Candle in the Wind

Goodbye Sweaty Joe Though we never knew you at all You had the grace to towel yourself While those around you cringed They crawled out of the woodwork And they whispered into your brain They made you the closer And we learned to spell your name And it seems to me you...

Daily Dose: A time to keeeeeel

We should be ashamed. All of us. We should go out and buy hairshirts and wear them while publicly flogging ourselves. We did the one thing you just can’t do. We doubted our man Carlos. Three shaky outings in a row, including a complete meltdown at Miller Park...

NBA Draft Live: 2005

For the fifth consecutive year you can watch the NBA Draft on TV and follow along with us. In those five years we’ve seen some great things. We saw Dei Lynam confuse Yao Ming’s translator (he knew how to translate English to Mandarin, not Jibberish to...

Daily Dose: State of the Sammy

Tonight, President Bush is going to give a live TV address to the nation. The pundits (good word, pundits) say he’s going to reassure the nation that the Iraq War is going well. I have it on authority that’s not the theme of his speech. Rather, he’s...

Daily Dose: Much needed reprieve

This is yet another reason why it’s a good thing that baseball is not the Tour de France. Not only are the only sweaty Frenchmen involved in baseball these days, guys tearing down what used to be Olympic Stadium in Montreal, but when you lose the first game of a...