l Page 7446 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

We Can't Imagine What He Thought She Did Wrong
In a quiet piece of news that has received a strange lack of notice, Cowboys wide receiver / cutter Terrell Owens fired his publicist Kim Etheredge yesterday....

NBA Roundup: McGrady, Rockets Stomp The Yard
Notes from Monday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

BCS Blogdome: There's Got To Be A Morning After
What they're saying in Blogville about Florida's 41-14 win over Ohio State in Monday's BCS Championship Game ......

"Disaster! Buckeyes Eaten By Gators!"
Well, boy howdy, that was kind of definitive, wasn't it?...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while saying goodbye to Scooby-Doo ... • BCS Championship game: Urban Renewal ... Florida stomps Ohio State in Get Ready For A Playoff System Bowl, 41-14. • NBA: Rocket Man ... McGrady goes medieval in second half in Houston's 84-77 win over Chicago. • NHL: Konstantin Pushkarev deman...

It's The Mythical Sort Of Kinda A Little Bit Of A National Title Game
Well, jeez, it's finally time: The endless math problem that is the college football season at last ends tonight, in the Tostitos BCS Championship Game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Florida Gators. This one doesn't quite have the gravitas or star power of last year's title game, and if Ohi...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you celebrate the seven-year anniversary of your move to New York City ... • College football: Tostitos Bowl Championship Series title game, Florida vs. Ohio State, at Glendale, Ariz. Will we be arrested if we eat Doritos during this? [Fox] • College basketball: Villanova at Georget...

Caltech Beavers Beat The Odds
One of the first things we decided when we started this site a little more than a year ago, was that any time a college basketball team ended a losing streak of more than 200 games, they would get their own post. So here's to you, California Institute of Technology. Your 81-52 win over Bard College ...

Leftovers: Whither Ron Mexico?
• Could the Bobby Petrino hire lead to Michael Vick being traded? [Falcons Locker] • SI.com's Oops Moment with the end of the Cowboys game. [Blogging The Boys] • Football Outsiders runs down the wild-card weekend. [Football Outsiders] • Saying goodbye to the late Bobby Hamilton. [The Final Lap With ...

Just Pray These Aren't Already Sold Out
Good news! The new Jesus sports statues are in, still piping hot from the kiln and ready for shipping over at Catholic Shopper.com. But unlike in previous versions in which He was smack dab in the action, Our Lord and Savior seems content to kibitz from the sidelines this time, refusing to get direc...

The Inside Story On Gilbert's Birthday Bash
The big party last week was, not surprisingly, the big Gilbert Arenas birthday party, complete with ice sculpture, Clinton Portis and, of all people, Kissing Suzy Kolber's own Unsilent Majority. (Obviously, Agent Zero should be a bit more judicious with the guest list.) Unsilent spoke with Free Dark...

Your SHOTY Winner: Barbaro
All right, well, after nearly two months of voting, we finally have a winner of the 2006 Sportshuman Of The Year tournament ... and, alas, it is not a human....

Wooo!!!!!!! Roll Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!!!!!!!!!
You might have noticed, when Nick Saban, officially the new Guy Who Is Everything Wrong With Sports (at least until next week, when we've forgotten about all this business), arrived in Alabama, an enthusiastic fan fought through the crowd and planted one right on the guy. (Saban, ever cool, took the...

Blogdome: Beware Of Those Tackling Quarterbacks
• Quarterbacks are allowed to tackle? Really? [One More Dying Quail] • So, is Tom Coughlin leaving, or not? [Valentine's Views] • South Carolina should be a bit more mindful of its trophies. [Georgia Sports Blog] • Bill Russell chats about NCAA stuff. [Double A Zone] • Those crazy Pistons fans, yep....

Something To Think About While Watching Sean Salisbury
In case you missed it over the weekend, The Big Lead found confirmation that the ESPN football analyst who was suspended for taking a picture of his penis with his cellphone and sending it to several female co-workers was none other than ... Sean Salisbury! Heck, that's the type of thing that makes ...

Hirshey: Here You Go, Scousers
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Look Who's Talking On ESPNU
Well, well, look who's branching out. Ladies and gentlefolk, meet the newest college basketball analyst for ESPNU....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Monday's Morning Buzz: You think that Eli Manning finds that funny? Do you? • Noon. NCAA Hoops w/ Andy Katz: Dick Vitale ... real person or replicant sent to destroy us? • 3 p.m. OSU-FLA with Joe Schad: What's the over-under on...

NBA Roundup: Say It With Us ... Sasha Vujacic
Notes on Sunday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

Ah, To Be Young And Tony Romo
Another reason YouTube is changing our lives in new and exciting ways: The already infamous Tony Romo fumble moment from Saturday night is being reenacted by spasming lonely fools in their bedrooms. You're totally wrong, Cuban: YouTube is Allah's gift to us all!...