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How Not To Help A Player Cheat In Class
If you're going to cheat in class to help a college athlete, it's probably a wise idea to at least pretend to try to hide it. Use a fake email account, wear a fake mustache, something. Cover your tracks a little, you know?...
The Appropriate Way To Showcase Your Team Loyalty
We're still a month and a half from the ole Red River rivalry game between Oklahoma and Texas, and, as always, emotions are running high. How high? Oh, "bust open the opposing fan's scrotum" high. (That's pretty high.)...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as authorities decide, as part of his sentence, to place a live skunk in Vick's cell each morning ... • Basketball: FIBA, Americas Championship, preliminary round, USA vs. Venezuela, at Las Vegas. The lack of defense that occurs in Vegas, stays in Vegas. [ESPN Classic] • Little League ...
You Know You've Missed Peter McNeeley
You can make fun of Mike Tyson all you want for his repeated "comeback" attempts — though we think he might have permanently shelved them ... for now ... permanently temporarily — but at least he has people who want to watch him fight, for whatever depraved reason. He also was once a champion. Whith...
This Also Happens Often To Swimmers
SCANDAL at the University of Hawaii! Apparently, some fella named Ian Sample, who used to play football for the Rainbows, claims coach June Jones used to manipulate drug tests. We're not sure we understand what the big deal is — if you can't get stoned playing for Hawaii, dammit, where can you get s...
Get Your Filthy Piece Of Clothing Here
At 5 p.m. ET today, Matt Murphy, that guy in the Mets jersey who caught Barry Bonds' 756th home run, is going to announce whether or not he's going to sell the ball. Forgive us, but by the looks of an eBay page he just set up, we think we have a pretty good idea of what he's going to do. (We kid, by...
Comcast Lowers Itself To Impersonating You
Our frustrations with the Big Ten Network have been well-documented, but it doesn't really matter, because whenever corporations argue with each other, the only certainty is that we'll all lose. But it doesn't stop their fighting. And now they're using some unconventional methods....
Charles Rogers, Finding A Home Up North?
We think we've found a great future job for Lions general manager / president Matt Millen, if he's ever actually fired by Detroit. (Ha. Right.) He would make a grand scout for the CFL....
Can the BCS Get Uglier? Why, Yes It Can!
We are proud to introduce "Dan Shanoff Is The Tebow," a new weekly column on college football, by the esteemed Dan Shanoff. Here is his preview of the upcoming season, which begins September 1....
Special Weekend Football Foodie
Over at Ladies, we've started a series called the "Friday Football Foodie" which centers on the third best aspect of football weekends, (behind the games themselves and gambling, respectively), which is the massive amount of eating and drinking you can do while hanging out with your friends. It is t...
Premier League
Sorry for the late start, but had some problems connecting to the wifi here in downtown Chicago. Man U versus Manchester City is already underway, then Arsenal v Blackburn, and finally the big match of the day, Chelsea Liverpool. I'll try to keep running updates as the matches go on and giving some ...
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Surely you've been waiting with bated breath to find out what Marco Materazzi said to Zinedine Zidane that would provoke the shiny-pated Zidane to headbutt the shit out of him during the World Cup last year. (Who hasn't?) In his soon-to-be-released autobiography, Materazzi reveals the now-infamous l...
What To Watch
• 6:00 pm — Little League World Series: Midwest vs. Southwest [ESPN] • 8:00 pm — Chargers at Rams [CBS] • 9:00 pm — I Me Wed [Lifetime] • 11:15 pm — Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Kansas City Chiefs [HBO] -Metschick...
I can has home run?
It doesn't take a genius to slap some misspelled drop-shadow text on a photo and upload it to the intarwebs for big laughs. The runaway success of sites like I Can Has Cheezburger? and LOLcats.com have spawned imitators and now athletes are getting the LOLcat treatment thanks to Grimey at LOLJocks. ...
Blogdome
• The guy suing Vick for $63 billion? He's also suing Bonds, Selig, and Hank Aaron's bat. [Epic Carnival] • Ryan Seacrest had a show on ESPN. Yes, you read that right. [The Sports Oasis] • What it will take to break some of baseball's records. [Life In The Cell] • The NFL's version of the Lil' Brown...
Peter King's Onion Doppleganger
It's almost NFL season, which means we're all about to experience a solid five months of Peter King. This is fine; King knows more about football than almost everyone we know. But be prepared: MMQB is about to take up residence in your brain and lay eggs....