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Joakim Noah To LeBron James: "You're A Jerk"
Last night's Cavs-Bulls game was marked by an argument between LeBron James and Joakim Noah, occasioned by King James dancing on the sidelines during Cleveland's 101-87 win. The b-word was apparently thrown, ooh!...

Deadspin Films Presents: "High And Outside: The Dock Ellis Story"
Sporting apparel/culture site No Mas recently released the animated story of Dock Ellis, who threw a no-hitter on acid—fucking ACID—and died last December. Time for his biopic, yeah? Let's cast and storyboard this thing. To Hollywood we go!...

SEC Championship Game To Proceed Without Distractions
Thousands of hours of airtime. Millions of keystrokes. Finally, we can stop obsessing over the Most Important College Football Issue of Our Time: Notre Dame will not sully the airwaves this bowl season....

Your College Football Watching Open Thread
Judging by the early score of the Pitt-Cincinnati game, the horse head left outside Skyline Chili HQ is having its expected result....

Bobby And Me: Remembering College Football's Grand Old Coot
Bobby Bowden was the last of a species, a "big-time coach with an actual personality," writes Emily Badger, former Florida State beat reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, who once received the ultimate Bowden tribute: He forgot her name....

Of Matters Concerning Mandatory Husband ESP
A couple weeks ago I wrote a post detailing ten questions to ask a woman before you propose to her. The most critical omission on this list was noted by MikeSmrek:...

Having Eli Manning's Autograph More Humiliating Than Losing To Eli Manning
In the catalog of manufactured outrage, it's hard to think of a dumber example than Dallas players somehow being angry at Eli Manning for signing a wall in the new Cowboys Stadium. Plaster has never been so disrespected!...

Rich Rodriguez: NCAA Investigation A Lot Like Hurricane Katrina
"It's really kind of ironic that the New Orleans Saints overcame the hurricane a few years back....We've had a few hurricanes of our own. We had a big hurricane in August....but don't tell me this team is a failure." [Freep/Detroit4Lyfe]...

Last Night's Winner: LeGarrette Blount
In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like Oregon's LeGarrette Blount (not pictured) who only played two games this season, but left his mark on both. And on a couple of faces....

The Master Of The Press Conference Delivers Again
Pressers are invariably boring; unless Allen Iverson is involved. We got a doozy today, as AI broke down announcing his return to the 76ers....

Mark Mangino Now Has More Time For That NordicTrack In His Garage
Craggs was wrong: Mangino wasn't fired, he "resigned." After a parade of former players claiming abuse, Kansas finally made like the Catholic Church and decided it's time to move on. Baby Mangino sheds a tear. And burps and poops. [KU]...

Mark Mangino Mistreats His Players In Cruel, Exotic Ways
The hand you see here belongs to a former Kansas defensive lineman, who says that in 2003, surly parade balloon Mark Mangino made him "bear-crawl" across a hot AstroTurf field. It was punishment for missing, oh yes, a weigh-in....

Ari Fleischer Has Settled Nicely Into His Job Of Spinning Wildly Unpopular Ideas
The former Bush factotum and current BCS shill discusses the playoff "scheme" with Bryan Curtis: "It's like saying we should get rid of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and hold smaller parades all across America." [The Daily Beast]...

LOOK AT MY STRIPED SHIRT! Jamboroo, Week 13
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Find more of his stuff at his Twitter feed....

"I" Of The Tiger: A Graphological Inquiry Into The Personality Of Eldrick Woods
Just who is Tiger Woods, exactly? We may never know, but at least we have the science of handwriting analysis to give us an idea. Graphologist Susanne Shapiro looked at Tiger's autograph for us, and she found it very revealing....

Even Inanimate Objects Think It's Time For Bowden To Call It A Career
What's that word behind Christian Ponder at Bobby Bowden's retirement press conference? Random folds in the curtain...or a message from God? [Via]...

Brian Kelly Will Coach The Fighting Irish, According To Writing Irish
In the most Irish piece of breaking news ever, a man named Sean O'Shea at something called IrishCentral.com is reporting that Cincinnati's Brian Kelly will indeed be the new coach of Notre Dame. [IrishCentral.com]...

Allen Iverson Is Philly's Answer Once More ...
... provided the question is, "Which fading NBA great who's about one step removed from a stint with the Globetrotters did the Sixers just sign to a really sad one-year, non-guaranteed contract at the pro-rated veterans minimum?" [ESPN]...

Iverson Not Going To Sleep On The Streets Of Philly, At Least
Here's one less hurdle for AI-back-to-the-Sixers: his house is still for sale, three years after he was traded (though at half the original asking price). Similarly precipitous, his own drop in value. [The700Level]...

BYU-Utah: A "Burning Cauldron Of Loathing"
You recall the anti-Utah slam poem delivered by BYU quarterback Max Hall on Saturday. Now comes this photo of Jamie Whittingham, wife of Utah coach Kyle Whittingham, snapped just moments before she took a BYU fan's elbow to the grill....