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Green Bay and Chicago Are in Trouble, Time to Flip those NFC North Panic Switches
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Remember back before the NFL season began when the NFC North was supposed to be a three-way “battle” between the Vikings, Packers and Bears? After yesterday’s events - the Packers falling to previously winless Tampa Bay and the Bears getting annihilated by Arizona...
Women’s Soccer Players Fighting is Contagious - High School Girls in Rhode Island Brawl
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Elizabeth Lambert, the New Mexico soccer player who had the country buzzing last week, is a trendsetter. About :37 seconds into the video above, the fun begins - fists fly, hair is pulled, bedlam follows. Later, the fans in the stands mix it up. [Unprofessional Foul]
College Basketball Predictions for 09-10 Go Here
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With a whimper, the college basketball season opens tonight. Isiah Thomas and FIU play defending national champion UNC. The Tar Heels are 31-point favorites. There isn’t an enticing game on the schedule this week. Call it a soft opening. For us, the season begins Thanksgiving...
Because Until July, Every Team Will Be “In the Mix” For LeBron
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LeBron and the Dallas Mavericks: The ridiculous insanity continues. “The host city for the 2010 All-Star Game is Long Shot City. That said, Dallas has more in its favor than you think. Dirk Nowitzki would appear to be the best big man LeBron could conceivably hook up with next...
BCS Standings: Imagine if 2-Loss Miami Got In, and Unbeaten TCU or Boise State Were Snubbed?
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Iowa, Penn State and Notre Dame all lost Saturday, and it appears as if the trio will miss the BCS. (Big loser? The Orange Bowl. See below.) Here’s how the selection process works. Assuming Florida and Texas don’t choke the rest of the way, here’s a guess at how the...
Jeremy Tyler is Struggling in Israel, so His Agents Send Makhtar Ndiaye to Help?
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Jeremy Tyler: Tremendous piece in the NYT over the weekend about Jeremy Tyler, the talented but delusional high school basketball player who passed on his senior year to play in Israel. “His coach calls him lazy and out of shape. The team captain says he is soft. His teammates...
Ballin’: Thunder Rip Magic, Stan Van Gundy Rips Team
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Orlando 74, Oklahoma City 102: The poor shooting (36 percent from the field, 3-for-16 from three), short-handed Magic plus the hot Thunder (57 percent shooting, 9-for-16 from three) equals this, from Stan Van Gundy: “We have no defensive toughness and right now we aren’...
Monday with the Irish: All is Not Lost!
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Notre Dame: Fallout from the stunning loss to Navy - the first time since 1936 that an unranked Navy team defeated a ranked Notre Dame team - continues. One columnist thinks the Irish should fire Weis now so they can be out front chasing all of their pipe dreams (like Urban Meyer)...
NFL Ruminations: Better Catch, Randy Moss One-Handed Grab, or Justin Gage Snagging the High Pass?
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After three weeks, the Baltimore Ravens were unbeaten, averaging 34 points per game, and led the Steelers by two games in the competitive AFC North. Even then, we it would be silly to read too much into wins - no matter how impressive - over bottom-feeders. After Sunday’s weak...
The Cowboys Out to Prove John Harbaugh Wrong
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And erase the salty memory of last year’s season-ending 44-6 thumping at the hands of the Eagles. Here’s the quote from Ravens’ coach John Harbaugh that’s sure to anger Jerry Jones:
… what Andy Reid and his program stand for is the opposite of what the...
DeAngelo Hall: ‘If Mike Smith Wants to See Me, He Can Definitely Find Me’
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DeAngelo Hall of the Redskins, perhaps the worst tackling cornerback in the league, got into a bit of a skirmish with a bunch of his old mates on the Atlanta sideline today. It was so heated that the coach who cut him, Atlanta’s Mike Smith, was jawing with Hall. “I definitely...
Remember When the Chargers Drafted Eli Manning, and He Forced a Trade?
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Ah, memories. Eli, that little bitch, forced the Chargers to trade him on draft day in 2004 because he refused to play in San Diego. Today’s meeting Eli Manning and Phil Rivers will be the first since that deal. As much as we’d like to root for the Chargers - our AFC Super...
Richmond Announcer (?) Upset at Missed Field Goal and Loss Accidentally Curses on Air
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Richmond had its 17-game winning streak snapped Saturday, and after a field goal attempt by kicker Andrew Howard was missed in the final seconds, someone in the Comcast booth/truck can clearly be heard saying (at the 1:08 mark): “What a bum. Come on. End this ******* game. Pffft...
Jets Fans Have to Root for the Patriots Today
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A team on the rise (Atlanta) with a franchise QB vs. a team slippin’ (Washington) in dire need of a franchise QB. Kurt Warner, looking old and more immobile than usual, against a fast, aggressive defense that just destroyed whatever confidence Derek Anderson had left. Henne and...
Jets Fans Have to Root for the Patriots Today
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A team on the rise (Atlanta) with a franchise QB vs. a team slippin’ (Washington) in dire need of a franchise QB. Kurt Warner, looking old and more immobile than usual, against a fast, aggressive defense that just destroyed whatever confidence Derek Anderson had left. Henne and...
Andre Agassi Reveals His Dislike for Columnist Mike Lupica in His New Book
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Andre Agassi can be added to the list of folks who don’t like polarizing New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica. In Agassi’s new book - which comes out tomorrow - the retired tennis star twice brings up issues he had with the lilliputian Lupica. A reader who works in...
Brian Kelly Will be the Popular Name to Replace Charlie Weis at Notre Dame … What About Bob Stoops?
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Brian Kelly of Cincinnati will be the most popular name connected to the soon-to-be vacant Notre Dame coaching job. Other names, such as ESPN analyst Jon Gruden and Florida pipe dream Urban Meyer are expected to be in the mix as well.
What about Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops?
This doesn...
Strikeforce Live Blog
25 days ago by
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Sorry for the late start folks. Had some technical difficulties. Let’s not dwell on my tardyness. Let’s enjoy some world class mixed martial arts. It’s what Fedor would want.
The following took place before I had an internet connection to work with. I was blocked...
BCS Shake-up Saturday: Alabama, Georgia Tech Survive, Four Others Not So Lucky
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Iowa lost. On one play - QB Ricky Stanzi was sacked, hurt his ankle, fumbled, and Northwestern recovered for a TD - the Hawkeyes went from possibly thinking BCS title game to the Outback Bowl. Notre Dame lost to Navy, 23-21, because the Irish could not score in the red zone. Charlie...
Rolando McClain Makes His Heisman Case Today
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Rolando McClain, an All-American linebacker for Alabama, wears the No. 25. It makes him look svelte. He does not appear to be 6-foot-4, 255-pounds, and we feel this is strictly due to him wearing 25 as opposed to a number in the 50s, like linebackers in the NFL.
McClain may deny he...
NBA Injuries Already Mounting
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NBA Injuries: Chicago Bulls forward Ty Thomas, who hasn’t really had an impact in his first two seasons, will miss at least 4-6 weeks after suffering a “fractured radius in his left forearm” while doing pull-ups Friday. This means more playing time for USC rookie...
Women Who Make You Slowly Remove Your Finger From the Remote
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Women, TV & the Remote: Question - what five women in TV, sports or otherwise, make you not want to change the channel? Surprisingly, here’s one list without Erin Andrews. Two of them may sound familiar to you - Lindsay Soto and Trenni Kusnierek. A name in sports that we...
Crazy John Hollinger: LeBron to Minnesota?
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Because ESPN’s John Hollinger is apparently serious:
Let me throw out an even crazier proposition — Minnesota. The Wolves will have the cap space to make a run at LeBron, depending on a few variables — or at the very least can get there fairly easily if they know...
Yes, This Was as Fun as it Sounds
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So this happened yesterday. We’ll post the Q&A Monday or Tuesday. Here’s a lunch-time game, since the college football schedule is bland: See if you can find a Dick Vitale tweet that doesn’t have an exclamation mark.
College basketball starts Monday, baby!
Andre Iguodala is a Bad, Bad Man
25 days ago by
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Boom. And the injury-plagued Nets remain the league’s only winless team. The final two NBA unbeatens fell - Boston at home to Phoenix (!) and Denver in Miami. And LeBron beat the Knicks … and then listened intently as his friend, CC Sabathia, tried to woo him to NYC. Go...
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