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To Watch Tonight
Hey, get over to the sofa. That TV isn't going to watch itself ... • College Basketball: Notre Dame at Alabama. Irish's first-ever trip to Coleman Coliseum should at least be good for a few laughs. [ESPN] • College Basketball: Penn at Duke; Saint Louis at North Carolina. What is a Billiken? Tar Heel...
Athlete Run-In: Where There Is Tom, There Is Tara
Today's final athlete run-in story is timely, because it involves current Sports Illustrated Sportsman Of The Year Tom Brady. We've documented Brady's nightlife exploits before, but this one has an even more fun addition: Tara Reid! From Scott in Kansas City:...
Leftovers: Black Sunday
• Evidently NFL bookies took it in the shorts on Sunday. It's at times like these that we miss Oddjack more than ever. [MSNBC] • NASCAR OKs $4.48 billion deal with four networks. Cooter and Billy Ray celebrate with beer and chicken wings. [The Mighty MJD] • Astros have had it with Clemens, and they'...
Keeping The Streets Safe From Waltons
Of all the celebrities who showed up at the USC-UCLA game last weekend, it must have been easy to miss Luke Walton, Lakers bit player and son of Big Bill Walton. But not for long. As reported by USC's From The Sidelines blog, the younger Walton was booted off the sidelines last weekend for not ha...
Some Folks Call It A Slider, Mmm-Hmm
Imagine, say, Michael Brown getting another job in disaster relief, or, maybe, Harriet Miers being renominated to the Supreme Court. Pretty much the real-world equivalents of Grady Little being hired as manager of the Dodgers yesterday....
Give Us Your Best Skip Bayless Stories
We've received a lot of feedback about our selection of The Boston Globe's Bob Ryan as today's bad hometown columnist, which can be broken down into the following percentages:...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your inflatable lawn Santa snaps its moorings and terrorizes the neighborhood ... • College Basketball: Jimmy V Classic, at New York: Kansas vs. Saint Joseph's; Michigan State vs. Boston College. In the tradition of the late, great Jim Valvano, let's all take a test for an athlete t...
Leftovers: All We Need Is Cash
• Word on the street is that Burnett will sign with Jays for $55 million. [Blue Jay Way] • Young says he deserves Heisman. That's good enough for us. [USC Trojan Football] • U.S. misses being World Cup seed by one point. One lousy, stinking point. Crap. [Baltimore Sun] • Carmelo Anthony fined $5,000...
The Jet Lag Games
We'll admit: All this talk about the World Baseball Classic is starting to get us somewhat all a-twitter. Not only are we being promised meaningful baseball a month early, but everyone appears to be showing up: Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, even Roger Clemens, delaying his I'll-retir...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Bob Ryan
By all accounts, Bob Ryan was once a good writer. But then something happened. The molten lava, burning his features. The painful reconstruction. The cryptic words: "Rise, Lord Vader." Yes, Bob Ryan's journey to the dark side is now complete. With his ubiquitous presence on Around the Horn and Par...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch when you get tired of microscopic views of saliva on CSI: Duluth ... • College Basketball: Arkansas-Little Rock at Illinois. We're not even sure if we get ESPNU, but damn it, we've got a remote with 200 buttons and we're gonna try. [ESPNU] • Monday Night Football: Seattle at Philadelph...
Leftovers: Delinquent On All Counts
• Eagles want part of Owens' bonus, advise him to act now or it may hurt his credit rating. [The DrewL Bucket] • Carroll: Bush will turn pro only if he's No. 1 pick. 49ers: We'll win again only if the other team doesn't show up. [Oddsnark] • Pro westling to introduce steroid testing. The tests will ...
We're Sure Bud Selig Is Very Depressed Now
We're always wary of people who are obsessed with Google-bombing — the practice of making sure when you search for, say, "Tom Brady" on Google, you get a link to something like Mexican goat-fisting, or whatever — but some disgruntled Washington, D.C. residents have decided to go after MLB commissi...
NFL Roundup: Bengal Breakthrough
• As Arizona Cardinals fans, we always wonder what the day will be like when, after years of torture, our team finally breaks through and shows they're serious about this whole winning business. It must have been that exciting for Bengals fans yesterday. Realize: A baby born the last time the Beng...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch while taking a break from teaching the cat to catch a Frisbee ... • Boxing: Featherweights, Robert Guerrero vs. Gamaliel Diaz; welterweights, Paul Williams vs. Alfonso Sanchez. As a rule we don't believe that violence is the answer, unless the question is "Who took the remote?" [Showti...
Leftovers: Bad Chemistry
• He wrote a confession, but no one could read it: Panthers' doctor helped ex-players beat drug tests, according to testimony. [oddsnark] • Report: Castillo to Twins. Wow — nobody goes to the Twins. [Three True Outcomes] • Kerrigan attacker wants record cleared so he can become Navy SEAL. Judge: "Um...
Darko Meets Free Darko, Worlds Collide
We meant to point this out earlier this week, but, well, we were driving home one day, and the cops pulled us over, and we'd had this friend over for Thankgiving ... well, it's a long complicated story. Anyway, it turned out that, thanks to Henry Abbott at True Hoop — who messes up this whole blog...
Portis Becomes Depressingly Self-Questioning
Ladies and gentleman, we present to you, after a one-week hiatus for Thanksgiving, Redskins running back Clinton Portis' newest creation: "Reverend Gonna Change," with those pretty crazy teeth and hair and the whole thing. On our scale, this ranks above "Dollah Bill" but behind "Dr. I-Don't-Know."...
To Watch Tonight
• College Football: MAC championship game, Akron vs. Northern Illinois. Because you are either a Zip, or a Husky. There is no middle ground. [ESPN] • College Basketball: Nevada at Kansas. Sorry Jayhawks; led by Marcellus Kemp, the No. 20 Wolf Pack are favored in this one. [ESPN2] • NBA: San Antonio ...
Athlete Run-Ins: The Polite Don Sutton
For today's final athlete run-in story, we bring up a social faux pas that, to our relief, happens to Hall of Famers just like it happens to us. From John in Houston:...