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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 ......

Ashley Cole Is A Charmer
David Hirshey writes regularly about soccer for Deadspin....

The Only Logical Thing To Wear To A Gymnastics Meet
As part of some sort of apparent fraternity hazing ritual at the University of Georgia, two guys showed up to a UGA-LSU gymnastics meet dressed like this....

Next All-Star Game, They Should Definitely Light Kovalchuk On Fire
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of The FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer....

About Last Night
What you missed while trying to ignore that letter from Hogwarts ... • NBA: 41 pickup ... No doubt about it, LeBron loves playing the Lakers. • Figure skating: Lysacek edges Weir for U.S. Figure Skating gold. Tiebreaker included a Zamboni race. • MLB: Erik Bedard is a Mariner! Or no, wait ... hmm. W...

Dick Questions For Coach Bob Huggins, Press *1 On Your Telephone Please
On Wednesday, Will told you about a group of pranksters who had successfully crashed some SEC women's basketball coaches' teleconference. On Thursday, Steinz informed the masses that the Big East men's coaches had been hit. On Friday, The Big Lead posted the audio. God, I love the Internets!...

Whoa! I Can't Even Tell Them Apart!
Tyler Pratt — um, pictured left — sent a photo of himself in to some Patriots look-alike contest saying people tell him he looks like Tom Brady. Apparently, Tyler Pratt works in a cave ... with blind people ... who are horrible fuckin' liars....

For Your Sunday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure
• 1:00 — NBA: Celtics at Magic [ABC] • 1:00 — College Basketball: Michigan at Michigan State [CBS] • 1:00 — Varsity Blues [TBS] • 2:00 — Winter X Games: Skiing, snowboarding [ESPN2] • 2:00 — Bowling: USBC Queens [ESPN2] • 2:00 — Caddyshack II [VS.] • 2:30 — Face/Off [USA] • 3:00 — Golf: PGA Tour Bui...

Skeets's Dad's Featured Comment Of The Day
J.E. Skeets called his father this morning to hear his clever, bold, always enlightening comments, and chose this one above all others to share with you ......

About Last Night
What you missed while changing your Facebook status ... a lot ... • NHL: Ovechkin "strikes out" in SuperSkills' breakaway challenge. • NBA: Bzzzzzzz ... Hornets sting Spurs by 24 to take the top spot in the West. • Tennis: Djokovic imitates Djokovic winning the Australian Open....

Skeets's Dad's Featured Comment Of The Day
J.E. Skeets called his father this morning to hear his clever, bold, always enlightening comments, and chose this one above all others to share with you ......

You Can't Stop Garnett, You Can Only Hope A Sniper's Shot Slows Him Down
The NBA Closer is written by me, J.E. Skeets, high leader of Canada. When I'm not busy scouring the box scores or part-time modeling, I can be heard on The Basketball Jones daily podcast with some Greek. Enjoy!...

So, Um, Yeah, About Last Night
What you missed while pissing mediocrity ... • NBA: Kobe's 40 not enough to beat Mavs. 48 would've done the trick though. • Golf: Tiger leads Buick by four-strokes at 12-under. *Silent pump fist* • Tennis: Sex sells ... and wins. Sharapova claims her third Grand Slam title with a 7-5, 6-3 victory ov...

Saying Goodbye To Mike Alstott
It might come as a surprise to some of you that Buccaneers "fullback" Mike Alstott has retired. The surprise, of course, is that he didn't retire years ago; we hadn't noticed him the last couple of years either....

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

The Greatest College Basketball Chant - Ever
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming The Floor....

Hey, Look, Dana Jacobson's Having Some Fun
So ... here's a fun picture. That's Dana Jacobson. Having fun. (Baseball Musings found the photo.)...

About Last Night
What you missed while driving to a seedy area of town to try and score some Hershey's mints ... • College basketball: Love will find a way. UCLA 80, Oregon 75. • NBA: 15 Strong ... I hope you aren't shocked by the news that the Heat lost again. San Antonio 90, Miami 89. • Tennis: A win so big you ca...

Tony Romo Thinks He Can Do Better
Good news, fellows ... Jessica Simpson may soon be available. So for Heaven's sake start wearing collared shirts! (Preferably popped.) Word is that Tony Romo would like to dump her ... only she's not going easily. Hmm. Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction comes to mind here for some reason....

Stephen A. Smith Is Serious About This Blogging Business
After we helped introduce the planet to Stephen A. Smith's blog (and then watched in horror as it got way too ugly in there), Stephen A. came out today and let everybody know that he plans on blogging his fingers off. In an interview with Philadelphia Magazine ... wait ... oh our gorsh ... he's talk...