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Canadian Sports Are Weird
• We're not sure what this sport is, but we kind of love it. [Barry Melrose Rocks] • That couldn't have really been the Bobcats, could it? [Sports Brethren] • Michigan has a lot of holes to fill next season, all of a sudden. [Simon On Sports] • What college coaches are donating, and where. [Selfish ...

NFL Divisional Pants Party: Packers Vs. Seahawks
OK, everyone, it's the best football weekend of the year. Seriously: Four awesome games, all weekend. What more could someone want?...

Darren McFadden's Piano Bar Brawl
It has to be kind of boring for a college football phenom, when the bowl games are over, your college career is done and you have nothing to do until the Draft workouts begin. It has to make a man antsy. So we sympathize with Darren McFadden, who got himself arrested early this morning....

Attention Oprah's Book Club: The New Reggie Bush Tell-All Is Here
Not in time for Christmas, darn it, but sure to make for cozy fireside reading nonetheless; the new Reggie Bush book, Don Yaeger's Tarnished Heisman, is here. Is this the Game of Shadows of college football? There's apparently enough evidence of financial impropriety involving Bush at USC to make th...

ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its wittiest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......

Boy's Mother Secures Lifetime Of Beatings
You might ask yourself: What is it, exactly, that the "Kentucky Commission on Human Rights" does? Do they make sure that the varmint menace is vanquished? Are they there to clear the way for Kige Ramsey's right to free speech? Nope: They make sure boys can be cheerleaders....

Nebraska's New Coach Is Quite Handsome
A reader who went to the BCS Championship Game sends in this photo of former LSU defensive coordinator and new Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, rocking the French Quarter at 3 a.m....

From Russia, With Fists
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of The FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer. Enjoy....


Just Five Unbeatens Left
Jonah Keri writes the college basketball closer (more or less) daily. E-mail your questions, comments or Clarence Ceasar-related memories to [email protected]....

Upset In Beantown
The NBA Closer is written by our Canadian weekend maestro J.E. Skeets. When he's not busy scouring the box scores or voting Benson '08, he can be heard on The Basketball Jones daily podcast....

About Last Night
What you missed while stumping for votes at the Nevada caucus (playing blackjack) ... • NBA: When the Celtics lose, it's news. When they lose to the Bobcats, it's big news. • College basketball: Isn't "7-foot-7 giant" redundant? Know any 7-foot-7 dwarves? Anyway, North Carolina 93, UNC-Asheville 81....

This Month's ESPN Accountability Record
So, you know how we asked for submissions to the ESPN Accountability Record a month ago, and then never got around to publishing it? Well, we're gonna finally do that today....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you once again blow off your trip to the Museum of Laziness ... • College basketball: Duke at Temple (7 p.m., ET). Won't be the same without Dickie V's barbed-wire irritating tones [ESPN]; Pittsburgh at South Florida (7:30 p.m., ET) [ESPN2] • NBA: Detroit at Dallas (9 p.m., ET). ...

What Happens In SportRobe, Stays in SportRobe
Attention bloggers: There's now no reason to ever again wear pants. The SportRobe is here! (No truth to the rumors that the Orioles are using these as their actual home uniforms). Several models available; and we suppose that Marbury is wearing his pretty much constantly. And Seaver, of course, rout...

The San Diego Chicken Still Rules The, Uh, Roost
All you other mascots, you better step off. Your newfangled antics are just hatin'. You will never touch the San Diego Chicken....

Who's Now? Is Never Going Away
The sad, terrifying truth about this summer's "Who's Now?" segment on ESPN is that it was a huge success. It ended up being one of the most searched terms on ESPN.com. Seriously. We suppose we shouldn't find this too surprising; it seems like exactly the type of thing teenagers search for, and those...