Some Helpful Sports Tips To Surviving Valentine's Day

Well, kids, it's Valentine's Day, which, for sports fans, means a day in the middle of the most barren sports month of the year to come up with tortured analogies and Manning-Chesney jokes. Hey, everybody needs a news peg.

Anyway, these here Internets are doing their best to figure out how to shoehorn this Hallmark holiday celebrating the legendary wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus into something sports-related. The guys at Kissing Suzy Kolber have their grouchy take on the holiday, and, in the most ambitious undertaking, the gang at Free Darko have gathered a cornucopia of writers to muse on the relationship between love and basketball.

It's not exactly the most thrilling sports night this evening, so there's no excuse for any of you not to go out and buy an expensive dinner in a crowded restaurant. And for those single folks? Do people still watch "Lost?" Don't worry: You won't die alone. Probably not.

Free Darko V-Day Spectacular [Free Darko] VD Treat We Can Get Behind [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

(By the way, the above book is called The Anti-Valentine's Day Handbook and is written by Johan More, the poet laureate of The Black Table.)