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Nationals Defeat Cardinals, Says ESPN

We admit, it didn't look great for the Cardinals for most of the night. So who could blame ESPN for queuing up the MLB landing page with the "Nationals Win" feature? Still, this is not a great typo. Less so for Cardinals fans (we're too busy drinking heavily and high-fiving strangers to care, really ... More >>

Tipped Off

2 Reasons "Dangerous" Dannie Williams Should Be on ESPN Friday Night Fights January 6

​Update 10:25 p.m. to show that Williams is not scheduled for the televised portion of the card.ESPN's Friday Night Fights makes its season premiere on January 6. And for the second time in five months, St. Louis native "Dangerous" Dannie Williams will box on the card (opponent to be announced). ... More >>

How Many People Really Attended Yesterday's Independence Bowl?

Image ViaCouldn't make it to Shreveport yesterday? Join the, uh, crowd?​If you watched the Independence Bowl yesterday, you got familiar with the image above. Amazingly, ESPN kept showing shot after shot of the stands despite the fact that hardly anyone was at the game. The picture above was snapp ... More >>

Ryan Coyne to Fight on Roy Jones Jr. Undercard Saturday

Albert SamahaIt's a big winter for St. Louis boxing.​It's only a matter of time before Ryan Coyne gets his title shot. The 18-0 slugger from St. Charles is aiming for a collision with WBA light heavyweight champ Beibut Shumenov sometime in 2012. In the meantime, there are wins he must rack up. T ... More >>

Devon Alexander Is Nearing A Deal To Fight Marcos Maidana

Albert SamahaIn June Alexander beat the second best Argentine fighter in the world. Will he face the best one in February?​There's a good chance Devon Alexander, the current face of St. Louis boxing, will fight Argentine slugger Marcos Maidana in February. Last week ESPN boxing wizard Dan Rafael r ... More >>

Fight Night in St. Charles: The Eyes of the Boxing World are on St. Louis' Dannie Williams

Albert Samaha"Dangerous" Danny Williams (right) takes on Antonio "El Bazooka" Cervantes (left) on ESPN's Friday Night Fights tonight.​"Dangerous" Dannie Williams hadn't been back to St. Louis since April, so he made his rounds before the weigh-in at the Amerisports Bar and Grill at the Amerist ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Look, Dad, you actually can get ahead in life if you have stupid-looking hair.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 29, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subt ... More >>

Shocker: Study Shows Retired NFL Players Abuse Painkillers More Than The Rest of Us

image via​Here's some news that will shock you: Retired NFL players, who spent the best years of their lives running and throwing and getting tackled and getting hurt, take more painkillers than the rest of us. Since they were NFL players, they have better access to the good ones, like Vicodin ... More >>

Jumbling Towers Outed by ESPN as Basketball Junkies

Here's something you don't see every day: Today, ESPN's TrueHoop blog dubbed Jumbling Towers its house band. Writer Henry Abbott notes that a friend of his heard an MP3 of the band on the music site Fluxblog -- and that lead to the band revealing its love for the ESPN blog and the game.

University of Missouri Makes Two of ESPN's Top 50 Football Heartbreakers -- and It Ain't Over Yet

​In the words of the immortal Hank Williams Jr.: "Are your ready for some football!?" We here at Daily RFT are, especially college football which starts in just one month's time. Speaking of which, ESPN.com is running a fun little feature called House of Pain recalling the  50 "most painful o ... More >>

Food Inspections at St. Louis Stadiums Get Better Grades Than Most (i.e. Kansas City)

You knew those stadium nachos weren't healthy in the first place.​ESPN is out with a review of health citations for food at all the nation's pro-sports stadium and arenas. The bad news: That $6 beer and $5 hot-dog you just ordered may contain moldy ice and rodent droppings. The good news: Odds are ... More >>

Will Albert "The Great" Follow "King" James' Footsteps?

He didn't even leave a note. ​So after witnessing quite possibly the worst idea I've seen in literally years, the ESPN/LeBron James joint project entitled "The Decision", the question, of course, will predictably be asked around these parts, "Could Albert Pujols be next for this sort of thing?"&nb ... More >>

ESPN Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack

Amy Winehouse, formerly a professor of physics at Cambridge, is seen here after an hour of ESPN's baseball coverage. ​Just when I thought ESPN couldn't possibly get their baseball any more wrong than they already have, they surprise me and go beyond all previous levels of craptitude just to prove ... More >>

Sporting News: Mixed martial arts proves the end is near, and Pujols isn't going anywhere

Mizzou Bungles Big Dance Bid; SLU's Cinderella Season Still Alive

Image Via Losing to Nebraska is easy when you shoot like this​If the SLU Billikens needed a lesson on how not to lock-up an NCAA tournament bid on the eve of their showdown with Rhode Island in the A-10 tournament, Mizzou was happy to oblige. The Tigers, who finished fifth in the Big 12 in the reg ... More >>

ESPN Retracts Article That Had Bloggers, Including St. Louis' Gateway Pundit, Saying Obama Would Ban Sport Fishing

Does this look like a man who opposes recreational fishing?​Not to start a "blogger fight" as one commenter suggested when we wrote yesterday about fellatio and the right-wing blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, but it seems Hoft has really, um, swallowed a whopper.Posts Hoft wrote Tuesday and tod ... More >>

Guess Where I'm Eating This Pizza

I'd like to include some colorful detail to accompany this edition of Guess Where I'm Eating, but I was distracted by ESPNews, which managed to repeat the Tiger Woods mea culpa in its entirety three times over the course of my lunch. Thankfully, the sound was muted.Ian Froeb​Where am I eating this ... More >>

Steve Phillips, Baseball Broadcater Fired Over St. Louis Tryst, Still Makes Call in MLB 2K10

Steve Phillips in the broadcast booth.​Steve Philips, the ESPN baseball broadcaster who was let go after it was revealed he slept with an ESPN employee during their stay in St. Louis for the All-Star game, is still making the calls -- in a video game format anyway.Early previews for MLB 2K10 repor ... More >>

St. Louis Tryst Leads to Firing of ESPN Analyst Steve Phillips

Last week we noted how St. Louis is a terrible place for sports figures to launch affairs. Yesterday we saw our theory hold up when ESPN fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips. Steve Phillips​The former GM for the New York Mets, Phillips had quickly risen through the ranks of the sports network sit ... More >>

St. Louis: Great Place For Sports Figures to Launch Disastrous Affairs

Steve Phillips​Yes, pollsters, feel free to defecate on St. Louis all you want. But here's one ranking where we certainly score high marks: cities where passing sports figures can get involved in bizarro relationships with detestable wenches.Consider baseball player Ronnie Belliard. The current Lo ... More >>

Ashanti, Chingy, Ginuwine, Nelly and Other Celebs with Two Names Set for All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball

On Sunday afternoon, July 12, celebrities and baseball legends will gather on the field at Busch Stadium for the Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game. Musicians scheduled to play include Backstreet Boys member Brian Littrell, Nelly, Chingy, Ashanti and Ginuwine. (No word yet on if th ... More >>

Head Ravioli Maker Leaves ToastedRav.com

Mike Flynn the web guru and developer behind the Bonneville owned and operated ToastedRav.com has left the company. The move comes a few months after the website laid off most of its staff.If you haven't heard of ToastedRav.com then you probably don't listen to much commercial radio. Bonneville Inte ... More >>

A New Low For All of Us

Nick Schuyler, the lone survivor of the boating accident that killed Marquis Cooper, Will Bleakley, and Corey Smith, has a new tattoo that honors his fallen friends. It's a nice piece of work, too; simple, elegant, and meaningful. That's the okay part of this story. The not okay part of this is whe ... More >>

This Just In: Tony Banks Apparently Not a Douchebag, Local Sports Columnist Apparently Is

You know what? This really sucks. Tony Banks was on the radio yesterday, joining the Fast Lane on 101.1 ESPN, and unfortunately for me, he seems like a really nice guy. I say unfortunately because it's much harder to make fun of someone when they're a decent human being. Okay, so that is s ... More >>

Obama Predicts Early Exit for Mizzou, Illini in Tourney

Wikimedia CommonsIn perhaps the biggest sports media coup in history, the worldwide leader got the leader of the free world to post his March Madness bracket on ESPN.com rather than the site for NCAA tournament sponsor CBS.Obama agreed to the deal way back in October during an interview with ESPN's ... More >>

You Say A-Roid, They Say A-Fraud, Unreal Says Lying Sack of Shit

Here's Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees' $300 million man, in December 2007, telling Katie Couric on 60 Minutes that he never used steroids:And here he is today, February 9, 2009, speaking to Peter Gammons on ESPN:Can you say, "Lying sack of shit"? (Not to mention what the latent effects of tho ... More >>

Local College Hoops: A Rundown on The Rundown

So what if March is still two months away? It certainly hasn't stopped ESPN's Joe Lunardi from updating his highly addictive Bracketology feature and projecting the entire 65 team NCAA tournament field despite the fact that most teams have only played one or two conference games and perhaps a pushov ... More >>

Devon Alexander Finds the Spotlight -- and Makes the Most of It

Devon Alexander Finds the Spotlight -- and Makes the Most of It

But Are the Hot Wings This Hot?

Fiji Natural Artesian Water

Convenient Food Mart
5253 Mattis Road
south St. Louis county
314-729-7336.

Hendrick's Martini

Lester's Sports Bar & Grill, 9906 Clayton Road, Ladue; 314-994-0055.

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 7:

"Better to have a stunning signature building than more of the faux-retro corporate sellout theme park that is our new Busch."

Week of October 26, 2006

World Cup o' Beer!

Throw Down

Bracketology

Two SLU professors say they’ve solved the world’s most challenging math problem: your office NCAA pool

Rack & Roll

The metro east is the corner pocket for some of the nation's top pool sharks. Bring it on, ESPN!

Dunk 'n Go Nuts

Streetball at the Savvis

Extreme Reading

It's elemental

Best Sports Bar

Nick's Pub

Shootout Freak-Out

Ho ho hoops at Savvis

Best College Athlete

Brad Smith
University of Missouri

Sporting Snooze

A leaner, splashier Sporting News struggles to find its editorial compass

Speakin' Spell

Who would have thought -- a compelling film about spelling!

Skate or Die

Thrill-seekers on wheels of all sizes are invited to a get-together

Penalty Kick

Faded soccer glory seen in a U.S. World Cup team without St. Louis talent

Best Amenities At a Car Wash

Gas House Express

GOTTA GO BACK TO WORK

a return to reality after the decadence and delirium of Atlanta