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Angry Alabama Fan Drops The Best Burn On Colin Cowherd
Paul Finebaum welcomed ESPN radio personality and rat-faced gasbag Colin Cowherd onto his radio show yesterday, and the two did some chatting about Auburn's stunning win over Alabama in the Iron Bowl. Cowherd apparently had some not-nice things to say about Alabama during his segment. Big mistake, C...

Bring On This Year's "Banned" Super Bowl Ads
For an outfit that claims to love 'mericuh, the NFL sure leans pink when it comes to a couple of the heartland's favorite Amendments. Like the Second, which forbids the government from regulating firearms in any form. And the First, which endows big companies with the right to advertise whatever the...

Worst-Case Scenario: Super Bowl Tuesday
Nearly everyone is rooting for snow at the Super Bowl, because snow football is awesome. A little bit of snow, anyway. Today was the "oh god, what if it snows really, really badly and everything is shut down" press conference, and officials revealed their contingency plan: just have the Super Bowl s...

A Syracuse Blog Is Sending Hundreds Of Underprivileged Kids To A Bowl
Who wants to travel from Syracuse all the way to Houston to watch the Orange take on Minnesota in the Texas Bowl? Not many people. So 'Cuse blog Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician presented its readership with an idea: Fans donate money, and kids from local youth groups will attend the game in their...

Columnist Who Wants Super Bowl At Lambeau Frets About Snowy Super Bowl
Should the NFL allow the Super Bowl to played in outdoor, cold-weather stadiums? ESPN columnist Ashley Fox, whom we've met before around these parts, seems to be very conflicted about the issue....

There Will Be No Tailgating At The Super Bowl
In a press conference held at a train station, a consortium of semi-important men in suits announced that you'd better not drive to the Super Bowl, or else....


An Ode To One Of America's Best Dive Bars
You've probably never heard of Bowling Green unless its college basketball team, the Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky, has broken your bracket, one year or another. The city sits between Louisville and Nashville, and people drive there from all over southern Kentucky to eat, to shop, and, most of all...

The Dumb Iron Bowl Question You Were Afraid To Ask
I watched the Iron Bowl on Saturday and after basking in the glorious HOLYSHIT-ness of it all, I wondered what would happen if you returned a field goal in the middle of a game but failed to bring it all the way to the house. Do you get the ball at the spot you returned it? Or does the ball automa...

One-Handed Beer Football Is America's Greatest Tradition
The best football action of Thanksgiving weekend takes place not in Detroit or Dallas, or on an SEC field. It happens in a park in Emerson, Iowa, where for more than a decade family and friends have been gathering for the PBR Bowl....

Paul Hornung Hopes It "Snows And Rains Like A Bitch" At The Super Bowl
Paul Hornung is your cantankerous great-uncle with a heart of gold....

Hear The Auburn And Alabama Radio Calls From The Missed-FG Runback
This is the incredulously jubilant call from the Auburn booth. Rod Bramblett stars again this week with a guttural "They're not gonna keep them off the field tonight."...

The Game-Tying And Game-Winning Auburn Touchdowns In A Wild Iron Bowl
Auburn began the drive on its own 35 with 2:15 left in the game, down seven. Six consecutive rushes from Tre Mason later and the Tigers were Alabama 39 with 32 seconds left. On first down, Nick Marshall looked to pass it to Mason for a seventh consecutive time but tucked it back inside, rolled to ...

Auburn Has This One Sewn Up
The offenses are bursting at the seams! A.J. McCarron just threaded the needle! He's got the Heisman sewn up! I already used that one, crap! What's next, the Ironing Bowl?...

Charles Barkley Pounding Shots In A "Good Luck, Coach Saban" Shirt
Former Tiger Charles Barkley was spotted out in Auburn last night, prepping for his alma mater's matchup with Alabama in today's Iron Bowl. Here's a relevant paragraph published earlier in the week....

Saturday's Iron Bowl Gets The Wacko Taiwanese Animation Treatment
The Taiwanese studio Next Media Animation, which will animate pretty much anything nowadays, have offered their calculatingly bizarre take on this weekend's Auburn-Alabama rivalry game. Come for the players attacking a giant panda, stay for the Toomer's Corner oaks being destroyed (again) by urine a...

Auburn Fans Are Already Lining Up For Next Week's Iron Bowl
The annual Iron Bowl between Auburn and Alabama is next week and these folks decided to use vacation time to drive their homes to a field and have themselves a nice little week-long staycation at the alma mater....

Ballet For Dorks: The Awkward Beauty Of Bowling
Bowling is a ritualized behavior that requires strength, coordination and an often decidedly idiosyncratic technique in order to aestheticize a communally sanctioned exposition of controlled violence. Orrr . . . maybe it's just a fine example of the sort of loud, explosive fun that humans sometimes ...

John Sterling Will Call The <em>Kitten Bowl</em>
As counter-programming to the Puppy Bowl, (and as counter-counter-programming to the Super Bowl), the Hallmark Channel has announced it will air the Kitten Bowl on Feb. 2. It will be just like the Puppy Bowl, only with more assholish animals....

Blind Alley
Friday, what better time for a good bowling story? This one, by the late Jeff Felshman, is a keeper, a funny and understated gem:...