49ers lineman Thomas Herrion dead at 23
310-pound offensive lineman Thomas Herrion of Fort Worth collapsed and died after the San Francisco 49ers' preseason game against the Denver Broncos last night. He was 23.
This morning's Sportscenter led the show with crap on Terrell Owens and some preseason NFL scores before they bothered to mention the young man's death.

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Racist Paternalism at the NCAA
Points out that the NCAA’s recent ruling against Indian mascots is even more ridiculous than I thought.

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MLB stats adjusted for steroids
Found this link via one of my Google ads, they've used Baseball Mogul with steroid-free adjusted power ratings to redo the last twenty years of Major League Baseball. Want to know how the records should really look? Check out the article.

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Mike Tyson to star in porno with Jenna Jameson
I believe we officially know where rock bottom is. What do you think is more dangerous for Iron Mike, getting in the ring again or having sex with Jenna Jameson?

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Bonds out till 2006?
Darn.

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Rafael Palmeiro suspended for steroids
Holy cow. First big name guy goes down with Major League Baseball's new steroid policy.
Guess Skip Bayless was right. Damnit.

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Longhorn fan survives 5 days in lava field
I'm not sure how smart he is for getting his ass lost, but at least he was on the ball and showed his Longhorn pride for the photo op.
As we got closer you could see the man flashing a mirror and waving a dark orange fabric,she said.As he was coming down the path, clearly he couldn't move that well.

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Baseball and softball out of Olympics
They axed baseball and softball from the 2012 Olympics, but are trying to add squash and roller sports.
The IOC makes the NCAA look well-run.

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CFN's Big XII preview
Losses to Aggy and Mizzou?? I just don't see that happenening. Ohio State scares the bejeezus out of me though. Full Texas preview.
(crossposted at Bevo Sports)

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What if other NFL players spelled their names like Brett Favre?
Brett Favre's ancestors couldn't spell, what if other NFL players had the same problems?
- Drew Bledose
- Ben Reothlibsegrer
- Vinny Testavedre
- Jerry Rcie
- Chris Fuamtau-Ma'alfaa
- Michael Vcik
- Jamal Leiws
- Willis MaGaehe
- Laveranues Coels
- Brett Farve

Tony Batista scares tiny Asians
Former major leaguer Tony Batista gets beaned in a Japanese pro baseball game and the poor pitcher takes off running thinking he's coming after him.
(via BestWeekEver)

TexasSports.com using SlideShowPro
Was looking for photos of last night's Texas game and saw that TexasSports.com is using SlideShowPro for their galleries now. I wonder when that happened. They have a separate slideshow set up for each sport, and then each slideshow contains multiple galleries.
Pretty cool implementation.

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Kevin Durant to Texas?
Scout.com is reporting that Kevin Durant, the nation's top SF prospect and number 3 overall player, will commit to play basketball at Texas tomorrow. Huge pickup. Stay tuned...
(Crossposted at BevoSports.com)

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Phil Jackson rejoining Lakers
Reunited and it feels so good.
I give it eighteen months.

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College World Series bracket
The official bracket for the CWS is up and ready. If Texas wins their first game I should be able to catch all of them on TV. I wish I had ESPNHD, stupid Grande.

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Plunk Biggio
A weblog "Dedicated to Craig Biggio and his (probably unintentional) Quest to break the all time major league career record for getting hit by pitches."
Although he's having a good season, I wish he and Jeff Bagwell had stopped getting plunked two years ago before their salaries and talent decline started to really hurt the Astros.
(via Kottke)

Rocket to Rangers?
Now this might actually make sense for the Astros and Clemens. The Rangers are actually in contention and have prospects to trade, while there is essentially no reason for the Astros to deal with the Yankees.
We'll see what happens if the Astros keep playing this poorly and the Rangers this well.

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Jake Plummer looks like a porn star

The Blu-Blocker sunglasses really top off this ensemble. I'm not sure this is a look I could pull off.

Cy Young winner Santana prepares with PSP
If only my copy of MVP Baseball would ACTUALLY SHOW UP! It was supposed to be here Monday, but stupid UPS sent it 330 miles from Mesquite to Port Arthur instead of the 20 miles to Plano. Morons.
(via Om Malik)

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Ricky 'absolutely' set for Dolphins camp
I can't decide whether I want him to come back or not. I miss seeing him play and had no problems with him retiring, but I don't want him coming back only to quickly retire again. He apparently has a good report with Nick Saban and is in shape, but someone on ESPN mentioned he only weighed like 190. That's way too light for him to be ready to play.

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