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Yes, In Fact, It IS Tebow Time
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while at least enjoying the last game of the year at Busch Stadium ... • How 'bout that Grossman! • Pujols, Ankiel, some guy named Barden run like madmen. • They found a ton of Chinese steroids. Of all places!...
The Best F—cking Thing About Live Televised Press Conferences
If that company and travel schedule isn't enough to make you a drop a couple F-bombs on live television, I don't know what is....
One Down, Seven To Go ...
Oh, look, we've got our first team out on the dance floor. Quick, someone tell the DJ to keep that 'Kool & The Gang' coming!...
Ladies And Hooligans, Your Premier League Action ...
Notes from Saturday's games in the Barclays Premier League ......
It's So Hard To Say Goodbye ...
If Barry Bonds wants to play another season, it won't be in a San Francisco Giants uniform. Giants owner Peter Magowan handed Bonds the proverbial pink-slip during a 90-minute meeting Thursday night. The Giants informed the press at a news conference last night. (Unfortunately, sans Bonds ... and Ja...
Who's The Next To Be Taken Down By Karma?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
About Last Night
What you missed while playing full-contact Scrabble ... • College football: Miami bids farewell to Thursday nights at the Orange Bowl by squeezing the pulp out of Texas A&M. • MLB: Brett Tomko is winning games? Seriously? Padres within a half-game of Diamondbacks for NL West lead. • Cycling: Oscar P...
How To Stoke An In-State Rivalry
As Peter King can tell you, when you're a public figure, sometimes people poke a little fun at your family (especially if you, you know, talk about them all the time.) But Oklahoma baseball coach Sunny Golloway is probably an innocent bystander here, as much as anyone whose daughter poses in Playboy...
No One Cares About Your Fantasy Team? WRONG, WHORE!
Big Daddy Drew's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo previews the upcoming weekend of the NFL every, well, every Thursday afternoon....
ESPN Wisely Addresses Its HR Department
The big Harold Reynolds court case isn't coming to trial until, sheesh, 2013, but that doesn't mean that ESPN isn't arming itself against future trouble: They've got a new HR guy....
Here Come The Yankees ... Howdy Do!
Everything is coming up pinstripes lately, and Boston fans are none too happy, of course. Andy Pettitte earned his 200th win and Mariano Rivera escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth as the Yankees beat Orioles 2-1 Wednesday, New York pulling to within 1½ games of first-place Boston. Do I need to m...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while mowing the lawn ... • MLB: Pettitte's milestone lifts Yankees to within 1 1/2 games of Red Sox in AL East. • Soccer: Meanwhile, in the UEFA Champions League, Manchester United scorches the nets for a 1-0 win. • MLB: Cubs back in first, right on schedule, as Ted Lilly gently mow...
It's Open Season On Charlie Weis
The Charlie Weis / Notre Dame pile-on continues, gloriously. Some of it is justified, like criticism of how the school has handled the Demetrius Jones situation. (They're making him pay for school at Northern Illinois this year by not releasing him from his scholarship.) And some of it is really jus...
Oscar De La Hoya Is Feeling Even More Pretty Than Usual
We're not sure what the heck was going through Oscar de la Hoya's mind when he posed for these photos, and, frankly, we probably don't want to. There's another after the jump, and you can find the whole sordid spread right here. Yipes....
The Yankees 2 1/2 Games Back? Inconceivable!
Well, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (as if I had to tell you), and fittingly we must report that the Dread Pirate Roberts is now in sight of the first-place Red Sox, and gaining rapidly. The Yankees, who were 14 1/2 games behind Boston in May, are now well within striking distance wi...