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How To Stay "Busy" Until 6:17 p.m.
If you open your window and spit, you'll likely hit a channel with some kind of Super Bowl pregame show. But if you have Final Fantasy Legend III for the original GameBoy lying around, for the love of God don't spit on it, because that's my recommended retro game for the day....
Tell Mike To Dip My TV Listings In Water
It's college basketball and college basketball alone day on TV. So if you can't stand hoops without an intricate bracket in hand, your required retro video game playing for the day is NES's StarTropics. It's not quite Legend of Zelda, but ... well, it's not quite Legend of Zelda....
The White Sox Are Hunting Wabbit
Home Run Derby points out that the White Sox will be wearing these camo jerseys on July 4 next year....
Bear Down, Barack Obama
We'd completely forgotten about this, even though it's from our home state and followed it pretty closely when it was happening, so we have to thank Sports By Brooks for reminding us: Barack Obama, when he ran for U.S. Senate from Illinois in 2004, was this close to running against ... DITKA!...
Colts Fans Have Absolutely No Cajones
Here's the situation: Four amounts left on the board on the game show Deal or No Deal (NFL Edition!). One is for $1 million, and the other three are for $10,000 or less. What amount does your case hold? George Barnes here can sell his case for $189,000 — but if he does, he'll lose out on the million...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......
Larry Johnson Can Dramatically Increase Your Salary
The Sporting News' Chris Mottram was roaming around Radio Row at the Super Bowl Media Center yesterday — at the Super Bowl, everything gets capital letters — and came across the Chiefs' Larry Johnson. He was wearing a nice watch....
About Last Night
What you missed after hearing "Crank That" one too many times ... • College basketball: The last time Kansas State won at home against Kansas, Matt Leinart had not yet been born. • NFL: No mention of Tom Brady's ankle on Patriots' injury report. Belichick, in fact, denies Brady has an ankle. • NBA: ...
Stephen A. Smith Stands Before You, Merely A Blogger
If you were confused about the timing of Stephen A. Smith staring his own blog, be bewildered no longer: At long last, the Philadelphia Inquirer has officially ended its relationship with Stephen A.....
He's Totally Rich Because Her Dad Invented Toaster Streudels
It's probably best, at this point, to think of Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte as characters from "Mean Girls."...
Night of the Living 'Sheed
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who is in no way related to Kevin McHale and who has taken the necessary legal steps to ensure that it stays that way. When he's not building a life-sized Dirk Nowitzki out of LEGOs, he can be found making fart jokes at Basketbawful. Enjoy! • They did the m...
About Last Night
What you missed while deciding for whom to vote ... • NBA: Utah 97, San Antonio 91. Mitt Romney declares victory. Rudy Giuliani decides to skip the game. John McCain says that both teams should work together to end their differences. Fred Thompson dozes peacefully. • College basketball: UConn beats ...
Fun With Stephen A. Smith Blog Comments
Our story so far: Stephen A. Smith started a blog, and then things got out of hand in the comments. So he heightened security; now requiring registration before one can comment. And that's a good thing, because now that all the jerks and racists are gone, all that remains is comedy gold....
Stephen A. Smith Is Serious About This Blogging Business
After we helped introduce the planet to Stephen A. Smith's blog (and then watched in horror as it got way too ugly in there), Stephen A. came out today and let everybody know that he plans on blogging his fingers off. In an interview with Philadelphia Magazine ... wait ... oh our gorsh ... he's talk...
An Athlete Magazine Goes Bankrupt. Really.
Overtime Magazine is a monthly — kind of — magazine devoted to "helping professional athletes manage their money." You know what that means: They're broke!...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......