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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you poll numbers slip even further ... • FedEx Orange Bowl: Penn State vs. Florida State, at Miami. Finally, a bowl game for which we can justify shirking chores. [ABC] • College Basketball: Oklahoma State at Pepperdine. Yes, our nickname is the Waves, and we look like we're wearing...

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...

Ma Sweets Will Punch You In The Mouth
What kind of woman would raise a man who would wear a costume like this? What kind of woman could raise such a spawn?...

Laura Quinn Gives Us A Fiesta Of Pain
Thoughts while watching about three hundred shots of Brady Quinn's sister, Laura, during the Fiesta Bowl last night: 1. We kind of miss that TV show, Xena, Warrior Princess. 2. We thought A.J. Hawk was some sort of famous skateboarder. Apparently we're confused. 3. Brent Musberger is still al...

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...

To Watch Tonight
A smorgasbord of college football involving eight teams you'd never watch, except that it's bowl season ... • Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, Minnesota vs. Virginia, at Nashville. Come to think of it, that Andy Griffith Show marathon is starting to look pretty good right now. [ESPN] • Vitalis Sun ...

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...

Southeast Jerome In Heaven With Friends
OK, so as we showed you yesterday, Clinton Portis brought along some pals for his press conference yesterday. The conceit was that Southeast Jerome — who had been previously considered "lost" — had died and made it to heaven with all his friends. They included:...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as, somewhere in Vegas, a slot machine is calling your name ... • College Football: Emerald Bowl, Georgia Tech vs. Utah, at San Francisco; Pacific Life Holiday Bowl, Oregon vs. Oklahoma, at San Diego. The glittering jewels of the college bowl season. [ESPN] • College Basketball: Stanfo...

Clinton Portis And His New Friends
We'll get into this more tomorrow ... but if you go to Redskins.com right now, you'll see that our man Clinton Portis has, uh, brought a few friends along for his weekly psychological exploration....

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...

The Trophy Monstrosity
Via TrojanWire and Every Day Should Be Saturday, we present the trophy given to the winner of the Fiesta Bowl this year. That's really it. This isn't actual size, but oh, if it were....

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as credit card companies form a perimeter around your house and begin making demands for payment by bullhorn ... • MPC Computers Bowl, Boston College vs. Boise State, at Boise; Alamo Bowl, Michigan vs. Nebraska, at San Antonio. Somehow, "Michigan vs. Nebraska in San Antonio" just doesn...

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...

MLB, Feel The Excitement!
In typical finger-on-the-pulse fashion, MLB.com promotes the World Baseball Classic, encouraging readers to tap into the electric current of excitement by showing us ... a picture of two pasty white guys. To be fair, the guy on the left has a pretty sweater vest that is packing much funk....

Blogdom's Best: Hating The Red Wings
Imagine the most hateful sports fans you can think of, stuck indoors because of the frigid weather, allowing their fury to boil. Now give them large sticks. That's your typical NHL fan, just looking for a reason to hate the opposing team. Throw in that whole Canada-USA rivalry thing, and you've go...

Scoop Jackson's Look Back
True Hoop takes on something that we've been kind of eager to sink our teeth into anyway this morning: Scoop Jackson's "Year In Review" column on ESPN Page 2. Jackson has always confused us a bit; his position as Black Columnist at ESPN has, in our opinion, allowed him to get away with continued s...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Tiny Tim reveals he's been faking his disability all along ... • College Basketball: Gonzaga at Memphis. We're big Rodney Carney fans ... oh, by the way, it's pronounced Gon-zay-ga. [ESPN2] • Champs Sports Bowl: Clemson vs. Colorado, at Orlando; Insight Bowl, Arizona State vs. Rutge...