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To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you hunt down the Chupacabra! (dead animal warning) ... • College Football: Miami Redhawks at Buffalo Bulls (7:30 p.m., ET) If those bathrooms are rockin' ... [ESPN2] • Movie: "Rocky II" (8:00 p.m. + 10:30 p.m., ET) I thought there wasn't going to be a rematch? [AMC] • Politics: ...
Afternoon Blogdome: The Burning Of Washington
[email protected] wants to eat your emails for breakfast. • Out Any Time: Some Redskins fans got a nice treat after leaving the stadium on Monday night—a burned-out husk of smoldering metal that used to be their car. At least you can't forget where you parked. [DC Sports Blog]• Pitchers report ...
Allen Iverson Traded: The Day After
So Allen Iverson is now a Piston. And Chauncey Billiups is heading back to Colorado. And the world now knows the name Cheikh Samb. But what does it mean for Detroit, Denver, Antonio McDyess and the rest of the NBA? Detailed analysis, educated guesses, wild speculation and whatever the hell Woody Pai...
Ralph Wilson Stadium Is A Sexy, Sexy Place
Orchard Park police arrested 37 people at Ralph Wilson Stadium on Sunday, but none more special than the two found creating a "public disturbance" in the 300-level women's restroom during the Jets-Bills contest. It seems that watching Trent Edwards getting piled on while Jay Feeley seduces the uprig...
It's North Carolina Against The World
College basketball gets underway sooner than you expect, so it's probably time to roll out our 341-day team-by-team preview of the forthcoming season. But then we woke up this morning and realized there's no point to that. In fact, there's no point to even having a season at all, because the titles,...
Morning Blogdome: Why Can't Wii?
Exit polls say [email protected] is the most popular choice. • Blah, blah, blah: When you put cheerleaders and video games together the streets will run red with Whitey's blood. You stopped reading after "cheerleaders and video games," didn't you? [Fan IQ] • What's this about Scott Mitchell?: L...
Bengals Jerk Line Gets Its Chain Yanked
As you may have heard, the NFL is out to hunt down and destroy boorish fan behavior at its solemn and dignified Sunday skull crushing meetings. Like several other teams, the Cincinnati Bengals have what is known as a "Jerk Line," a phone number that fans can call while in the stadium to report the g...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you get out of jury duty to play the ponies ... • NHL: Buffalo Sabres at New Jersey Devils (7:00 p.m., ET) Welcome to Newark! [VS] • NFL: Monday Night Football: Pittsburgh Steelers at Washington Redskins (8:30 p.m., ET) It's a Zornucopia of flavor! [ESPN] • Movie: "Rocky" (8:00 p...
Toronto Writer To Maple Leaf Fans: It's All Your Fault
It's still early in the NHL season, but the Toronto Maple Leafs are solidly in 4th place—right where they've belonged for the past three seasons. If you're not familiar with the rules of ice hockey, that's bad. However, the organization that owns the team—Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment—is doing...
Afternoon Blogdome: It Never Ends, Cubs Fans
Sending your Blogdome tips to [email protected] is the most patriotic thing you can do. • And they usually have such good luck: There's bad tattoos and then there's 100 years of cursed frustration bad. You don't even want to see where he put the tat of Bartman's face. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] ...
Why Can't They?: What City Most Deserves A Championship?
Of all the World Series-related emails I received on my day off—and my goodness there were a lot of them—I think this was my favorite: ...
Allen Iverson On His Way To Detroit
The Detroit Pistons are this close (imagine my thumb and index fingers very near to each other) to trading Chauncey Billiups, Antonio McDyess and Cheikh Samb to the Denver Nuggets for Allen Iverson. The Detroit News was first on this, and others are now saying that the deal has been agreed to in pri...
I love this story from the NYC Marathon about "bandit chasers"—volunteers who hunt down rogue runners trying to sneak across the finish line and boot them off the course. "There’s nothing more enjoyable than catching people who don’t belong in the race, even if I have to chase them to the finish lin...
Idaho High School Football Is A Scary, Violent Place
I've never been to Idaho, but I always assumed it was a laid back place filled with docile potato farmers and their beautiful, but lonely daughters. As the world is slowly learning, however, nothing could be further from the truth. It's a vicious football moonscape that scars pretty boy quarterbacks...