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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....
No, YOU'RE Don Francisco's Sister!
Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed? The difference is that all men go eventually, but we go at six o'clock tomorrow morning. We were supposed to go at five o'clock, but we have a smart lawyer. Got leniency....
Bobby Knight To Be Airlifted In To Restore Order At Castro Valley High
Awhile ago we wrote about the parents' revolt at Castro Valley (Calif.) High, wherein varsity girls basketball coach Nancy Nibarger was forced to allow a special panel of "objective observers" to choose her team at preseason tryouts. She was even forced to have an ombudsman observe all of her subseq...
Blogdome: Browns Fan On The Edge
• Look what the Browns are driving their fans to. [The Us Factor] • Michigan fans are rooting pretty hard for UCLA this weekend. [The M Zone] • An interview with the computer guy who has USC at No. 1. [On College Football] • Scott Skiles is more dangerous than you think. [Hoopsmack] • Alabama ... st...
Scoop Jackson And (Someone Else's) Orange Roundie
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that, oh, Mike Lupica wrote a story for Esquire in which he discussed a concept he had discovered "on the Internet" called "The Ewing Theory." He then wrote a whole 4,000-word piece in which he borrowed heavily from the "Internet concept," but never actually men...
Uh, Jack, You Missed A Spot. A Big Spot
Sorry, Mr. Orton: There's a new neck beard champion. This photo, swiped by 55 Problems, shows Jack Nicholson with the strangest neck beard we've ever seen. Uh, you'll fix that by Oscar night, right Jack?...
Pac Man Gets His Ride Back
You might remember, about a month ago, when the car belong to Titans defensive back Pac Man Jones went up for a police auction. We wondered then who, in fact, might want a car with the official Pac Man logo stitched into the headrest....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NFC East with Chuck Knox Jr.: Um, is singing really the answer to the Giants' problems? This can only make things worse. • 1:30 p.m. Hip hop legend Chuck D: Do you cry every time you watch "Flavor Of Love?" Because we do. • 3 p.m...