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ABOUT LAST NIGHT

About Last Night: Dickey Delivers Knuckle Sandwich

By Shane Ryan at

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Wednesday.

  • Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey capped off his improbable season by winning the NL Cy Young Award. "In frozen to name the scarlet lake we'll posit terrible worsts or declare any ripple tentative by the queen devouring sensations evasive," said Dickey, in his patented KnuckleSpeak language. "Thanks, this is awesome!" said his new translator.
  • Blake Griffin (20 points, 14 boards) and Chris Paul (16 points, 10 assists) each registered a double-double as the Clippers topped the Heat 107-100. "I guess it's time to concede that he won the Blake Griffin fame war," said minor British soap opera star Blake Griffin, as she sipped a gin and tonic at her computer and began to weep dramatically.
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    THEY'RE JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU

    Attainable or Unattainable III: Olympics Edition

    By Rembert Browne and Chelsea Fagan at
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    I, Rembert Browne, have nothing to offer an Olympian with regard to the holding of hands, the making of love, the walking of aisles, or the having of children. Please do not waste time trying to convince me otherwise; I know it to be true and I am slowly coming to grips with that as fact. It's OK, though, because for the sake of the Human Race, I firmly believe Olympians need to mate with other Olympians, if for no other reason than to create super-offspring that will protect our kind against the Unknown when they attack Earth in 36 years.

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    RANKONIA

    Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings

    By Chris Ryan at

    1. Kobe Bryant: Alpha Male

    Let's just sum up this guy's week real quick: negged the President of the United States and the First Lady's lack of comfort with public displays of affection and called David Stern's proposal to have Team USA be made up of players age 23 and under "stupid." Barack, Stern. Ether. He probably told all those kids in the picture above that they would never amount to anything. And he will probably spend the rest of his life making sure of it. So if you're one of the kids in the above picture: I'm sorry. Also?

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    RANKONIA

    Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings

    By Chris Ryan at

    1. Hope Solo: God Forgives, Hope Don't
    The USWNT goalkeeper was warned this week by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for testing positive for something called Canrenone, which I may or may have not had at Olive Garden last night, incidentally. She was basically like, "Cool warning." Rem and I talked about this briefly.

    Rem: Am I allowed to nominate Hope Solo for beating her charge?
    Chris: Not guilty, y'all got to feel her.
    Rem: Teflon Don.
    Chris: Hope Solo treated those charges like she treated Briana Scurry back in '07.

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    ABOUT LAST NIGHT

    About Last Night: A Royal Slugfest

    By Shane Ryan at

    In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday.

    • Prince Fielder hit a record-tying 12 final-round home runs to win his second Home Run Derby and join Ken Griffey Jr. as the only player with multiple titles. He also remains the only prince to ever win a title, following the indecisive performance of Prince Hamlet, who swung way too late, the boring and wordy performance of Prince Valiant, who nobody watched after his first two outs, the threatening counterculture performance of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air from 1990, who used a funky multicolored bat that shocked middle America, the bizarre performance of Prince himself, whose hitting ability is not quantifiable or even recognizable, and the ends-justify-the-means performance of Machiavelli's theoretical prince, who keeps getting banned for trying to use a metal bat.
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    ABOUT LAST NIGHT

    About Last Night: Roger's Dinner With Andre

    Federer
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    In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday. Special "in related news" edition!

    • Roger Federer tied Andre Agassi for second on the all-time Grand Slams wins list with a first round victory at the U.S. Open. In related news, USTA officials detained Agassi before the match as he made his way to Federer's court with a wheelbarrow full of banana peels.

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