Yes, the big day is coming: 6/8/02. No, that's not the date Scooby-Doo opens nationwide. (That's 6/14/02.) The Eighth of June is shaping up to be the biggest day in sports since, well, since the last biggest day in sports -- say, sometime way back in February. But this one promises to be so huge that dads will be begging for their Father's Day TiVo a week early.

	“	This one promises to be so huge that dads will be begging for their Father's Day TiVo a week early. ”
		— Steve Wulf

Tennis fans have zee French Open women's final. Satellite dishers have Barry looking to be Bondsian in the House That Ruth Built. Hockey nuts have Game 3 of the Cup Finals. War Emblem will be gunning for the first Triple Crown since 1978. Please, big guy, no lame excuses from you.

The World Cup will be in its second week; Brazil vs. China at some ungodly hour from Seogwipo, Korea. And while a select group of White Sox fans are watching The Natural on Comiskey's JumboTron during Sleepover Night, Mike Tyson will be attempting to tuck in Lennox Lewis in Memphis. (Fork over the $54.95, PPV fight fans.)

So pardon us if we cut short the sexual orientation seminar, or put off worrying about a baseball strike for a bit, or fail to rant in high dudgeon over another work of résumé fiction. We've got better things to do.

Like researching a mysterious ailment that confines us to the couch for 24 hours.

Steve Wulf is executive editor of ESPN The Magazine. E-mail him at steve.wulf@espnmag.com.