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Hugh Johnson Project, Update 4
Overheard in the newsroom (I work at a TV station) from someone watching the Dr. Pepper ACC Tournament: "Somewhere, Mr. Pibb is laughing his ass off." - RodeoQueen...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 3
"Georgia Tech's offense has one Ball and two Johnson's." - Rowan 2 FSU...
Greg Oden Begins To Earn His Reputation At 4 p.m.
Bad news for you, Calum MacLeod and Urule Igbavoa. Valparaiso's big men are going to have to deal with Greg Oden today, the greatest center in college basketball history that has never actually played a game. It was originally thought that Ohio State center wasn't going to be available until after...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 2
"Corso just referred to the BCS Title game as the 'National World Championship.' Someone loosen his merkin. - Boomer Sooner...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 1
"Looks like you've painted yourself into a corner. It's all Louisville-Connecticut. Unless you are watching cartoons. If you're interested, Lilo and Stich is on Disney and some acid trip with claymation dinosaurs is on NBC." - Victoria Times...
There's A Football World Cup? Real Football?
We're not sure how we missed this, but apparently, in July 2007, there's going to be a football World Cup. And not the weird foreign kind of football either; we mean, like, real football....
The Great Basketball Bloggers Have United And Will Soon Rule Earth
We'd like to congratulate the fine folks at AOL's The Fanhouse on the launch of their new NBA and College Basketball blog networks. As usual, they've put together a rather impressive roster, including the rather insanely busy Mighty MJD, who probably has to remind himself these days what site he's w...
Bobby Knight To Be Airlifted In To Restore Order At Castro Valley High
Awhile ago we wrote about the parents' revolt at Castro Valley (Calif.) High, wherein varsity girls basketball coach Nancy Nibarger was forced to allow a special panel of "objective observers" to choose her team at preseason tryouts. She was even forced to have an ombudsman observe all of her subseq...
It's Never Too Early In Wrigleyville
Honestly, the Cubs are kind of freaking us out with all this spending business. The overspend for Aramis Ramirez, they really overspend for Mark DeRosa and they REALLY overspend on Alfonso Soriano, and now they're supposedly going after Jason Schmidt. We're not necessarily concerned that these acq...
Free Mikey
The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man returning soup at a deli....
'Dallas Clark Is Awesome. Seriously. (Please Don't Hurt Us)'
The folks over at Rooster Teeth.com are small-boned, practical folk. So when they angered large, muscular Indianapolis Colts tight end Dallas Clark recently with a rather unflattering portrayal of him on a video game commercial, they quickly scrambled to make amends. They drafted a letter of apology...
Albert Pujols Not Only Wants MVP, He Wants Your "Best Boss Ever" Coffee Mug
It might not be the most pleasant matter for us to bring up here, but we kind of have to come out and say it: Our man Albert Pujols came off as a bit of a jerk yesterday....
NBA Roundup: Who Will Stop The Mavericks?
Notes from Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
The OTHER Japanese Pitching Prize
In a much lower-profile — for the Yankees, anyway — announcement yesterday, the Yankees have won the bidding rights to Kei Igawa, a lefthanded pitcher in Japan, for the apparently bargain-rate discount of $26 million....
Frank Beamer's All-American Ballot
In case you had any doubt left — though we don't know how you could have — that a ballot in the hands of college football coaches is a dangerous thing, here's the All-American ballot from Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer....
Welcome To The Romo Bandwagon Express, With No Stops Until Jan. 20
With Steve Silverman's love note to Tony Romo on MSNBC this morning, let the worship of the Dallas quarterback officially begin. Not that it started with Silverman by any means — Madden has been giving Romo verbal backrubs for more than a month now. But we're just wondering if America is ready for t...
NBA Roundup: Much Ado About Headwear
Notes on Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
That Smudge On Your Floor? That's The Big Ten
You know, new Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson isn't known as a disciplinarian in the way that Bob Knight is, but, jeez, he sure does make his players do some pretty publicly humiliating things to their teammates when they lose on national television, doesn't he?...
Time For The Big Ten To Lose Again
Well, you know the college basketball season is officially upon us with the ritualistic beatdown of the Big Ten at the hands of the ACC starts showing up on ESPN. With the precursor of N.C. State trouncing previously undefeated Michigan already pushing the ACC into a 1-0 lead last night, the ACC is ...
The McGwire Maelstrom Is Upon Us
Well, as pretty much everyone has weighed in on now, Mark McGwire is on the Hall of Fame ballot, and it's got everybody's panties in a bunch. We typically get exhausted by Hall of Fame debates anyway — they're like regular sports debates, except it's about stuff that ended a decade ago — but this on...