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Morning Blogdome: An Acta Faith
You should write to [email protected]. It misses you. • Good grief, Chuck: Everyone deals with the end of baseball season in their own way. Carving graven images of Manny Acta isn't high on the list, but you do what you gotta do. [We've Got Heart] • It's going to be a long winter: Does a Konerk...
Houston, We Have A Compound Fracture
As someone old enough to remember seeing "The Theisman Incident" on live TV, I like to consider myself an aficionado of horrifying bone-melting leg injuries. If you were watching the gridiron donnybrook between Houston and Marshall last night—and really, why would you be?—you witnessed one that will...
Lute Olson's doctor says that at some point in the last year, Olson had a stroke that affected his "ability to process complicated thoughts" and that it was the doctor who recommended retirement, against Olson's wishes. So all that stuff about a selfish jerk who ruined a basketball program. Uh ... s...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you wonder what your wife ever saw in that murderer ... at the prison where you are the warden ... • MLB: World Series, Game 5: Tampa Bay Rays at Philadelphia Phillies (8:00 p.m., ET) Eh, what's another 24 hours? [Fox] • Nostalgia: "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" (8:00 p....
New Guitar Hero Ad Gives You A Whole New Reason To Hate Tom Cruise
We mentioned this only in passing last week, because a) it was Friday afternoon, b) we didn't have an embeddable version of the video yet, and c) it's pretty embarrassing for everyone involved, including the viewer. You've probably seen Alex Rodriguez, Tony Hawk, Michael Phelps and Kobe Bryant bring...
Afternoon Blogdome: Take Your Bags, Sir?
[email protected]—It's the feel good hit of the summer! • They would have gone as a Super Bowl trophy, but they didn't know what that looks like: Leave it to the Lions to hold their annual Halloween party on a Monday night and invite Roy Williams, who isn't even on the team anymore. On the other...
Marisa Miller Plus Ryan Braun Equals A Whole Lot Of Ball Jokes
I like to imagine a scenario in which Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun is sitting in a conference room with his agent and a representative from the Remington razor corporation. An opportunity has been presented to the charismatic young slugger, but he is hesitant. "Remember," the Draper-esque...
Hockey Player Pulls Off Rare Hat Trick, Has His Stick Taken Away
Brace yourselves: This is not a hockey post. It's a college hockey post. And it's not even a Michigan State college hockey post—although I'm sure I'll find a way to work a few dozen of those in before the CCHA season is over—but when any athlete pulls off something that has happened maybe twice in t...
Morning Blogdome: Show Some Love In This Club
Won't you email [email protected] today? • A creature rarely seen in the wild: We have found actual video evidence of Lakers center Andrew Bynum "makin' it rain." He already looks in midseason form, doesn't he? [Black Sports Online]• Hey Panama ... SUCK IT!: American Pro Wrestlers (that's thei...
Karl Ravech Is In No Mood To Humor You, Steve Phillips
Sitting in the dangerously wet and windy confines of the centerfield Baseball Tonight perch for three hours, only to walk away empty handed with a six-inning tie, will sour anyone's night. So when a horrible ex-GM decides to run way out to left field for an ill-timed, poorly executed, and borderline...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while you search for that bridge that gets you out of jail ... • MLB: World Series, Game 5: Tampa Bay Rays at Philadelphia Phillies (8:00 p.m., ET) Ba ba bada ba, bada ba ba ba ... [Fox] • NFL: Monday Night Football: Indianapolis Colts at Tennessee Titans (8:30 p.m., ET) Is Kerry Colli...
Tyrone Willingham Is Calling It A Career At Washington
Remember when Ty Willingham was on (or at the) top of the college football world? The guy won a Pac-10 title at Stanford (Stanford!) and in the late '90s was one of the rising stars of the college coaching world. Then in 2002, he replaced George O'Leary Bob Davie at Notre Dame and promptly went 8-0 ...
Afternoon Blogdome: Fat Guy Dancing! Fat Guy Dancing!
Send your tips to [email protected]. Unless you think you're better than me. You think you're better than me? • "I like to move it move it": Hey, he may be a big guy and his moves need some work ... but you just got served. [College Game Balls] • Maybe keep him away from knives: What would you...
The Criminal Element In Canadian College Football
Canadians have a sordid reputation for being exceedingly polite, but they want to remind everyone that they can hurt your feelings with a cutting barb or scathing observation too. Of course, even Canucks who are on the other end of those vicious attacks can fight back like a Momma Palin bear on her ...