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Is This Man Your Next Denver Broncos Coach?
The ink wasn't dry on Mike Shanahan's honorable discharge before Broncos owner Pat Bowlen set the wheels in motion to find a new coach. The leading candidates: Bob Stoops and three others....
LeBron's New Shoes Are Apparently an Aphrodisiac
So, Nike has released the latest ad for LeBron James's line of shoes, and it features Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussy Cat Dolls. If you're the kind of person who has always longed for a hoops-based soft core porn movie, today's your lucky day, partner. ...
Boston College Linebacker Is Indeed Breakable
Boston College linebacker Brian Toal is a tough guy. He's had a rough college career filled with injuries, but the redshirt senior will not be beaten. Some—like the Boston Globe—might even say he's unbreakable, as they helpfully remind us on today's front page. Right next to the story about his brok...
Prop Odds On Sarah Palin's Puck Dropping Skills
I think what I admire most about America — after our vast interstate highway system and the existence of fried elephant ears — is that you can literally bet on anything. The thing I admire most after that, is that a vice-presidential candidate could appear at professional hockey game in Philadelphia...
Sarah Palin's Pucksterism Comes to Flyers Opening Night
Yesterday the Philadelphia Flyers announced that a special guest will drop the ceremonial first puck for their home opener against the New York Rangers Saturday night and it's none other than everyone's favorite moose killer, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Although Palin has no direct ties...
Sooners Rumble Like It's 1958
Anyone who monitors police scanners — I'm talking to you, Iracane — knows those five little words that will cause you to grab your coat and run out to your car: "Knives, guns and tire irons." They are the Iron Chef ingredients of a delicious bar fight, as was witnessed in Norman, Okla., on Saturday ...
Great Moments in Confused Skydiving
The Tar Heels football program planned to kick off their season in style yesterday. UNC hired a pair of skydivers to descend from above and deliver the game ball prior to their match-up with McNeese State. Fans and organizers waited in breathless anticipation for their arrival. Only the skydivers ne...
College Football Previews: #4 Oklahoma
Today's preview of the #4 team in all the land is brought to us by Rohit Joshi, a senior majoring in business at OU. Yep, he's still in college, getting ready for the start of college football season while we're all cranking out billable hours on document review. Life is fair. He says job solicitat...
Antonio Margarito Is More Machine Than Man
He's also the new welterweight champion of the world after a stunning 11th round stoppage over previously undefeated superstar Miguel Cotto. And let me just say, holy fucking shit! That was a fight was one of the finest displays of boxing I've ever seen, and it's the unquestionable choice for Fight...
Worst Getaway Attempt Ever
UFC champ-turned-whack-a-mole Quinton "Rampage" Jackson got himself into a bit of trouble on Tuesday, fleeing the scene of an accident, evading police, and then being arrested at gunpoint by Newport Beach police. Not only was our protagonist riding on rims at the end of the pursuit, but another stic...
What Not To Do With A Championship Trophy
Yep, the Chiefs won their Canadian Hockey League title and then promptly dropped and broke the trophy. They were booed for it, but man, if this ever happens to the Stanley Cup, fans will tear the place apart. (Lil Jon will be first in line.) We've always wondered when something like this would happe...
Blogs are a digital sweatshop. It says so right in the lede. Plus, three bloggers have died in the last few months of heart-related conditions, which only supports the claim because it's not like heart disease is the leading cause of death in America or anything. No, it's actually rickets. And blogg...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch instead of attending the NASCAR race ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Bobby "Dave Coulier" Pacquiao vs. Urbano "Smelling Salts" Antillon; heavyweights, Tye "Mrs." Fields vs. Josue "Hemophiliac" Blocus, at Las Vegas (9 p.m., ET) [Versus] • College basketball: Big East Conference quarterfinal...
Team Building In Ohio
We played freshman football in high school, though we were the third-string split end on a team that never ran any pass plays. (In practice, we were constantly told to "go downfield, find the safety and try to block him.") We are glad we were in relatively sedate Mattoon playing football rather than...
Shred All You Want, They'll Make More
New Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez isn't the only one out there shredding papers with reckless abandon; some overzealous Packers fans are getting into the act....
Greg Paulus Flops Like A Champion
If you needed any more proof that Duke will always, always be Duke, here's the egregious flops from Duke's Greg Paulus during last night's Duke-Florida State game....
The Stars Come Out For The Australian Open
For the majority of her yearly tournament appearances, 17-year-old Austrian tennis star Tamira Paszek manages to keep the twins indoors, as they say. (OK, no one says that but me). But when the Australian Open rolls around, things change. She's out there, Jerry! And she's lovin' every minute of it...
Something For The Grizzlies Fan Who Has Everything
So here's pretty much the funniest thing you'll see all day. We didn't know this, but apparently, in a certain region of Spain, it's tradition to put a tiny figurine of a peasant excreting in the nativity scene for Christmas. We're not sure why that is, but it kind of makes us want to visit that reg...
Searching For Comedy In The Muslim World
Hmmm. I thought Bush said that the U.S. doesn't torture?...
NASCAR Fans Are Apparently Contagious
We've never been to a NASCAR race, but we imagine their big drunken vats of fun. We think it would be a grand time. The House Homeland Security Committee apparently doesn't agree ... unless they've gotten their shots, anyway....