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That'll Be All, Whitlock: You Are Lucky We Let You Live
So, you know how Jason Whitlock, after leaving ESPN Page 2, gave an interview last week in which he trashed Mike Lupica and Scoop Jackson in an interview with The Big Lead?...
Watch, As Odell Thurman's Career Evaporates
In case you haven't quite had your fill of the Odell Thurman EXTREME DUI story, the Cincinnati Enquirer has your back this morning: Exclusive video of Odell's actual arrest....
Madden Curse Soon To Attack Rest Of Humanity
You know, all told, Ray Lewis never actually suffered from the Madden Curse: People always forget nothing happened to him that year....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. With Starbucks up 5 cents per cup, can we afford a morning buzz? • 1 p.m. NFL with Matt Williamson: While we type this, Kurt Warner just fumbled again. • 3 p.m. NFL draft with Steve Muench: You're early. Have a seat over there ...
One Perfect Night In New Orleans. Let's Try To Make Sure There Are More
It's difficult to find much to make fun of from last night in New Orleans, a kinda shocking 23-3 Saints victory over the Falcons, except for maybe this lady's sign, which we've been looking at all morning with little more than the foggiest idea of what she's trying to say. (Yes ... Katrina was jus...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering whether or not magic numbers ever actually move ... • MLB: White Sox reign of terror has officially ended. • NFL: It's a blue blue morning, of a blue blue day/All your bad dreams drift away. Saints 23, Falcons 3 in the return of pro football to the Superdome. • Tennis...
Welcome Back To New Orleans
It is somewhat of a relief, as viewed in the Spike Lee's amazing When The Levees Broke — still available on HBO On Demand, still highly recommended, if you have 4 1/2 hours to kill — to learn that as horrible as the circumstances were in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina last year, they weren...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your imaginary friends gather for your intervention ... • MNF: Atlanta at New Orleans. Man, it seems like forever since the Saints have played a home game ... oh. [ESPN] • MLB: Athletics at Mariners. Oakland could clinch today. Do their fans know? [KICU] • MLB: Royals at Twins. It's...
Henry Vomits, But Isn't Arrested. Kudos, Chris!
We know we touched on this earlier today, but it really does warrant its own post....
Leftovers: A Torn ACL? That's Nothin'
• This, friends, is a horrible way to have your season end. [ESPN] • Bud Harrelson's son to be charged in coverup of murder. [New York Daily News] • It's the human stun gun! For real! [YouTube] • Time to get Metsmerized. [No Mas] • Baseball's all time best cokeheads. [The Phat Phree] • Game 6, 1986 ...
Over There, Belichick Should Break Up LOTS Of Marriages
If you're a Patriots fan who just hasn't had every opportunity and vessel through which to express your undying devotion, worry not: You can now wear Tom Brady's jersey in Chinese....
Meanwhile, Over At Hogwarts ...
Know how we know you're gay? Your rugby team is trailing 24-7, until a group of male streakers run across the field. You then go on to win the match, 26-24....
Tigers Burned Again
We generally don't condone vandalism, especially when it involves college students and fire. But you have to admit that these Auburn football fans, from last year's game between Auburn and Arkansas, were pretty much asking for it....
What Should We Do With Ann Arbor Again? And When Should We Do It?
Realize, kids, that it's entirely possible that we might have an Ohio State vs. Michigan, No. 1 vs. No. 2, battle on our hands this year. That might 40 percent of the Middle West spontaneously combust. We're very excited....
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Seattle SuperSonics
It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner (no, not that corner; that's curling). We don't know about you, but we've barely had time to miss Ron Artest and Mark Cuban before they're back again. And that's a good thing. So let us celebrate with five tiny tidbits on each team, ...
Blogdome: Too Much About JoePa
• We learned a little bit more about Joe Paterno this weekend than we might necessarily have cared to. [Also Receiving Votes] • The deep recesses of Auburn running back Kenny Irons' mind. [this probably isn't worth your time] • Sometimes, sportswriters get a little too sleepy to function correctly. ...
It's Christmas In Dallas!
So DC Sports Bog alerted us to some old Dallas Cowboys videos dug up by outstanding Cowboys blog Know Your Dallas Cowboys, and they're really amazing....
Our Teams: A Requiem In Three Acts
I. So now it can be written and known: The spinning, sprinting 12-yard sideaways rugby punts are not, in fact, a device that has come to revolutionize the sport of football. Sorry, Coach Zook. Our Illini very well might be the worst team in Division I-A, and we see no reason they wouldn't lose to Ne...
If Only He'd Have Gone Another Week!
This man's name is Fraser Babineaux, and for the last year, he has been known around these here Internets as "LSUOverUSC," a guy absolutely obsessed with proving LSU deserved the national title over USC in 2003. His site is a case study in how the Internet can drive one mad; it is so niche and so si...