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About Last Night...
• MLB Playoffs: Tigers 6, A's 3. A walk-off home run, a sweep, a World Series invite... had to feel good to be in Detroit last night. • College Football: Auburn 27, Florida 17. It's not every day that you can beat the #2 team in the country without scoring an offensive touchdown. • MLB Playoffs: Car...

Kirk Herbstreit Hates Your Funky Dance Moves
I promised you more Kirk Herbstreit vitriol, and here it is. During Thursday night's Virginia Tech/Boston College game, Herbie delights in verbally lighting up Virginia Tech linebacker Brenden Hill....

About Last Night...
• MLB Playoffs: Tigers 3, A's 0. 3-0. Not just last night's game, but the series, too. • College Football: Pitt 52, Central Florida 7. Pitt was able to hang on to that 38-0 halftime lead behind the power of LaRod. • MLB Playoffs: Cardinals 9, Mets 6. Six to nine. TeeHee....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while painting a tunnel entrance onto a boulder to fool the Roadrunner ... • MLB: That happened fast ... we mean, that really escalated: Glavine, Beltran, Mets get off on good foot vs. Cardinals in NLCS Game 1. • College football: Boston College 22, Va. Tech 3. Steve Aponavicius: Kno...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while feeding the one-eyed fish (not a euphemism!)... • MLB: Tigers take 2-0 ALCS lead over Athletics behind Alexis Gomez ... wait, who? • NBA: Sans Jackson and O'Neal, Pacers still beat Nets 103-89. • NHL: Detroit, sports capital of the world. Red Wings 9, Phoenix 2....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking your ferret to the DMV ... • MLB: ALCS, Game 1: Fools! No one can stop Brandon Inge! Tigers 5, Athletics 1. • NBA: Ha! We told you! NBA regular season creeps ever closer as Dwight Howard, Magic top Bobcats 107-90. And hey, Adam Morrison wasn't bad. He didn't cry either. ...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while the little animated Tiger Woods keeps eyeing the nordic woman in your other browser window ... • NFL: Ravens, Kim Jong Il set off dud on same day, as Broncos prevail 13-3. • NHL: They've got the Blues ... St. Louis out for a Duck, 2-0. • MLB: Girardi interviews for Cubs' manage...

When Baseball Players Are Asked: 'You Have Haramph Like My Friend, Can I Touch?'
Like many of you, we suspect, we cannot wait for the new Borat movie, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Therefore, we present this old Borat clip, as he visits a Savannah Sand Gnats minor league baseball game, with predictable results. No matter how...

Philadelphia's Day To Shine
On a day they'll talk about in Philadelphia for many years, the legendary lunatics that are Philly sports fans were in rare form yesterday for Terrell Owens' return to the city of liberty. These are our personal favorite four photos of the many we were sent....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while getting rid of every last banana in your house ... • NFL: Not a bad afternoon in Philadelphia ... Eagles 38, Cowboys 24. • MLB: Redbirds singing in the dead of night ... you were only waiting for this moment to arise. •NFL: A Rivers Runs Through It ... Chargers beat Steelers 23...

About Last Night...
• MLB Playoffs: Mets 9, Dodgers 5. You know, for a team without any starting pitching, the Mets looked pretty damn good. • College Football: Cal 45, Oregon 24. I don't believe this is the same Nate Longshore that played against Tennessee earlier this year. • MLB Playoffs: Tigers 8, Yankees 3. Jim Le...

About Last Night...
• MLB: Yankees 0, Tigers 6. Kenny Rogers has a big unit of his own, evidently. • NHL: Boston 3, Florida 8. And Todd Bertuzzi racked up four points for Florida. Last night was a tremendous night for guys known for being douchebags. • NHL: Devils 4, Carolina 0. This is no way for a defending champion ...

Cultural Oddsmaker: It's Christmas In Philly!
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while grooming your marmot ... • ALDS: A-Rod hears unfamilar booing as Tigers even the score. • NLDS: This Pujols fellow ... apparently somewhat talented. • NLDS: It's clobberin' time! Mets, Glavine put LA in 0-2 hole. • NHL: Penguins are undefeated king of the world!...

9-4-2-2 DP? 2 U? 9-4-2 DP? What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
We might be the only person on earth who cares about this, but earlier, we wondered aloud how in the world a scorer — if you were, ahem, the type of dork who brings a scorebook to baseball games — would possibly handle that bizarre "double-play" during the Mets-Dodgers game. 2 Unassisted? 9-4-2? 9...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while imprisoned on the other side of the island ... • MLB: NLDS, Game 1. Jeff Kent is out at home pl ... oh Christ, here comes Drew! • MLB: ALDS, Game 2: Twins on the brink after Hunter proves man cannot fly. • NHL: Yes, NHL. Briere, Sabres puncture Hurricanes in rematch of last sea...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while time tripping to the planet Tralfamadore ... • ALDS, Game 1: Derek Jeter uses five point palm-exploding heart technique on Tigers. • ALDS, Game 1: I just want you to Hurt, like I do ... Frank Thomas, why don't you come out and take another bow? Frank Thomas, folks! • ALDS, Game...

Philadelphia Prepares For Battle ... And It's Never Too Early
Apropos of nothing, we've decided to attach a picture of Donovan McNabb doing shots to this post. Forgive us....

For Those Who Like Their Sports Bouncy And Confusing
The sport is bossaball, and it's sweeping the nation (what nation, we have no idea). On second thought, judging from this video, it's possibly Brazil; because there's about a zillion shots of female bikini dancing and relatively little bossaball footage. From the bossaball web site:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Prophylactic ... • NFL: Donovan rocks ... Eagles head-stomp Packers 31-9. • Soccer: When you think of Manchester United, you think of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer! • NBA: Onward Christian soldiers ... Laettner group to buy Grizzlies, apparentl...