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About Last Night...
• College Football: Florida 38, Arkansas 28. The Gators are now going to need the human voters to work miracles. • College Football: West Virginia 41, Rutgers 39. And Rutgers has still never won in Morgantown. More on this in a bit... • College Basketball: (10) Duke 61, (23) Georgetown 52. Greg Paul...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 4
Overheard in the newsroom (I work at a TV station) from someone watching the Dr. Pepper ACC Tournament: "Somewhere, Mr. Pibb is laughing his ass off." - RodeoQueen...
To Watch Tonight...
• College Football: Rutgers @ West Virginia. This game looked a lot better a few weeks ago. 7:45, ESPN. • College Basketball: Wichita State @ Syracuse. You can deny it if you want, but you know you want to see that Orange mascot get the shocker. 7:00, ESPNU. • College Football: Big 12 Championship, ...
Welcome To The Hibachi
Gilbert Arenas is a fountain of awesomeness that will never run dry. The latest dip into his well of creative genius brings us a phrase that will surely sweep the nation. Whenever Gilbert puts up a shot that he feels like is going in (which is all of them), he yells ... well, let's let Caron Butle...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 3
"Georgia Tech's offense has one Ball and two Johnson's." - Rowan 2 FSU...
SI's Sportsman Of The Year Is Not A Llama Doctor
Dwyane Wade is your 2006 SI Sportsman of the Year. At least that's the word coming from Roy S. Johnson's blog (via Bethlehem Shoals at the NBA FanHouse). Sorry to ruin the surprise for you. Guess your Monday is screwed now....
LeftoverDome...
• If you buy $2,000 worth of furniture from H.D. (my little) Buttercup (has the sweetest smile), and UCLA beats USC ... you get your furniture for free. [LA Daily News] • The New York Times makes it seem like Tom Glavine picked the Mets over the Braves. That is not the case. [Seth Mnookin] • The Whi...
Greg Oden Begins To Earn His Reputation At 4 p.m.
Bad news for you, Calum MacLeod and Urule Igbavoa. Valparaiso's big men are going to have to deal with Greg Oden today, the greatest center in college basketball history that has never actually played a game. It was originally thought that Ohio State center wasn't going to be available until after...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 2
"Corso just referred to the BCS Title game as the 'National World Championship.' Someone loosen his merkin. - Boomer Sooner...
Today In The Premiership...
• Wigan 0-4 Liverpool. In Liverpool's game against Wigan Athletic today, Craig Bellamy struck twice. Oddly enough, he was accused of doing that very same thing during the week. Bellamy was charged with assaulting two women in a Cardiff nightclub, and was cleared of the charges earlier in the week...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 1
"Looks like you've painted yourself into a corner. It's all Louisville-Connecticut. Unless you are watching cartoons. If you're interested, Lilo and Stich is on Disney and some acid trip with claymation dinosaurs is on NBC." - Victoria Times...
Timberwolves Embarrass Themselves With Something Other Than Their Play
If there weren't pictures to prove that it happened, I'm not sure I would have believed it. What you see above is Minnesota Timberwolves point guard Marko Jaric attempting to enter the game with his jersey on backwards....
Players Sue For Their Right To Bitch
Unfair labor practices. That's what it's come to in the NBA, with the players association taking the unprecedented step of going to the National Labor Relations Board and filing two unfair labor practice chargers against the NBA. One of them is about the new basketball. The other is about their ri...
For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
Ah, what the hell ... there's more than enough college football on today to squeeze one more weekend of joy out of the Hugh Johnson Project. There are championship games, there's USC/UCLA, there's the Army/Navy game that everyone seems to love so much (I think the uniforms will be different than t...
About Last Night...
• College Football: Houston 34, Southern Mississippi 20. Houston wins the C-USA title, and Andre Ware walks around the Bristol campus today feeling like a bad-ass. • Tennis: Russia takes 2-1 lead in Davis Cup final. The Russians are now one win away from the Davis Cup title, and I promise not to men...
Week In Deadspin: Remember That Romo Is Mexican
• Freddie Mitchell, substitute teacher. Really. • Vote For Rory! • Michael Irvin "apologizes." • The only league left for Justin Gatlin. • Dallas Clark rules all. • Bill Romanowski has some health tips for you. • Scoop Jackson vs. the blogs. • Jimmy Kimmel for new MNF broadcaster. • Melissa Rivers a...
There's A Football World Cup? Real Football?
We're not sure how we missed this, but apparently, in July 2007, there's going to be a football World Cup. And not the weird foreign kind of football either; we mean, like, real football....
Leftovers: Some Announcer Thrashing
• Hey, looks like they're finally letting Simmons rip on some television broadcasters over there, five years later. [ESPN] • The first Rocky movie, boiled down to just the "yo"'s. [NBX Sports Blog] • Rex Grossman, trash talker! [Kissing Suzy Kolber] • The 76ers are offering playoff tickets. Hahahaha...
The Great Basketball Bloggers Have United And Will Soon Rule Earth
We'd like to congratulate the fine folks at AOL's The Fanhouse on the launch of their new NBA and College Basketball blog networks. As usual, they've put together a rather impressive roster, including the rather insanely busy Mighty MJD, who probably has to remind himself these days what site he's w...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Which Other White Players "Have Some Brother In Them?"
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....