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It was three years ago to the day that Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans. The city has been rebuilding ever since (some areas faster than others), and now the specter of another storm looms on the horizon. Hurricane Gustav forced the New Orleans Saints to head to Indianapolis for their NFL......

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Big news everyone! You know how networks like to hire attractive women to roam the sidelines of NFL games getting "stories" about how so-and-so hurt their ankle, or how the coach was disappointed with his team's performance in the first half but plans to turn it around in the second? Well, FOX we......

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We've know this was coming for a while, but it's still pretty disorienting: Wheaties has released their commemorative 2008 Olympics box covers, adorned by gymnastics gold medalist Nastia Liukin and decathlete Bryan Clay. But where's Michael Phelps? Thanks to a marketing coup, Kellogg landed Phel......

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Throughout my checkered youth sports career, I always wore the No. 7. Why? Because Ron Jaworski wore the same number, and he was my favorite football player when I was a kid. It was my way of emulating him, and the number stuck with me. Now, I emulate him by growing out a luxurious mustache [...]...

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Have you ever taken a sex ed class in college? It's not what you think it would be (meaning, you, watching porn or having sex). Instead, it's an awkward discussion about pregnancy and abortion and eventually morphs into pictures of STDs and a suddenly difficult exam. Not to mention the "You got a......

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If there's one thing the internet teaches us — especially when we read popular but not entirely sophisticated sites — is that perfectly normal people, people you might wave to as you come out of your house, go absolutely insane when they have a Gateway at their fingertips. You name it, you'll hea......

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Judging by the way his ability to go on long, rambling rants seemingly without the need to take a breath, it's hard to believe that Texas Tech head football coach Mike Leach has asthma, but that's the case. THE WIZ OF ODDS reports that Leach, ever the innovator, is turning to an alternative form ......

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• We proudly(?) present photographic proof of the facial pummeling taken by Dennis Northcutt's pregnant girlfriend. • Tennis star Novak Djokovic is more than happy to score this kind of love - pretty Paraguay Olympian Leryn Franco. • Despite the chance of a career-ending injury, Shawne Merriman ......

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Mothers, lock up your stripper-daughters. Adam "Honestly, Stop Calling Me Pacman" Jones is back on the loose! ESPN reports that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has told the Cowboys that Mr. Jones will be eligible to make it rain with punishing tackles during the regular season-opener against the ......

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Brooks joins Mason & Ireland on 710 ESPN Los Angeles @ 3:25pm PT Listen Live. Audio Archive. Show Page. Mason's "SMOG". Share This ...

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• YAHOO's BALL DON'T LIE showcases the winners of their photoshop contest featuring Eddy Curry as an Olympic gymnast. • ESPN reports that the Milwaukee Bucks will face the Golden State Warriors in two exhibition games in China this October. This would make a lot more sense had Yi Jianlian not be......

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As we wait here in Los Angeles for the titanic tilt between USC and Ohio State in three weeks, we need something to keep us entertained. (The Trojans eating Virginia on Saturday just will not do.) (Maybe L.W. was just talkin' bout OSU sucking down his favorite, In-N-Out?) Enter former Trojan an......

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When we first learned of lovely Leryn Franco, we figured it would only be a matter of time before some well-known athlete would become smitten with the pretty Paraguayan javelin thrower. And now a Serbian swinger has stepped up to the plate - tennis star Novak Djokovic has apparently fallen for ......

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It's no secret that Jay Mariotti wasn't very well liked in Chicago. Whether it was by the athletes he covered, the folks who read him in the paper or watched him on television, or bloggers such as myself. Personally, I've had my own run-ins with the man that didn't do much [...]...

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We told you yesterday that Dennis Northcutt is being sued by a former girlfriend who says the Jacksonville Jaguars receiver told his cousin to beat her up because she was pregnant with Dennis' kid. Now thanks to the fine folks over at TMZ, we have shocking photos of the senseless smashing done to......

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