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About Last Night ...
What you missed while letting the Wookkie win ... • College basketball: Duke vs. North Carolina ... like a walk through a bad neighborhood in just about every way. • NBA: Kobe, meet the Suns. Suns, Kobe. • NHL: We're no experts, but this has to be some kind of penalty. Avalanche 4, Red Wings 3, OT...

About Last Night...
• College Basketball: Marquette 75, Pitt 71. And Georgetown is your regular season Big East champion. • Arena Football: Georgia Force 69, Arizona Rattlers 65. Three of every 10 throws by Chris Greisen went for touchdowns. 25-of-30, 337 yards... 9 touchdowns. • NBA: Spurs 97, Rockets 74. That's eight...

Barry Bonds Delivers One Into Your Gap
In the years that I've stopped paying attention, the memorabilia business has gone in directions I couldn't have anticipated... namely, up the ass....

About Last Night...
• College Basketball: (11) Southern Illinois 71, Drake 59. The Salukis have an RPI ranking of 5. Hm. Did not know that. • NBA: Sixers 117, Grizzlies 112. Three game win-streak for the Sixers... look out for these guys. • NHL: Hurricanes 3, Penguins 2. Sidney Crosby's the youngest player in NHL histo...

NBA Roundup: Cowabunga, Dude!
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night
What you missed while shooting the curl ... • NBA: It's obvious that a freak radiation accident has given the Mavericks super powers. • Baseball: Zito vs. Soriano, Round One. • College basketball: Virginia beats Virginia Tech; Virginia Graham has mixed emotions....

Idaho, Remaining On The Cutting Edge Of Video Game Technology
So this is enough to make one happy: The cover boy for the new EA Sports NCAA Football 2008 game is ... Boise State quarterback Jared Zabransky!...

Barry Bonds Never Can Say Goodbye
The most telling exceprt from KGO radio's big interview with Barry Bonds on Tuesday? It wasn't that Bonds has apparently been getting death threats (there's enough nuts out there to make that sadly inevitable). Nor was it that Bonds says he feels "exhausted" (honestly, when hasn't he?). We're not ev...

NBA Roundup: Upon Further Review, Cornbread Maxwell Is Sorry
Notes on Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night ...
What you missed while planning your lunar eclipse party ... • College basketball: Texas fought the Law and the Law didn't win. • NBA: Suns finally lose to an Eastern Conference team, and it's, wait ... who? • NHL: No sooner does Bill Guerin make his debut for Sharks than he is sadly devoured by Pred...

Get Your Morrison/Harding Tickets FAST
We are trying to decide which part of this story is the saddest and most indicative of how our planet is in an irreversible downward incline. (Or, you know, "decline," if you want to say that in fewer words.) Tonight, in Brandon, Mo., The Amateur Boxing Club of Branson — such a thing exists — is hos...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering where the hell is Beeks? ... • NBA: Teams with carnivorous mammals in their nicknames now officially just barely trying when they play the Mavericks. • NHL: Bertuzzi, 24 others suddenly have a lot of packing to do. • College basketball: Attention ... Pittsburgh can st...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while writing your will on your grounded Jet Blue flight ... • NHL: Holiday For Vowels ... Keith Tkachuk, Alexei Zhitnik debut for Thrashers in 3-2 win over Bruins. • NBA: Kobe, Lakers call out hoarsely: "We're not dead yet!" • College basketball: Jolly Olly Orange ... Syracuse upend...

The Giants Are Obsessed With Paula Abdul
You might remember last year, when Barry Bonds became the only man to ever dress up as Paula Abdul and not need fake breasts. (It was for the yearly Giants' "American Idol" contest, or something.) Well, the Giants pulled off the stunt again this year, and we have to say, this whole Barry Bonds and B...

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...

The First Rule Of The Super Bowl Is, You Do Not Talk About The Super Bowl... Or The Big Game
The NFL, of course, has the term "Super Bowl" trademarked, so you can't use those particular words to promote any kind of a party or gathering for the event. Not only is it illegal, but if you close your eyes and say "Super Bowl" three times, Ed Hochuli will appear in front of you and rip your godda...

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...

At Least He Doesn't Have AIDS
Lennox Lewis wants to make a comeback to the boxing ring. Who's he going to fight? Someone else who's coming out of retirement, of course, because that's all that's really left in boxing. An old-timers day in boxing would be rather redundant....

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...

Jim Lampley Is Only Guilty Of Following His Heart (Oh, And His Ex. Her Too.)
In a San Diego court yesterday, waxen HBO broadcaster Jim Lampley pled no contest to violating a restraining order against him filed by an ex-girlfriend. She claims that Lampley threw her against walls a door in their hotel room on New Years Eve, and for a former Miss California, being thrown agains...