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Your College Football Open Thread
Hey, they didn't save all the good stuff for the night games this week. The Big 12 has a Big Afternoon coming up, highlighted by Kansas at Kansas State (a grudge match made all the better by Charlie Weis taking impotent shots at the KU student newspaper) and Oklahoma at Texas Tech. At 12, Northweste...
Your MLB Wild-Card Deathmatch Open Thread
Hey everyone, the playoffs start tonight! We've got two do-or-die games to watch: The Cardinals are taking on the Braves at 5:07 p.m. EDT, and the Orioles are squaring off against the Rangers at 8:37 p.m. EDT. That's like, seven straight hours of baseball....
Come Chat With The <em>SF Weekly's</em> Joe Eskenazi, Author Of That Terrific Story About Bleacher Report
Earlier this week, the SF Weekly published a lengthy story by Joe Eskenazi about the rise and inner workings of Bleacher Report, purveyors of flavorless, pre-fabricated, market-based sports news. We thought the piece was great. Others thought the piece was not so great....
Damien Echols Of The West Memphis Three Is Here To Answer Your Questions
Earlier today, we ran an excerpt from Damien Echols's new book, Life After Death, about his time on death row following his wrongful conviction in the murder of three 8-year-old boys. If you haven't yet, be sure to give it a read. The book is available on Amazon....
The Best Picture I Ever Took At A Sporting Event: Spike Lee, Reggie Jackson And Val Kilmer Chat In (Old) Yankee Stadium
What you see here is Spike Lee interviewing Reggie Jackson in the right field upper deck of old Yankee Stadium. That's Val Kilmer there in the foreground, too, for some reason. I took this picture a few hours before the final game played at the old Yankee Stadium on September 21, 2008. It was a wei...
Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
Tonight the Cowboys host the Bears. Romo. Cutler. Other guys. At the end of the night, one of these teams will be tied for first in their respective division. It's gonna be so sweet. In less-sweet news, the Cowboys and Tony Romo have tabled contract extension talks until the offseason. Nobody seems ...
Your Sunday Night Football Open Thread
Tonight, we've got the Giants and Eagles. It's another important divisional game and we've got two 2-1 teams. Right now there is a three-way tie for first place in the NFC East and no matter what happens there will be a non-Dallas Cowboys team in first place at the end of the night. So that's good. ...
Your NFL Sunday Open Thread
Here is where anybody who's anybody will be discussing the return of the real referees. Oh and you can talk about the actual football games, too, I suppose....
Your College Football Open Thread
Our game of the morning is probably Baylor at West Virginia, though our shame expert (aren't we all, in some sense, shame experts?) told us to be on the lookout for a potential "DOUBLE trap game" in the N.C. State vs. U. of Miami game. Also look out for Penn State at Illinois, because Illinois may h...
Ask George Atallah, Spokesman For The NFL Players Association, About Last Night's Shitshow In Seattle
As the NFLPA's assistant executive director for external affairs, George Atallah is the official spokesman for the NFL players. As you might expect, he's a busy man right now. "What a nutty day," he told us earlier, when we approached him to see if he'd be willing to do a live chat. ...
Angry Packers Fan? Let Loose Your Rage Here
Are you a Packers fan? Have you been grievously injured thanks to last night's game? Are you suffering from angry neck spasms or any other rageborne illness? Fear not. We have the perfect outlet for you. Our patented Kinja Bitching System allows you, the Packer fan, to express your profound anger to...
Green Bay Packers At Seattle Seahawks: Your Monday Night Football Open Thread
The Packers visit the Seahawks this evening and, honestly, all I'm hoping for is to see just how far we can take this rotten officiating. The Seattle crowd, of course, is responsible for letting us all know, the one or two times a year they are a game we all actually watch, which team leads the lea...
NFL Sunday Open Thread
Your open thread is here and we will be linking back to it throughout the day for your convenience. Early topics include Tony Romo and Mark Sanchez interceptions already and 73-yard wildcat touchdowns thrown by people not named Tim Tebow....
Your College Football Open Thread
Early games—I don't know, maybe Virginia at TCU has potential? West Virginia will probably curb stomp Maryland and that could be fun. Don't forget Northwestern Oklahoma State at UT-San Antionio, which you can watch on Nowhere via your handheld Nothing, at 2 p.m....
Julian Dalrymple, The "Jackass" Whose Blowjob Faces Behind Wrigley Field's Home Plate Went Viral, Is Here To Take Your Questions
We didn't quite expect this video to become an Internet sensation when we posted it earlier this week, but goodness gracious do people love pantomimed blowjobs. At the time we called culprit Julian Dalrymple a "jackass," though it turns out he's actually a pretty nice guy who has a penchant for at...
Former WWE Wrestler And <em>Head Games</em> Author Christopher Nowinski Is Here To Take Your Questions
Christopher Nowinski is a former Ivy League football player and WWE wrestler. In 2006, he wrote Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis from the NFL To Youth Leagues. The book has inspired a documentary, Head Games, that opens tomorrow in New York and Los Angeles and that will also be available o...
THIS GUY Is Back On Monday Night Football
If you watched any of ESPN's pre-game extravaganza you know that Jon Gruden is positively jacked up for this game. And why shouldn't he be? Peyton Manning is back on Monday Night Football! Woo! Yeah! Fist pumps all around....
Your Belated Week Two NFL Open Thread
Whoops! Hope you didn't have any thoughts during the first, oh, 80 minutes football this weekend. Luckily the games are flying fast and furious, so everyone was probably too discombobulated to think of anything witty. Right? Yak here and we'll link back throughout the day. Here's the best gif ever, ...
Your College Football Open Thread
Early afternoon: Florida State might (but probably doesn't) have a game on its hands in Tallahassee with Wake Forest coming in. That's practically it until things get kind of hectic in the later afternoon, with Alabama probably crushing Arkansas and taking us into a very good slate of night games. M...
Your NFL Week One Open Thread
So many games! So much sweet, sweet football. Yak here, and we'll link back for the afternoon and night games as well. Suggested topics: scab refs and Tim Tebow. Just kidding, don't talk about that bullshit. (Unless the refs fuck up [which they will].)...