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Jay Bilas Brings It Straight From The Hood
ESPN basketball analyst and Duke graduate Jay Bilas sought assistance from "urban philosopher" Young Jeezy while breaking down Missouri's ability to score on Villanova during tonight's Jimmy V Classic game at Madison Square Garden. He's just keeping it real. [ESPN]...

Weatherman Vowed To Wear Wife's Colts Panties If They Lost To The Patriots
Jim Kosek, an eager piece of on-air talent for AccuWeather in central Pennsylvania, apparently likes to start sentences with "Anyhoo." Which is especially rich when the sentence goes on to describe his wife's fandom for the Indianapolis Colts and how he'll wear her panties to work if they lost the...

This Raised Arm Drew A Celebration Penalty And Cost A High School Team The Championship
With time running out in the Massachusetts Division 4A championship game, Cathedral High's Matthew Owens ran the QB keeper. Rolling to his right, Owens blew through the defense and sprinted 56 yards for the go-ahead score. He handed the ball to the ref, and that's when he saw the yellow flag....

Dion Phaneuf's Dad Gets High Fives After His Son Decapitates A Ranger
The NHL's radical realignment means four conferences that will need names, so how about the Michael Sauer Memorial Conference after the late Rangers defenseman, taken in the prime of his life by this clean hit from last night. Just kidding! He's not dead. He's being evaluated by doctors with an "u...

ShortCenter: Coming To You Live From The Los Angeles Lakers' Dreamscape
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....

Call This Number If You Think You Can Beat Some Guy In <em>R.B.I. Baseball</em>
Your morning roundup for Dec. 6, the day we learned the word "vivisepulture." Photo via Kotaku. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Paterno, Chairman Of Jerry Sandusky's Charity Were Pursuing $125M Real Estate Deal When Sandusky Was Caught Allegedly Sodomizing Boy
One might be tempted to say this thickens the plot, but let's resist temptation and merely state the facts: When Mike McQueary told Joe Paterno in 2002 that he'd seen Jerry Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy in the shower, Paterno was in business with longtime Second Mile board chairman Robert Poole ...

ShortCenter: Aaron Rodgers, Tim Tebow Are Greater Than Jason Garrett
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"Mashed Potatoes!" Is Tiger's New "Get In The Hole!"
Tiger Woods ended a winless streak of more than two years yesterday when he took the Chevron World Challenge trophy by a stroke over Zach Johnson, so let's all celebrate his return to the sport's champion status by listening to a fan scream "Mashed Potatoes" after his final-round drive from the 18...

Charles Woodson Congratulates Hakeem Nicks On One-Handed Touchdown Grab
Nicks makes a great catch and Woodson gives him a little congratulatory fist bump....

Tiger Woods Won The Chevron World Challenge, Fist Pumps For The First Time In Two Years
Here is the putt that sealed the deal for Tiger as he closed out Zach Johnson for his first win since the 2009 Australian Masters. It was also his first win since this mess happened....

Kyle Rudolph Comes Up Big In Red Zone In Vikings-Broncos Game
Rudolph's catch was eventually determined to be a catch and touchdown for the vikings. He seems to have a nose for the endzone....

Jeff Duckworth's Catch In The Big 10 Title Game Sparked A Gusgasm
Gus Johnson took some deserved criticism Friday night when he desperately tried to convince viewers UCLA still had a chance to upset Oregon late in the Ducks' 49-31 blowout of the Bruins, but fans of the spirited FOX announcer quickly came back on board when this Jeff Duckworth catch sparked one o...

"Mele Kalikimaka!" BYU-Hawai'i Game Delayed By A Bad Santa
This clip's as funny for the commentary provided by ESPN2's Carter Blackburn & Brock Huard as it is the visual of a man in full Santa Claus getup "streaking" in the third quarter of the BYU-Hawai'i game at Aloha Stadium tonight. (They like doing this sort of thing there, as you might remember from...

Marshawn Lynch Likes Skittles, Eats Skittles, Gets Free Skittles
After Beast Mode went Beast Mode on the Eagles' sieve of a d-line, he retreated to his bench to taste the rainbow. This is nothing new for Lynch, whose sweet tooth grill goes back to his Bills days. His mother still buys him a pack before every game, and he talks about Skittles in the huddle....

Brian Burke Was Going To Rent A Barn To Fight Kevin Lowe Until Gary Bettman Intervened
Brian Burke has rapidly become one of the most stand-up guys in hockey, after his unqualified support for his out-of-the-closet son Brendan and his own anti-bullying campaign in Brendan's memory. He wasn't always so cuddly—in a great interview with The Score, Burke relates how he nearly came to blow...

ShortCenter: Herm Edwards's Bizarre Eulogy For The Eagles
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A Wonderful New Holiday Tradition: One-Handed Beer Football
Remember the Bud Bowl? The PBR Bowl is kind of like that, only less aimed at convincing underage kids to drink....

Beast Mode Is Back
In a touchdown run that drew immediate comparisons to his score on the New Orleans Saints in last year's playoffs, Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch found the goal line using pure tenacity and forced NFL Network broadcaster Brad Nessler to eat his "he'll get nothing" words. It drew first blood ...

On The Occasion Of His 47th Birthday, An Appreciation Of Toto Schillaci
Salvatore Schillaci is best remembered for one month of soccer in his 15-year career. But what a month it was. From June 8 to July 8, 1990, Schillaci emerged from seemingly nowhere to lead Italy to the semifinals of the 1990 World Cup. Runty and prematurely aged, he looked like he'd just downed an...