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Blogdome: Rose Bowl Edition
What they're saying on the Texas and USC blogs, the morning after ... • Burnt Orange Nation. "We're Number One! I embraced total strangers tonight the way I do my own family, and I came very close to crying tears of joy." • IndieWIRE SXSW. "Horns Win! The city of Austin is alive tonight." • Longho...
Rose Bowl: The Morning After
All right, all right, it's the morning after, and we still can't quite believe that game last night. Some more thoughts as we recover:...
Vince Young Becomes A Legend
We just watched one of the most incredible games we've ever seen, and we certainly hope you did too....
Leftovers: You Were Supposed to Fire Millen!
• Bills fire president Donahoe, hire ancient and wise Levy as consultant. [Buffalo Bills Review] • Kwan hurt, pulls out U.S. Nationals. Gillooley not involved this time. [USA Today] • This is bogus, man! Brady: Patriots have been "disrespected." [Sports. Music. Blog.] • Swann to declare candidacy fo...
Culpepper: Lap Dances? Who, Me?
We don't want to overstate — and it probably won't happen, anyway — but if Vikings sex boat gods Daunte Culpepper and Bryant McKinnie get their way, we might be in for the real trial of the century....
Leftovers: Chopping Block Edition
• Weiss fired — no, not that one, the other one. [End Of The Bench] • All NFL coaches who are still employed, take a step forward. Not so fast, Norv Turner. [The Hater Nation] • "Hit Man" Hearns accused of hitting his son. [City Chicken] • U-turn on U.S. 83 — Burnitz headed to Pirates, not O's. [Hon...
Mexico Family Causing All Kinds Of Trouble
Much sturm und drang today concerning Little Mexico, Marcus Vick's, pretty blatant dick move during the Gator Bowl yesterday, pounding the left knee of Louisville's Elvis Dumervil. (You can see the video here.)...
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Steve Kelley
"Steve Kelley looked at his column. He had only one sentence so far, so he hit the "enter" key and described it. Then he did that for the second sentence, and he was three paragraphs in. Soon, his column-inch target would be met. But not soon enough for Kelley." Our thanks to DMZ at U.S.S.Mari...
Elton Brand Is No Yuppie Scum
It's possible this has been around for a while, but we hadn't seen it. Apparently, a Duke fan got a hold of former Dookie Elton Brand's email address and lambasted him for leaving the Blue Devils early for the NBA. Brand, if the email is to be trusted, was less than amused....
Week In Deadspin: Closing Out '05
• Anna Benson will gun your ass down. • Jeff Reardon's medicine gets him in trouble, and not just with the international closer crime syndicates. • The Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals says goodbye to Sun Devil Stadium and its treasure trove of memories. • Darren Prince gave us a very nice ho...
Year In Review: December
The year is almost over. All the magazines are doing year-in-review type stuff, so we figured, why should we be any different? Today we finish our look back at each month on the calendar, pointing out the weird/important/amusing stuffs that happened that month. And happy new year!...
Blogdom's Best: Hating The Wolverines
Perhaps nothing says hatred like college athletics. We have witnessed the body painting, we have seen the flaming objects hurled onto the court. Yes, we have seen the pants waving from atop the flagpole. And today, we salute those pants. We believe that college athletics were invented to give stud...
Leftovers: Goat, Goat Make Gold!
• Update: Judge throws out goat suit. [ONN News] • Bengals Palmer gets $118 million extension. Was Bootsy Collins involved? [American Sport Outlet] • Joe Horn questions NFL on cell phones. The man would know. [USA Today] • ChiSox, Garland agree on $29 million deal. [Musings Of A Domer]...
Year In Review: November
The year is almost over. All the magazines are doing year-in-review type stuff, so we figured, why should we be any different? Therefore, for the next 12 days, we will be looking back on each month on the calendar, pointing out the weird/important/amusing stuffs that happened that month. If you ha...
LeBron James Is Three Years Younger Than The Bush Twins
Yep, the rumors you've heard are correct: LeBron James is turning 21 years old tomorrow....
Dungy Returns To Coach Colts
The Indianapolis Star reports that Tony Dungy has returned to the Colts and will be on the sidelines for Sunday's game against the Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals. He is scheduled to conduct this afternoon's practice session. He has been away from his team for exactly a week and spoke at his...
The Sad, Sorry Last Days Of Brett Favre
We probably should have seen this coming: Now that it's pretty much obvious to everyone on the planet that Packers quarterback Brett Favre should retire before he shows up in a Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals jersey, Emmitt Smith-style, Favre is going on one of his typical passive-aggressive...
Leftovers: Life of Brian
• Billick to return to Ravens in '06 — his assistant coaches, not so much. [Hot Sauce Sports] • Gretzky back on Coyotes bench (he was gone?). [MSN Sports Filter] • We're hearing persistent Burnitz to Baltimore rumors, and it's starting to annoy us, so shut up already. [Oriole Magic] • LSU starting Q...
Year In Review: October
The year is almost over. All the magazines are doing year-in-review type stuff, so we figured, why should we be any different? Therefore, for the next 12 days, we will be looking back on each month on the calendar, pointing out the weird/important/amusing stuffs that happened that month. If you ha...
Leftovers: Fat City
Pat Riley's latest brainstorm involves sumo wrestlers, and Shaq. Well, of course it does. [MSNBC] Larry Bird: Artest must go. And he's not too thrilled with you, either. [Fox Sports] Rangers, Millwood agree to 5-year deal for lots and lots of money. [Chicago Sports] World Junior Hockey Championsh...