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What to watch after pummeling guests with a car jack at the baby shower ... • Auto racing: Formula One, practice for Chinese Grand Prix, at Shanghai (2 a.m., ET). No Chinese fire drill jokes will be accepted. [Speed] • College football: Florida State at N.C. State (7:30 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Brigham You...
Thursday Night Preview: Florida State at North Carolina State and #8 BYU at #24 TCU
I suppose even the genius who schedules Thursday night games at ESPN is entitled to a mulligan. That's the only explanation for how Florida State at N.C. State ended up tonight's featured game. N.C. State is 2-4 and Florida State is 4-1. N.C. State has taken down William and Mary and East Carolina,...
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What to watch while you eat the world's biggest pumpkin pie ... • MLB: NLCS, Game 5, Philadelphia Phillies at Los Angeles Dodgers (8:22 p.m. ET) That's just Manny being eliminated? [Fox] • Soccer: Men's World Cup Qualifier: USA vs. Trindad and Tobago (8:00 p.m., ET) Well, that doesn't even seem fair...
Welcome To Midnight (Or Anytime You Want, Really) Madness
It's that time of year again ... the time when your favorite college basketball program gets you super-pumped up with a glorified pep rally then makes you sit on your hands for three weeks waiting for the big tip off against Marathon Oil. Go team! This institutionalized blue balls is brought to you ...
The Plymouth Whalers Plan To Frighten Breast Cancer Into Submission
When it comes to Breast Cancer Awareness Week, the Plymouth Whalers have set the bar impossibly high. Where can you go after this move, in which every member of the Ontario Hockey League team on Tuesday dyed their hair pink? There's just nothing left to dye after this (don't go there, bro). Here we ...
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What to watch while you declare yourself a "sovereign nation" ... • MLB: ALCS, Game 4, Tampa Bay Rays at Boston Red Sox (8:00 p.m. ET) Welcome to "Wake up, Wakefield." [TBS] • NHL: Philadelphia Flyers at Pittsburgh Penguins (7:00 p.m., ET) Our hockey moms can beat up your hockey moms. [Versus] • Mov...
Hey, Wait A Minute, Didn't Braylon Edwards Go To Michigan?
Here's Cleveland wide receiver Braylon Edwards proudly representing the school logo ... unfortunately though, it's the wrong school. We know that the Wolverines have been struggling lately, but Penn State, a Big Ten rival? That's cold, man. Edwards channeled the JoePa mojo to catch five passes for 1...
Giants Fear Dreaded Bone Lady Trap Game
I'll put some of the inevitable gloom-and-doom reports of the Red Sox/Rays game after it's over should the score hold up — still 5-0 Rays, Sox fans booing — but let's not forget there's also a Monday Night Football game this evening between the NFC East leading New York Giants and the still-waiting-...
John Madden Getting Sick of Riding Old Bones Across Country in a Bus to Cover Crappy Games
The Washington Post has just reported that NFL broadcasting stalwart John Madden will miss his first week blabbering about football for the first time in 476 games. He's not gravely ill and not planning on retiring soon either, so the Frank Caliendo suicide watch is also put off indefinitely. No, th...
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What to watch while you win all your money back ... • MLB: ALCS, Game 3, Tampa Bay Rays at Boston Red Sox (Right NOW!) Tazers on stun! [TBS] • NHL: Vancouver Canucks at Washington Capitals (7:00 p.m., ET) Ovechkin cares not for your "goalies." [Versus] • MLB: NLCS, Game 4, Philadelphia Phillies at L...
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What to watch while you hold your breath for Axl Rose ... • MLB: NLCS, Game 2, Los Angeles Dodgers at Philadelphia Phillies (Right NOW!). Hey, where'd the boss go? [Fox] • NHL: Montreal at Buffalo (7:30 p.m., ET) Stuff your sorrys in a Saku Koivu [RDS Canada, MSG] • College football: Louisville at M...
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What to watch while scaring the beejeezus out of the neighborhood kids ... • College football: Clemson at Wake Forest (7:30 p.m., ET). Oh look, another black out. That's original. [ESPN] • MLB: National League Championship Series, Game 1, Los Angeles at Philadelphia (8 p.m., ET). Relax, it's just A....
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What to watch while you contemplate your career choices ... • Classic Boxing: Holyfield/Bowe I and II. (8:30 ET) Wait, really? This is what we're reduced to? [ESPN] • Series: "South Park"/"The Sarah Silverman Program", Season Premieres (10:00 ET) When you're not just sure ... you're HIV-positive. [C...
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What to watch while you fail geometry class. Again ... • College Football: Troy vs. Florida Atlantic (8:00 ET) Agamemnon is pleased. [ESPN2] •: Movie: "The Last Samurai" (8:00 ET) Despite the movie's flaws, the ninja attack scene is the most underrated action sequence in film history. Discuss. [AMC]...
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What to watch while you try to figure out how to replace the dead power adapter for your laptop. Grrrrr ... • MLB: ALDS, Game 4: Tampa Bay Rays at Chicago White Sox (NOW) Love lifts Upton where he belongs? [TBS] • NFL: Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints (8:30 p.m., ET) One dome is as good as th...
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What to watch while wiping some schmutz off your of million dollar face with a hundred dollar bill in the presence of an attractive young lady... • MLB: NLDS Game 3, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Boston Red Sox. The Boston leads the series 2-0, and I think for everyone outside of Orange County wh...
Meet The Man Who Felled Kimbo
And now, a personal pictorial review of the guy who knocked out Kimbo Slice. A self described "goofy homo" whose dream is to open a chain of Smoothie Kings. ...
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What to watch while wondering whose loofa you have to lather to get Lil' O'Reilly his own show... • MLB: NLDS Game 3's. Philadelphia at Milwaukee and Chicago at Los Angeles [TBS] • MMA: EliteXC's primetime card headlined by Kimbo Slice and Gina Carano, plus a bunch of more "legitimate" fighters. [CB...
Lineman Chooses Amputation Over Surgery
When told he would need season ending surgery on his pinkie, Mesa State College offensive lineman Trevor Wikre made the most logical decision. He told them to cut off the finger. ...
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What to watch while you fake a heart attack to try and sell more MP3 players ... • MLB: ALDS, Game 2: Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay Rays (6:00 p.m., ET) Help them, Obi-Wan Guillen. You're the city's only hope. [TBS] • WNBA: Finals, Game 2: Detroit Shock at San Antonio Silver Stars. (7:30 p.m., ET) ...