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NFL Week Four Preview: Hello, Young Man
• Cowboys @ Titans. In one game, we've got the NFL starting debut of Vince Young, and the possible appearance of a guy who may or may have made an effort to feel the sweet release of death earlier in the week. How much more could you possibly need? When the Titans made the announcement, I wonder if ...

Taking Down The Field Goal Posts: Outcoached By Ron Zook
• Illinois 23, Michigan State 20. It doesn't say much for the day of college football when the biggest stories of the day were a couple of close calls, and the upset of an unranked team. Illinois stole the show yesterday, knocking off Michigan State by a score of 23-20, notching their first Big Ten ...

For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
First, your NFL Scoreboard....

Hugh Johnson Project, Update 4
"Did NBC just say that Brady Quinn shaves his whole body? He's more woman than his transexual brother." - deadringer...

A Complete Failure To Put A Body On McCoy
I shouldn't let the day pass without mentioning the exploits of Matewan High School running back Paul McCoy, who ran for 658 yards (though the local paper says 661) in a single game last night. He also added 10 touchdowns en route to a 64-0 nailbiter victory, and he had another 77-yard run called ...

Hugh Johnson Project, Update 3
"They just showed Dexter Manley Jr.'s name on the screen. Must have been a proud moment for Papa Manley, too bad it looked like DJHBVJ MTAGIV." - TacoBellManager...

LeftoverDome...
• It had to happen at some point. It's the Terrell Owens drinking game, "T-Overdose." [NBX Sports] • The jokes are a little lame, it's outdated uninformative, but I spent about an hour and a half watching it. This really can't miss. [Topless Sports News] • More deatils on the collapse of ESPN Mobile...

Hugh Johnson Project, Update 2
"Do you ever suspect the signs behind the GameDay crew are longer and better thought out than any paper those kids ever submitted?" - Tuffy Rhodes...

Hugh Johnson Project, Update 1
A sign at College Game Day: "LOU HOLTZ FOR PRETHIDENT." Way to make fun a man's lisp. Stay classy Iowa. - EPS...

The Will Leitch Suicide Watch
If it's true that Will's got a bad feeling about the upcoming sports weekend, it's probably best that we monitor things, given the events of this past week. I mean, athletes are role models, and you never know how much influence a star wide receiver can have over an impressionable young blogger. N...

Pucker, Pucker, Pucker
When I first downloaded this clip and started to listen to it, I saw that it was over 15 minutes long, and I thought, "Eh, it's probably not worth it." And for a couple of minutes, it wasn't. And then this guy Michigan State radio guy begins the slow rapid descent into madness....

Leftovers: Pink Tacos In N'Awlins
• Well, if they couldn't name the Buzzsaw stadium, why can't they make it the Pink Taco Superdome? [WDSU] • Bootsy Collins has another Bengals song, and it, you know, has some funk and stuff. [Cincinnati Weekly] • Jason Whitlock debuts at AOL Sports. [The Fanhouse] • We see nothing wrong with kangar...

Emmitt Smith To Get Unexpected Competition On 'Dancing With The Stars'
Those suffering from persistent night terrors — frightening disorders of the sleep from the darkest corners of the psyche — should not watch the above video. We were deeply disturbed by it, and are now unable to eat, or dress ourselves to go out. We blame The Realests, which today links to an AOL Mi...

And It's Like Nothing Ever Happened ... Presto!
So, now that the 9-1-1 call from publicist extraordinare Kim Etheredge has been made public and now that the police have ruled the incident an "accidental overdose," well, everything's back to normal now, right?...

Clinton Portis Hangs Up The Wacky Glasses
There's a reason that you must wait five years until after your career is over to be elected to most professional sports Halls of Fame; it looks strange to have a Hall of Famer out there running around like everybody else. It seems beneath them, somehow....

Leftovers: MarkAndLance.Org
• If you support the "Game Of Shadows" authors in their fight to protect their sources, here's the official site to get involved. [MarkAndLance.Org] • The story of what it's like to work at Topps. [Slate] • Kazakhstan hockey player thinks "Borat" is hysterical. [The Toronto Star] • A look at the gre...

This Is Why They Should Make Protective Cups For Your Ears
We're not sure what compelled ESPN to give us a random story about a high school player whose head was being eaten from the inside out by a nasty beetle, but, honestly, we're pretty glad they did....
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Hey, Did Somebody [Cramp] In Here?
Just to make sure we remain the gutter-obsessed sewer rats we are, it's time for some fart humor....

Still Wading In The T.O. Morass
You know, it's strange how, after the frenzy of Terrell Owens-related madness yesterday, it all seems to have died down today. It never fails to bewilder us that once an athlete denies something, mainstream reporters just kind of say, "OK, well, must not be true, then!" and move on. There seems to b...

It Don't Mean A Thing If It Don't Have That Ring
Ever wonder why Sheryl Swoopes was a successful athlete but, say, Kordell Stewart was not? According to a study by King's College London — whatever that is — it's because women with long fingers make better athletes than women with shorter fingers....