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How Much Does NFL Seeding Really Matter?
This is Regressing, a new, numbers-minded column by our clever friends at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective. Today: Why it's good to be king of the regular season....

Quit Wasting Money On Rims
Turner Sports launched CharlesBarkley.com today. It's mildly entertaining as a whole, but it's much funnier to narrow it down to the Round Mound's best single lines. Today in Barkley wisdom: stop buying rims....

Blake Griffin Doesn't Need To Adjust; The Game Must Adjust To Him
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: Griffin wants to stick with what's been working....

Eli Manning Wants Plaxico Back
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: one way the Giants could avoid shooting themselves in the foot....

See? Not All Footballers Are Cheating, Diving BLAH, BLAH, BLAHs
This bloody lovely bit of sportsmanship happened last Saturday when Havant & Waterlooville were playing Boreham Wood in the Blue Square South....

Dozens Of Female Athletes Suspended For (Accidental) Locker Room Photos
The Lady Broncos teams at Falls High School are suffering a temporary loss of (wo)manpower after athletes in hockey, basketball, track and field, volleyball and cheerleading were suspended for taking pictures in the locker room. Easy now....

Mark Sanchez And The Phantom Booger
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: Sanchize clears up snotgate....

Arian Foster Is Humble, But Also Wouldn't Mind A Giant New Contract
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: Foster might be the best RB, but isn't paid like it....

Former Packer: "Jay Cutler's Tampon Fell Out On National TV"
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: Greg Koch was unimpressed with Cutler's toughness....

All The Nut Shots Fit To Print
This is Regressing, a new, numbers-minded column by our clever friends at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective. Today: What injuries got the most press in 2010?...

Caleb Hanie Also Quit — On His Mustache
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 third-string hero might've earned himself a promotion to backup....

This Isn't How You're Supposed To Lift A Guy On A Stretcher
I don't know who this player is or how he hurt himself, but I do know this video is about five Leslie Nielsen movies rolled into one. [Via Twitter]...

British Soccer Commentators Accused Of Harboring "Appalling And Damaging Sexist Attitudes"
Sky Sports' Andy Gray and Richard Keys apparently didn't realize their mics were on prior to yesterday's match between Liverpool and Wolverhampton....

Buddy Ryan Can't Tell His Sons Apart
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: Buddy's proud of his little boys....

Women Are Getting Topless In <em>Tiger Woods PGA Tour</em>
A British woman says her user-created golfer randomly teed up sans shirt. EA says the game must've been hacked. You can take Tiger off the cover, but you can't keep his sensibilities out of the game. [The Sun (NSFW), via Wired Playbook]...

Phil Jackson: "The Heat Won't Get By Boston"
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: Jackson's not worried about Miami's Big Three....

Peyton Hillis Is OK With Being Called Chuck Norris
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 life of a white running back....

Smart People Talk About <em>Sports Illustrated</em>'s 1968 Series About Black Athletes
On Monday, we excerpted from Jack Olsen's 1968 Sports Illustrated series, "The Black Athlete—A Shameful Story." Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast discusses those stories with one of Olsen's subjects, Donald Smith (now Zaid Abdul-Aziz). Go listen....

Aaron Rodgers Already Signed Stuff For Cancer Lady, So Can We Drop This Story?
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: Rodgers sets the record straight, once and for all....

Tom Brady Didn't Sleep Well Last Night, On His Pile Of Money Next To A Supermodel
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: Brady still claims the Jets didn't get to him....