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Volleyball Fainter Is Fine, Thanks For Asking
Watching Nikki Allen, USC's director of volleyball operations, talk...stagger...sway...timmm-ber!...is a vintage YouTubian moment which will undoubtedly follow her around for years. Thankfully, she's fine — she was just a little nervous and jet-lagged....
Tigers' Game Called Due To Lightning, Plague Of Locusts, Flood
If Jesus is indeed a Tigers' fan, he can't be pleased with this. The Detroit Tigers are the only MLB team to have scheduled a game during the holy hours on Good Friday....
You Can't Prosecute Him! He's Matt F-ing Bush!
Matt Bush, our favorite underage-drinking, lacrosse-player-throwing minor league shortstop/pitcher, has been formally charged with battery stemming from a Feb. 4 incident in a high school parking lot. [San Diego Union Tribune]...
Woman Faints During Live TV Interview
A local TV interview with the organizer of a beach volleyball tournament goes horribly awry. (There's a sentence I never thought I'd write.) To be fair, beach volleyball makes everyone light headed. [WMBB]...
New Lions Logo 23 Percent More Fierce, Should Result In Super Bowl Title
Shrouded in secrecy and guarded around-the-clock, Detroit's new logo was still somehow leaked to the public via a toy advertisement on NFLshop.com. You don't expect that from a well-oiled machine like the Lions' front office....
I'll Just Drift With The Current For Awhile. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In the most foolhardy boating stunt since the canoe scene in Last of the Mohicans, a guy named Pedro drops a world record 127 feet over a waterfall in a kayak in Brazil. [Daily Mail]...
John Daly Insults Protected By First Amendment
A Florida judge has ruled that you are legally allowed to call John Daly a "scoundrel" and a "thug" in your newspaper. Finally, the Founding Fathers make some sense. [Sydney Morning Herald]...
A's, White Sox Honor Slain Oakland Policemen On Sunday
Ozzie Guillen: "It's a hard day for the Bay Area. If it's police or fireman or military and you take their life away because they're protecting our country, it's a sad thing." [San Francisco Chronicle]...
Gonzaga Alumni Are Weeping With Joy
Demetri Goodson's thrilling end-to-end bank-in with 0.9 seconds left lifts the Bulldogs over Western Kentucky. If Gonzaga isn't careful, it's going to develop a reputation for these....
You Know It Is Spring When the Birds Have Returned
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected]. Subject: Morning crap....
NCAA Tournament - Round Two, Evening Games
What to watch while planning your family vacation to beautiful downtown Baghdad......
The (Not Very) Fast And The Furious
Florida woman hits, drags other woman with golf cart, throwing in assorted curses during the attack. We're going to have to deduct a stroke for that. [WFTV.com]...
On Women's Basketball, Other Girls' Breast Sizes And The Mercury Cheerleaders
It's Waxing Off, the only weekly feature with a built-in GPS. This week's topic: Women's basketball, and why some actual women don't even seem to like it....
NCAA Tournament Live Blog: (6) Marquette vs (11) Utah State
Your live blogger for this game will be the quaint Marquettian Christopher Cwik. As far as I'm told, he's no relation to the Nestlé family....
NCAA Tournament Live Blog: (4) Gonzaga Vs. (13) Akron
Your live blogger for this game will be Cleveland Frowns from the unabashedly homeristic blog Cleveland Frowns. :-(...
NCAA Tournament Live Blog: (7) Texas Vs. (10) Minnesota
Your live blogger for this game will be Wes, a Big XII aficionado. He wrote a couple columns for CollegeHumor before it was cool....
Your NCAA Office Pool Is Illegal, And You Are Headed To Federal Prison
Washington State Gambling Spokeswoman Amy Hunter says that any March Madness bracket pools over $1 are a crime. I wonder how she feels about all the Indian casinos in that state? [Sports Radio Interviews]...
NCAA Tournament Live Blog: (7) California Vs. (10) Maryland
Your live blogger for this game will be the vivacious University of Maryland scholar Rob Gindes from Blazin' With Phelps....
The Few. The Proud. The Foolish.
Well, today's the big day. Sixteen NCAA games, sixteen live blogs. If you're stuck working today or tonight, you can, I guess, "watch" the game from here....
NCAA First Round: (6) Marquette vs. (11) Utah State
West Region: No. 6 Marquette (24-9) vs. No. 11 Utah State (30-4) When: Friday, 12:30 p.m., EDT Where: Taco Bell Arena, Boise, Idaho MARQUETTE GOLDEN EAGLES 1) More Dominic James Melodrama The oft-maligned Dominic James was Marquette's most important player, despite Doug Gottlieb-esque 46% free thr...