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Nike's Still Trying To Figure Out How Best To Infiltrate The Womanly Athlete
The Overlords of The Swoosh otherwise known as Nike are rolling out a new slogan geared toward European women called "Here I Am" and it's got our buddy Moe over at Gawker all frothy and ready to break stuff. (Doesn't take much. The gal's feisty.) She burns: ...
A Slanted And Semi-Enchanted Evening With Linda Cohn
This photo was taken by Gawker photog Roger West who was assigned to photograph my big date in New York City with ESPN's Linda Cohn, who's doing press for her book, "Cohn Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys' Club". She's a classy lady and one who appreciated my attempts at woo...
Simmons Finally Chimes In, Bravely Faces Lost Season And A Year Without Brady
Bill Simmons finally went to the acceptance stage of mourning and has returned with a column (or mailbag, actually) about the stages of Tomlessness that he and all of the other charmed Boston sports fans face the rest of the NFL season. Needless to say, he doesn't have a sunny outlook: ...
Aaron Rodgers Tries To Make A Fractured Packers Nation Forget About The Past
Brett Favre's debut as a New York Jet proved all the skeptics wrong. Favre came out firing finger-breaking passes, heaving Hail Marys, and jumping around like the little 38-year-old kid that the Jets faithful hoped he'd be. He played, well, just like Brett Favre. In post-game interview featured in t...
Showdown at the Swamp
Tonight's showdown at the Swamp has been the center of the circus known as College Gameday. Lee Corso donned a Gator head this morning in his prediction of a Florida win, which really wasn't a tough call. Let's take a look at a few things we can expect. • Heisman winner Tim Tebow is coming off of a ...
The End Of Productivity: Your NFL Opener Is Finally Here
I don't know about you, but after a summer of confusing Chinese Olympic ceremonies and Barry Zito highlights, I'm ready for tonight's game big time. Redskins! Giants! Meadowlands! The NFL is here! My nipples explode with delight. If they're smart, the Giants should have worked this week on figuring ...
Sarah Palin Plans To Come Out Swinging
Tonight, as well, Sarah Palin steps up to the microphone and attempts to recreate all of that feel-good momentum she provided John McCain for, oh, a few hours on Friday before America's Google-army did their own "vetting." She's going to show her feisty side tonight and let people know that she's to...
Buzz Bissinger Seems To Have Finally Spun Himself Out
One of the most fascinating transformations that may have taken place since the Costas Now eruption is the progresive softening of one Buzz Bissinger. It seemed for a while that Buzz was actually determined to make his hatred of sports blogs an inextricable part of his writing legacy. For every inte...
Lou Holtz Now Dabbleth In Thaturday Thychiatry
Signal To Noise, who deserves the game ball for yesterday's incarnation of the Hugh Johnson Project, was the first to show us the latest gimmick for ESPN analyst Lou Holtz to dispense his folksy flavor of football knowledge to TV audiences each Saturday. We covered this in Spud's Blogdome, but it re...
Wheaties Box Cover Announced: Any Guesses?
If you said Michael Phelps, well, then you weren't paying attention to all those stories about his breakfast habits. Nope, the fourteen-time Olympic gold medalist has elected to go with calorically-charged Frosted Flakes. That means Wheaties honours fall to five-time gymnastics medalist Nastia Liuki...
Before The Live Blog: Pour Out A Little Splash From The Mini-Keg Tonight For ICCC President Robert Paxton
You may recall on Monday when I posted a DUAN! story about Iowa Central Community College president Robert Paxton's ridiculous boat party pictures that were published in the Des Moines Register. The photos caused quite a stir in sleepy central Iowa academia. Unfortunately, Paxton's contention that t...
So Which ESPN Worker Bee Is Going To Interview McCain?
According to the WWL, they're still trying to figure out a date to lock something down with the "presumptive" (fun word) Republican party nominee. But it's going to happen. It has to. For equal time. Remember? That was part of the reason Bill Simmons couldn't interview Obama on his podcast and what ...
Larry Brown's 9/11 Memories Darken The Redeem Team's Triumphant Gold Medal Victory
As a Philadelphian, I will always forgive Larry Brown for many of the egotistical brainfarts he's committed in his loooong and well-traveled coaching career for the rejuvenation period he brought to the Sixers when he coached here .(His 2001 Sixers team will always be one of the most revered ones in...
This Man Isn't Doing Much To Help Negative Community College Stereotypes Or Mini-Keg Sales
This has absolutely no real sports affiliation whatsoever, but it is suitable for a late Monday DUAN! post. (Possibly.) The above photo is of Iowa State Community College President Robert Paxton whose questionable decision to spend the 4th of July weekend partying with his 19-year-old son and some v...
Take Us Home, Oh Mudda Fadda; Take Us Home from Beijing
So, yeah. This is it. Tonight's the last night of co-ed Rings summer camp and tomorrow our parents will be here to pick us up and take us home and we'll spend all our time with our old steady sports and we'll promise to write about swimming and gymnastics and equestrian events but we never will, so ...
Why Does That Chinese Tattoo Look Like a Bar Code?
We don't want to throw a cold bucket of confetti on the proceedings late tonight, but could it be that all of the perceived new focus by USA Basketball and its players on preparation and presenting a warm face to the public has an awful lot to do with the 1.3 billion consumers the shoe companies (an...
ESPN Headline Writers Probably Should've Opted For Something Less Chinky
Given all the insensitivity issues that have come up during Olympic basketball, it probably wasn't a good idea for ESPN.com to use "Chink In The Armor?" as their Redeem Team story hed at 4 p.m. today. Well, it's changed now. That's the beauty of online publishing; your sins can be vanquished in an i...
Those Redeem Team Players Just Can't Help Being So Damned Charming
This smartly dressed-looking woman is named Stephanie Stricklen, a reporter for KGW Northwest News 8 in Portland, Oregon. For the past couple weeks, she's been assigned to traipse around Beijing and add a friendly, familiar face to her station's Olympic coverage. And just like track star Kara Gouche...
How Will 8 Gold Medals Help Michael Phelps' Prodigious Coozing?
Throughout the Olympics, there have been many variations on the email like the one below regarding America's trophy-headed swim king, Michael Phelps: "went to michigan the same time as michael phelps and stories of his douchiness towards girls seem to pop up with any mention of his name. apparently ...
But God Doesn't Want To Compete For A Starting Job Either
Here's a photo taken in front of the Waupun Assembly of God somewhere in Wisconsinland, where even those who are most likely to forgive, will never forget. I can never figure out who's supposed to be talking on these church billboards: is it God or the parish? Because if God is pissed at Brett Favr...