost extinct, James Earl Jones unavailable for comment (54)
(TBO) Florida Bobby Bowden says his time is "getting close." Not sure whether he's referring to retirement or death (20)
(ESPN) Amusing Angels offer a preview of ALCS by trouncing the Red Sox 11-3. Bonus: video of Manny rolling in the grass like a Special Olympics kid while trying to catch a blooper (78)
(AP) Interesting With Tiger Woods on the couch back in the States, is there any reason to pay attention to the British Open? (41)
(ESPN) Asinine Drake Dudley has been an MMA prodigy since age 7; his dad has been a jerk a lot longer (29)
(Abc.net.au) Silly Hooker wins pole vault. You're doing it wrong (11)

Fri July 18, 2008
(Associated Content) Unlikely The UFC pays their fighters 3% of the money they generate, officially making Don King jealous of their negotiating skills (52)
(Some Guy) Interesting The life and times of a minor league umpire (14)
(WTAM) Spiffy LeBron James figures out how NOT to get stopped for speeding over 100 MPH (24)
(Newsday) Ironic Mets return to first place on 7/17 (97)
(London Times) Weird Manchester football club takes up Feng Shui and places crystals under the pitch in an attempt to boost their results. If this fails, their next plan involves landmines (24)
(OpenGolf.com) Cool Fark golf fans wake up bewildered as to what year it is, seeing Greg Norman and Jean van de Velde on top of the Open leaderboard (44)
(TMZ) Amusing No, really, Brady Quinn isn't gay. No matter what this gay dating website using his photo illegally will tell you (36)
(ESPN) Interesting No mo' Nomo (45)
(FanHouse) Cool Shockingly, a member of Red Sox Nation has been located who is willing to call out Manny Ramirez on his bullshiat. Unfortunately for Manny, that man is Red Sox owner John Henry (61)
(Wired) Sick Olympians: On your mark, get set, cough (41)

Thu July 17, 2008
(ESPN) Interesting Phillies pick up former Cy Young winner for three minor leaguers. Nah, not really, they add a guy leading the AL in losses (39)
(National Post) Obvious Reporter is shocked that submitters aren't taking Hockey Night In Canada Theme contest seriously (34)
(CNN) Obvious Football player signed by Alabama decides he'd rather go ahead and make money playing baseball now than help make Alabama millions of dollars (37)
(NASCAR) Spiffy NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson named "Best Driver" at ESPY show. Suck it, F1 (49)
(TSN) Interesting NHL releases 08-09 season schedule. Barry Melrose outraged to learn that his new-look Lightning will be opening the season in front of dirty, visor-wearing Europeans who are an affront to God and the sport of hockey (74)
(Yahoo) Obvious Miami Dolphins mathematically eliminated from playoffs for next five seasons (34)
(ESPN) Amusing Yankees sign big-name position player to put them over the top in the AL pennant race (144)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Tour de France officials confirm that an Italian was perilously close to winning (42)
(Durant Democrat) Silly University of Oklahoma basketball player arrested for stealing makeup (18)
(Yahoo) Strange Since May 20th, the San Francisco Giants have been the hottest team in the NL West. And by "hot," we mean 23-26 (41)
(Yahoo) Followup Boston Globe columnist wishes James Posey well, congratulates New Orleans on acquisition. Ha ha, no... he warns Hornets that Posey is pure mercenary, devoid of sentiment (56)
(Yahoo) Obvious With little hope of finding a new team for next year, NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Scott Riggs may be banished to the place all mediocre, washed-up drivers go -- the Craftsman Truck Series (30)
(Sports by Brooks) Amusing Last year, Terrell Owens said that Jessica Simpson was "not a fan favorite at Texas Stadium." This year, T.O. says she can sit in his stadium seats anytime (23)
(AJC) Obvious From the Deja Vu Department: Hampton tweaks groin in rehab start (34)



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