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That’s what I’m starting to wonder.
I usually cheer for them, because unlike so many other football programs, they shy away from recruiting thugs and ex-cons (yes, I’m looking at you, Bobby Bowden).
But there is a difference between hoping a team does well and flat-out favoring them beyond all reason, like the pollsters do every single [...]

Perhaps the funnest football game I have ever watched.
Great swings in momentum. A hook-and-ladder style gimmick play to get to overtime. A halfback pass to score in overtime. A statue of liberty to win. And the underdog triumphed.
What more can you ask for?
Update: Video…

The infamous “Zidane headbutt” has inspired an Italian produced clothing line, Xqua.

as we predicted, use of the botched joke excuse is growing. as with our predictions on new LDS apostles and jurisprudential trends, you can take our prognostications to the bank.
previous offenders:
john kerry
faith hill
new offenders: (in order of increasing seriousness)
jim mora
rosie o’donnell
wesam al delaema
jim mora took some flack from atlanta fans after he [...]

i’ve spent the last two BYU victories over utah with briant and katie. in 2001, we were high atop the stands at then-cougar stadium, where we saw BYU improbably recover from trailing twice by 11 points to win in the last two minutes:

then, in 2006, we returned home from some vegetarian place [...]

Then: Pistons bad boy.
Now: brawl instigating coach.
Color me unsurprised.
UPDATE: Fellow brawler Jermaine O’Neal, whose right hook rivals Melo’s, weighed in later in the same article.
“Listen, the NHL lets them fight. Fights happen in baseball. Fights happen in football,” Indiana forward Jermaine O’Neal said. “Why are we under scrutiny about our game?“

Sad news from Argentina today.
Boca Juniors lost the season tie-breaker and so they won’t be three-peat champions of the Argentine league.

This is classic. A very unique free kick by Ronaldinho against Werder Bremen.
 

Yes, yes, yes, yes… This would be wonderful.
When the new Bowl Championship Series rankings came out this week, the debate began as to whether undefeated Louisville is more deserving to play in the national championship game than a one-loss team with a tougher schedule. Everyone has an opinion as to which two teams should [...]

The Terps have a great football team this year. They just won a nail-biter at Clemson today.
Dan Ennis kicked a 31-yard field goal as time ran out, lifting the Terps to a 13-12 victory Saturday over No. 19 Clemson and extending their winning streak to four games. Maryland (7-2, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) remained [...]

Red Auerbach passed away on Saturday.
Auerbach was one of the greatest basketball coaches ever. He won nine championships as the coach of the Boston Celtics and seven more as the Celtics general manager.
Time and again you hear Celtics describing Red as “a player’s coach.” To the world outside his own huddles and locker room [...]

yawn.

Eating your garden and landscaping is soooo last year for these friendly animals.
Before a recent middle school cross-country race in Oregon, runner Kevin Cox found himself facing unexpected competition: a deer.
In a series of photos, Cox is shown running with the overly friendly animal, which at one point caught him and began treating him [...]

“what a wonderful, wonderful story”
losingest team in the majors over the past 13 seasons. losers of 119 games in 2003. a year ago, ranked fifth from the bottom in a list of teams likely to win this year’s world series. now, the tigers are favored.
a video clip of magglio [...]

first, terrell owens. ESPN has become the channel for “all TO, all the time.” thank goodness i tivo sportscenter so i can fast-forward through most of it. their coverage is football-heavy as it is–so much time is devoted to the odd-shaped ball that they have time to give helpful hints to viewers, [...]