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Doug Flutie's Daughter Is A Patriots Cheerleader, After Four Rejections
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Alexa Flutie found the fifth time's a charm....

Tiger's Former Mistress, Rachel Uchitel, Is "Almost Happy" Her Fiance Died On 9/11
"I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced." [New York Post, via Gawker]...

Your College Football Night Games Open Thread
Nine Top 25 teams play tonight, including a pair of Top 20 matchups....

Al Golden Bites His Tongue, Says Miami Suspensions Are Fair
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: despite all this, Golden would not rather be back at Temple....

BCS Head Says A Playoff Wouldn't Work Because When FCS Teams Do It, They Don't Sell Out
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Bill Hancock seems to forget that those are FCS school and no one cares to begin with....

As If Things Weren't Bad Enough For The Mets, R.A. Dickey Has Now Chosen To Dress Like Obi-Wan Kenobi
Of course, the Mets are now exploring reanimating Alec Guinness' corpse and signing him as a knuckleballer, too. [Photo via @RADickey43]...

Ed Hochuli Says The Beach Is *Flexes* THATAWAY
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: the muscliest of refs talks about the new rule changes....

This Evening: Brad Marchand Knows Kris Draper's Daughter Once Pooped In The Stanley Cup, Right?
Your p.m. roundup for Aug. 29, the day we first heard your college actually existed. Photo via Puck Daddy. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Jim Tressel On Terrelle Pryor: "Love Conquers All"
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Tressel will be spending his Saturdays at home for a while....

Somebody Thought Luke Walton Would Make A Good "Big Men" Coach
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: two NBA Championships can't be wrong....

Player Reacts To Getting Red Carded In Uruguay By Pimp-Slapping The Linesman
In a recent Uruguayan Primera Division match between the mighty Montevideo Wanderers and Danubio, Brazilian striker Diogo was issued a red card for kicking a foe, etc. Fair enough. However, Diogo apparently didn't take to kindly to somethingorother the "humble" linesman did, so Diogo give 'im a sm...

Adrian Peterson Is Enjoying A Favre-Less Camp
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today:...

Bay Area Radio Hosts Have Insane Solutions To Fan Violence
KNBR's Damon Bruce supports profiling for allowing fans into games. [UPDATE: Damon was very insistent that he never mentioned or intended a racial aspect to the profiling, and we'll take him at his word. So, keeping out races, no, keeping out thugs who just come to games to start trouble, yes.]...

Jerry Jones Denies Storming The Locker Room After One Half Of A Preseason Game
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: the Cowboys owner says he didn't get furious until after the entire Chargers game....

Go Forth And Spread The Good Word That Tim Tebow Is Essentially The Broncos' Fourth-String QB
"[O]ne highly knowledgeable member of the organization told me Monday, 'If everything was totally equal, and this were a competition based only on performance at this camp, Tebow would probably be the fourth-string guy. Kyle [Orton] is far and away the best, and Tebow's way behind [Brady] Quinn, too...

Derek Jeter And Tom Brady Were Awkward High School Boys Once
The SI Vault published 28 photographs of athletes from their high school yearbooks today. There are plenty of highlights—Brett Favre's mullet, Barry Bonds's jheri curl, and Mark McGwire's poignant senior quote, to name a few—but our personal favorites feature young, awkward Derek Jeter and young, aw...

Broncos 20:11 "And He Was Rebuked, And Had To Back Up Brady Quinn"
Says John Clayton: "The decision to have Brady Qunn ahead of Tim Tebow Saturday isn't permanent but it is a sign that Tebow had to pick up game to be Denver backup." Quinn went 10 of 16 for 130 yards, with a TD and a pick. Tebow went one of two, for ten....

In Retrospect, It's More Of A Shock That Tom Brady Wasn't An Uggs Spokesmodel Sooner
The Names Blog, brought to you by the Boston Globe, presents this image under the headline, "Brady looks rather manly in his new Ugg boots." Doesn't he though? ...

Jimmy Johnson Thinks Nevin Shapiro Is A Jock-Sniffing Wannabe Parasitic Scumbag
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: more name-calling for Nevin Shapiro....

The NFL "Fineable Offenses" List, As Interpreted By The Underpant Gnomes
Apparently, the National Football League distributed its "list of fineable offenses" to players and others today. Tweeted Vikings kicker Chris Kluwe, "Some scallywag decided to condense the list down," a comment accompanied by photography....