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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you work out some dance steps to "Sweet Shaun Alexander" ... • College Basketball: North Carolina State at Duke. Honestly, do people around here even realize that the Panthers are still playing football? [ESPN] • High School Basketball: Episcopal (Pa.) vs. Neumann-Goretti (Pa.), at ...

Leftovers: Es usted pollo, Estados Unidos?
• Castro talks a little World Baseball Classic trash. [Waveflux] • Someone showing sense for once: Hill eschews NFL, will stay at Fresno State. [MSNBC] • Duke set to match best start in 14 years, which is saying something. [News and Observer] • Marbury's 280-game streak may end — prompting '72 Dolph...

The Broncos' Secret Success Ratio
As evidenced by our 3-5 record of predicting playoff games so far (straight up, no spread), we're notoriously lousy at pigskin prognostication. It's not like this has been the easiest postseason to predict anyway; we can only think of one prediction system that would have led to a correct Steelers...

The Long Road Of Sean Payton
If you missed it, the New Orleans Saints hired Cowboys assistant head coach Sean Payton to be its new head coach. We feel somewhat uniquely qualified to discuss this hire, because, by pure happenstance, we've been following Payton's football career since we were about 10 years old....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize that you still have NetFlix, but haven't ordered a movie since 2002 ... • College Basketball: Illinois at Indiana. The Big Ten showdown we've been waiting for, although we will sorely miss Lou Henson's hair and Bobby Knight's sweater. [ESPN] • College Basketball: Charlot...

Leftovers: As the Norv Turns
• He's reached the Pacific Ocean, there's nowhere else to go — Norv Turner to 49ers as an assistant. [SFist] • Seahawks' Sean Locklear arrested, and you gotta admire his timing. [Seahawks Fan In Broncos Land] • Net fault: Roscoe Tanner gets two years in prison. [MSNBC] • After shamelessly flirting w...

Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Steve Serby
Yes, he once wrote that "if Tom Brady were a politician, he'd be JFK." OK, he once, on assignment at the 2001 Super Bowl, wrote an entire column off of radio quotes. OK, sure, he's at times jingoistic, hackneyed and wishy-washy. Yeah, yeah, it's true that Jets' quarterback Richard Todd once smacke...

The Final Wake Of Southeast Jerome
To, at last, close the book on our man Clinton Portis and all his press conference personas from the last year, the man himself has finally updated his personal Web site with a detailed timeline, with biographical sketches, of each fraction of his tortured soul....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch before you are sedated, tagged and relocated farther back into the woods ... • NBA: San Antonio at Memphis, Miami at L.A. Lakers. Could this be the episode where Shaq and Kobe finally kiss? [TNT] • College Basketball: Kansas at Missouri, Connecticut at Syracuse, Loyola Marymount at G...

Mo Vaughn, Still Pickin' 'Em Up And Settin' 'Em Down
We always liked former Red Sox first whaleman Mo Vaughn, if just because of his always-refreshing honest about where he spent his spare time: strip clubs. (We'll just say reporters always knew where to find him when they needed a quote.)...

NFL Playoff Roundup: One Big Idiot Kicker
• Ordinarily, we come down on the side of kickers, if just because we have much more of a physical resemblance to them than 350-pound ogre lineman. But it's pretty much impossible to feel much sympathy for Colts gakker Mike Vanderjagt, whose missed field goal yesterday was somehow the perfect endi...

To Watch Tonight...
• Golf: It's a two-man race between David Toms and Chad Campbell at the Sony Open. Golf would be a nice, zenful way for you to wind down this Sunday of football delirium....

Tom, Interrupted
I was curious about how Patriots fans would react to the loss last night, since they have so infrequently experienced that thing called losing. Understandably, not many Pats blogs have been updated. But a few of the diehards who realize the therapeautic nature of blogging did manage get some thoug...

To Watch Tonight...
• College Basketball: Pepperdine @ #7 Gonzaga. Because if it wasn't for college basketball, you'd never have the opportunity to say the words "Pepperdine" or "Gonzaga."...

Redskins vs. Seahawks - 4th Quarter
• Hey, a 52-yard gain by the Redskins. All on one play. They are serious about cracking that 200-yard barrier today....

Redskins vs. Seahawks - 3rd Quarter
• It's official... Shaun Alexander won't be returning. Perhaps I'm crazy, but this doesn't seem like that big of a negative for the Seahawks. The Redskins aren't going to let anyone run on them today, be it Shaun Alexander, Maurice Morris, or Curt Warner. Now, they've got to put the game in the ha...

Redskins vs. Seahawks - 2nd Quarter
• Damn... Seattle WR Darrell Jackson's return is also questionable. He took a knee in the back. Losing Darrell Jackson and Shaun Alexander in the first 15:00 of play is a nightmare scenario for the Seahawaks....

Redskins vs. Seahawks - 1st Quarter
• Twenty-seven straight days of rain in Seattle? That's just disgusting. The Seahawks better win, because between the rain and the presence of Tony Siragusa, half of the city's population is probably already on suicide watch....

Some Car Race Just Keeps Killing People
In the ninth stage of the Dakar Rally, an Australian motorcyclist named Andy Caldecott died in a crash....

Ah, the Joys of Baseball Trade Rumors
We're admittedly a little tingly about this rumored Abreu-for-Manny-for-Miggy scuttlebutt that's been tossed around, oh, the last couple months. As a Philly fan, it'd be easy to see the town completely embracing Ramirez. Granted, they'll get on him about that whole "hustle" thing, but the same com...