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About Last Night ...
What you missed while playing "GI Joe pulls over the Barbie Dream Car and does a strip search" ... • College football: Louie Louie, oh oh, we gotta go now ... No. 5 Louisville tops No. 3 West Virginia. • NBA: Cuban on his best behavior (kind of), but Mavericks still lose to Spurs. • NHL: Can anyone ...

Look, An Important Weekday College Football Game!
We don't often get to write about important college football games here — that's usually MJD's job on the weekends — but we have a rare one tonight: A Thursday game between two undefeated teams that could very well decide who plays in the Fiesta Bowl for the BCS "Championship" on January 8. (January...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while waiting for Kim Jong Il's appearance on Dancing With the Stars ... • College football: West Virginia at Louisville. Remember, as we learned earlier, the cardinal is the fiercest of all the robin-sized birds. [ESPN] • NBA: San Antonio at Dallas. Mark Cuban to blog live from game, ...

Stop Shuler Surrenders To The Polls
We have told you before about the noble quest of StopShuler.com, produced by a group of Redskins fans who want to keep their former quarterback — and current Congressional candidate — Heath Shuler from returning to Washington....

Leftovers: She's So CONTROVERSIAL!
• New Page 2 hire Jemele Hill is stirring the pot in Orlando, particularly with Predators fans. [The Sports Oasis] • Careful with all the crowing, South Carolina. [The Jaunt] • Did Mike Greenberg say something much worse than Steve Lyons? [Sports Media Guy] • Possible titles for the new Gary Sheffie...

Shawne Merriman's Flimsy "Excuses"
So San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman has decided to accept his four-game suspension for steroids, while making it clear that it was an accidental positive test as a result of an over-the-counter supplement....

Please, Sir, Keep The Gutteral Utterances To Yourself
This is Al Argibay, and he has a goatee and, we presume, walks around making this arm motion all day. And he's pissed, because he was just thrown out of his gym for grunting too loud....

Yep, The Costume Works: We're Scared
If you were wondering what the Timberwolves' Mike James went as for Halloween this year — and we know you were — then now you know. He went as ... uh, this. Are we sure this isn't that Deelishis lady?...

Welcome, At Last, To Ron Artest's World
You might have missed it with all the business of watching parades of sexy nurses/witches/superheroes/hockey players pass by, but on Halloween, the new album from Ron Artest "dropped," as they say. It's called "My World," and it is apparently not inspired by the weird song Axl Rose put on the end of...

You Stay Classy, Buffalo
The wisdom of sending more of our troops to Iraq is making less and less sense to us, mostly because there are bitter, liquored-up Bills fans wandering around with nothing to do. Meet Patriots' fan Barry Donaghey, who was simply trying to enjoy a tailgate celebration with his pregnant wife followi...

Blogdome: You Look Marvelous
• If you're wondering about the fashion of sports studio analysts. [Leave The Man Alone] • The Heat have some ugly-ass rings. [Sick Of Simmons] • Primoz is already exhausted? [The Realests] • A nice big NBA outlook. [The Serious Tip] • Monday night was not a pleasant night for Vikings fans. [I Disli...

Isn't It True, Mr. Paterno??!!
If you've been hanging out at Every Day Should Be Saturday at all recently, you've seen some of their great political attack ads between conferences; the above is the SEC going after the Big East, including a still from The Age Of Innocence. Clay Travis at CBS Sportsline looks at some potentially gr...

No More Vroom Vroom For Big Ben
So the Steelers are falling apart right now, losing to the freaking Raiders last week, and at the center of all of it is quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who has had an awfully busy few months for a guy who didn't play all that well in the Super Bowl. Concussions, emergency surgery, road mishaps ... ...

Vince Carter, Back In Toronto: Awesome Idea!
Last night, the New Jersey Nets — our favorite team to play in NBA Live, by the way; if only they'd just move to Brooklyn already — handled the Toronto Raptors, helped of course by Vince Carter, whose exit from Toronto was one step removed from Tom Cruise refusing to leave the South Park closet unti...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA FB with Todd McShay: RUTGERS, BABY! • 1 p.m. Horse racing with Barbaro: OK, we made this one up. But $50 says a bunch of people submit questions anyway. Including Pat Forde. • 1 p.m. NCAA FB with Joe Schad: Joe Schad, you ar...

Is Your Relationship With Barbaro All That It Can Be?
Even though he has faced many obstacles recently — including a stinging defeat in our Hall of Fame balloting of a couple of months ago — Barbaro has somehow always found the will to survive. And now the racehorse is on the verge of the most dramatic triumph of all, as doctors announced on Wednesda...

Mota Somehow Finds Way To Fail Drug Test
Yesterday, relief pitcher Guillermo Mota was suspended 50 games for testing positive for steroids, and, as Baseball Musings points out, he at least didn't do the "might have accidentally put the wrong thing in my body" excuse; he manned up and apologized for his mistake. The suspension proves what w...

Clinton Portis Is Keeping Curious Company
We'll confess, we don't watch that "Flavor Of Love" show on VH-1; we remember once having good thoughts about Flavor Flav, many years ago, and just seeing the highlights of the show makes us extremely uncomfortable, like we're watching Reagan in the last throes of Alzheimer's or something. (We bet...

NBA Roundup: Isiah Thomas Farewell Tour Makes First Stop
Notes from yesterday's action in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night ...
What you missed while apologizing for a subpar day for your site yesterday ... you'll do better today ... • NBA: Nellie's back, an so are the Warriors we've come to know and love. LA 110, Golden State 98. • NHL: AFLAC duck storms out in disgust as Jagr's overtime goal (the 104th game-winner of his c...