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So, Um, Yeah, About Last Night
What you missed while pissing mediocrity ... • NBA: Kobe's 40 not enough to beat Mavs. 48 would've done the trick though. • Golf: Tiger leads Buick by four-strokes at 12-under. *Silent pump fist* • Tennis: Sex sells ... and wins. Sharapova claims her third Grand Slam title with a 7-5, 6-3 victory ov...

You, Too, Can Invest In A 25-Year Old Pitcher
So here's a clever idea: A minor league baseball player, trying to essentially hedge bets on his career, is offering fans a share of his future salary. It kind of makes sense....

Ethan Albright, Finally Vindicated
Remember Ethan Albright? The Redskins long snapper who had the worst rating in all of Madden 2007 and was immortalized in The Phat Phree's famous mock letter to John Madden? Well, his rating won't be so low next year: He's going to the Pro Bowl....

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

The Greatest College Basketball Chant - Ever
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming The Floor....

Hey, Look, Dana Jacobson's Having Some Fun
So ... here's a fun picture. That's Dana Jacobson. Having fun. (Baseball Musings found the photo.)...

About Last Night
What you missed while driving to a seedy area of town to try and score some Hershey's mints ... • College basketball: Love will find a way. UCLA 80, Oregon 75. • NBA: 15 Strong ... I hope you aren't shocked by the news that the Heat lost again. San Antonio 90, Miami 89. • Tennis: A win so big you ca...

What's The Best Way To Get Rid Of A Tattoo? Oh, Yeah: OPEN FLAME.
As first pointed out by Bloody Elbow — which is an awesome name for a blog, even if it is about ultimate fighting — and brought to our attention today by FanIQ, this is Melvin Costa, an MMA fighter who is also a white supremacist. (That's a Nazi tattoo on his chest. Really.) That is only slightly of...

Tony Romo Thinks He Can Do Better
Good news, fellows ... Jessica Simpson may soon be available. So for Heaven's sake start wearing collared shirts! (Preferably popped.) Word is that Tony Romo would like to dump her ... only she's not going easily. Hmm. Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction comes to mind here for some reason....

Stephen A. Smith Is Serious About This Blogging Business
After we helped introduce the planet to Stephen A. Smith's blog (and then watched in horror as it got way too ugly in there), Stephen A. came out today and let everybody know that he plans on blogging his fingers off. In an interview with Philadelphia Magazine ... wait ... oh our gorsh ... he's talk...

Jose Canseco Really, REALLY Wants To Get Into Film
Our favorite aspect of this whole steroid era in baseball has to be that the grand whistleblower was Jose Canseco. Baseball was so dirty in the '90s that this meathead was the closest we have to a hero. It's kind of awesome. (We own one of these shirts, by the way.)...

Money For Nothing
We are sad to say that Jonah Keri has discontinued his College Basketball Closer; we will miss him. But that's not all for the Closer; we'd like to hand the mic to the gang at Storming The Floor to fill in....

About Last Night
What Dee Mirich missed while furiously writing about 200 angry poems ... • MLB: Barry Bonds asks judge to dismiss perjury charges on the grounds that he didn't understand the questions (laugh track). • College basketball: Five overtimes? Is that all? I once saw Sister Hazel do eight encores. Baylor ...

We Welcome Stephen A. Smith To The Wonderful World Of Blogs
Ladies and gentlepeople, the online world has officially matured into the dominant medium we all suspected it may someday be: Stephen A. Smith has a blog....

Clearly, The First Cubs' Japanese Player
Because we're hankering for baseball already and need something to get our dander up, here's the new marketing campaign the Cubs have put together for Kosuke Fukudome. Looks great, right? Well ... that image is a rather offensive one for millions of people....

Larry Brown Is Happy Not To Be In New York Anymore
Larry Brown offers us a fond, cute little footnote in the epic catastrophe that is 2007 SHOTY winner Isiah Thomas' tenure with the New York Knicks. Brown wasn't exactly Mr. Sunshine and Rainbows with that team — and he clearly stopped giving a crap 10 games in — but Isiah has made sure that Brown wi...

Hey, At Least SOMEONE Was Calling In
We remember the old days, back when we were dorfing around at the Daily Illini, of media conference calls with Big Ten coaches. Gene Keady would ramble on too long, Lou Henson would drone that earnest whine of his and Bob Knight, of course, would never show up. It was strange, really, to have a phon...

Dramatic New Footage Surfaces Of Tom Brady Walking
Tom Brady WILL be at the dance tonight, girls. He WILL be there. I'm paraphrasing Bill Murray in Meatballs, but you get the picture. So, Brady's "high ankle sprain" is not as serious as many believed (hoped?) ... unless they're now making walking casts in pointy-toed dress shoe designs. He showed up...

It's Got To Be The Shoes, Money
We are sad to say that Jonah Keri has discontinued his College Basketball Closer; we will miss him. But that's not all for the Closer; we'd like to hand the mic to the gang at Storming The Floor to fill in....

Does Anyone Have The Heart To Tell This Guy That Nash Isn't American?
The NBA Closer is written by our Canadian weekend maestro J.E. Skeets. When he's not busy scouring the box scores or ordering some violent quiche, he can be heard on The Basketball Jones daily podcast....