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ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
Who's Sorry Now? Golf Edition
It's bad enough that your name is John Henry Isenhour III. But now word has leaked that you killed a protected species of hawk with a golf drive, on purpose, and there are criminal charges pending against you. Poor dumb sap. The only thing remaining of course is a phony, slapdash apology. Take it aw...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while packing for camp ... • College basketball: AP's account of UCLA's overtime win over Stanford fails to mention the absolutely brutal call against the Cardinal's Lawrence Hill with two seconds left in regulation that handed the Bruins the Pac-10 title. • NBA: Los Spurs have won 1...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize that the New York Times must have laid off some headline oversight editors ... • College basketball: Connecticut at Providence (7 p.m., ET), Xavier at Saint Joseph's (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Clemson at Georgia Tech (7 p.m., ET), Michigan State at Illinois (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2...
Four Square: The Sport That Made Our Nation Great
The Four Square World Championships concluded last month in Maine, which I mention because I had no idea there was such a thing. It makes me very happy that we have a national four-square champion, even if it is this guy. Four square, you see, is more than it seems....
Man's Ashes Have More Fun Than He Ever Did
Dear tiny infant Jesus, or as our brothers in the south call you, "Jezus," please welcome Big George Helms (pictured here) into your Heavenly kingdom. But first, kindly bear with us as his remains take a couple of laps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Then its over to the KFC drive-thru, and then straig...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
About Last Night
What you missed as Michigan fans got some unexpected good news ... • College basketball: Vanderbilt gets its Shan on, 86-85 over Mississippi State in OT. • NBA: Yeah, the Rockets are really missing Yao Ming. • NFL: Browns sign Shaun Rogers to $42 million deal. Let's see, that's about $10,000 per pou...
To Watch Tonight
Wait ... I could have sworn that the TV just crept a little closer when I wasn't looking ... • College basketball: Duke at Virginia (7 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Syracuse at Seton Hall (7 p.m., ET); Texas A&M at Baylor (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. OK Baylor, how do you top five overtimes? •NBA: Phoenix at Denver (9...
Your Feeble Skills Are No Match For This Man
On Sunday in New York, Tyler Hinman successfully completed the puzzle shown above to capture his fourth straight American Crossword Puzzle Tournament championship, which makes him the Tiger Woods of crossword puzzles, according to one writer. But more importantly, what's a 'wisesupto?' Is that thre...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
Hasn't Benny The Bull Suffered Enough?
If you can't see the video for some reason, what we have here is Benny the Bull on The Jerry Springer Show, being told by his girlfriend that there's "someone else." That someone is a larger, plastic Benny the Bull, and of course violence ensues. But there are so many ways that it could have been fu...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while realizing that the deadlocked Democrats are going to have to turn to Al Gore, and that this was his evil plan all along ... • College basketball: The Big Ten standings are in chaos! Ohio State 80, Purdue 77. • NHL: Sidney's back! Penguins 2, Lightning 0. • NBA: Why doesn't Pau ...
To Watch Tonight
If you've got an ass, a sofa, a TV and two eyes, you know what to do ... • College basketball: Purdue at Ohio State (7 p.m., ET); Arkansas at Mississippi (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Miami, Ohio at Kent State (7 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. We all have a case of the Golden Flashes. • NHL: Buffalo at Philadelphia (7 p...