The Soft Bigotry of Heightened Aggression

TMQ admits, he just doesn’t understand. Week after week, thousands of E$PN.com Page 2 readers flock to this column for the longest in-depth weekly analysis of the great game of football available on a free ad-laden website. (TMQ would also be happy to add “best” and “most intelligent,” but his Christian faith and tendencies towards […]

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Unfurl the Unispheres!

The Oakland Anaerobics are back! Every year around this time, it seems like that lovable collection of scrubs, fatties, who-dats, and no-hopers pile into the van and head off to the Lone Star State, intent on wresting away control of the AL West from their peers. Much to the bilious dismay of Hall of Famer […]

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Missouri’s Own Hemophiliac Aristocracy

A year and a half ago, the Brewers traded gigantic first baseman Richie Sexson to the Diamondbacks, and received what looked like a collection of spare parts in return. Junior Spivey, Lyle Overbay, Chris Capuano, Jorge de la Rosa: who the hell were all these guys? When the Brewers shipped closer Danny Kolb to the […]

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His Personal Commodus

Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo attracted a small measure of controversy last week when pictures of him cavorting with nubile young lasses at a Boston-area college surfaced on the Internet. The very married Arroyo, plastic cup of keg beer in bejeweled hand, was seen smiling pleasantly with a young babe perched eagerly on his lap; […]

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STOP ME BEFORE I BUNT AGAIN!

One of the great failings of Major League Baseball is, quite simply, the appalling lack of cheerleaders. Go to any April night game at Fenway Park. You’ll find mile-long lines at the hot chocolate stand and grown men huddling under promotional stadium blankets. You won’t find Red Sox-sanctioned cheerbabes leading the crowd in the wave […]

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