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"Malzahn Eats Blue Waffles": Your <em>College GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
Don't Google that. (With help from SEC Nation, because Starkville was a bit disappointing.)...
NHL, Roku Team Up To Screw Masses
The NHL is proudly touting the upgrades made to its NHL GameCenter LIVE package, which now features exclusive camera angles and all sorts of other toys for hockey fans willing to pony up the $159 that buys an all-inclusive (out-of-market) package. That's assuming you have a device that will play it,...
Wake Up!
It's Saturday. College GameDay is in Oxford. SEC Nation is in Starkville. (There's probably soccer being played somewhere, too.) The rest of your Saturday crew will be here shortly. ...
Chart: Royals-A's Was Awesome; Giants-Pirates Was Shit
Everyone knows the AL wild-card game between Oakland and Kansas City was much more exciting than San Francisco's blowout win over Pittsburgh in the NL game. Fangraphs' Jeff Sullivan has provided all of us with a stark visual representation of that fact by charting the win-expectancy fluctuations fro...
Baseball Will Test Out Six New Rules To Speed Up The Game
If every baseball game were as exciting as last night's, no one would mind if they lasted forever. But most definitely aren't and even the most loyal fan ought to agree that there's a lot of downtime that could be eliminated. To that end, MLB's pace-of-game committee has come up with six experimenta...
Blowouts Have Gotten Worse In Non-Conference NCAA Football Games
If you thought early-season college football games have gotten more boring over the years, you might be onto something. Analysis from the Wall Street Journal shows blowouts have become more common for ranked college football teams in non-conference games....
Birds Everywhere In Columbia For Tense Missouri-South Carolina Battle
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Get It? Because Michael Sam Is Gay
(Replacing subtle racism with overt homophobia is not progress, South Carolina!)...
Man, Is ESPN Gonna Be Surprised When Nobody Shows Up For <em>GameDay</em>
(That's Tillman Hall, on the campus of Clemson University, which is not the University of South Carolina and is not in Columbia.)...
<em>Destiny</em> Needs More Peter Dinklage, Less Of Everything Else
My beloved Oakland A's are shitting the bed. One minute they're the toast of baseball— with the game's best record, its highest run differential, its best pitching staff—and the next they look like the Washington Generals, playing well under .500 ball since the All-Star break and struggling now to...
Women > Winning: Your FSU-Clemson <em>GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
GameDay finds itself in Tallahassee for tonight's marquee ACC matchup (if such a thing can exist) between Florida State and Clemson. FSU fans took the opportunity to sound off a variety of issues, but of course the plurality of the signs were about Jameis Winston. Some of them expressed support for ...
<em>College GameDay</em>'s Sam Ponder Goes Off On Jameis Winston
Jameis Winston is suspended for today's game against Clemson, but that didn't stop him from being a major focus of College GameDay. Here contributor Sam Ponder—the only female member of GameDay—takes Winston to task and wonders "how can you think it would ever be appropriate to publicly speak in s...
Cheerlessly, Asian Games Begin
The Olympic-style Asian Games open today in Incheon, South Korea, providing a flag-spangled stage on which to celebrate the universal sport of politics. North Korea has reestablished its dominance in this arena by first deploying, then withdrawing, their newest weapon—feminine charm....
Hit Nick Jones As Hard As You Want, He's Catching The Ball
The Georgia secondary has been pretty accommodating to South Carolina in the first half. Even on this play, when Quincy Mauger puts the screws to Nick Jones, he did so in a way that allowed the catch....
That's A Bad Look, Fargo
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The <em>College Gameday</em> Curse Is Real... For Some Teams
The college football season is underway, and with it, the 28th season of ESPN's pregame show, College Gameday. With it also, the College Gameday curse, or at least rumors of its existence....
The Ravens Are Out Here Just Attributing Famous Quotes To Ray Lewis
You can't do that, Ravens! That's not a Ray Lewis quote!...
Keep It 100: We Rated Rappers On The <em>Madden</em> Scale
We had to make a rule: You can't use the Falcons. That's as close as you could get to cheating without actually cheating, because He was on the Falcons, and He was ... fast doesn't begin to describe what Michael Vick was in Madden 2004. He had a speed rating of 95, earned after a few years spent...
Stone Cold! Stone Cold! Stone Cold!
Steve Austin dropped by the College GameDay set this morning and did typically Stone Cold things....