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Viva Los Mitch Albom Haters!
Those of you who hate Mitch Albom, be advised — your reason for living has returned. After a five-month layoff, the blog Mitch Albom is a Terrible Writer has returned — full of vim, vigor and gleeful contempt for its subject, the author and columnist for the Detroit Free Press. Excerpt: ...
See? Highlights Are Harder Than They Look
Yes, yes, we know this is old — seven months old, in fact — but we only recently saw it, it's a slow holiday weekday and, besides, it's tremendously, brain-hurting funny....
Leftovers: Life of Brian
• Billick to return to Ravens in '06 — his assistant coaches, not so much. [Hot Sauce Sports] • Gretzky back on Coyotes bench (he was gone?). [MSN Sports Filter] • We're hearing persistent Burnitz to Baltimore rumors, and it's starting to annoy us, so shut up already. [Oriole Magic] • LSU starting Q...
Year In Review: October
The year is almost over. All the magazines are doing year-in-review type stuff, so we figured, why should we be any different? Therefore, for the next 12 days, we will be looking back on each month on the calendar, pointing out the weird/important/amusing stuffs that happened that month. If you ha...
Beware Of Bicycles, Young Frenchman
As a followup to yesterday's Tony Parker-Eva Longoria dustup with the San Antonio police department, the great Smoking Gun — whose annual holiday gift just arrived in our mailbox — has dug up the official police report from the incident. It doesn't have too much extra information from the original...
MLB, Feel The Excitement!
In typical finger-on-the-pulse fashion, MLB.com promotes the World Baseball Classic, encouraging readers to tap into the electric current of excitement by showing us ... a picture of two pasty white guys. To be fair, the guy on the left has a pretty sweater vest that is packing much funk....
Blogdome: Scarlet Knight Fever
• This is what happens when Rutgers makes a bowl game: Stolen crap everywhere. [Philadelphia Will Do] • How Tiki Barber became the guy who was anywhere and everywhere. [92nd Street Blog] • Running down the NFL unemployment line, starting with the late, great Norv Turner. [The Mighty MJD] • Why is ev...
Blogdom's Best: Hating The Red Wings
Imagine the most hateful sports fans you can think of, stuck indoors because of the frigid weather, allowing their fury to boil. Now give them large sticks. That's your typical NHL fan, just looking for a reason to hate the opposing team. Throw in that whole Canada-USA rivalry thing, and you've go...
Palmeiro Gets His Family Circus On
Remember during the steroid trials, when Sammy Sosa inexplicably forgot how to speak english? Rafael Palmeiro, albeit a few months late, apparently is trying to same tactic....
Big Ben's Prom Date
We were just sent this infinitely amusing photo from Saturday's Steelers-Browns game. This woman apparently went to prom with Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and is broadcasting it to the world. (This is why being famous is terrifying; somewhere out there, there are pictures of our junio...
Scoop Jackson's Look Back
True Hoop takes on something that we've been kind of eager to sink our teeth into anyway this morning: Scoop Jackson's "Year In Review" column on ESPN Page 2. Jackson has always confused us a bit; his position as Black Columnist at ESPN has, in our opinion, allowed him to get away with continued s...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Men's BB with Chris Dortch: The Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, how quaint. Next we'll be using circular dial telephones and wearing bell bottom pants. • 3 p.m. Bowls with Beano: If they have cooking shows in hell, I ima...
Jim Mora, Blowin' Up!
Four days after his outburst following the Falcons' playoff hopes-ending loss to Tampa Bay last week, Atlanta coach Jim Mora Jr. is still doing damage control. In case you missed it, Mora, doing a radio interview with the Falcons' affiliate after the game, flipped out after being asked about a que...
Debating Dungy's MySpace Profile
Like anyone who watched yesterday's heartwrenching press conference held by Colts coach Tony Dungy after his son James' funeral, we were touched, saddened and overall deflated by Dungy's straightforwardness and obvious devastatation. We continue to find the speculation about when Dungy will return...
Happy Holidays From The Princes
The above holiday card was waiting in our mailbox when we returned to New York from a week back home in Mattoon. A nice gesture, Mr. Prince, and a happy holidays to you as well. We are pleasantly surprised the card was not covered in poo....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while giving the hamster a Viking funeral ... • "What do I have to do?" Carmelo Anthony's 45 points not enough as 76ers beat Nuggets. • Insight Bowl: ASU's 45-40 win over Rutgers sets all kinds of records, draws interest from Arena Football League scouts. • NHL: Osgood's 27 saves lea...
Love Customs of the Frozen North
OK, we officially love hockey right now. On Monday, Toronto Maple Leafs forward Darcy Tucker became involved in a fight with New Jersey's Cam Janssen, and during the tussle pulled Janssen's helmet off and began hitting him with it. Could you imagine that happening in any other sport. We mean, one th...
Leftovers: Fat City
Pat Riley's latest brainstorm involves sumo wrestlers, and Shaq. Well, of course it does. [MSNBC] Larry Bird: Artest must go. And he's not too thrilled with you, either. [Fox Sports] Rangers, Millwood agree to 5-year deal for lots and lots of money. [Chicago Sports] World Junior Hockey Championsh...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Tiny Tim reveals he's been faking his disability all along ... • College Basketball: Gonzaga at Memphis. We're big Rodney Carney fans ... oh, by the way, it's pronounced Gon-zay-ga. [ESPN2] • Champs Sports Bowl: Clemson vs. Colorado, at Orlando; Insight Bowl, Arizona State vs. Rutge...
The Good News is He Still Has the Beard
Former major league closer turned bumbling armed robber, Jeff Reardon, has stated that the reason for his bizarre behavior was due to medication he's been taking for depression.(Point for Tom Cruise.)...