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Leinart Responds To Party Photos
As you might have heard yesterday, USC quarterback Matt Leinart was spotted at NYC hotspot Marquee after finishing third in Heisman voting on Saturday night and according to the emailer who sent us the photos, he hit on a Texas woman — described as "one of the nicest people" by one of our commente...
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What you missed while inflating the giant, glowing, somewhat frightening front yard lawn Santa ... • NBA: Unstoppable Heat stifle Bucks as Riley goes to 2-0. We are so on this bandwagon. • NBA: Back from injury, Grant Hill leads Magic over Knicks. (Don't tell anyone, but it was a hernia). • NHL: Mar...
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What you missed while destroying your accordion with a shovel ... • NBA: Riley's coaching, Shaq's playing like a college kid, Bulls lose — it's like 1988 again! • NHL: Bertuzzi spends nearly entire match in penalty box as Cooke lead Canucks over Rangers. • College Basketball: DePaul exhibits stronge...
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What you missed while FINALLY finishing Thanksgiving leftovers ... • Monday Night Football: Falcons 36, Saints 17, and America yawns, because, you know, that whole hurricane empathy thing is so not in style anymore. • NBA: Kobe's 43 lead Lakers over Mavericks, forcing Mark Cuban to return to his bur...
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Your pants are on the roof and for some reason the cat is wearing lipstick. Good morning. We'll bring you up to speed ... • NFL: Colts beat Jaguars to go 13-0 and grab home field advantage. Word. • NHL: Sabres beat Wild as Martin Biron becomes first goalie to win 10 straight starts since 2002. Didn'...
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• Film: Codebreakers. You know, I think Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Taran Noah Smith might've been carrying Zachery Ty Bryan all those years on Home Improvement. My favorite part was when he called someone an "a-hole." • College basketball: Nevada 56, UCLA 67. UCLA gets the W, despite Nick Fazekas go...
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While I was trying to figure out a way to not feel like Carson Daly to Will's Conan O'Brien......
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What you missed when raccoons locked you in the cellar ... • College Basketball: UConn avoids repeat of last season's embarrassing upset (and by the way, you still owe us $20 on that one) by beating UMass 78-60. • NHL: Dissension reigns as Flightless Sea Fowl lose sixth straight, 5-0 to Minnesota. •...
"Really, Really Need Tickets"
If you've been on eBay at all, you know how expensive Rose Bowl tickets are getting. (They're running about $1,000-$1,200 a piece.)...
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What you missed while reading a book (don't let it happen again) ... • College Basketball: No. 1 Duke prepares for No. 2 Texas by beating Penn 72-59. You prepare by eating three helpings of nachos. • NBA: Suns beat Warriors for eighth straight win, a fact that would have slipped under your radar we'...
Keeping The Streets Safe From Waltons
Of all the celebrities who showed up at the USC-UCLA game last weekend, it must have been easy to miss Luke Walton, Lakers bit player and son of Big Bill Walton. But not for long. As reported by USC's From The Sidelines blog, the younger Walton was booted off the sidelines last weekend for not ha...
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What you missed while Googling yourself ... • College Basketball: Michigan State gives Dan Shaughnessy something to complain about today. (Actually: It was Bob Ryan.) • NBA: Jamal Crawford returns to hometown, helps Knicks beat SuperSonics. Well, his usefulness is at an end. • NHL: The Power of One:...
Get Your Defunct T-Shirts
We're not much for handicapping — or, for that matter, the Heisman Trophy in general, which lost most of its charm for us when they moved it from the Downtown Athletic Club after September 11 — but we have to say that if you're looking for a potential collector's item, you musn't look much farther...
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What you missed while wrapping Christmas pres ... hey, where's the cat? • Monday Night Football: Seahawks stomp Eagles 42-0. If this is parity, we'd like to see the alternative. • NBA: Brand's 37 points lead first-place Clippers over Heat. Yes, we said "first-place Clippers." We know. Odd. Now let's...
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What you missed while proposing ... • NFL: Giants beat Cowboys 17-10, unrealistically rasing your expectations once again. • NBA: Kobe clinches win with free throws as Lakers beat adorably named Bobcats. • College Basketball: It's in the hole! Dockery's 40-foot heave cleans Virginia Tech's clock....
Athlete Run-Ins: Messing With Cade
Today's first athlete run-in story comes to us just in time for the big UCLA-USC game this weekend (which would have been 10 times cooler had UCLA not gotten killed by Arizona earlier this year) and involves everybody's favorite Bears draft bust, Cade McNown. The teller is Joe Lederer from Long Be...
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What you missed while watching Dave and Oprah make out ... • NBA: Kobe fouls out, Lakers still beat Jazz in OT. There's a new sheriff in town. Say it with us: Sasha Vujacic. • College Basketball: Nick Fazekas leads Nevada over Kansas. The sentence you thought you might go your whole life without rea...
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What you missed while assembling the plastic tree (it'll be the merriest Christmas ever!) ... • Killingsworth Softly With His Song: Duke barely survives against Indiana in college hoops. • NBA: Knicks beat Bulls by nine — those 45 free throws they made may have played a role. • NHL: Sharks suffer 10...
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What you missed while playing "Zathura" ... • College Basketball: Illinois wins at North Carolina to avenge title-game loss. It's all downhill from here. • NBA: McGrady (we refuse to call him T-Mac) scores 25 to help Rockets end seven-game losing streak. • NHL: Lemieux returns, but Flightless Arctic...
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What you missed while playing with the brand new sonogram you bought ... • NFL: Colts trample Steelers 26-7 to go 11-0, setting up everyone for ultimate disappointment at some point in the near future. • NBA: Nuggets lose to Nets, Carmelo injured — is there really a reason to go on? • NHL: Jimmy How...