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The First Rule Of Pillow Fight Club: Do Not Talk About Pillow Fight Club
"Pillow fights were different in my day," said the old man, his wrinkled features revealing the memories. "We didn't have these modern synthetic pillows, or neck pillows with lumbar back support. We used the real thing, with feathers! Yeah, sometimes they'd bust open. But that was the chance you too...
This Week In Soccer: At Last, Consequences For Taking A Dive
Marco Borriello is a soccer player for Milan who recently failed a drug test following a match with Roma, but had a very interesting excuse in his defense. You've heard of accidentally testing positive for banned substances by eating a poppyseed muffin, or taking cough medicine? Well, take a look at...
Ice Jumping Seems To Be Rather Important In Norway
As you might have suspected, we do not speak Norwegian; we're not even that fluent in Swedish Chef. So we're going from a rough translation here, but apparently a Norwegian women's ski jumping team is in trouble for punishing poor jumps by punching the offender in the face....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after your plans to jog around the globe hit a snag ... • College men's basketball: Massachusetts at Xavier [ESPN]; Wake Forest at Duke. You know, an enterprising thief could rob Krzyzewskiville blind tonight ... [ESPN2] • NBA: Indiana at Miami; L.A. Lakers at Dallas. Let's see how man...
Deadspin's Heading To Miami And Looking For Direction
As we've mentioned before, AJ Daulerio — whom we hear is the balls — will, for the second consecutive year, be covering the Super Bowl for us, and we couldn't be more excited. (We're not going ourselves; we don't handle sunlight well.) The guy's got an expense account, a laptop and a penchant for ge...
The Tony Romo Kama Sutra
In a disturbing and undeniably amusing listing of the top 50 new sexual positions, the Phat Phree comes up with a novel one: The Tony Romo....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you repeat to yourself it's just a show, I should really just relax ... • College basketball: North Carolina at Clemson [ESPN]; Illinois at Minnesota. [ESPN2]. Half of these teams are going to the NIT. And we think they're in the same conference. Sigh. • NBA: L.A. Lakers at San Anto...
Kwame Brown Has No Concerns About Excess Flour Intake
Sometimes, we just don't have to say anything, other than, well, this must have been what Michael Jordan had in mind when he drafted him....
More Reasons To Avoid Super Bowl Commercials
The New York Daily News reported yesterday that portly pop diva Britney Spears — known as third from the left on the music evolutionary chart, with Hillary Duff on the far left and Courtney Love on the far right — was turned down by the NFL Network when she approached them about appearing in a Super...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you are unable to leave the presence of your 50-inch flat screen, even to go to work, or bathe ... • College men's basketball: Iowa at Indiana; Kentucky at South Carolina. Do not doubt your 2006 NIT champion Gamecocks. [ESPN] • NHL: Columbus at Chicago. Calling all Jacket Backers! R...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you relunctantly put your pants back on ... • College basketball: Marquette at Louisville; Missouri at Kansas; Gonzaga at Saint Mary's. Omar Samhan will smash you, and we mean it. Anybody want a peanut? [ESPN] • NBA: Phoenix at Memphis; Miami at Los Angeles Lakers. Wait ... TNT Mond...
To Watch Tonight...
• College Football. Hula Bowl. Sort of like the Pro Bowl, but less exciting. 8:30, ESPN. • Golf. Sony Open in Hawaii, Final Round. That 16-year-old Fujikawa cat was at -7, tied for 8th heading into today. 7:00, Golf Channel. • College Basketball. Admire the handsome golden locks of Chase Budinger. O...
To Watch Tonight...
• NFL Playoffs. Philadelphia Eagles @ New Orleans Saints. Ah, what the hell, I'll stick around. 8:00, FOX. • College Hockey. Bowling Green @ Nebraska-Omaha. Quick vote. Should we liveblog this, or the football game? 8:00, CSTV. • College Basketball. Georgetown @ Pittsburgh. At least the city of Pitt...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize a major life moment has become part of an episode guide... • Boxing: Cornelius (Pass the Advil) Bundrage vs. Chris (Zucchini Bread) Smith, at Tacoma, Wash. [ESPN2] • Golf: PGA Tour, Sony Open, second round, in Honolulu. Wie is dead. Long live The Donald! [The Golf Channe...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while thinking you picked the wrong week to give up amphetamines ... • College men's basketball: St. John's at Seton Hall; Memphis at Houston. Let's rock Hofheinz Pavilion, homies! [ESPN] • Golf: PGA Tour, Sony Open, first round, at Honolulu. If loving Andrew McLardy is wrong, then we ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you make voodoo dolls of Paypal employees • College basketball: Pittsburgh at DePaul; Oklahoma State vs. Kansas. Superman in attendance to support his Jayhawks alma mater. [ESPN2] • College basketball: Duke at Georgia Tech. Let's count all the fun ways the GT student section misspel...
NBA Roundup: Acht Du Lieber! Mavs On A Tear
Notes on Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......
To Watch Tonight
What to watch now that mankind has broken the 100-inch LCD TV barrier ... • College basketball: Arkansas at Florida; Ohio State at Wisconsin. Marching toward that inevitable Florida-OSU Final Four matchup. [ESPN] • College basketball: West Virginia at Notre Dame; LSU at Alabama. Darris Nichols is no...
The Tony Romo Playoff Action Figure
OK, so seriously, the guy has suffered enough ... you saw how bad he looked after that game ... cut him some slack ... he's a young kid who screwed up ... he's having a difficult enough time ... he's just devastated ... aw, see, now this auction is just wrong....
We Can't Imagine What He Thought She Did Wrong
In a quiet piece of news that has received a strange lack of notice, Cowboys wide receiver / cutter Terrell Owens fired his publicist Kim Etheredge yesterday....