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About Last Night ...
What you missed while pimping your ride (actually, waxing the Volvo) ... • Holiday Bowl: Oklahoma upsets Oregon as another Leaf struggles in San Diego. • College Basketball: UCLA ends six-game losing streak against Stanford. Don't look now, but the Bruins are 11-1. We told you not to look! • NBA: ...
Kenny Rogers' Special Friend
Our old, dear friends at On The DL — whom will always be our best friends, because they've been nice to us from the beginning — have uncovered some excellent photos of new Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers out on the town with a lady who does not particularly resemble Mrs. Rogers. The photos — there's ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as, somewhere in Vegas, a slot machine is calling your name ... • College Football: Emerald Bowl, Georgia Tech vs. Utah, at San Francisco; Pacific Life Holiday Bowl, Oregon vs. Oklahoma, at San Diego. The glittering jewels of the college bowl season. [ESPN] • College Basketball: Stanfo...
Clinton Portis And His New Friends
We'll get into this more tomorrow ... but if you go to Redskins.com right now, you'll see that our man Clinton Portis has, uh, brought a few friends along for his weekly psychological exploration....
FSU Linebacker Accused Of Rape
Florida State linebacker A.J. Nicholson — linebacker prospect "No. 5B" on Mel Kiper's draft ratings — has been accused of rape. According to the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal, Nicholson is accused of raping a "19-year-old acquaintence" at a Broward hotel. He has been suspended by coach Bobby Bowden ...
Dungy Returns To Coach Colts
The Indianapolis Star reports that Tony Dungy has returned to the Colts and will be on the sidelines for Sunday's game against the Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals. He is scheduled to conduct this afternoon's practice session. He has been away from his team for exactly a week and spoke at his...
Blogdome: Fun With Damon Jones!
• Damon Jones is much more entertaining than he has any right to be. [InsideHoops] • Some react to the Anna Benson/PETA "controversy" ... in the time it took you to read this, Anna has slayed four cute rabbits. [Sports Central] • Remember Hugh Millen? No? Well, Lisa Guerrero certainly does. [The Hat...
Blogdom's Best: Hating The Lakers
In the old days of the NBA, when the ball was made of leather and players took two-handed set shots from the chest, there was nothing but love. ("Your final score: Providence Steamrollers 36, Sheboygan Redskins 12. Thanks for coming, and drive safely.") Then the next thing you know, Bill Laimbeer ...
The Sad, Sorry Last Days Of Brett Favre
We probably should have seen this coming: Now that it's pretty much obvious to everyone on the planet that Packers quarterback Brett Favre should retire before he shows up in a Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals jersey, Emmitt Smith-style, Favre is going on one of his typical passive-aggressive...
How To Simulate Reggie Bush
Apparently, the Texas Longhorns are having a difficult time finding someone to simulate Reggie Bush on the scout team during practices....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Chad Ford: Your last Draft Board had more mistakes than a Princeton application filled out by a monkey. Planning on doing some research for the next one? • 1 p.m. Men's BB with Andy Katz: Just saw your column mug, and I ...
The Trophy Monstrosity
Via TrojanWire and Every Day Should Be Saturday, we present the trophy given to the winner of the Fiesta Bowl this year. That's really it. This isn't actual size, but oh, if it were....
They Must Draw 6,000 Fans, Or God Will Call Them Home
So we were watching the Illini's 89-64 victory over Southeast Missouri State last night — we have the ESPN Full Court package; you honestly do not want to know how much money we give that network — and when it was over, we flipped around the other games. It was a bad Full Court night; nothing but ...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while perfecting your mime/ventriloquist act ... • NBA: Grizzlies maul Kobe, beat Lakers 100-99. • NHL: Jagr, Rangers rout Islanders, make world safe for democracy. • College Football: Nebraska beats Michigan in something called the Mastercard Alamo Bowl. Sorry, but the whole concept...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as credit card companies form a perimeter around your house and begin making demands for payment by bullhorn ... • MPC Computers Bowl, Boston College vs. Boise State, at Boise; Alamo Bowl, Michigan vs. Nebraska, at San Antonio. Somehow, "Michigan vs. Nebraska in San Antonio" just doesn...
See? Highlights Are Harder Than They Look
Yes, yes, we know this is old — seven months old, in fact — but we only recently saw it, it's a slow holiday weekday and, besides, it's tremendously, brain-hurting funny....
Blogdome: Scarlet Knight Fever
• This is what happens when Rutgers makes a bowl game: Stolen crap everywhere. [Philadelphia Will Do] • How Tiki Barber became the guy who was anywhere and everywhere. [92nd Street Blog] • Running down the NFL unemployment line, starting with the late, great Norv Turner. [The Mighty MJD] • Why is ev...
Blogdom's Best: Hating The Red Wings
Imagine the most hateful sports fans you can think of, stuck indoors because of the frigid weather, allowing their fury to boil. Now give them large sticks. That's your typical NHL fan, just looking for a reason to hate the opposing team. Throw in that whole Canada-USA rivalry thing, and you've go...
Big Ben's Prom Date
We were just sent this infinitely amusing photo from Saturday's Steelers-Browns game. This woman apparently went to prom with Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and is broadcasting it to the world. (This is why being famous is terrifying; somewhere out there, there are pictures of our junio...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Men's BB with Chris Dortch: The Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, how quaint. Next we'll be using circular dial telephones and wearing bell bottom pants. • 3 p.m. Bowls with Beano: If they have cooking shows in hell, I ima...