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D-Mat, D-Mat, Come Home To Us, D-Mat!
Because the land of Red Sox fans is an intense one, one that we approach gingerly and with palms spread wide open, we don't want any trouble here, we feel like we should check in on the Daisuke Matsuzaka business. We enjoy that the Red Sox Nation is up in arms and screaming about a player who sudden...

Come Celebrate Mo Vaughn's Birthday!
If you're hanging around the Meatpacking District of Manhattan tomorrow evening, we encourage you to drop by the 39th birthday extravaganza for former Red Sox and (gasp!) Met first baseman Mo Vaughn. (Oh, and the Angels: Don't forget, he ate up their clubhouse spread plenty too, and probably hit an ...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while punching out Pauly Shore, kind of ... • NHL: Senators' Ray Emery will turn back every puck ... but will he also turn back your love? • NBA: Lakers forget there are four quarters in a game, but still beat Rockets. Bad news for Odom, though. • College basketball: Antanas Kavaliau...

David Eckstein Is One Scrappy, Gutty Wrestler
We don't cover much professional wrestling around here, because, as athletic an enterprise as it might be, it's not really, you know, sports. But — shockingly! — tons of professional athletes love wrestling; we think it's the tights....

'I Regret Nothinnnnnggggggg!'
On the list of things we would never attempt, right after "Barbaro message board moderator" and right before "poking Larry Allen with a sharp stick" comes this. It's base jumping, of course, but these batshit insane daring thrill-seekers have added a couple of twists over the past two years. No. 1 i...

There Are No Duke Basketball Tickets Here! Now Go Away!
The politics of exclusion permeates many cities, and the sleepy hamlet of Krzyzewskiville is no exception. You've heard of Krzyzewskiville; the campus tent city set up by Duke students each winter to wait in line for basketball tickets to Cameron Indoor Stadium. But this season, residents have gon...

About Last Night ..
What you missed while dodging Nicole Richie on the freeway ... • NFL: Apparently there was some confusion amongst fans as to where the Bears-Rams game was being played. • NBA: Here come the Suns, and I say, it's all right. • NHL: Evgeni Malkin leads Penguins toward world domination....

The True Essence Of Every TMQ Column
This was so inevitable that we can't believe it took them so long: The gang at Kissing Suzy Kolber have finally gotten around to mocking Gregg Easterbrook. Some comedic highlights:...

Days Of Blunder
In a move that we liken to John Glenn falling out of the teacup ride at Disneyland, NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson broke his wrist on Friday when he fell out of a golf cart during a celebrity golf tournament in Florida....

Hirshey: A Game Even Dumb Newbies Could Love
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....

About Last Night ...
What we missed while the bomb squad opened our Christmas card from Barbaro ... • NFL: Well, that was fun. Colts remove their name from Super Bowl candidacy. • World Cup Ski: Bode Miller sails to easy vict ... uh oh. • World Cup Golf: Germany rules the world!...

Sunday Night Football: Exploring The Parcells/Payton Relationship
Congratulations to NBC for managing to find two worthwhile teams in the NFC... they might be the only two. The 8-4 Saints travel to Dallas to take on the 8-4 Cowboys tonight, and there are storylines aplenty....

The College Hoops Compendium: Congratulations, Knight
• (23) Air Force 82, Colorado College 31. I thought this was the sort of thing that didn't happen outside of grade school basketball: Air Force held Colorado College to six points in the first half, and took a 50-6 lead into the break. What's the Colorado College coach supposed to say in his halftim...

About Last Night...
• College Football: Troy Smith puts himself in OJ's neighborhood, winning the Heisman with the 2nd-largest margin of victory ever. Darren McFadden 2nd, Brady Quinn 3rd. • NBA: Knicks 115, Bucks 107. That "Eddy! Eddy!" chant from the Garden crowd was not sarcastic. Curry finished with 36 points. • NB...

Celebrating Isiah
There are all kinds of reasons to throw a party, but none of them are better or more significant than the third anniversary of the hiring of Isiah Thomas. Knicks owner James Dolan is throwing this bash, and the best thing about it? You're invited. No, really. Here's your invitation....

About Last Night...
• NBA. Timberwolves 110, Jazz 103. Kevin Garnett: 31 points, 14 boards, and 1 heartfelt plea for the Wolves to trade for Allen Iversion, which will make Kevin McHale look like a jackass if he can't pull it off. • NHL. Devils 2, Flyers 0. Marty Brodeur's shutout ties him with someone on the all-time ...

USC Wants You To Remember The Alamo
Boy. Not only are tempers still flaring over current BCS issues, but there are still some 2005 grudges that seem to be on the front burner. USC blog Boy From Troi, for instance, couldn't help taking a shot at Texas when the latter's marketing dept. sent out an e-mail promoting the arrival of their...

New Defense Secretary A Closet Online Football Chatterer
Robert Gates, as those of you who lower yourselves to pay attention to the world outside of sports might know, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new Secretary of Defense, replacing Donald Rumsfeld, the Marty Mornhinweg of foreign policy. Gates was most recently president of Texas A&M Universit...

Bonds Back In Only Place That Truly Loves Him
Well, now we can breathe easy over here; Barry Bonds won't be going to St. Louis. (And now that he's not, we'd like to note that we would have never sold out our principles to root for him. Nope! No way! Obviously! Of course not!)...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while applying cologne to your ... well, just see No. 10 ... • NFL: Willie Parker sets Steelers rushing mark in win over Browns in the least-TiVoed game of the season so far. • NBA: Pow! Pistons surprise Mavericks in Dallas. • NHL: Shootout! Henrik Lundqvist, you're our hero....