withleather.uproxx.com — Saint Andrew’s Net is With Leather’s daily link dump. It created 3,000 jobs this year, although most of those jobs were prefixed by “blow” and “hand.” If cheerleaders earned awards in the middle of the season, it would probably go something like this [holds imaginary phone to face] Bleacher Repo  

sportsfrog.com — Soreness. And scratched from his next start. And going for an MRI. And if this goes like the rest of this godforsaken Mets season has, will be worst case scenario and a diagnosis of the need for Tommy John surgery. From Mets manager Jerry Manuel: “I’m terribly concerned, no question about it,” Jerr  

sportsfrog.com — Calling out the media for its coverage of his ongoing legal case.  Shut up, you big baby.  It’s Kentucky, and we care a hell of a lot more about basketball than we do about the economy or Ted Kennedy.   

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hockeybuzz.com — Today's rookie game scrimmage between the Flyers and Capitals prospects will be streamed on both...  

sportingo.com — Martin O'Neill's men are keen to put a perplexing issue to bed by beating Bolton's battered troops.  

mlb.mlb.com — Gonzalez shows confidence in Lindstrom   

mlb.mlb.com — Gordon looking past disappointing year  

blogged.comsports — Dr. Saturday Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BCS Saturday's Oregon State-Cincinnati tilt ranked somewhere between "most intriguing game no one paid any attention to" and "most intriguing game whose winner you can't recall." Both teams are struggling through very meh nati...   

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theoffside.com — Stuff to read while you watch Robbie Fowler run out the ol’ handstand-to-kick-in-the-face move….. Sad news: this is Mad Jens’ retirement tour. (Deutsche Welle) The quotes of the Spanish summer. (La Liga Loca) How Cristiano & Kaka are spending that Real cash. (The Spoiler) Who’s your man in t  

sportsfrog.com — No team wants to hear that one of its central defenders and captain will miss a month.  No team wants to hear that on the heels of a bad loss in midweek.  No team wants to hear that as the transfer window nears its close.  No team wants to hear that when the roster is [...]  

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thebiglead.com — “Sources close to the story [say] jealousy played a role in the early morning altercation. The sources [claim] that witnesses at Merriman’s home said the three-time Pro Bowl linebacker went to his bedroom with two women. Sources said Tequila walked into the room and Merriman asked her to join them.   

hockeybuzz.com — Aparently, even Matt Duchene has haters. Adrian Dater's blog and the rest of the Denver Post's site have a faction of posters who believe that Matt Duchene is a bust. One poster indeed posted that he was the "most overrated" third overall pick ever. First of all, how about putting Scott Thornt  

hockeybuzz.com — For those of you with kids, the first part of the title to this post may seem familiar. As I sat in the press box watching Thursday's game against the St. Louis Blues, suddenly the book title: "Alexander and The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" came to mind regarding the Minnesota Wild's game play   

hockeybuzz.com — Following the final game of last season, Kings star players Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown were both asked what they wished for this season. They both answered the same thing. â??A left winger.â? On July 3rd theyâ??re request was granted and Ryan Smyth filled that void by changing zip codes for t  

hockeybuzz.com — Stastny is on a one-way contract and is due $500,000 even if he plays in the minors. Tallackson was also placed on waivers. More to come, Andy Strickland strickland.andy@gmail.com  

hockeybuzz.com — One minute and twenty-eight seconds. That was the difference in Thursday nightâ??s 5-4 loss to Washington. In that span of timeâ?¦right in the middle of the second periodâ?¦the Caps took a 2-2 tie with the Thrashers and turned it into a 5-3 advantage. And it all began with what could have been, s  

hockeybuzz.com — I wrote this two years ago when I first started with Hockeybuzz - doesn't seem that long ago! - and I was thinking about it last night while I sat in Citizen's Bank Park watching the Phillies beat the Houston Astros and clinch the National League East securing their place in the postseason. I had su