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So Who's Ready For Another Run At An Undefeated Season?
Which is harder: Completing an undefeated season in the NFL, or in college basketball? I NEED TO KNOW! With its 68-59 win over Houston on Wednesday night, Memphis improved to 24-0, looking to become the first Div. I team since Bobby Knight's 1976 Indiana squad to finish unbeaten. Hmm, a current team...
No, You've Got It All Wrong, Fellas. Brady Quinn LOVES The Gays
Brady Quinn would like to make it clear: He does not hate gay people. Responding to accusations that he hurled gay slurs at a group of men in a New Year's Eve altercation in Columbus, Ohio, Quinn said on Wednesday that, nope, it never happened. And furthermore, you know that Brokeback Mountain seque...
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 while pleading with the suicidal moose not to jump ... • MLB: Roger Clemens' approval ratings now lower than Dick Cheney's. • College basketball: Come on, Indiana, make up your mind. Do you want your players choked, or do you want them illegally recruited? I kind of vote for choked. ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after tripping and smashing a 290-year-old Stradivarius ... • College basketball: St. John's at Cincinnati (7 p.m., ET); Kansas State at Texas Tech (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]. Has Pat Knight won a game yet? • College basketball: Maryland at Duke (7 p.m., ET). Do not anger the turtle. [ESPN] ...
Beijing Olympics To Be Devoid Of Dramatic Closeups, Mechanical Sharks
Bad news for all those who actually watch the opening and closing ceremonies at the Summer Olympics; Steven Spielberg has dropped out as director at the Beijing Games. Or actually he was going to be the "artistic adviser," whatever that means. All I know is that now my dream of watching Dennis Weave...
Presenting John Wooden's Lesser-Known 'Deadspin Pyramid Of Success'
There are so many delightful passages in the latest BallHype Spotlight Series, Volume 2: Bibilotech essay that it's hard to know where to begin. Just the notion of Bill Walton reviewing Will's book, God Save the Fan, is amusing enough. But then you get to the Deadspin Pyramid of Success, and you be...
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 while reminding people once again that it's pronounced "Fronkensteen" ... • College basketball: The last time Kentucky lost this badly, ALF and Growing Pains were hit TV series. • College women's basketball: Petition To Investigate The Final 1.3 Seconds Of The Rutgers-Tennessee Game....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you enjoy your free pancakes ... • College basketball: Michigan State at Purdue (7 p.m., ET); Kentucky at Vanderbilt (9 p.m., ET). Please give a big Memorial Gym welcome to the Commodores! [ESPN] • College basketball: North Carolina at Virginia (8 p.m., ET). Game too close to call, ...
In Which The SI Swimsuit Edition Struggles (Again) To Stay Relevant
The 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is out, folks; gaze upon its wonders. And in other news, there's still a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. What year is this again? Aren't naked women on the Internet now? At any rate, our aquatic, clothing-challenged model is Marissa Miller, making he...
Whither Sports Unfiltered With Dennis Miller?
There's nothing sadder than a big blank space where your cable show's programming schedule used to be. Exactly what fate has befallen Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller, the Versus series that made America fall in love with elephant polo references once again? It's a mystery (for some reason, Vers...
French Bulldog Wins At Westminster, Later Shoots It Out With Cops
How often do we get the opportunity to mention Patricia Hearst, Jimmy Carter and the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in the same post? Very rarely. It all happened on Monday, as Hearst (or Tania to her friends) and her pooch Diva, the French bulldog, took one of the trophies at the Westminster Kenn...
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 ......