bo Page 965 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

About Last Night ...
What you missed while shaving your head ... • NHL: Point Break ... Islanders take significant win over Penguins. • College basketball: Mario "Superintendent" Chalmers leads Kansas over Kansas State, 71-62. • Tennis: Venus creaks to first-round win in Memphis International....

It's The Needle Of The Tiger
What a heroic story, Rocky Balboa coming out of retirement to show us the power of the human heart and to remind us what it really means to be a champion, in the purest way possible. Go America, Go Rock, Go ... oh, well, we probably should have seen this coming....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while cancelling plans for April 14, 2036 ... • NBA: Wayne Newton and Kobe Bryant top Siegfried and Roy 153-132 in All-Star Game. • NASCAR: By virtue of his being the only car not upside down and on fire, Kevin Harvick wins Daytona 500. • College basketball: ASU beats No. 22 USC for ...

About Last Night...
• College Basketball. North Carolina 77, Boston College 72. Jared Dudley, that was not clutch. • NASCAR. Kevin Harvick wins Orbitz 300. I'm not sure what to do with my hands. • NBA. Jason Kapono wins Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout. I can only hope that this somehow led to Antoine Walker feeling ve...

About Last Night...
• NBA: Sophomores 155, Rookies 114. David Lee takes it upon himself to prove that Isiah Thomas doesn't screw up everything. • NHL: Penguins 5, Devils 4. Man, that Jordan Staal's really coming along nicely, isn't he? • College Basketball: Winthrop 77, Missouri State 66. On the road against a good Mis...

Dice-K Has Some Spring Training Work To Do
Red Sox Monster brings up something that has to give Red Sox fans considerable pause: When he showed up at spring training this week, new Boston pitching savior Daisuke Matsuzaka appeared to be, oh, a little chubbier than one might have expected....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while training your sea monkeys ... • NHL: Colorado's Sakic gets magic No. 600 (without help from Victor Conte). • NBA: No, the correct answer was "LeBron." All those who said Kobe do not win a cookie. Cavaliers 114, Lakers 108. • College basketball: Use The Force, Lute ... USC sweep...

You, Too, Can Have Your Own Boca Juniors Booster
So here's a grand idea: The notoriously rabid fans of Buenos Aires soccer team Boca Juniors are so renowned for their insane support that they're actually renting themselves out to other countries' teams....

NBA Roundup: Celtics Win! (Not A Joke This Time)
Notes from Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

Tim Hardaway Wants Only Straight Men To See His Penis
So, by now, everyone has heard former NBA point guard Tim Hardaway's comments on the Dan LeBatard show yesterday, but just in case you're up for some caveman rhetoric — he'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa — here's the full audio of the interview....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while treating your sweetheart to a romantic dinner at Boston Market ... • NBA: Eighteen is enough ... Celtics beat Bucks for first win since Jan. 5. • College basketball: In the waning moments of Duke's 78-70 win over No. 21 Boston College, Dickie V actually says: "It doesn't matter...

What You See After You Hang Out With The Gonzaga Basketball Team
From the Things We Don't Understand file, we end your day with this entirely random video that features Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and "Saved By The Bell"'s Mr. Belding playing Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" with "metal" "band" Metal Skool....

Pre-Order Your Barbaro Books Now!
We are less than two weeks away from the release of the most-anticipated literary venture into the mind of a horse since Seabiscuit, or at least Sex And The City. It's Barbaro: A Nation's Love Affair, which, fortunately, is only a metaphorical love affair....

Mustache Love
A fun site is Morristache, the site that dares to celebrate both the glory that is Adam Morrison's mustache, and the mustache in general. One thing bothers us, however. Morristache includes a Hall of Fame section, in which such luminary mustaches as Rollie Fingers and Tom Selleck are included. But, ...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while getting a Spanish prostate exam ... • Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: English springer spaniel wins best in show, vows to work for world peace. • College basketball: Calling Tech support ... Hokies knock off No. 4 Tar Heels in OT. • NBA: Heat reach .500 with win over Blazers,...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while monitoring bidding on the Lisa Nowak NASA astronaut diaper ... • College basketball: Gonzaga's problems mushroom mount, as Santa Clara ends the 'Zags' 50-game home win streak. • NHL: Keith Primeau leads Flyers past Red Wings. Wait, um ... what? • NBA: Pistons beat Clippers for ...

The Celtics Fan Suicide Watch
So the Celtics have lost 18 in a row, and if they don't sneak out a win at home Wednesday against the Bucks, a West Coast road trip might very well inspire them to break the record for all-time losing streaks. We thought we'd check in and see how the Celtics blogs are holding up....

NBA Roundup: Celtics Finally Win! (Just Kidding, They Lost As Usual)
Notes on Sunday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night
What you missed while mourning the death of Hank Bauer ... • NBA: Wolves hand Celtics' 18th straight loss ... let's see Jimmy Fallon in a movie about this. • College basketball: Wholesale panic in Krzyzewskiville as Duke loses fourth straight, to Maryland, 72-60. • NHL: You cannot stop Henrik Zetter...

The Underrated Legs Of Rex Grossman
The good people at SomethingAwful threw together some inspired Super Bowl photoshop work. And because it's excellent and because I'm having a difficult time letting go of football, I cobbled together a few of my favorite into the above image... I hope they don't mind....