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Today In The Premiership...
Aston Villa 1-0 Everton. Not a great day for Everton... midfielder Tim Cahill was taken out on a stretcher, and they lost at home to Aston Villa despite dominating the play for long stretches of time. The extent of Cahill's injury isn't known just yet, but since a stretcher was required, the injur...
Hugh Johnson Project, Update 1
I slept late. What's the news on Corso's wang today? - Tuffy Rhodes...
Football Game Delays Vote Counting; You'll Never Guess Where
No more than 3,500 votes separate U.S. Rep Deborah Pryce and her democratic challenger, Mary Jo Killroy in the Ohio congressional race. There are still 18,000 absentee and provisional ballots to be counted. You'd think they might want to count those as soon as possible ... but they're not....
NBA Roundup: It's Much More Difficult For Kobe To Score His Number These Days
Notes from Friday's games in the National Basketball Association:...
For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure...
The Hugh Johnson Project is barreling into you this weekend like a linebacker into Joe Paterno's brittle kneecap. IM your college football thoughts, observations, and wise-ass remarks to DeadspinFootball on the AOL Instant Messenger. And I'm sorry if I can't get back to you... I'm busy organizing ...
About Last Night...
• College Basketball: (17) Marquette 76, Hillsdale 66. In the ESPN recap, "Hillsdale" is not clickable, and has no logo. Marquette beat them by 10. • NBA: Portland 92, NOOCH 91. Blowing a 27-point lead? That'll put some hair on your chest, Peja. • College Basketball: (1) Florida 79, Samford 54. I ju...
Week In Review: Rutgers Now, Rutgers Forever
• The Sportshuman Of The Year Tournament has begun! • JERSEY! • That's some wide receiver ass. • Everywhere you look, there's Ned. • If Dan Patrick isn't talking to you, he's a dick! • Chris, who let Christian Slater in here? • Hey, watch the dreads! • Drew Tate ... CLEVER! • To steal Drew's line, "...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch on the TV in the holding cell ... • College football: Texas-El Paso at Alabama at Birmingham. Both teams will be running faster than a hobo with a sweet potato pie (thanks Dan). [ESPN2] • Golf: HSBC Champions, third round, at Shanghai. Happy beautiful people's golf cooperative welcomes...
It Should Also Help With Crowd Impulse Control
Apparently, they've been running low on sperm in England, not just in general, but at the sperm banks. So, to make sure that any perspective sperm recipients receive the goods from the most intelligent, calm, rational donors possible, sperm banks are considering setting up shop right outside Premi...
Leftovers: Zook The Conqueror
• The Illini get the top wide receiver in the country? Really? [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] • What's the big deal if Michael Jordan isn't around Charlotte? [SI.com] • Craig Biggio, back in Houston, where he belongs. [Baseball Musings] • How screwed up is instant replay in college football? [Yahoo Sport...
Own Pac-Man's Car!
As anyone who has dealt with the difficult nature of car salesmen, you sometimes just don't know whom to trust. Fortunately, there's one place you know you can find a good deal on all your automobile needs: Buying cars that were once owned by troubled NFL players and have now been repossessed and ...
Cultural Oddsmaker: Wild Night At Rutgers
AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Email him to let him know what you think....
Cue The Sun!
We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions. We are tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, there's nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts, no cue cards. It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine. It's a ...
Five Tiny Tidbits On: The Atlantic Coast Conference
Thought we were done previewing things? How could you think that, with your NCAA Basketball Tournament office pool a mere five months away? You've got to start studying now if you want to crush all who laughed at your picks last year. So who's with me? Let's Gooo! Please send contributions to tips...
Blogdome: That Fibbing Candiotti
• Tom Candiotti? Full of hot gas. [Gelf] • A David Stern rule mashup. [Teapot Dome Scandal] • If Rasheed Wallace can't yell at the refs, he'll yell at the fans. [Need4Sheed] • The Pirates should screw over the Yankees in the bidding for Matsuzaka. [The Potash Experience] • Hey, Notre Dame ain't so b...
SI.com Is So Nuanced You'd Never Notice
Here are some stats for you, via CBS MarketWatch: SI.com has 7 million unique visitors a month, far behind ESPN's 20.4 million visitors. This is a rather large discrepancy — Yahoo and Fox Sports are ahead of SI as well — but one that SI.com doesn't worry too much about....
Who's Sorry Now? Adios Macaca Edition
It's Heartfelt Friday, three days following the elections, and never before have so many politicians been so terribly, terribly sorry. Chief among them is George Allen — son of the former Washington Redskins coach — who was riding high in the polls in August before an unfortunate turn of phrase sent...
NHL 94 Was More Complicated Than You'd Think
For those of a certain age, no video game had more cultural impact — and was played so often under the influence of MadDog 20/20 — than NHL '94. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not the game they're playing in Swingers; sadly, they had already eliminated the bleeding option by then, thus decreasi...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for todays ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. NCAA FB with Bruce Feldman: Great win, but BCS is saying: "Frankly Scarlet Knights, we don't give a damn." • 2 p.m. Boxing with Dan Rafael: What does it say about me if my opponent is wearing oven mitts? • 3 p.m.. Mid-majors w/Ky...
NBA Slogan Fever: We Love This CATCH IT!
We've always been amused by teams' dopey slogans for the season; the worst one we can remember is the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals' "Red Means Go." We have absolutely no idea what that means, and we sincerely tried....