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About Last Night...
• College Basketball: Butler 79, Gonzaga 71. Butler can make a pretty good case for being ranked #1 this week. • College Football: LSU 31, Arkansas 26. Arkansas QB Casey Dick: 3-of-17, 29 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT. Limp. • NBA: Jazz 114, Lakers 108. Andrei Kirilenko does what our legal system can't and loc...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as all the PS3's blink to life in the middle of the night and begin their pre-programmed, evil deeds ... • College football: Texas A&M at Texas [ABC]; LSU vs. Arkansas, at Little Rock [CBS]; Colorado at Nebraska [ABC]; Oregon at Oregon State [FSN]; Fresno State at Louisiana Tech. Time ...
The View From The Schembechler Cam
Here's some rather amazing timelapse video from the Ohio State-Michigan game last Saturday, via The Wizard Of Odds, that features a Web cam specifically trained on Ohio Stadium and clicking every minute. It begins the night before and runs through the night after....
Today's Episode Of "The Buzzsaw Has No Idea What It's Doing"
Various reports have claimed that Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis Green will be fired by the team at the end of the season, a move that at this point seems so wholly obvious that it's kind of strange they're waiting until the end of the year. Hey, why wait, ya know? He's already p...
"Jeez, Ethel, That's A Penis They're Knocking Around Down There"
Just for shits and giggles, we present to you The World Famous Purdue Inflatable Penis, from last week's Purdue-Indiana game. Sometimes, we really miss college....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while looking for an enormous frying pan ... • NFL: Tony Romo, you're our hero. Dallas stuffs Tampa Bay, 38-10. • College basketball: NIT finals ... all Bulldogs, baby! • NHL: Canada looks to strengthen laws against hockey Predators....
Happy Thanksgiving, Bird Brains
Well, we figure most of you have skipped out of the office for the long weekend, so we figured we might as well do the same; it's off for Thanksgiving for us now. We were considering doing one of those "We're Thankful For ..." stories, that pointed out all the Crazy and Wacky things in the world of ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Fun With Tasers Month continues ... • College men's basketball: Maui Invitational, at Lahaina, Hawaii; fifth-place game; third-place game; final; Preseason NIT, semifinals, at New York, Butler vs. Tennessee and Gonzaga at North Carolina; Great Alaska Shootout, first round, Loyola Ma...
Imagine How All The Teams Who Play The Redskins Feel
We try not to bring any political correctness, or politics in general, around here, because sports are supposed to be fun, and politics is not fun and just makes people angry. But we couldn't help but think this was a little silly. The athletic director at Dartmouth published a letter in the student...
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Missouri Valley Conference
Thought we were done previewing things? How could you think that, with your NCAA Basketball Tournament office pool a mere four months away? So who's with me? Let's Gooo!...
Blogdome: If The BCS Ran Everything
• Here's what would happen if you used the BCS to resolve non-college football related disputes. [Off The Baggie] • Recognizing National Stop the Violence day with much violence. [The Jaunt] • More defense of Derek Jeter. [Yankees Chick] • Yeah, we'd say they had some fun in Columbus last weekend. [...
Roger Angell Is Much Better At This Than Just About Everybody Else
One of the genuine pleasures, for us, of being a sports fan, is the yearly wrapup of the baseball postseason by the great Roger Angell in The New Yorker. It's sober, smart, funny and is a yearly reminder that baseball makes the world a better place. We won't lie: When our Cardinals won the World Ser...
The Great Big North Texas Football Family
Far be it from us to tell someone how to run their Division I-A football program, but we think as far as dysfunction goes, the North Texas Big Green take the proverbial taco....
Cancel Those Reservations, Ladies
First O.J.'s television interview is canceled, and now this. Remember how Mike Tyson was supposed to be all set to go to work for Heidi Fleiss at her new stud farm in Nevada? Turns out, evidently, that it's not true. And our Wednesday just got a little bit sadder. From ContactMusic.com:...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: Warriors, Jazz, Hornets as the next NBA powers? Discuss. • 1 p.m. Football with Mel Kiper: That's a rather generic, catch-all title, eh Mel? Now let's discuss my high school team's playoff chances. • 3 p.m....
Gilbert Arenas Appears To Update His Blog Regularly
As True Hoop has pointed out and we feel obliged to remind you of once again, Wizards singular voice of reason Gilbert Arenas has his own blog, and it's every bit as wonderful as you might have suspected it would be. Here's a few selections from the last couple of days:...
"OHIO STATE!!!!!!"
This video, from a Fox News report from Columbus on the death of former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, shows the inherent danger in doing any kind of live report near Ohio Stadium, pretty much at any time. Though, to be fair, we think this lady might just yell this all the time, anywhere she is, re...
About Last Night ...
What to watch as you wonder what ever happened to Kramer's NYU Intern, Darin ... • College basketball: And somewhere, Al McGuire is ... well, he's probably watching "CSI: Miami." No. 13 Marquette 73, No. 9 Duke 62. • NBA: NOOCH Ado About Nothing ... It was just another day at the office for Peja Sto...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you pay tribute to the master with all kinds of overlapping conversations ... • College football: Bowling Green at Toledo. So is it the Battle for Northwest Ohio, The Glass Bowl or the Fight for the Peace Pipe? We're so confused ... [ESPN2]. • College men's basketball: Maui Invitati...
Wait ... Are Those Pesos Or Something?
Everyone's dumbfounded by all the money being thrown around in baseball these days, from the Alfonso Soriano and Aramis Ramirez contracts to our new favorite, the Dodgers signing Juan Pierre for $9 million a year for the next five years. (They did watch last season, right?) Remember, three years a...