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Suddenly, Tyler Thigpen Is So Much More Than Just a Skeleton-Molesting Nobody
The Kansas City Chiefs are mired in a classic rebuilding season but the last three weeks the team has shown remarkable improvement on offense, most notably third-string quarterback Tyler Thigpen. The former Coastal Carolina quarterback has responded with some eye-opening output in his last three gam...
Morning Blogdome: Barack, You're Out Of Your Element
[email protected] is the place you want to be. For tips. To Blogdome, that is. • This isn't 'Nam. There are rules: Professional bowlers offer their services to help the new president get the most out of his private bowling alley. I heard he doesn't roll on Saturday. [Selfish Teams + Steady Burn...
Offer LSU Kids Free Beer And They'll Burn Anything
On Saturday we posted about LSU fans burning Nick Saban in effigy, which seemed rather hateful and extreme, even for them. Turns out, though, that it was all a promotion for a Baton Rouge condominium company, which provided free food and beer for the students to show up. Corporate schmucks promote h...
SNF: Can Philly Get Over The Hump In The NFC East?
People continually point to the NFC East as pro football's best division, and they should. Theso-called "Black and Blue" division features four well-run organizations with rabid fanbases and a clear priority set on not only winning on the field, but running their teams better than anyone else in th...
To Watch Tonight: This (Almost) Concludes Our Broadcast Day
What to watch while preparing for a good night's sleep before your big Buttcrack Summit... • Something of a Theme: Beer for My Horses (7:00 pm ET) [CMT] and "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road" (7:30 pm ET) [COM] - We may not have to hear The King's English all night. • Movie: The Cable Guy...
Feet Shouldn't Be Pointing That Way
Thanks to PFT who finally found an embeddable video of the gruesome leg injury suffered by the Vikes' Charles Gordon. If you've eaten within the last hour, you may want to pass on this for now. There's no update on Gordon's status, but one could make the assumption after viewing that his season — at...
Afternooon Blogdome: Just a Little Off the Top
• Keeping it all in the family in Boston could lead to skimming "foam" off the top of beer sales at Fenway. (The foam is your money.) [Fenway West] • Speaking of the Red Sox, will the New York Times be forced to give up its share of the Boston baseball club to cover its debts? [Squawking Baseball] •...
HS Championship Game Delayed Due to Lack of Referees
Sure, game officials are the bane of existence and they're all out to cheat for the other team and they're incompetent and corrupt and love being the center of attention and cause eczema in laboratory rats. However, unless someone figures out how to call their own 12-men-on-the-field penalties, you ...
Speedo's Olympic Success Leads to Financial Dilemma for Universities
The theory of trickle-down economics got an Urban Dictionary-style redefinition after the Summer Olympics in August after watching approximately 312,847,708 world records mutilated in the Water Cube, thanks in large part to wearing new LZR Racer suits from Speedo. Now, of course, collegiate and high...
For Your Viewing Pleasure: Is This How You Kids Go Hawaiian?
• 12:00 — Biography: Donny and Marie Osmond [BIO] - "Well, you might like to hear some accordion; make that squeezebox swing." (This is our way to suggest that perhaps this is the day to clean out the eaves if you're not a fan of the football.) • 12:00 — Sport: Tennis - Sony Ericsson Championships, ...
Morning Blogdome: And Pennzoil Sponsored the Honeymoon
• Carl Edwards will have his main sponsor, Office Depot, create his wedding invitations using Office Depot wedding invitation stock. Now that's devotion to a sponsor that his bride-to-be will appreciate only after seeing that first check she officially owns half of. (And for the record: if you value...
Have You Burned Your Former Head Coach In Effigy Lately?
We didn't get to this yesterday, but anything involves college students and fire is usually good copy for the next day. Some of the LSU peeps got together for what looked like a bonfire with a set of clothes as a centerpiece. But it was actually a burning in effigy of former LSU head coach Nick Saba...
Roy Jones, Jr.'s Boxing Future Annulled by Calzaghe
Joe Calzaghe fluttered Roy Jones, Jr. with a million love taps and took a unanimous decision at MSG over the man who seemed to have married into the Pound-for-Pound-Champion clan in the late 90s as it seemed to become his surname. That divorce is final as Calzaghe, 36, recovered from a bit of a surp...
Texas Tech Sticks Up Cowboys, BCS Picture Looks Surprisingly Stable
No. 2 Texas Tech 56, No. 8 Oklahoma State 20. Could Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree actually split the Heisman? Harrell completed 40 passes for 456 yards and 6 TDs. Ten Red Raiders caught at least one pass, including Crabtree, who caught 8 passes for 89 yards and three TDs. The win should cemen...
Saturday Night Live Blog: #9 Oklahoma State at #2 Texas Tech
The Big XII has thirteen teams in the Top 10, and this is just another night in which two of them square off on a Saturday night. The undefeated Red Raiders get their second straight prime-time big game against the once-defeated Cowboys. Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit brand cows with their init...
Fight Night: Roy Jones Jr. Takes On A Different Sort Of White Meat
Apologies to Joe Calzaghe, the man opposing Jones tonight, who just happens to be lightweight champion of the world. In tonight's matchup, Calzaghe chases down the big bag of money that the cachet of Jones still brings into the ring. For Jones, he'll get another shot at a title. Tonight's fight is o...
To Watch Tonight: Whatever Happened to General Eisenhower?
What to watch while not watching porn at work anymore ... • Movie: *batteries not included (8:30 pm ET) [HBO Family] - "Frank! It's the love boat to Cuba! Shuffle board and pineapples filled with rum. Know what they do? They put little paper umbrellas sticking out the top so that when it rains, it d...
Hugh 4: More Big'uns Coming Your Way
While we're enjoying the 3:30 games and rubbing the bedsores from laying in front of the TV for another Saturday (or is it lying? Where's Ufford when you need him?), don't forget about the two quasi-colossal games in the 8:00 hole. The No. 2 Texas Tech-No. 8 Oklahoma State game will be liveblogged h...
Hugh 3: Bama Rolls Into The Bayou
So after watching Georgia pull out a win against Kentucky and the unheralded Cowboys of Wyoming giddyup into Knoxville and knock off the Vols (more on that later), it's time for the big 3:30 game. Alabama scored early on a John Parker Wilson keeper, but LSU has answered with two scores of their own...
Afternoon Blogdome: Cause AI and Obama Both Have Lousy Shot Selection
• Rasheed Wallace hooks up the Pistons with Obama Undrcrwn gear, which leads to a very unfortunate AI-Obama comparison from a very white man in desperate need of a segue. [Need4Sheed] • Beisketboll has been berry berry good to Josh Childress in Greece: "We watched a bartender kneel at his feet, and ...