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Start Your Weekend With An Inspirational Quote From Bob Knight
Bob Knight has a new book out next week. It's called The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results, because Bob Knight is still playing his (lucrative) role as college basketball's senile great-uncle. He sat down with Andrew Goldman for the New York Times M...

Marshall Henderson Gave The Best Postgame Press Conference Ever
After Ole Miss picked off Georgia in overtime Saturday night, reporters covering the game wanted to talk to Marshall Henderson, and not just because he's the most reliably entertaining player in college basketball. In the game, the Rebels had trailed by eight with 3:37 remaining, but Henderson score...

What People Said About the Piece of Shit Video Game the NRA Made Six Years Ago
Welcome back to "Backhanded Box Quotes," a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic and elsewhere on the Internet. ...

Oregon High School Basketball Player Is Really, Really Excited About The League Game He Just Won
The Springfield (Ore.) Times is where you should go for this news:...

Kevin Garnett Made One Hell Of A Cooking Metaphor Today
This year's NBA training camp is shorter than usual, and this upsets a lot of players who'd like more time to gel with their teammates. It has especially upset Boston's Kevin Garnett, who blessed us with this train wreck of a cooking metaphor during the Celtics' practice today:...

James Harrison Probably Hates You, Too: More Quotes From The <em>Men's Journal</em> Article
When he was young, James Harrison used to shoot birds and squirrels in his yard. He also slept in the same bed as his parents until he was 12. These and other revelations come to us courtesy of Paul Solotaroff's profile of The Silverback Steeler in the August issue of Men's Journal, which hits newss...

South Carolina Athletic Director Welcomes Back Champion Team Of "Ice Cold Cocks"
The University of South Carolina held its second straight welcome home rally for its national champion baseball team on Wednesday. Everyone cheered and said nice things about the Gamecocks, and then it was Athletic Director Eric Hyman's turn to speak. Hyman said some more nice things, and then he ...

This Month In Great Quotes
"We don't have a dress code policy. Obviously, if their private parts are exposed, that's not appropriate. ... So if they're not exposing their private parts, they're allowed to fly." — US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder....

Today In Great Ledes
"Perhaps fittingly, you can't spell insurmountable without mountain." [Denver Post]...

Today In Great Ledes
"A footballer was badly hurt after a teammate shoved a pool cue up his backside at an end of season party." [Mirror]...

Big Ben Uses An Unfortunate Turn Of Phrase
I'm sure there's no way this quote, about being an underdog, will ever be taken out of context. Like we just did, for example....

Your NFL Early Games Open Thread
Yet again, a weak slate of games. So, here are four somewhat-relevant questions for amusement purposes only......
