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Charles Barkley Realizes Isiah Thomas Suicide Jokes Don't Play Well at Press Conferences
Charles Barkley, loudmouth TNT NBA analyst and potential 2014 gubernatorial nominee, may have finally crossed his own arbitrary tastelessness line. Barkley, commenting on the current state of the Knicks at a press conference, made this unfortunate quip about his old buddy Isiah Thomas, who recently ...
The Machines Shall Rise, And All Will Fall
All right, so the world is imploding. You know this. I know this too, though only because the Wassup Guys told me. Surely, these are the last days, before the global apocalypse rids the planet of humans and leaves only some cockroaches, a few stray strands of hair and, of course, Kermit, because Ke...
Morning Blogdome: Show Some Love In This Club
Won't you email [email protected] today? • A creature rarely seen in the wild: We have found actual video evidence of Lakers center Andrew Bynum "makin' it rain." He already looks in midseason form, doesn't he? [Black Sports Online]• Hey Panama ... SUCK IT!: American Pro Wrestlers (that's thei...
Not Just Another Pretty Face
Hooo boy. The reporter here — I'm pretty sure — is Danyelle Sargent of Fox, making the Gaffe of the Season so far. And what makes this more sad/amusing is the fact that Sargent was involved in a controversy while at ESPN in 2006 when, thinking her mic was dead, blurted "What the fuck was that?" w...
Tyrone Willingham Is Calling It A Career At Washington
Remember when Ty Willingham was on (or at the) top of the college football world? The guy won a Pac-10 title at Stanford (Stanford!) and in the late '90s was one of the rising stars of the college coaching world. Then in 2002, he replaced George O'Leary Bob Davie at Notre Dame and promptly went 8-0 ...
Blazing Saddles; A Day At The Breeders' Cup
I don't have many living idols, due to the fact that such folk have an unfortunate tendency to let you down. But I make an exception with this gentleman, who is a big reason that I accepted an invitation to attend the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita this past Saturday. Meeting the great Mel Brooks was ...
Morning Blogdome: Can You Wait Another 91 Minutes?
[email protected] knows your sister. What's this about rain?: Baseball writers—not that creative. They're also not very original, either. [Wrigleyville23] They should get a 3-minute minor for that: They play hockey a little differently in Boston—mostly because the face off circles at the Garden...
Week Eight Of The NFL And The Phils Are One Game Away
Each Monday morning Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed from the weekend. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see with your coffee, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....
Stand Up For Joe Blanton!
Okay. This has been a fun weekend. Don't really know what to say right now. I'm sure it'll all be covered in blogdome. But for now, for those who were there tonight, well, you know what this photo means. Maybe. For those who don't, well, it's just a photo of Jessica Biel. Everybody wins! And there'...
30 Previews In 30 Days: The Sacramento Kings
NBA training camps have begun; the season is rapidly approaching. Can you dig it? I knew that you could. And so we continue our previews: 30 of them in 30 days. Up next is a team that may get a royal flush right down the Western Conference commode this season. They are: The Sacramento Kings. When la...
Over 1700 Endurance Racers Go Temporarily Missing in Flood
Despite receiving warnings from local authorities, the organizers of the Original Mountain Marathon (an exxxtreme endurance event in England, to be exact) plowed forward with the race this weekend. Unfortunately, they didn't have Bud Selig's weathermen on staff, so they had to switch the race midway...
For Your Viewing Pleasure: She Can Strip Your Gears
• 2:00 — Sport: Auto Racing - Sprint Cup: Pep Boys Auto 500 (from Atlanta Motor Speedway) [ABC] - Jimmie Johnson haters, this may be your last chance to imagine a world where Jimmie Johnson isn't your Sprint Cup champion. • 3:00 — Sport: Soccer - Los Angeles Galaxy vs. FC Dallas [TeleFutura] - Dav...
Morning Blogdome: Life Lessons from Isiah Thomas
• "Drugs ruin people's lives and hurt everyone around them... don't foul out with drugs." Thanks, Isiah! [Josh Q. Public] • Suggestion for those looking to receive a link in the Blogdomes: use the phrase "Skycam pilot". Pretty much a winner. [Palestra.net] • Tommie Harris of the Chicago Bears bore...
YOUR HORSE-BANGERS CUP RECAP: Muhannek starts off the day by getting a win in the Marathon, Europe's first win in the Breeders Cup; Desert Code takes the Turf Sprint despite some longshot 30-1 odds; Albertus Maximus fed his foes to the lions in the Dirt Mile; Fiily Goldikova takes the Mile crown awa...
Nothing's More Fun Than A Boxing Controversy!
There's nothing quite like a good ol' fashioned boxing fix, especially when it's extremely obvious. There's something almost pure about how it simultaneously deceives and yet has the balls to not even care if anyone notices. Last night's fight in Montreal between Canadian Lucian Bute and Mexican-Am...
Ashley Todd Is Your New Mike Cooper
This is Ashley Todd. Ashley recently made some news when she was was mugged near at ATM by "a dark-skinned black man" who, after finding out she supported John McCain, carved a "B" on her face for some kind of pro-Obama viral ad campaign. However, the cops got kind of suspicious when they saw the B...
For Your Viewing Pleasure: A Cross-Country Demolition Blog Post Without Rules
• 12:00 — Sport: College Football - Texas Tech vs. Kansas [ESPN] - Not pictured: Texas, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma lining up to help expand the rear entry opened wide by Kansas. • 12:00 — Sport: College Football - Illinois vs. Wisconsin [ESPN2] - The Beloit, WI/South Beloit, IL Border War heats up....
Morning Blogdome: We Are Kickers, We Kick Ball
We Play With Ball, We Kick The Ball: Notre Dame's kicking woes force them to land a kicker who's never, uh, kicked before. [Sports by Brooks] Goodbye, Sally's College Fund: You can now place bets at the Maloof Brothers' Casino for all NBA teams not named the Sacramento Kings. [USA Today Blog] Yee-h...
Bill Cosby Would Like to Welcome You to the Weekly Video Rundown
Each Friday afternoon Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed during the past week from the world of Sports Media. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....
Isiah Thomas Overdosed On Sleeping Pills...
Details are sketchy at this point but according to reports from both the New York Post and the Lower Hudson Valley News, police responded to to and overdose call at the purchase home of Isiah Thomas early this morning: ...