Rush To The Iggles Rescue?

Curiouser and curiouser: Hard to believe but the very man who resigned from ESPN over his moronic comments two years ago that Eagles QB Donovan McNabb was overrated because he was black and and the media wanted to see a black QB succeed, now wants to bring McNabb back together with Terrell Owens, another man whose mouth, like Limbaugh's, cannot be stilled.



"This rift cannot be allowed to continue, ladies and gentlemen. It just can't, and I would like to offer this program as a means of getting these two Americans and star players back together," Rush Limbaugh The Happy Healer said of the Donovan McNabb-Terrell Owens rift on his radio show last Friday. "They may not want to talk to each other face-to-face, but perhaps they would join me on this program and speak to each other telephonically via this program and settle this."



Must be time for Rush to be drug-tested. His painkillers must be going to his head.

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Sox Beat Sox Again

Well, if there's any hype going into a possible ALCS between the Red Sox and White Sox perhaps the balloon has already been popped with Sox beating the Sox again yesterday, this time by a 7-4 margin as they ripped another White Sox ace, Jon Garland, and prevented him from winning his 17th game of the season.

Garland allowed five runs, nine hits and two walks in 5 1-3 innings, striking out four in his second-shortest outing of the year. Boston beat 13-game winner Mark Buehrle on Friday night. Ironically, it's up to former Yankee El Duque today to save some White Sox face.

The Red Sox have won 14 of their last 16 games and 18 of their last 23 and maintain a five-game lead over the second-place Yankees in the A.L. East. They’ve also won 13 straight at home.

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Wakefield Knuckled His Way to his 4th straight victory

Meanwhile, a 9-foot-tall, four-ton African elephant named Laura threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a West Michigan Whitecaps game Friday:



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We at Sports Amnesia say let the Red Sox have their hot streak now. Let them win the AL East and then, let the Yankees do the last minute surprising in the ALCS since clearly, the White Sox won't be up to the task.

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In the battle for the AL West and the AL Wildcard, the A's, Angels and Yankees all won while the Indians lost their second straight to

Red Sox reject Jay Payton hit three-run homer during a four-run sixth inning as they posted their 26th win in 32 games, a 5-2 triumph over the Minnesota Twins. Since coming over from the Sox, Payton has provided a boost to Oakland's offense, going 26-for-95 (.274) with seven home runs and 20 RBI in 23 games.

The Angels, keeping pace with the A's, or at least trying to, blasted the Mariners, 9-1 and were led again by Bartolo Colon, who improved to 27-10 since the 2004 All-Star break.

The Yankees survived a rare failure by closer Mariano Rivera and eventually defeated the Texas Rangers behind Bernie Williams' dramatic homerun.

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The NL's Wildcard chase continued to progress with the Phillies knocking out Padres closer Trevor Hoffman with the game tied in the 9th to go on to a 5-2 victory and move within 1 1/2 games of the Houston Astros for the wildcard lead after the Astros were outdueled again with Clemens on the mound, losing 1-0 to the Pirates.

The Padres fell back to .500 in the NL West no one seems to want to win, still three games ahead of the Diamondbacks.

The Nats, Marlins and Mets all won their games, all moving a game closer to the Astros.

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Lightning strikes during the Giants-Browns exhibition last night.