Deadspin: 2008

CBS Accidentally Leaks College Football Television Schedule?

Clay Travis — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:30:51 EDT

I've gotten this link from several people but am still working to confirm its accuracy. Typically CBS doesn't announce which game they're covering until about ten days before the game would kick off. Which always makes planning travel and hotels and the like difficult. But allegedly, due to a computer glitch, CBS posted their entire slate of season games. As you'll see some have yet to be determined but the schedule features the requisite double-header and deferral to ESPN's night telecast at least once as is typically the case. (Supposedly ESPN will be carrying Georgia-Alabama on September 27 as their first pick.) There are still some games to be determined but 8 of the first 9 weeks are set. So here they are courtesy of Saturdays in the South. Times are for the central time zone.

09/13 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Georgia @ South Carolina (CBS HD)
09/20 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Florida @ Tennessee (CBS HD)
09/27 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Tennessee @ Auburn (CBS HD)
10/04 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Florida @ Arkansas or Kentucky @ Alabama (CBS HD)
10/11 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Tennessee @ Georgia (CBS HD)
10/11 - 7:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m. LSU @ Florida (CBS HD)
10/18 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. LSU @ South Carolina (CBS HD)
10/25 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Georgia @ LSU (CBS HD)
11/01 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Georgia-Florida (CBS HD)
11/08 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Alabama @ LSU or Georgia @ Kentucky (CBS HD)
11/15 - 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Notre Dame @ Navy (CBS HD)
11/15 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. South Carolina @ Florida or Georgia @ Auburn (CBS HD)
11/22 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Ole Miss @ LSU or Tennessee @ Vanderbilt or Arkansas @ Mississippi St. (CBS HD)
11/28 - 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. LSU @ Arkansas (CBS HD)
11/29 - 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Georgia Tech @ Georgia (CBS HD)
11/29 - 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Auburn @ Alabama (CBS HD)
12/06 - 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Army @ Navy (CBS HD)
12/06 - 3:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. SEC Championship

Verne Lundquist/Benjamin Frankin is going to be pissed. And uttering the name Tim Tebow at least 4 billion times.

CBS leaks future TV games [Saturdays in the South]

So, This Is What It Looks Like When Your Elbow Decides To Quit On You

DAULERIO — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:15:00 EDT

The horrific video of Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai's elbow dislocation ~~has been pulled from YouTube apparently~~, but I'm sure there are some more floating around.(Like after the jump.) Lucky for everyone who just could not stand watching the thing, the Daily Mail has all the dislocation shots from his first anguished, "GAHHH...Weight! Too! Much!" to the final painstaking "GAAAAHHHH! Elbow!" that have resulted in this montage.

This is an image that should seared into your brain, so that the next time you attempt to lift that heavy basket of laundry, you will think of Janos Baranyai. And weep.

The horrific moment the Olympic weightlifter turns his elbow from back to front [Daily Mail]

Chinese Badminton Bad Boy, Super Dan, Sets the Ladies Swooning

Clay Travis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:15:51 EDT

Lin Dan, or Super Dan, is China's top badminton player. He's also had a few run-ins with authority figures. There was the time he tried to hit another player's coach with his racket. And the other time he took a swing at his own coach with a racket. None of that, however, has stopped the 24-year-old from becoming a Chinese heartthrob. Lin Dan puts the bad-ass in badminton, if that's in anyway possible.

Despite his prodigious talent (he's been ranked number 1 since 2004), Lin Dan flamed out and lost in the first round of the 2004 Olympics. Lin Dan also dates Xie, the world's top women's badminton player. And they both played on side-by-side courts Tuesday. The possibilities for a stormy collapse were there.

Instead:

In a 21-16, 21-13 win Tuesday over Hong Kong's Ng Wei, Lin hung in midair like Kobe Bryant and backpedaled faster than a politician after election day. He lobbed and dinked and smashed with exquisite precision, occasionally sending Ng skittering across the court in chase.

Yep, just like Kobe.

China's badminton bad boy has girls swooning [Dallas Morning News]