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About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching a wiener dog chase a bear ... • NBA: "No thanks, I think I'll pass ..." Nash dishes 20 assists as Suns drop Kings. • NHL: Red Wings ruin Brett Hull Night the only way they know how. • College basketball: LSU stops Texas A&M ... and, let the Big Baby hype officially beg...
Further Heavy Reading In The Land Of The Footie
It's a trend we like and would tend to encourage; passive-aggressive insults by European soccer fans. Bradford City, a League One soccer club, recently published a book about rival club Leeds United, entitled Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Not So Massive Club That Was Super L666ds, w...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering in the doctor's office if your cell plan includes "ass waiting" ... • NFL: Happy Feet ... Eagles' Jeff Garcia scrambles past Panthers. • NBA: The Streak is dead ... Mavericks cannot withstand the power of Agent Zero's wrath. • NHL: Marty Turco laughs at your feeble sc...
NBA Roundup: What About The Bobcats?
Notes from Sunday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
About Last Night ...
What you missed while falling asleep in line to buy tickets to Happy Feet ... • NFL: When kickers ruled the earth ... Seahawks, Titans, Cowboys win in final seconds on long field goals. God, we hate Hobbits. • NHL: Kozlov hogs all the shots as Islanders beat Rangers 4-3. • NBA: Hawks win in the Rose...
About Last Night...
• College Football: Florida 38, Arkansas 28. The Gators are now going to need the human voters to work miracles. • College Football: West Virginia 41, Rutgers 39. And Rutgers has still never won in Morgantown. More on this in a bit... • College Basketball: (10) Duke 61, (23) Georgetown 52. Greg Paul...
About Last Night...
• College Football: Houston 34, Southern Mississippi 20. Houston wins the C-USA title, and Andre Ware walks around the Bristol campus today feeling like a bad-ass. • Tennis: Russia takes 2-1 lead in Davis Cup final. The Russians are now one win away from the Davis Cup title, and I promise not to men...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while finally making use of that University of Miami degree (sorry)... • NFL: Bengals 13, Ravens 7. That guy on the commercial who drafted T.J. Houshmandzadeh was right — even though he couldn't pronounce the name. • Horse racing: Russell Baze provides news that doesn't involve Barba...
Free Mikey
The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man returning soup at a deli....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while unpacking your horse, which finally arrived in the mail ... • College basketball: Well, that didn't last long. Ohio State now No. 1 in only two things. • NBA: Knicks win! Knicks win! Wee! • NHL: So it turns out that Tuomo Ruutu is not a character in a Rudyard Kipling novel. Our...
Welcome To The Romo Bandwagon Express, With No Stops Until Jan. 20
With Steve Silverman's love note to Tony Romo on MSNBC this morning, let the worship of the Dallas quarterback officially begin. Not that it started with Silverman by any means — Madden has been giving Romo verbal backrubs for more than a month now. But we're just wondering if America is ready for t...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while inventing the Opti-Grab ... • NHL: Pronger returns to Edmonton, gets booed, Ducks win in OT. Sounds like fun to us. • College basketball: Greivis Bodily Injury ... Led by Greivis Vasquez, Maryland ends Illinois' 51-game non-conference home winning streak. • NBA: Who's Crying No...
NOT What Frank Zamboni Had In Mind
You may not believe this, but in some cities it's still illegal to steal a couple of Zambonis and head downtown for burgers. (Or, as we call it, "fun.)" The nut graph from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while contemplating your underwear ... • NFL: Hey, aren't the Packers supposed to have the advantage in snow? • College basketball: The Wolfpack cannot be stopped! All opponents are meat. • NHL: Kings make a mockery of the power play, still beat Devils in OT....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while breaking out the snowboard and injuring several small bones ... • NFL: Colts' magic number is 1; Eagles begin AJ Feely era. • Motor sports: Being a double amputee didn't stop Alex Zanardi; it was the damn car. • NHL: Your Teppo Numminen weekend update: He scores, kind of, as Sa...
About Last Night...
• College Football: USC 44, Notre Dame 24. Charlie Weis opted for the Belichickian sweatshirt last night. It didn't help. • NBA: Pistons 115, Wizards 111. The Pistons' last nine points were on Chauncey Billups free throws. He was 18-of-19 from the line for the game. • College Basketball: Kansas 82, ...
The Familiar Story Of The Oppressed Crocheting Running Back With The Collapsed Lung
In a November 11th game against San Jose State, Boise State running back Ian Johnson suffered a collapsed lung and cracked ribs. And just in case the young man's spirits weren't low enough, the NCAA decided to stop in and take away his main source of income, which happens to be crocheting hats and s...
About Last Night...
• College Basketball: Butler 79, Gonzaga 71. Butler can make a pretty good case for being ranked #1 this week. • College Football: LSU 31, Arkansas 26. Arkansas QB Casey Dick: 3-of-17, 29 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT. Limp. • NBA: Jazz 114, Lakers 108. Andrei Kirilenko does what our legal system can't and loc...
"Jeez, Ethel, That's A Penis They're Knocking Around Down There"
Just for shits and giggles, we present to you The World Famous Purdue Inflatable Penis, from last week's Purdue-Indiana game. Sometimes, we really miss college....
Six Quarterbacks On Thanksgiving
Though yesterday might not have featured the most thrilling triumvirate of games — two blowouts during the day and a sloppy field-goal laden mess at night — it did give us our yearly Guy To Talk About During Thanksgiving. In the past, it has been Randy Moss, Jerome Bettis, Leon Lett, every year ther...