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Just 53 Hours Until This All Can End
All right. We are finally (almost) there. The Super Bowl week of emptiness and discussions of ankle sprains, goat testicles and Wes Welker is at last winding down. Congrats, fans: You've just about made it to the actual game....
About Last Night
What you missed while checking in to the Rubber Room Ramada with Britney Spears ... • College basketball: Right up the ole Wazzu ... Cal hands No. 9 Washington State its first loss at Friel Court, 69-64. • NBA: The Amazing Rondo ... Celtics beat Mavericks without the letters K and G. • College footb...
The Deadspin Super Bowl Party Is Tonight
If you'll bear with us, allow us to contrast our Super Bowl party — at Zipps Sports Grill in Scottsdale at 7:30 p.m. tonight — and the Super Thursday event tonight just down the street at Axis/Radius....
Ballin' With Kool-Aid Man
OK, not only am I buying a pair of these shoes in every flavor, but I've got this poster up in my living room right now. That f###ing Turtle from Entourage better stay outta my way when Reebok debuts their new Kool-Aid athletic shoes in stores tomorrow, that's all I'm saying. Coaches may have told y...
Colts Fans Have Absolutely No Cajones
Here's the situation: Four amounts left on the board on the game show Deal or No Deal (NFL Edition!). One is for $1 million, and the other three are for $10,000 or less. What amount does your case hold? George Barnes here can sell his case for $189,000 — but if he does, he'll lose out on the million...
Jamboroo XXII: The Super Bowlaroo, Featuring Queens Of the Stone Age, Kix, Guacamole, New Drinking Games And Stolen Porn
Big Daddy Drew's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo previews the upcoming weekend of the NFL every, well, every Thursday afternoon. Even when there are no games....
Some People Just Love Those Gin Blossoms
If you've shaken that Berman video out of your system — and we have absolutely not done so — here's something fun from the media party the other night....
GSTF Book Tour Stop: Tempe, Arizona
The first step of the book tour kicked off last night at the Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix, and we had a grand time with Roger Director, who has considerably more energy than we do....
The Super Bowl Brings Out All The High Rollers
Because no one can ever get enough insane Craig's List postings, Eye On Foxborough has found a particularly fun fellow who is trying to rent his house out for the Super Bowl. No big deal, right? Well, how about some strippers?...
Larry Johnson Can Dramatically Increase Your Salary
The Sporting News' Chris Mottram was roaming around Radio Row at the Super Bowl Media Center yesterday — at the Super Bowl, everything gets capital letters — and came across the Chiefs' Larry Johnson. He was wearing a nice watch....
About Last Night
What you missed after hearing "Crank That" one too many times ... • College basketball: The last time Kansas State won at home against Kansas, Matt Leinart had not yet been born. • NFL: No mention of Tom Brady's ankle on Patriots' injury report. Belichick, in fact, denies Brady has an ankle. • NBA: ...
The First Of Many Book Tour Stops
With all the rigmarole about the Super Bowl and what-not, we almost forgot that we were supposed to be on a book tour. The whole big shebang kicks off tonight at the Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe. We will not be wearing our Jenna Bush mask. (By the way, the book she's reading there is not "My Pe...
Media Parties Bring Out The True Rock Stars
Back when it started, we had a little fun with Hashmarks, ESPN's NFL blog, but it's clearly come around a little bit. (And it's certainly kicking our ass with Super Bowl coverage, that's for sure, if you're into that whole "Bill Belichick looks relaxed" type of thing.) But his description of the "me...
Gentlemen, Start Your Puppies
Want your fill of barking, chewing and indiscriminate pooping that doesn't involve a night out with Najeh Davenport? Then gather your Scooby Snacks and settle in for Puppy Bowl IV; the only part of Super Bowl Week that lives up to the hype. The starting lineups were announced this morning, and once ...
The Most Excrutiating Office Conversations
We reach the midway section of Super Bowl Week, and this is just about the time when all the casual sports fans in your offices start noticing that there's a game Sunday. And that means you're about to sit through some really inane office chatter. The Sports Hernia compiles the best ones....
Mike And Mike, Sad Media Folk And The Fox Sports Grill
Because of a missed appointment, after we filed our Sporting News column last night, we spent the evening stranded at a cheesy Glendale sports bar, waiting for a cab that never came. (We literally spent four hours roaming around the greater Phoenix area doing nothing last night. We miss public trans...
About Last Night
What you missed while knitting toaster cozies ... • NBA: Both the Nets and Sonics winning on the same day? What's next, a meteor striking the e—... • NHL: The Fisher King ... Senators 5, Islanders 2. • MLB: Andy Pettitte, whistle blower....
Our Truncated Visit To Media Day
Against all our better judgment, we headed to the Pink Taco today for Media Day. We had heard from pretty much everyone we know who covers sports for a living that it's a full platter of ridiculousness and that it wasn't worth our time. Hearing that made us think we absolutely had to go. We should...
Tony Romo Needs A Date, Stat
By now, you might have seen the bizarre Tony Romo/Jessica Simpson singalong thing that the brain has yet to download, let alone comprehend....