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Hugh II: The Nedessy Continues... Pt. 3
BACK COMES MICHIGAN! BACK COMES MICHIGAN! With a touchdown run that Michigan announcer Frank Beckmann described as "a Mike Hart to just have to see, it's undescribable!" Thanks, Frank, I'd love to see it! I hate you, Jim Delany. Not as much as Gary Bettman, but I still hate you. -AsInHowe...
Hugh II: The Nedessy Continues... Pt. 2
Well, I'm officially a man. I'm going to buy beer for a bunch of minors so we can all get shitty drunk outside Byrd Stadium. Fear the Turtle! - Grant (ed. note: Gawker Media cannot endorse such behavior. Nobody should ever go to Byrd Stadium under any circumstances.)...
Hugh II: The Nedessy Continues... Pt. 1
And we’re underway! Welcome to another glorious season of college football and the official kickoff of Hugh II: The Nedessy Continues... Now let’s see what everybody had to say while I was watching Fulham’s miracle.... (photo courtesy of SEC Poon, easily the greatest website of the new season)...
About Last Night...
What you missed while welcoming hip hop back from the dead vacation... • Baseball: Scott Baker took perfection into the ninth against the Royals. The Big Lead is still engorged. • Football: Michael Strahan surprised nobody when he decided to return to the Giants. Jean's gotta get paid. • Boxing: Sha...
Football Games ALL DAY Tomorrow! Seriously!
As we remind you one last time to join our Pick 'Em group, we prepare ourselves for a rousing opening weekend of college football....
You Have Got To Be The Worst Manager We've Ever Had
Even in this little town, we feel like what we do is very connected with the real center of people's lives. We're not saying we're always Mr. Effective, but we don't feel like our life is off to the side of what's important. You know? We don't feel our happiness and comfort are based on closing our ...
Prepare Yourself For Simmons In Spandex
You thought that whole Bloomin' Onion sauce on the shorts was the most disturbing image you'd ever have of Bill Simmons? You know NOTHING....
South Carolina Needs A Spokesperson!
Just over at the South Carolina Tourisim official site, and do you know what? They don't have a spokesperson. This should be remedied, and of course there are only two candidates who could handle it. Miss Teen South Carolina; and Blowie, the mascot for the Coastal Plain League Columbia, S.C. Blowfi...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m.. Injury report with Stephiana Bell: Ow, my penis! • 1 p.m. Sugar Ray Leonard, A. Gomez: Which Gomez? • 4 p.m. LIVE from the U.S. Open: No amount of capitalization will make up for the soul-numbing boredom of a golf chat....
Fancy Handbags, And Face Paint
As we've mentioned before, we find the whole "hey, ladies, you can like sports TOO!" thing to be rather silly. It seems like pandering, and they always have this subtext of, "So now you can understand what you're husband's talking about, and therefore leave him alone!" But that said, we are amused b...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. MLS with DC's Jamie Moreno: Ow, my shorts! • 4 p.m. Football Scientist KC Joyner: Are you telling me ... that I just put an abnormal brain ... into a 7-foot tall ... 52-inch wide ... three hundred and fifty pound gorilla? • 10 p...
The Chiefs Like To Work It, Particularly In Towels
Anyway, First And 10 Inches brings us this clip from the show, featuring various Chiefs players displaying just how butch and alpha male an NFL locker room really is. Somebody should hire one of these guys for a fantasy football draft....
Behold The Upper Thigh Of Bill Simmons
We mean not to ruin your breakfast / brunch / 10:45 a.m. taco, but we weren't the only ones befuddled yesterday as to why Bill Simmons ran an extreme closeup picture of his leg hair....
Just When We Think The Yankees Are Out Of It, Someone Pulls Them Back In
Roger Clemens — you may remember him — is back in the news, having been arrested in a Minnesota restroom for soliciting sex from an undercover ... whoa, sorry. Let's back up. I've made a painful error; let's start over. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) threw six innings of two-hit ball against the Red Sox...
Start Collecting Pennies For Bonds' Ball
It might be time to start pouring some funds into your Paypal account, because Matt Murphy's auctioning off of Barry Bonds' 756th home run ball has begun. It's rather pricey....
Andy Rooney Is Quite Old
Editor's Note: Given our longstanding love of Andy Rooney — we remind you that we own every book Andy Rooney has ever written — we've been trying to avoid any discussion of his recent and now infamous baseball column all week. Alas, inertia has overtaken us. To save our broken heart, we decided to h...
I Can Haz Maps Of The Iraq, And Such As ... ?
We've had some fun at the expense of our friend Lauren Caitlin Upton, the Miss Teen South Carolina who mangled a beauty pageant question so completely on Friday that the entire world is talking about it. Such as. But now it seems some real good has come of all this. A new web site has launched, Maps...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m.. Morning Buzz: Have you noticed that ESPN's chat lineup is becoming less and less noticiable on their home page? • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: New slogan ... Excitement? You Bet Your Ass! • 2 p.m. Virginia Tech QB Sean Glennon...