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Pauley The Plant Guy’s Baseball Trivia

With the All-Star game invading in NYC earlier this week, you know we had to get up with our resident sports expert/plant groomer Pauley Levine for another edition of his always entertaining baseball commentary.

In the new episode, Pauley speaks on the Mets‘ new found success and then opens up his endless vault of hardball trivia to expose a few facts about the game’s earliest days that sports enthusiasts may not know the answers to. Watch the video of Plant-Watering P after the jump.

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Inside The ESPY Pre-Party

Last night, honorees, ESPN broadcasters, and many, many surgically enhanced breasts surely destined to get fondled by an athlete showed up to the J Bar in Los Angeles for the ESPY Awards pre-party.

DJ Mike Relm warmed up the crowd with his visual remix kung fu until The Roots took the stage for a single set. The New York Giants were in the house including Michael Strahan, Eli Manning, Plaxico Burress (wearing the ring) and a blinged-out Brandon Jacobs. We spotted Terrell Owens, Dr. J, Brady Quinn, A.J. Hawk, Ray Allen, Greg Oden (no way that guy is 19 years old, it’s just not possible) all hanging out in the crowd. The ESPN crew was also well-repped with Trey Wingo, Erin Andrews and the Schwab all attending. Check the candids after the jump.

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Billy Packer’s Hall of Shame

As has long been speculated, CBS officially parted ways with longtime college roundball analyst Billy “Packer? I Hardly Know ‘Er!” Packer yesterday after 27 years.

We are not unhappy about this, especially since Packer’s being replaced with Clark Kellogg—who, despite his love of the word “spurtability,” is an ex-Pacer, and as such is infallible (suck on that, Captain Knick!). Besides, Packer’s an ass, and it didn’t take us long to document our case. After the jump, take a look back at some of his career defining moments…

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Coaches Can’t Control Their Criminal Kids

Professional coaches are often too busy studying film, strategizing, and playing father to athletes to parent their own damn kids. Sidney Lowe II, son of North Carolina State basketball coach Sidney Lowe, is the latest neglected offspring to score a prison cell.

Lowe II will reportedly plead guilty today to six counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon and six counts of kidnapping related to a March 2007 home invasion—apparently he thought the “charity stripe” extended to strangers’ homes. He joins the sons of high-profile coaches like Bill Belichick, Barry Alvarez, and Andy Reid to catch a case. To get the 411 on the other coach seeds who fucked up in recent years, check out our rundown after the jump.

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Team U.S.A Basketball Takes Over NYC

U.S.A Basketball Day / Photos: Bradley Carbone
The NBA superstars that will represent the U.S.A this summer in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics assembled in NYC today for a daylong Nike-sponsored event (they were showing off the gear that Nike cooked up for the summer games) that included a boat ride around the East River and their first introduction to the public at Rockefeller Center.

Joined by the league’s M.V.P Kobe Bryant, basketball’s best players like Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwayne Wade cracked jokes in between serious Q&As, where they stressed that they’re focused solely on bringing home Olympic gold to the United States—something that hasn’t been done since 2000. Complex snapped some flicks of the squad throughout the day, and zeroed in on some of the footwear they’ll be wearing this August, like the newly-introduced Jordan Olympia and Lebron’s special make-up Olympic joints. See the pics after the jump.

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A-Trak & Nike’s Running Man Workout Plan

Two years ago, Apple and Nike married music with sports through a project called Nike+iPod. Through Steve Jobs’s technology, a small device is inserted into one foot of your running shoes, and all the details about your workout (time, and distance traveled) are recorded on your iPod. All they needed was the music to match.

Since linking up, they’ve already commissioned exclusive “Original Run” mixes by LCD Soundsystem, Aesop Rock, and the Crystal Method. In the latest installment, DJ/Producer A-Trak fuses hip-hop sounds for an adrenaline rush of electronic beats. The 43-minute mix called Running Man dropped Tuesday and is now available on iTunes. Listen to a sample A-Trak song below.

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Tackle An Ogre In The Blood Bowl

Sure, we enjoy the realism and life-like graphics of today’s sports games, but sometimes you’ve got to think outside the boundaries. For a fresh take on the football genre, Blood Bowl lets you play a bone-crushing version of the game with ogres, elves, orcs, dragons and a slew of other fantastic characters.

Set in medieval times, Blood Bowl gives your teams the chance to battle it out—literally—in all different types of environments. It should be available on Xbox 360, PSP, and Nintendo DS late this year. Watch the new trailer after the jump.

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Wimbeldon Makes Women Look Ugly

With the news that 3rd-seeded Maria Sharapova was upset today by 154th ranked Alla Kudryavtseva, it seems as though this year’s Wimbledon will be a painful memory for some.

Sure, being upset by someone who’s ranked 151 positions below you is embarrassing, but losing your dignity on Getty Images is much worse. No matter how beautiful a woman might be in between sets, something happens in that moment of impact that will make any player look like they’re giving birth to John McEnroe’s mutant love child right on the court. Maria isn’t the only one from this year’s tourney who will go down in Athletic O-Face history. Check below for our compilation of other tennis chicks who fell victim during this week’s tourney.

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Undrcrwn Illustrates The NBA Draft For Adidas

With the NBA Draft airing tonight, everyone has to get their two cents in. We already talked to the Beastie Boys’ MCA about his top picks, and now streetwear stalwarts Undrcrwn are getting in on the action. To help attract the league’s 5 biggest hopes, adidas recruited Undrcrwn to create designs of each baller, which were then printed onto T-shirts and jackets and given exclusively to each player (Meaning they probably won’t ever be released, unless the players decide to endorse the three stripes).

Using visual cues from their respective cities and personalities, sure-things like Derrick Rose, Michael Beasley, O.J Mayo and Eric Gordon all got the Undrcrwn treatment. Take a look at the rest of the player illustrations below.

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Madden NFL Cover Stars Converge

Although the Madden Curse often leaves pro footballers on the injured list, past cover athletes like Daunte Culpepper, Marshall Faulk, Ray Lewis, Shaun Alexander and Vince Young were all smiles at Electronic Arts press conference-turned-party last night for Madden 09. To read a detailed run down of the event and see some flicks (including the roster of PlayStation models) click HERE.

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