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Denver Nuggets Do Not Feel Remorse Or Pity
The Nuggets beat the Hornets by 58 points last night, tying an NBA record for heartless cruelty. Why do you make them hit you like that, New Orleans? [ProBasketballNews; Denver Stiffs]...

Chris Bosh, Shaq on Brink Of Twitter Armageddon
Shaq lights up the Raptors for 45 points and 11 boards last night and is thoroughly convinced that he could be that productive every night if gets "touches like that." Chris Bosh has another theory....

How To Score 11 Game-Winning Points In 46 Seconds
Everyone who has ever played organized sports has that one moment of athletic glory they will never let anyone forget about, but I think Spencer Krhin's memory is going to be better than most....

Nate Robinson Is Cal Naughton Jr.
So the Knicks' Nate Robinson apparently has some sort of man-crush on Will Ferrell, and I guess who can blame him? I mean, have you seen Elf?...

Fifty Ways To Lose Your NBA Game
Dwyane Wade's career-high 50 points help Heat clobber Magic in ... wait, Miami lost by 23? Ouch. [Miami Herald]...

Reggie Miller Thinks Knicks Fans Have Gone Soft
The "MVP" chants and the standing ovation Kobe received after his 61-point performance at MSG Monday night didn't set well with former Knick heel Reggie Miller....

Kobe Scores Madison Square Garden-Record 61 Against, Um, Wait A Minute ...
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Video of Melo's 33 In The Third
"When the Q was all said and done, Anthony's barrage read like so: 12-15 from the field, 4-5 from behind the arc and 5-6 from the charity stripe. During one stretch, 'Melo hit eight straight shots and scored 26 straight Denver points." [Ball Don't Lie]...

ESPN Creates Poker Drama, Then Spoils It For Everyone
ESPN has spent months building up to tonight's broadcast of the final table of the World Series of Poker. They even convinced organizers to take an unprecedented 117-day break before settling the final table so that they could broadcast a "plausibly live" show tonight, just hours after the champion ...

Hey, My Celebration Looked A Lot Like That
Michael Bertin writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin. There's only one person to blame for ruining Arsenal's 2-1 victory over United on Saturday: Wolfgang Puck. The catering arm of his food empire served the conference I was at last Thursday, the pains in my stomach a couple of hours after lun...

Morning Blogdome: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Rays fans get their first taste of postseason disappointment: Better get used to it, young one. [Big League Stew] That'll super-secure the cowboy vote: Richard Petty, Richard Childress and Cowboy Troy will become the most famous celebrities in the world to back the McCain/Palin ticket today at Lowe'...

Bob Costas Thinks You're A Loser
Some of you out there might like Bob Costas. Some of you might not. We've always been partial to the guy, not just because he's a St. Louis guy, and not just because he did the intro to the final episode of "Cheers," though that certainly helps. Costas is an obviously intelligent guy, if a bit smugg...

ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......

ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its wittiest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......

What One Man Can Possibly Overcome
This is Darrell Mack, star running back for Utah, which plays in something called the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl tomorrow night against Navy. We've heard all kinds of stories about athletes overcoming hardships to succeed on grand stages, but, man, this guy, we have no idea how he...

Inmate Sues Schrutebag For "Ear Poisoning"
We know we said that we weren't gonna mention the Schrutebag anymore. But we're afraid circumstances today make it impossible to avoid. We apologize....

Overtime and Gambling Make Wonderful Bedfellows
Since there's way too much going on in the NFL for me to get caught up in wordy prose I'm going to switch it up to a bullet point format. It's creative, it's original, and nobody's ever done it before! • Why can't our country produce fifteen people capable of providing the play-by-play for football ...

Todd Collins and the Early NFL Action
The Flying Mottram Brothers over at Mister Irrelevant posted a rather odd Todd Collins tribute video they found on the U-tubes and it just happened to include a picture of the rookie card you see pictured. I mention this not for any particular reason, I just remember coming across this card many yea...

No Need to Wait For Heisman Results
Why slog through the pre-packaged Heisman presentation show at 8 pm when you can just check the exit polls? It's not as if you'll wait for your November 3rd newspaper to find out who won the presidential election, you'd just check the exit polls. Fortunately a website out there in the vast internet...

The Eagles Are HUGE Underdogs Sunday
We were pretty amazed to read this this morning: Apparently Sunday night's Patriots-Eagles game has the biggest spread in NFL history. (Well, not exactly: They're not counting expansion teams, for some reason; the Buccaneers were 24-point underdogs to the Steelers in their first season, and lost 42-...