There must be something unnerving about being a sports anchor for an Indiana college. First, Ball State gives us Mr. “Boom Goes The Dynamite“. And now, Huntington University presents this distressed desk jockey:

CO-ED MAGAZINE comes across this clip of Tom Brodbeck, making his live on-screen debut for his school’s HTV News. And it couldn’t […]

Can San Diego catch lightning in a bottle twice, and upset New England this Sunday? A website called AccuScore (any relation to AccuWeather?) has run over 10,000 simulations of the AFC Championship Game in Foxboro.

And makes things a little more interesting, AccuScore decided to throw in various factors to see if personnel or locale changes […]

The DALLAS MORNING NEWS takes their ball & goes homes, as Wade Phillips appears to be a sore loser.

Commenting on Sunday’s loss to the Giants, the Cowboys coach remarked, “After looking at the tape, I feel like the best team lost the game. I thought we outplayed them. But we lost.”
But Phillips added, “Certainly, that […]

San Diego’s upset over the Colts is becoming a painful victory. First, LaDainian Tomlinson gets hurt. Then Philip Rivers. Now…A.J. Smith?

The SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE reports that the Chargers GM took a tumble while exiting his team’s transportation Sunday night. Smith was the first one off the bus, but he tripped & fell outside […]

When Rich Rodriguez bolted West Virginia for Michigan, he apparently practiced a little scorched-earth policy of his own.

Dan Cash of WKZO-AM tips us to a report from the CHARLESTON GAZETTE that Rodriguez reportedly “destroyed all or most of the paperwork files relating to every player on the current Mountaineer roster, and virtually all of the […]

Some tennis fans in Melbourne wonder why should soccer hooligans have all the fun.

TENNIS WEEK reports that police had to use pepper spray on unruly fans during a first round match at the Australian Open. The confrontation caused a five-minute delay in the match between Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez and Grecce’s Konstantinos Economidis.
A group of fans […]

Numerous media outlets report today that an Atlanta lawyer named Wanda Jackson is claiming to the police that Pacman Jones “sucker-punched” her in an Atlanta strip club on January 3.

Jones’ rap sheet is longer that Marv Albert’s fingernails (allegedly), but thanks to inconsistent reporting among media outlets, we find her complaint to police confusing, incomplete […]

Columnist Pam Platt of the LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL reports on the profoundly negative reaction from readers over a recently published photo by the paper of Univ. of Louisville players Jerry Smith and Juan Palacios:

Reader reax: “Awful,” an embarrassment,” “horrible decision,” “poor judgment,” “distasteful,” “a mystery” and “shame on you.”
Many 700 Club viewers readers actually demanded an […]

Bill Dwyre of the LOS ANGELES TIMES reports on a recent investigation into the UCLA basketball program that has been launched by the NCAA. The target? 97-year-old John Wooden.

“Just before the start of this college basketball season, UCLA received a letter of inquiry from the NCAA, seeking information about possible illegal contact between a […]

The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS has the inevitable news that Joe Simpson is now being accused of tipping off the members of the paparazzi who got shots of Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo in Cabo.

Excerpt: “Joe is well-known for his deals with the paparazzi, where the family gets a cut from the sales of the […]