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Jalen Rose Could Be Your Little Work Buddy
Is your daily work life more empty for its lack of constant updates on Knicks swingman Jalen Rose? Yeah, us too!...
A Few Yards Of Felt, A Lifetime Of Nightmares
Hey kids, want this fella at your next birthday party or family get-together? It's Screech, the loveable mascot for the Washington Nationals. Screech won't harm you! Come back — fleeing headlong through heavy traffic like that is dangerous! Hey, it's Screech ... don't cry! ......
Just Another Way To Celebrate A Duke Loss
All kinds of glee around college basketball this morning, because ding dong, Duke has lost. We always notice a bit of a buzz around this here Web world the morning after a Duke loss; the sun's a little brighter, the grass is a little greener, so on....
Ah, White People
Remember that post from earlier today, about the sports bra Bounce-O-Meter? This is the opposite of that post....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize your hi-definition TV is defining some things you'd rather not have defined ... • College Basketball: Texas at Texas A&M, Utah at TCU. Yeah, if we had a nickel for every time a horned frog was mentioned in the Bible ... [ESPN2] • College Women's Basketball: Baylor at Tex...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Blue Jays
We're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested oddities on y...
Coach K: iPod Spokesperson
For those of you gearing up for the UNC-Duke game this weekend, we present you with ... a cartoon!...
Hee. Hee-hee-hee. Boobs! Hee-hee. HEE!
All right, we're all about being a fifth-grade boy this morning....
Wolverines Get In On The Rap Game
In the tradition of Miami's Seventh Floor Crew, three Michigan football players — Jerome Jackson, Tyrone Jordan and Landon Smith — have recorded a supposedly derogatory song called "Measly Penny", in which the players take turns denigrating a woman who apparently has caused them collective pain. (...
To Watch Tonight
A kinky three-way between your ass, the sofa and the TV ... • College Basketball: LSU at South Carolina, Illinois at Minnesota. Are we having Illini pie or Gopher stew? [ESPN] • NHL: Minnesota at Colorado. And we're back, after the longest layoff since the strike. Except for the Swedes, of course, w...
"Uh, Guys? GUYS! Oh Noooooo!"
Ah, Spring Training. The green grass. The sense of renewal. The fields where grown men play a boy's game. The sudden realization that, after years of abuse, it has finally happened: Your balls are gone....
Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Peter Vecsey
Forgive the analogy, but it occurred to us that a Peter Vecsey column is a lot like going hunting with Dick Cheney. If you're loud and obnoxious enough to scare the little critters out of hiding and keep loudly blasting away, you're bound to hit something eventually. And those innocent people who ...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Giants
We're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested oddities on y...
Manute Bol, Being Boxed Again
Remember earlier this month, when we spotlighted former NBAer Manute Bol and his heroic efforts to shed light on the horrors currently going on in Darfur? Well, we still think his cause is noble, but some new news has us less convinced about him....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you realize that the Wayne Industries logo in "Batman Begins" looks exactly like the Indiana University logo ... • College Men's Basketball: Pittsburgh at West Virginia, Oklahoma State at Oklahoma. Those flaming objects hurled toward the court must mean it's rivalry week. [ESPN] • N...
Yeah, Damon Back At Fenway Should Be Fun
A reader, calling himself (ominously) "the Hector Villanueva Posse," writes in from Boston to give us this photo of Johnny Damon memorabilia being drastically cut down in price in Boston....
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Devil Rays
We'll, we're just more than a month from Opening Day, so it's time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we're going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don't Know about them. We're not sure how this is gonna work, but if you have suggested odditi...
Hey, At Least It's Not Another Cheney Hunting Photo
It's a glorious Monday, and The Wade Blogs says "Come on in, the Photoshoppin's fine!" Noting that Notre Dame football coach Charile Weis presented President G.W. Bush with a pair of blue Notre Dame jerseys recently, our Mr. Blogs went right to work....
Juicing Up The Olympics, Jedi Style
Not to get all Page 3 on you today, but we've been alerted to a rather amusing proposal for the 2014 Winter Olympics: Let's have it on the Ice Planet Hoth!...
If Only This Would Happen On The Words "Boo-Yah"
We didn't watch too much Nickelodeon as a kid, if just because we were constantly being sent outside to mow the lawn. Pretty much everyone we know was weaned on it, though, particularly that show "You Can't Do That On Television," where they dumped the green slime on you every time you said "I Don...