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About Last Night ...
What you missed while tending your four-legged duck ... • NBA: Oh fellas ... Steve Nash is back ... • College basketball: Well, that didn't last long. No. 1 Wisconsin knocked off by Michigan State. • NHL: Ice capades ... Senators give Murray 600th coaching win....
Baseball Season Preview: New York Mets
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
No, Really, Your Testimony Was Quite Pleasant
Sorry, all you CourtTV legal eagles desperate for a fixin' of Charlie Weis gastric bypass surgery malpractice goodness: The whole rigmarole has been declared a mistrial....
Go Vandy ... And Duck!
Even though it's Vanderbilt that's being fined for their fans running on the court, this video shows that the real bad guy might have been the Florida player who punch a fan in the face....
A-Rod's Tree Fort Now A Very Lonely Place
Listen son, I know that you were hoping that Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter would someday get back together, so that you and your favorite players would be a family again. But it's just not going to happen. Sometimes, people just grow apart, and there's nothing you can do about it. But both Alex and...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while shaving your head ... • NHL: Point Break ... Islanders take significant win over Penguins. • College basketball: Mario "Superintendent" Chalmers leads Kansas over Kansas State, 71-62. • Tennis: Venus creaks to first-round win in Memphis International....
Gilbert Arenas Is Playing Russian Roulette With His ACL
As always, the greatest moments of All-Star Weekend happen when the "game" isn't actually on, and The 700 Level found perhaps the best one. During a commercial break, Gilbert Arenas — of course — decided to satisfy a lifelong curiosity and, playing along with the "entertainment," dunked off a trampo...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while cancelling plans for April 14, 2036 ... • NBA: Wayne Newton and Kobe Bryant top Siegfried and Roy 153-132 in All-Star Game. • NASCAR: By virtue of his being the only car not upside down and on fire, Kevin Harvick wins Daytona 500. • College basketball: ASU beats No. 22 USC for ...
Checking In Again With Our Daytona Correspondent
Our Daytona 500 correspondent Luke checks in once again, live from the track....
Vanderbilt Was Determined To Deny Joakim Noah The Ball
Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings isn't like most coaches. A lot of guys will tell their team to protect the ball, but won't practice what they preach. Kevin Stallings not only will protect the ball, but he'll put a body on Joakim Noah, too....
I Am Not Ignoring Today's Race Car Driving Event
I wasn't able to make it to Daytona this weekend, because I have anything better to do... but I did dispatch my special correspondent, Luke....
College Hoops Compendium: This Man Is Not A Good Luck Charm
• (7) UCLA 81, (24) Arizona 66. Douche with the dumb sign, meet karma. Karma, meet the douche with the dumb sign (note: picture's been taken down... I don't think the guy got quite the reaction he wanted). Arizona got pounded at home by a superior UCLA team. Darren Collison, starting point guard for...
About Last Night...
• College Basketball. North Carolina 77, Boston College 72. Jared Dudley, that was not clutch. • NASCAR. Kevin Harvick wins Orbitz 300. I'm not sure what to do with my hands. • NBA. Jason Kapono wins Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout. I can only hope that this somehow led to Antoine Walker feeling ve...
Ref Gives Cameraman the Rodman Treatment
Today is a day for bad-ass referees (we'll get to Dick Bavetta in a little bit). Here we see an official at a Michigan home game either not watching where he's going or executing a carefully measured attack on a camera man who who's somewhere he shouldn't be. Either way, I suppose it is preferable t...
About Last Night...
• NBA: Sophomores 155, Rookies 114. David Lee takes it upon himself to prove that Isiah Thomas doesn't screw up everything. • NHL: Penguins 5, Devils 4. Man, that Jordan Staal's really coming along nicely, isn't he? • College Basketball: Winthrop 77, Missouri State 66. On the road against a good Mis...
Give 'Em Hell, Sun Devils!
If you've ever spent significant time watching Pacific-10 Conference basketball, you'd most likely be surprised that there has never been a team that has finished winless in that conference: Not even the Ben Lindsey-coached Arizona Wildcats of 1982-83, which went 4-24 overall (they won two conferenc...
Joumana Kidd Goes Nuclear On Jason
So, you know how the whole New Jersey Nets brass was concerned about how ugly the Jason Kidd-Joumana Kidd divorce proceedings might get? Well, The Smoking Gun has Joumana's countersuit to Jason's suit against her, and, holy cow, this thing really escalated fast. It's a huge document, so we're just g...
Dice-K Has Some Spring Training Work To Do
Red Sox Monster brings up something that has to give Red Sox fans considerable pause: When he showed up at spring training this week, new Boston pitching savior Daisuke Matsuzaka appeared to be, oh, a little chubbier than one might have expected....
Champaign's Long National Nightmare Is Over
As an old lifer at the Daily Illini, no story was less fun to talk about than Chief Illiniwek. We once had our own personal take on the embattled "symbol" of the University of Illinois, but we don't even remember what it was anymore: It was talked about every day, in the most banal and "emotional" t...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while training your sea monkeys ... • NHL: Colorado's Sakic gets magic No. 600 (without help from Victor Conte). • NBA: No, the correct answer was "LeBron." All those who said Kobe do not win a cookie. Cavaliers 114, Lakers 108. • College basketball: Use The Force, Lute ... USC sweep...