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Jackson State Tigers
1. Sweetness. Jackson's State's most famous graduate is, of course, the great Walter Payton. It is a little known fact that his brother, Eddie Payton, is the head golf coach of the Tigers and has built them into a powerhouse in the golf crazy SWAC....
Texas Longhorns
1. Kevin Durant. The lanky six-foot-nine freshman phenom is averaging 25 points and 11 rebounds a game and has led this team of toddlers— the No. 15 Longhorns started the season with four fish and a sophomore— to its eighth consecutive 20-win season. In their Feb. 28 double-overtime victory over the...
Washington State Cougars
1. Worst to, well, second. Without question, Washington State was the single most surprising team in a BCS conference this year. Coming off a last-place finish last season, and with Tony Bennett taking over as a first-time head coach from his father, Dick Bennett, the media picked Washington State a...
UCLA Bruins
1. White guys from Orange County, brah! A lot of people make a big deal out of the fact that UCLA has 2 Cameroonians, a Canadian and a Serbian pimp (Facebook pictures don't lie) on the roster. That's just fine and dandy, but in all seriousness, what college team doesn't have a full UN committee on t...
Michigan State Spartans
1. Drew Me Baby One More Time. Use both hands, please If you can overlook the disturbing visual similarities between Drew Neitzel and Britney Spears (she just wanted to look like him). There's a lot to appreciate about the Spartans leader. When he was 12, Drew won the national 2-ball championshipm w...
USC's Grand Week Continues
You'd have to consider OJ Mayo an extremely unlikely candidate to launch a white supremacy website, but that doesn't mean the much-heralded USC basketball recruit can't find another way to get into trouble. Mayo was busted for misdemeanor marijuana possession last night in Huntington, West Virginia....
Rasheed Wallace Cannot Be Made To Care
After you pick up 16 technical fouls in one NBA season, each technical foul thereafter earns you a one-game suspension. You'll never guess who became the first player to be suspended via that rule ... oh, hell, I'll just tell you. 'Twas Rasheed Wallace....
Cultural Oddsmaker: What Comes After Shaq Fat Camp?
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
Give Us Your Hand. Give Us Your Hand.
Couldn't you like us just us the way we are? When we first started out, it was so good; We had fun. And then you started in on the clothes. Well, we'll wear the darn clothes if you want us to, if, if you'll just like us....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. NBA Insider Chris Sheridan: Can you use your magical Insider powers to get me a hot dog from the hospitality room? • 2 p.m.. New Mexico's Quincy Black: Did I just pay $39.95 to find out that Black "has good speed, but poor techn...
You Have No Idea How Hard It Is Not To Make A "Pokey" Joke
This, friends, is Pokey Chatman, who, until about 16 hours ago, was one of the most successful young coaches in women's college basketball, leading her LSU Tigers into the NCAA tournament and earning the respect of her peers. Now, though, she's decidedly less than that: Now she's a disgraced former ...
USC Full Of White Power Bills
On the list of Poor Internets Decisions By High-Profile College Athletes, we have to say, starting up a Facebook group devoted to "White Power" as a "joke" has to be rather high up there....
Not A Gift You'd Give To A Tigers Pitcher
So, you're a huge fan of your team, so much so that you'd like to spend eternity in their warm embrace, but you also insist that you be cremated at death, so as not to attract worms, Jay Mariotti and other underground dwellers. That is to say, This is not an option....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 10 a.m. Boxer Wladimir Klitschko: How many Rocky IV jokes can one man endure? • 1 p.m. Iowa TE Scott Chandler: How many ice silos did you climb this morning? • 2 p.m. ESPN.com's Greg Garber: Congratulations, you're the new ESPN ombudsm...
Sean Salisbury Finds Someone He Can Pay To Honor Him
We'd like to formally congratulate ESPN NFL "analyst" Sean Salisbury on his most recent honor: His high school is retiring his jersey number....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: Who can do more situps, you or Udonis Haslem? • 1 p.m. Tennis with Peter Bodo: Are you the only writer that Ron Borges hasn't "borrowed" from? • 2 p.m. Colorado kicker Mason Crosby: About how far do you thi...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Baseball with Rob Neyer: Will Sosa find a way to actually inject steroids into his bat? • 2 p.m. NASCAR with Terry Blount: Did you see UNC's Tyler Hansbrough upside down and on fire on Sunday? • 4 p.m. NCAA MBB w/Doug Gottlieb: A...
Baseball Season Preview: Kansas City Royals
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA MBB with Andy Katz: Ever take an elbow to the face while rebounding? A knee to the face? Ever get a rebound? • 3 p.m. Notre Dame's Derek Landri: Any regrets at missing by one year the opportunity to annihilate Jimmy Clausen ...
NBA Roundup: From Now On We Call It Nashville
Notes on Sunday's games in the National Basketball Association ......