SAN DIEGO -- There were some odd features to the Dodgers-Padres game Friday night at Petco Park, no doubt. Both teams wore red caps in honor of the Fourth of July, for example, making the game -- won by the Dodgers, 6-3 -- look like a Texas Rangers ...
Vince Young hums. Just before every opening kickoff, standing alone behind the bench, he beatboxes "June 27th," the classic slow-ride joint by fellow Houstonian DJ Screw. He bobs his head a bit and puts a subtle wiggle through his 6'5", 233-pound frame. ...
ON the morning in January that the Phoenix Suns announced they'd traded for Jim Jackson, head coach Mike D'Antoni stood in the hallway outside his office before a group of reporters. "How long do you think it will take before Jackson is comfortable ...
Vin Scully strolls into the Dodger Stadium press box that bears his name, does a little vaudevillian shuffle and says, "Ta-da!" He's an hour later than he hoped, fresh off a classic LA County freeway snarl, and he's singing, riffing off the old My Fair ...
Watch this story on "Outside the Lines" on Sunday at 9 a. m. ET on ESPN n 1958, the University of Buffalo football team won eight of nine regular-season games and was awarded the Lambert Cup as the best small-school program in the eastern United States. ...
Jeff Weaver knows what you think of him. He hears you snickering even now, about the meltdowns in Detroit and the Bronx, about the screaming into his glove, about the body language so obvious it reads like closed captioning for the hearing-impaired. He ...
IAMI -- CeCe Boozer's alarm clock rang at 4 a.m., the glare of a waxing August moon still coming through the bedroom window. She and her husband, Carlos, hadn't slept all night. They had prayed for wisdom and safe passage. Paced the floor. Gone over ...
The clammy desk jockey on the TV is describing a disaster: the worst single-day point drop in the stock market's history. As he watches, Rockets general manager Daryl Morey shakes his head and says dryly, "Sounds like a buy-low opportunity." Spoken ...
They had come tantalizingly close to tying the series, only to see it slip away. "I was out there on the field and I was thinking, 'We're going to do this,'" Manny Ramirez said. "Everybody on this team played their hearts out." "I think we're in a ...
Daisuke Matsuzaka smiles and a host of cameras flash. It's a lightning storm inside the ballroom of the Takanawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo, where some 200 journalists are gathered on Nov. 1 for Matsuzaka's "posting," the official announcement that his ...
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