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CYBERSPORTS HIGH AND TIGHT WITH THE HUMOROUS HEATER.


Byline: - Tom Hoffarth

The headlines will force a double take.

``Elway Contemplating Comeback To Spend More Quality Time Away From Family''

``MLB MLB Major League Baseball
MLB Minor League Baseball
MLB Middle Linebacker (football)
MLB Motor Life Boat
MLB Matt Leblanc (actor)
MLB Mother Love Bone (band) 
 Investigating Underage Embryo Signing''

``Don King Stricken With Affinity For `tion' Suffix''

In the satirical spirt of The Onion, Maryland-based EarDuster recently launched a weekly humor e-newspaper site (www.earduster.com) devoted to sometimes sophomoric soph·o·mor·ic  
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of a sophomore.

2. Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgment: sophomoric behavior.
, sometimes hilarious sports parody.

Other stories: ``Helping Your Children Excel In Sports'' has plenty of, ahem, enlightening advice. But kids, please don't read any of this. It says right on the site that it's not intended for readers under the age of 18.

Probably a good thing.

--Bad taste: Saturday night, ESPN.com boxed the story on the top right corner of its home page about the Oklahoma State basketball team plane crash. Above it, a rotating advertisement of a violent car crash promoting the upcoming movie ``The Fast and Furious'' continued to stay up.

--Dennis Miller has a live half-hour chat tonight on HBO's Web site (www.hbo.com) at 6 p.m. Go ahead. Ask him about Eric Dickerson
This article is about the former college and pro football running back. For the auto dealer and politician from Indianapolis, see Eric Dickerson (politician)


Eric Demetric Dickerson
.

--Women's tennis legend Althea Gibson Noun 1. Althea Gibson - United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003)
Gibson
, a recluse who has not made a public appearance or granted an interview in years, will answer questions by Web users for ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
 as part of the network's Black History Month special Saturday.

Gibson's answers will be posted on the site (espn ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network .go.com/abcsports) on the day of the hourlong show titled ``Raising the Roof: Heroes of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' and users will be able to post more questions Saturday during the telecast.
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Title Annotation:Sports
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jan 29, 2001
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