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Jay Mariotti Was On To Lovie Smith From The Beginning
We haven't made fun of Jay Mariotti for a while, so it's probably time. Good to shake off the rust sometimes....

Daulerio At Super Bowl XLI: Greetings, Spinheads
Deadspin Super Bowl XLI "correspondent" A.J. Daulerio has arrived in Florida and is ready for some fisticuffs. He'll be filing sporadically, randomly and without warning all week. Here's his first dispatch....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while readjusting ... • College basketball: Iona gets a scare before finally losing as usual, preserving perfect record. • NBA: Steve Nash will not let you jinx this streak, dammit! • NHL: Not tonight, I have a Hasek ... Red Wings top Avalanche 3-1. • College basketball: Cardinal Rul...

I Think It's Jim Sorgi In The Colt Costume
Bear vs. Colt is an inspired bit of Super Bowl silliness. Every day between now and the Super Bowl, they post a new video with a Bear vs. Colt battle, with a guy in a bear costume going toe to toe in some manner against a guy in a colt costume....

A Happy Ending For That EBay Bears Lady
You may recall the attractive Bears fan who attempted to auction herself off on EBay in return for a Super Bowl ticket last week. The bidding went up to 99 bazillion dollars and was then killed by EBay, only for her to try again, and again have the auction pulled....

Filling Your Burning Need For Pageantry
It's so difficult to wait that extra week for the Super Bowl. The promise of spectacular pageantry is on the horizon, but still just out of your reach. Oh, pageantry, you seductive temptress....

About Last Night...
• College Basketball. Ohio State 66, Michigan State 64. Twenty-four second half points from Drew Neitzel end up being completely inconsequential. "Neitzel" actually means "inconsequential" in Burmese. • College Football. Senior Bowl. North 27, South 0. And you still can't secede from the union. • NB...

Throw In The Jacket, And We'll Talk
A man on craigslist.com is looking for two Super Bowl tickets... and in turn, he would like to offer you lifetime access to nude Wisconsin girls:...

About Last Night...
• NBA. Knicks 116, Heat 96. Shaq just lost to a team that started Jerome James at center. • College Basketball. Yale 88, Harvard 78. The tournament selection committee kept a close eye on this one. • NBA. Cavaliers 105, Sixers 97. LeBron was out with a big toe problem. I take it this was Wise LeBron...

Why You Shouldn't Randomly Promise Tickets To Strangers
When your team makes the Super Bowl, sometimes some promises you've made in the past come back to haunt you. That's what happened to Bears safety Chris Harris, who was on public access earlier this year and found himself in a situation where his mouth was writing checks his ticket stash couldn't cas...

William Perry, Keeping Busy (And Incognito!)
In case you were wondering what William "The Refrigerator" Perry was up to these days, now that the offers to box Manute Bol have dried up, here's one of his main promotional opportunities: Big Camo, "the world's BEST outlet for HARD or IMPOSSIBLE to find BIG and TALL camouflage hunting clothes, acc...

That's All We Need: ANOTHER Blowhard In DC
So here's a scary thought. If you thought Curt Schilling had a tendency to opine, uninvited, on subjects that don't inherently concern him now, wait until he runs for Senate....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while fighting with shrubbery ... • College basketball: "Duke beats Clemson" has now become mankind's most oft-repeated phrase, replacing "You're fired." • NBA: P.J. Brown (!) leads Bulls past Mavericks, 96-85. • Golf: The Brandt Snedeker Era dawns throughout the land, as rooting for...

If He's Not Playing, Ain't Nobody Playing
Say what you will about Carmelo Anthony, but he handled his suspension considerably better than this guy....

Welcome To Negro Bowl I!
As you might have heard from a media outlet or two, this is a historic Super Bowl because it features two African American head coaches for the first time. The odds are good that this might be a topic over the next 10 days....

Taking Down The USA, One Touchdown At A Time
Every year, usually more than once a year (whenever there's a major sporting event), some soulless, dumb "research firm" tries to convince us that the office workers of America are somehow skirting their duties serving The Man by paying so much attention to something that might divert them from star...

Bobby Knight Unlocks Another Mystery
Bobby Knight sure has been chatty since breaking the all-time NCAA men's win mark. Here's his take on the whole Bill Parcells situation in Dallas. Parcells, a longtime friend of Knight's since their coaching days at Army, resigned earlier this week. The reason? It's all because of Terrell Owens, of ...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while being punched in the face by your own attorney in court ... • NHL: Apparently they played this year's All-Star Game without goalies, and still Sidney Crosby couldn't score. • NBA: Shaq returns for Heat, but Pacers somehow didn't get the memo. • College basketball: Come on down ...

Kind Of Looks Like Steve McMichael On A Bender
One of the things we love about the Bears? They have a theme song. It's pretty awesome that a professional sports team has a team song. And it's particularly awesome when it is sung by Bryan Griffin, of the Chicago Lyric Opera....

Your Handy Super Bowl XXXXI Human Interest Guide: The Chicago Bears
The endless loop of Super Bowl XXXXI coverage is about to begin, and we like to consider ourselves the Mainstream Media's Little Helpers. We're about to all be deluged with a flood of human interest stories — we can use that metaphor because the Saints lost — so we thought we'd make it easier on all...