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About Last Night ...
What you missed while getting together with your buddies to produce silhouettes of all your favorite movies ... • College basketball: Ohio State clinches Big Ten with win over Wisconsin; Florida observes with interest. • NBA: For those who consider it a rivalry, please note: Nets 101, Knicks 92. • N...
Sure, Coach, I'll Take Some
University of Central Florida basketball head coach has some to give, and he doesn't quite know who to share it with. So he asks. And then, oh, does he give it out....
Ohio State Helps Billy Packer Celebrate His Birthday
The Buckeyes just downed the Badgers 49-48 after Ron Lewis rejected a last second 12-foot attempt by Wisconsin. This was immediately followed by the fans of the #1 team in the country rushing the court....
Unbagged Heads Prevail
Will told you earlier in the week about the struggles of the East Carolina basketball team, and their fans' plan to show up at the final home game of the year with bags on their heads. As far as I can tell, last night against UTEP, there were no bags (I can find no mention of them)... and the ECU Pi...
College Hoops Compendium: Noah Disappoints
• LSU 66, (3) Florida 56. Joakim Noah: 4 points, 3 rebounds, 0 swipes at cheerleaders, 0 sissy arguments with opposing coaches about who gets to hold the basketball. We expect a higher level of production all around, Joakim. See that it doesn't happen again. Florida was never really close past three...
About Last Night...
• NBA. San Antonio 102, Seattle 71. 11 Top 25 teams outscored the Sonics yesterday, and they all did it in 8 fewer minutes. • NHL. Ottawa 6, Buffalo 5. Just two fights? Come on, where's your commitment? • College Basketball. Michigan State 66, Indiana 58. Drew Neitzel does his best work after halfti...
Broncos RB Damien Nash Is Dead At 24
Nash collapsed after a charity basketball game he was hosting, and was pronounced dead at 6:41 p.m. No details or cause of death are available as of the time of this post....
Shaq On Taint
After the Heat lost to Dallas on Thursday, a reporter engaged Shaq in conversation about Dirk Nowitzki's MVP candidacy. Shaq, sensing the opportunity to get some things off his chest, went off about how the award selection process and said that Steve Nash's last two MVP awards were "tainted."...
It's Too Bad Ricky Williams Wasn't Around For This
It seems like the sort of thing Ricky would have loved. These are Texas football fans and they are, according to the tipster, celebrating a win over Oklahoma....
About Last Night...
• College Basketball: St. Peter's 54, Iona 52. ESPNU doesn't have nearly enough games between teams that have records of 5-23 and 2-26. • NBA: Nets 109, Kings 96. 22 points, 13 board, and 10 assists isn't bad for a guy with a cracked rib. Of course, Jason Kidd's been in worse pain this year. • WGC A...
Farney Apparently Has An Email Account
Because there's nothing more ethically sound than quoting a freaking Craig's List ad and extrapolating it out to connote normal human activity — and little more fun! — The Big Lead thinks Ryan Freel might be having a little Craig's List morning fun....
Randy Johnson Would Rather You Didn't Watch 'Music And Lyrics'
Here's an Arizona Diamondbacks newspaper ad, as scanned by Diamondhacks, in which we see an interesting marketing strategy. OK, we're guys, right? Guys like baseball. So if we guys don't stick together and, like, buy Diamondbacks season tickets, our girlfriends might make us go see Because I Said So...
Baseball Season Preview: Seattle Mariners
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....
... Or, As The NHL Calls It, 'Thursday'
For those who like their NHL violence varied and wanton, we present Thursday's Ottawa at Buffalo matchup, which makes the Spanish Inquisition look like a tickle fight. The Sabres' 6-5 OT win featured 100 total penalty minutes, with eight penalties for fighting, four for hooking, two for instigating ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while giving the cat a perm ... • NBA: Mavericks ascending ... Heat, sans Wade, fall to Dallas 112-100. • Golf: Tiger's got them right where he wants them (insert evil laugh). • College basketball: We have a Conference USA champion, folks. Memphis 99, Rice 63....
Baseball Season Preview: Atlanta Braves
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....
Those Aren't Bags: They're Instruments Of Death
The East Carolina Pirates are having a tough year. They're 5-21, 0-13 in Conference USA, they've lost 13 in a row and 19 of their last 20, and they just lost a heartbreaker to Marshall at home. It's not a good time in Greenville....
ESPN: We Pan The Crowd, You Decide
Look, according to union rules, technicians in the ESPN video truck get one 15-minute coffee break every two hours. So if you're the director, sometimes you need to delegate. "Go ahead and choose which section of the crowd to pan, Buzz. I'm finishing my danish." Or, you know, perhaps every fifth per...
The Last Night Of The Chief
Last night, as tons of teary-eyed Central Illinoisians will tell you this morning, was the final dance of Chief Illiniwek, the skipping, painted white-guy-dressed-up-as-Injun who has "performed" at halftime of our alma mater's sporting events for the last 80 years or so. Like most alums — or at leas...
About Last Night ...
What you missed as Socrates scores possibly the most important goal of his career ... • NBA: Jacked up ... Phil Jackson's first six-game losing streak, as Jarrett Jack leads Portland over LA 112-108. • College basketball: UConn work it out, UConn work it ooouuutttt ... Calhoun's milestone win import...