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Rose Bowl: The Morning After
All right, all right, it's the morning after, and we still can't quite believe that game last night. Some more thoughts as we recover:...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while affixing toe-tags to the frozen chickens in your freezer ... • Rose Bowl: Longhorns deny Trojans in frenetic, defense-deficient pillow fight. • NBA: The Bob Hill era begins in Seattle to great fanfare. Oh, and a Sonics win. • NHL: Ottawa Senators win, stretch point total to 59,...

Vince Young Becomes A Legend
We just watched one of the most incredible games we've ever seen, and we certainly hope you did too....

National "Title" Pants Party: Longhorns Vs. Trojans
It so rarely happens that even though we obviously need a playoff, it's pretty much impossible not to get excited about tonight's Rose Bowl BCS "title" game between Southern California and Texas. (We still hope the first quarter goes like this.) Hell, it's so exciting even the President was consi...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your clothes gradually go out of style (except the sneakers) ... • Rose Bowl, Texas vs. Southern California, at Pasadena, Calif. Apparently it's a big game or something. [ABC] • College Basketball: Notre Dame at Pittsburgh. Carl Krauser and the 11-0 Panthers are not to be trifled wi...

The Ladies Love Fennis Dembo
True Hoop and End Of The Bench have one of those stories that they just knew we weren't going to be able to resist: Rampant groupie sex, in Detroit, in the late '80s. We mean, come on. That's bait, catnip....

Leftovers: You Were Supposed to Fire Millen!
• Bills fire president Donahoe, hire ancient and wise Levy as consultant. [Buffalo Bills Review] • Kwan hurt, pulls out U.S. Nationals. Gillooley not involved this time. [USA Today] • This is bogus, man! Brady: Patriots have been "disrespected." [Sports. Music. Blog.] • Swann to declare candidacy fo...

Are The Buckeyes In Trouble Again?
We don't want to overstep our bounds here — no, really — but we've been hearing a pretty persistant rumor in recent days concerning the Ohio State football program. If the rumors are true, be on the lookout for potential sanctions against the Buckeyes, with the offenses ranging from taking tests f...

Gizmodo Is Dorking It Up In Vegas
The corporate overlords over here are very proud of our dorky stepbrother (whose tests we're always cheating off) site Gizmodo. The Gizmodo folks are at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas all this week, and if you're the type of person who is into that type of stuff, you're absolutely gold...

Ichiro Will Kill You For Ratings
The Ichiro who plays for the Seattle Mariners is quiet, effusive and, if last year can be believed at all, rather bored-looking most of the time....

Blogdome: Martz Is Back In Black
• An idea whose time has come: Mike Martz as coach of the Raiders. [The Hater Nation] • Bears playoff tickets went away in 20 minutes. [Windy City Gridiron] • Is the NBA full of heroic athletes, or genetic freaks? [Myrhaf] • Newspapers vs. Internet. Quin es mas macho? [Gotham Baseball] • What would ...

Blogdom's Best: Hating The Texas Longhorns
Perhaps nothing says hatred like college athletics. We have witnessed the body painting, we have seen the flaming objects hurled onto the court. Yes, we have seen the pants waving from atop the flag pole. And today, we salute those pants. We believe that college athletics were invented to give stu...

A-Rod Changes His Mind On Who He Is Again
Baseball Think Factory (via Baseball Musings) reports that endless external to-and-fro, Yankees lipstick model Alex Rodriguez has finally decided to play for the United States in the upcoming World Baseball Classic....

Mel Kiper Jr.'s Thick "Fingers"
We generally don't like to make fun of spelling mistakes here, because we make them as much as anyone (and don't get us started on our italics woes)....

Clinton Portis' Supermarket Sweep
Ever wonder what Clinton Portis might do if given $10,000 to spend in a Best Buy in the span of half an hour? Jeez, who hasn't?...

Maurice Clarett's Experienced Defense Team
Today's Maurice Clarett update: The "troubled" — that is to say, "known for pretty much everything other than being a football player — posted a $50,000 bond to be released after his charges of aggravated robbery. We'll put aside for a moment how a guy with little discernible income over the last ...

Culpepper: Lap Dances? Who, Me?
We don't want to overstate — and it probably won't happen, anyway — but if Vikings sex boat gods Daunte Culpepper and Bryant McKinnie get their way, we might be in for the real trial of the century....

Some 1 A.M. Bowl Goodness
We're never reminded more of just how old we're getting than when we watch college freshmen play sports. Penn State kicker Kevin Kelly, we swear, has to be lying on his birth certificate; there's no way he's older than 12. The poor kid finally erased the chances he'd be a Buckner-type goat by fina...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. Baseball America's John Manuel: Come on ESPN, you're not even trying! Send stat geek packing and bring on a lesbian cheerleader, or Greg Gall. • 3 p.m. Bowl Games with Beano Cook: So it's come to this — weekday afternoon compute...

A Match Made In ... Well, In Detroit
We were marvelling this morning at the potential news: Matt Millen and the Detroit Lions are bringing in former Saints coach Jim Haslett for a job interview. We don't necessarily think that hiring Haslett would bring the Fire Millen crowd much closer to dragging the guy out of his house and having...