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Ron Zook: Pissing Intensity
Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to [email protected] . Subject : Morning crap Unfortunately, all the gnashing, in-your-face, R.Lee Ermey-ness of this Zook moment wasn't enough to motivate his Illini squad on Saturday. The alma mater of the former floppy-ha...
SNF: Can Philly Get Over The Hump In The NFC East?
People continually point to the NFC East as pro football's best division, and they should. Theso-called "Black and Blue" division features four well-run organizations with rabid fanbases and a clear priority set on not only winning on the field, but running their teams better than anyone else in th...
Your Last NFL Update: The Autumn Wind Is Named Tuiasosopo
Carolina 14, Oakland 6, 4th Quarter. Jake Delhomme's four picks have kept this a one-score game. But the Raiders haven't been able to punch it in and have settled for a couple Janikowski field goals. DeAngelo Williams has 105 yards rushing, including a 69-yard touchdown run. Andrew Walter rolled his...
To Watch Tonight: This (Almost) Concludes Our Broadcast Day
What to watch while preparing for a good night's sleep before your big Buttcrack Summit... • Something of a Theme: Beer for My Horses (7:00 pm ET) [CMT] and "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road" (7:30 pm ET) [COM] - We may not have to hear The King's English all night. • Movie: The Cable Guy...
Feet Shouldn't Be Pointing That Way
Thanks to PFT who finally found an embeddable video of the gruesome leg injury suffered by the Vikes' Charles Gordon. If you've eaten within the last hour, you may want to pass on this for now. There's no update on Gordon's status, but one could make the assumption after viewing that his season — at...
World Series of Poker Resuscitated by ESPN Cameras
ESPN's gambit to shut down the World Series of Poker for four months to give them time to pump up the nine participants at the final table (and position the final table action in a better time slot and month for them) seems to have paid off, with ratings up on the shows leading up to the main event'...
NFL Update 4: Your 4 PM Updates And 1 PM Finals
Pittsburgh 14, Indianapolis 7. The Steeler defense has been fucking with Peyton Manning's world in a most beautiful way. Their coverage and pressure have been sublime, and Reggie Wayne just came up limping after making a first down catch. Aside from a missed tackle that led to a long Reggie Wayne TD...
Diamondbacks Lay Off Dozens of Employees (Not Including Adam Dunn)
The purge of off-field employees has started in earnest this Credit Crunch offseason, with the Arizona Diamondbacks releasing 31 employees (around 10% of the entire front office), mostly from the broadcast side of the business as a result of selling all their games to Fox Sports Arizona. Yet again, ...
NFL Update 3: Let's Hear It For Relocated Ligaments!
The one thing I don't understand about the NFL's weekly schedule: Why have 42 games at 1 o'clock and then just three games at 4 o'clock? Are the late games there purely for adding more hours of football to the day? The matchups are typically better (though probably not this week), which would entice...
Afternooon Blogdome: Just a Little Off the Top
• Keeping it all in the family in Boston could lead to skimming "foam" off the top of beer sales at Fenway. (The foam is your money.) [Fenway West] • Speaking of the Red Sox, will the New York Times be forced to give up its share of the Boston baseball club to cover its debts? [Squawking Baseball] •...
NFL Update 2: It's A Brett Favre Nation
New York Jets 40, St. Louis 3, 3rd Q. This game is pretty much over. The wisdom of Pro Football Prospectus tells us that kicking the shit out of crappy teams can be a better indicator of talent than winning close games against good teams. That's good news for the Jets, and this game can also serve ...
HS Championship Game Delayed Due to Lack of Referees
Sure, game officials are the bane of existence and they're all out to cheat for the other team and they're incompetent and corrupt and love being the center of attention and cause eczema in laboratory rats. However, unless someone figures out how to call their own 12-men-on-the-field penalties, you ...
NFL Update 1: Cassel Smash!
New England 10, Buffalo 3, 2nd Q. Matt Cassel ran for a TD and they're driving down the field to get another score as the half winds down. The Pats' leading rusher is BenJarvus Green-Ellis, and yes, that's the name of only one person. Baltimore 7, Houston 3, 2nd Q. Sage Rosenfels has already thrown ...
Freddie Mitchell Wants To Put His Meat In Your Mouth
We have a Freddie Mitchell sighting: the former Eagles wideout is now the new owner of Brothers ' Bar-B-Q in Lakeland, Florida. No word on whether he plans to have a replica wrestling championship belt over the facade of the building. The former first-round pick hasn't played since the Eagles lost t...
Speedo's Olympic Success Leads to Financial Dilemma for Universities
The theory of trickle-down economics got an Urban Dictionary-style redefinition after the Summer Olympics in August after watching approximately 312,847,708 world records mutilated in the Water Cube, thanks in large part to wearing new LZR Racer suits from Speedo. Now, of course, collegiate and high...
NFL WEEK 10, Scratches, Coverages, Storylines For Your 1 PM Games
Jacksonville (3-5) at Detroit (0-8), 1 pm. Daunte Culpepper will be getting the start at Ford Field today, less than his week after signing with the Lions as an insurance policy for Dan Orlovsky's thumb injury. That policy is already being cashed in, and this time we can't blame Matt Millen. The big...
For Your Viewing Pleasure: Is This How You Kids Go Hawaiian?
• 12:00 — Biography: Donny and Marie Osmond [BIO] - "Well, you might like to hear some accordion; make that squeezebox swing." (This is our way to suggest that perhaps this is the day to clean out the eaves if you're not a fan of the football.) • 12:00 — Sport: Tennis - Sony Ericsson Championships, ...
Morning Blogdome: And Pennzoil Sponsored the Honeymoon
• Carl Edwards will have his main sponsor, Office Depot, create his wedding invitations using Office Depot wedding invitation stock. Now that's devotion to a sponsor that his bride-to-be will appreciate only after seeing that first check she officially owns half of. (And for the record: if you value...
Have You Burned Your Former Head Coach In Effigy Lately?
We didn't get to this yesterday, but anything involves college students and fire is usually good copy for the next day. Some of the LSU peeps got together for what looked like a bonfire with a set of clothes as a centerpiece. But it was actually a burning in effigy of former LSU head coach Nick Saba...
Roy Jones, Jr.'s Boxing Future Annulled by Calzaghe
Joe Calzaghe fluttered Roy Jones, Jr. with a million love taps and took a unanimous decision at MSG over the man who seemed to have married into the Pound-for-Pound-Champion clan in the late 90s as it seemed to become his surname. That divorce is final as Calzaghe, 36, recovered from a bit of a surp...