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Pat White Has A Special Friend
West Virginia quarterback Pat White would seem like the guy who has everything. NFL-ready talent — we guess — a spot on one of college football's best team and, you know, he's kind of handsome, if you're into that sort of thing. But the guy just wants more....
The Best F—cking Thing About Live Televised Press Conferences
If that company and travel schedule isn't enough to make you a drop a couple F-bombs on live television, I don't know what is....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while sleeping ... very sound ... • College Football: No. 22 Georgia beats No. 16 Alabama with TD pass in OT. • MLB: Sox become first team to clinch a playoff spot, rallying against the Rays. • Horse Racing: Going Ballistic wins Super Derby XXVIII. Cha-ching!...
Charlie Weis Is In Your (Very) Extended Network
If you're only going to read one thing today, this is it: Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis' "MySpace" page. It's gold, Jerry! Gold!...
For Your Saturday Afternoon Viewing Pleasure ...
12:00 — College Football. North Carolina at South Florida. [ESPN] 12:00 — Tennis. Davis Cup, US vs. Sweden. [VS] 12:00 — Movie. Rookie of the Year [HBOe] 1:00 — MLB. Pirates at Cubs. [WGN] 1:00 — Movie. Austin Powers in Goldmember [TBS] 1:30 — College Football. East Carolina at West Virginia [ESPN2]...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while playing 'Super Bomberman 2' with the Keebler elves ... • MLB: Beckett becomes first 20-game winner of the season. Sox 8, Rays 1. • Tennis: Roddick cruises, Blake loses. US-Sweden tied 1-1 in Davis Cup play. • Soccer: This just in: USA 3, England 0. Women advance to World Cup se...
You'll Be Lucky To See This Post, Ever
• Jay Mariotti, blogger. • Isiah Thomas knows his race relations syntax. • Real or not, these are terrifying. • Bill Simmons' charming fan. • Adeus, Mourinho. • We'd patrol Chris Henry's house too. • MJD's new best friend. • The studly Rob Stone. • How to handle when your team wins behind enemy line...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as all the verbs in your term paper prepare to go on strike ... • MLB: Milwaukee at Atlanta. No, Atlanta Braves; I am your father. Search your feelings; you know it's true! [ESPN] • College football: Oklahoma at Tulsa. The Dust Bowl? [ESPN2] • Golf: Nationwide Tour, Albertsons Boise Op...
Saying Goodbye To RFK Stadium
It's a sad weekend in the world of outdated, monstrous sports buildings: It's the last three baseball games at RFK Stadium in DC....
Hey, Jay: You're A Blogger Now
We, the sports fan, are lost amidst the sea of scandalous sports news. We need someone to guide us ... and not just four times a week either! We need immediate, dashed off, from-the-hip, poorly thought out reactionary prattle on the double. And we need it five times a day. Where, friends, do we look...
It's Open Season On Charlie Weis
The Charlie Weis / Notre Dame pile-on continues, gloriously. Some of it is justified, like criticism of how the school has handled the Demetrius Jones situation. (They're making him pay for school at Northern Illinois this year by not releasing him from his scholarship.) And some of it is really jus...
Carr Surely Has Lots To Contribute In This Friendship
We're still a little bewildered by the fact that Russell Crowe was on the sidelines for Michigan's win over Notre Dame on Saturday. We don't understand why he cares so much about American collegiate football, first off, but mostly ... this guy is really friends with Lloyd Carr?...
This Week In The SSW
For years — OK, a couple of days — Slate writer Robert Weintraub has been tinkering with a concept called The SSW, short for "The Sean Salisbury Wisdom," which tracks the consensus of the football punditocracy to ensure those triumphant declarations from Friday aren't flushed down the memory hole o...
Leave Bill Belichick Alone!
This guy must have watched the Crazy Britney Fan video at least fifty times to achieve this degree of nuance, and for that I salute him. He also gets a couple points for the Brady jersey. Not sure about the touque, though. I managed not to laugh out loud until near the end, when he slipped in one fi...
Roll Over And Die Like A Champion
We're not sure if we can contribute that much more to the pile-on that has become discussion of the 2007 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and coach Charlie Weis ... but we're gonna try....