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The Chinese Olympic Swimsuits Are Here ... Yeesh
It's true: One man's sexy is another man's nightmare fuel. Mostly though, aren't these swimsuits just impractical? Aerodynamic they ain't. However, if you're swimming in the ocean I suppose the front there could be used to collect baby smelt and other small bait fish. China never fails to confuse me...
Baseball's National Groundbreakers
• The first baseball player from a variety of countries. [One More Dying Quail] • Is the West Virginia hire like marrying a one-night stand? [Signal To Noise] • How one team's spread is different than the other's. [East Coast Bias] • In praise of Chuck Brown. [Scott Van Pelt Style] • The SWAC is tru...
NFL Wild Card Pants Party: Buccaneers Vs. Giants
We are incredibly pleased to live in a world in which this guy is facing off against this guy in an NFL playoff game....
Arizona Plays Two-On-Five ... And Still Almost Wins
So here's a story that's kind of fun: The Arizona women's basketball team only dressed six players in their game last night. It did not end well....
Tom Brady Wants You To Buy Some Water
Glaceau smartwater; magic elixir of the Gods. Too bad it wasn't around in 2000, when Brady posed for this photo for the NFL combine. How times have changed. Now our hero is toting the water in a new series of print ads (the real ads can be found here), for which he was paid a reported $3 million. I...
ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
Meet the new face of ESPN commenting: Magnum1986. He's dashing, he's eloquent ... he's Superbad. Indeed, if "Magnum PI" were produced today, this hip young ESPN commenter would be our choice for the lead role, hands down. Don't wait up, Higgins; I'm gettin' down tonight!...
Roger Clemens Gets A World Class Drilling
There's something kind of awesome about Mike Wallace's questioning of Roger Clemens on "60 Minutes," set to air this Sunday. Clemens uses the tired, repeatedly discredited "it was just B-12!" alibi, and boy, does Wallace ever get after him....
Mangino, Orange Become One
He went down to quick defeat in the SHOTY First Round, but Kansas coach Mark Mangino proved his mettle last night; that Kansas team might have pretty good, doggunit....
Battle Of The Pains In The Ass
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of The FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer. Enjoy....
Rough Night For Virginia
Jonah Keri writes the College Basketball Closer (more or less) daily. E-mail your questions, concerns or Clarence Ceasar-related memories to [email protected]....
U.S. Secretary Of Offense
The NBA Closer is written by our Canadian weekend maestro J.E. Skeets. When he's not busy scouring the box scores or obeying the Giant, he can be heard on The Basketball Jones daily podcast....
About Last Night
What you missed while doing a little snow-holing ... • College football: Mmm, cold and refreshing ... Kansas beats VaTech 24-21 in Orange Bowl. • NBA: Jarrett Jack You Up ... Blazers win again, cannot be stopped, ever. • Obama, Huckabee prevail In Iowa Smackdown....
To Whom Did Your Favorite Sports Figures Donate?
If you'll excuse our end-of-day dip into our other obsession, the Iowa caucuses are tonight. After our reading tonight, we're heading home to watch the results pour in. The Iowa caucus is like the BCS, but somehow makes less sense. We love America!...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you translate all of your comments into Klingon ... • College football: Orange Bowl, Virginia Tech vs. Kansas, at Miami (8:15 p.m., ET). Has Mangino ever ingested fruit? [Fox] • Golf: PGA Tour, Mercedes-Benz Championship, first round, at Kapalua, Hawaii (6 p.m., ET). Colt Brennan ha...
Another "BCS" "Bowl Game"
Forgive us for not doing much of an update on the gripping Fiesta Bowl last night. As happy as we might be for West Virginia and their new coach — and we're so, so happy, no question — but it's difficult to be too fired up for one top 10 to beat another top 10 in a meaningless bowl game just because...
NFL Wild Card Pants Party: Steelers Vs. Jaguars
Everybody loves the Jaguars all of a sudden. We dunno: If Big Ben stays off the bike, look out....
STEPHEN A. SMITH APPROVES OF STEPHEN A. SMITH'S BARCALOUNGER
Sometimes we worry that we are putting together unfair, cartoonish caricatures of some of our favorite sports personalities, that there are subtleties to them that we are missing. We worry about this; we worry about a lot. But then we come across this piece of news about Stephen A. Smith....