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HOLY CRAP! Phillies Win NL East On An Incredible Double Play
Jesus. Brad Lidge tried to give the entire city of Philadelphia a heart attack. In the top of the 9th with a two run lead, Lidge allowed a run to score and proceeded to load the bases. Jimmy Fucking Rollins made a ridiculous double play to clinch the National League East for the second straight year...

For Your Viewing Pleasure: Leave the Ball, Take a Walk to the Dugout
• 12:00 — Golf: PGA Tour Championship [NBC] - Kim vs. Sergio for a Ryder Cup rematch. • 12:00 — College Football: Michigan State @ Indiana [ESPN] - Unfortunately, this is not a basketball game. • 1:00 — College Football: Wisconsin (9) @ Michigan [ABC] • 1:10 — MLB: Marlins @ Mets [MLB.tv] - Forecast...

Seahawks Message Board Poster Succeeds In Creating Rivalry With The Giants, Fails As Human
On many occasions, team message board trash talk veers toward some very unpleasant depths, but some of the stuff being circulated on the popular Seahawks fan message board "Seahawks Huddle" right now has sparked an amazing amount of negative responses thanks to its unprecedented levels of classlessn...

Time To Unleash Your Shea Stadium Memories
"June 14, 1987. Mets, Phillies. We're enjoying a beautiful afternoon in the right field stands ..." One of the most famous Shea Stadium stories is fictional, of course. What can top Jerry Seinfeld explaining the physics of The Magic Loogie to Kramer and Newman? But you have real Shea memories, no do...

Lady Vols Coach Taken Out By Ninja Raccoon
Like many top-flight athletes Tennessee women's hoops coach Pat Summitt underwent the offseason peril of arthroscopic shoulder surgery. No, she didn't dislocate the joint while a dunking a basketball (ha! can you imagine!?), but she had been suffering from "instability" problems after heroically sav...

SMU Ensnarled In Mustang Sallies Sex Scandal
And now for some lesbian lawsuit news: Jennifer Colli, a former point guard for the Lady Mustangs is suing her former team because she feels like she received unfair treatment from her coach due to her relationship with a teammate. Colli says she was aggrieved by "inappropriate questions and comment...

The Person Most Troubled By Chris Cooley's Playbook Package? Mom, Of Course
It's a shame that we missed this earlier, but with the enormous amount of Chris Cooley dong-related news floating around out there the last couple weeks, some of it was carelessly overlooked. Including this interesting story from Monday, where the Washington Post's Mike Wise approached the Cooley fa...

Meanwhile, Down At The Arlington DMV ...
Sunday night can't get here soon enough for Washington Redskins fans, one of whom slipped this little gem past the ever-vigilant profanity watchdogs at his local Department of Motor Vehicles. The plates on his other car say "Assman." Elsewhere, noting that Terrell Owens is not in the NFL top 10 in e...

Exit, Thunder Collins
Big things were expected of running back Thunder Collins when he arrived at Nebraska in 2000 from East Los Angeles Junior College, where he was an All-American. But things never turned out the way he had hoped, either on the football field or in his personal life. As a runner he turned out to be one...

Georgia-Alabama Game To Be Friendly Backyard "Funeral" (With Cussin')
The premier game of this Saturday's college football schedule is the evening tilt between No. 3 Georgia and No. 8 Alabama, two SEC schools that have very little animosity toward each other. The host Bulldogs are instructing their fans to dress all in black as part of an innovate strategy designed to...

The Matt Millen Era Mercifully Ends In Detroit
It appears Bill Ford Jr.'s comments from a couple days ago were either not-so-subtle foreshadowing or they were taken under consideration by those who do have authority, because according to Fox Sports' Jay Glazer, Matt Millen, the Detroit Lions oft-criticized president and general manager, is offic...

Kermit Washington To Punch Third-World Hunger In The Face
Drought, famine, and crippling poverty better stay on the bench for this fight because Kermit Washington is coming out swinging. The former NBA baller and American University alum has his own non-profit organization called Project Contact Africa, that wants to throw a roundhouse right to the skull o...

Exclamation Point-Prone Playmate Adamantly Denies Engagement To Eagles Reciever
Yesterday, Philadelphia gossip hounds were investigating a rumor that "Girl Next Door" Kendra Wilkinson was engaged to Philadelphia Eagles' receiver Hank Baskett. Although many theories about the couple's cozy relationship were circulated, Baskett denied any physical relationship and maintained that...

Big Dope Loses All His Cowboys Stuff. Poor, Dumb Sap
You hate to see anyone become the victim of a burglary, but at the same time it's hard to feel any sympathy for Bruce Marziani. Bruce was born and raised in Philadelphia, but is a Dallas Cowboys fan, as you can see. And when he traveled to Irving for the big Monday Night showdown with the Eagles, he...

In Which We Ask The Musical Question, What The Hell Was That?
Kat DeLuna was called a "pop sensation" by the Texas Stadium announcer as she prepared to sing the National Anthem at what I'm assuming was the Monday Night game against the Eagles. She caused a sensation, all right. It's the first time I've heard an anthem singer booed who didn't unintentionally b...

The Houston Astros Politely Reject Bud Selig's Apology
When Hurricane Ike rained on the party inside Minute Maid Park in Houston last weekend, Bud Selig infamously made the Astros play two games at a "neutral site", Milwaukee's Miller Park. As you can imagine, this was not well received in the Astros' clubhouse. Houston, which had been red hot prior to...

Stephen A. Smith Hangs Out With His Blogosphere Homies in Vegas
Some of your favorite sports bloggers are in Las Vegas this weekend for something called BlogWorldExpo 2008. Very little sex shall be had at this event. Though, I'd keep a close eye on that Sussman kid; he's a wild one. Amazingly, Stephen A. Smith is also apparently taking part in this "conference"...

NASCAR's New Buzz-Killing Drug Policy
NASCAR officials have implemented a new drug policy, one which virtually anyone associated with the sport will be subject to. This of course, comes on the heels of Truck Series driver Aaron Fike admitting that he executed the brilliantly awesome idea of racing while heroin coursed through his veins...

For Your Viewing Pleasure
• In Progress — Golf: Ryder Cup [NBC] • 12:00 — College Football: East Carolina at North Carolina State [ESPN] • 1:00 — MLB: Boston at Toronto [TBS] • 3:00 — College Football: Arizona at UCLA [FSN] • 3:30 — College Footballl: Florida at Tennessee [CBS] • 3:55 — MLB: Minnesota at Tampa Bay [FOX] • 3...

Michael Beasley Is A Young Man In Need Of A Crazy Joe Clark-Like Figure
The NBA handed out punishments to former Kansas players Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur for that Rookie Transition Training incident, but it turns out that Kansas State's Michael Beasley was also there that night, partaking in the nefarious, smoky late night activities. The Heat's number one pick ...