Oh, the humanity:

Thank you FAN IQ!

Booksmith Will Leitch of DEADSPIN has your first (and only?) opportunity to glad-hand with Sean Salisbury tonight in Phoenix: “Competing with our (Deadspin) party tonight: A “Cancer Blows” charity event in Glendale hosted by Sean Salisbury and George Foreman. A noble cause, but we wonder how they will grill all that food.”

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The San Diego Union Tribune reports today that “LaDainian Tomlinson had an additional MRI on his left knee Tuesday that revealed his playing even just four snaps in the AFC Championship Game further damaged it.”

Surgery is still not required, but the knee will take longer to heal. To no one’s surprise, Tomlinson will not play […]

Most professional sports teams hire hot girls to prance around the field (and court) to keep crowds *excited*. The Florida Marlins, on the other hand, bring in the girls to increase attendance.

Not from the extra fans the girls will lure to the ballpark, but by including the number of girls on the field to the […]

West Virginia basketball had one of its worst showings in school history last night. And no, we’re not talking about Bob Huggins’ sideline ensemble:

Cincinnati hugged it up on defense against WVU, limiting the Mounties to just 20 percent shooting in the Bearcats’ 62-39 win. The game marked Huggins’ first game coaching against Cincinnati since he […]

Kansas State finally got a 24-year-old gorilla off their back, as the Wildcats upset #2 Kansas 84-75 Wednesday night at Bramlage Coliseum. The victory was K-State’s first home win over the Jayhawks since 1983.

Wonder if the Wildcats’ Bill Walker was able to hold in his excitement.

The SPRINGFIELD (MA) REPUBLICAN comes across an unusual deal from an Arizona house renter for Super Bowl weekend.

The Craigslist ad - written IN ALL CAPS - offers a 3-bedroom home for rent from Friday through Monday, with all meals and transportation to the Big Game provided. If that’s not tempting enough, how about they throw […]

• Chris Mottram of THE SPORTING BLOG takes time to admire Larry Johnson’s $300,000 watch:

And Grandmama even suggests a payment plan to own one for yourself: “You could deal crack and get it in three weeks.”
• ESPN swings over news that Ian Poulter has a lot of (golf) balls, as he can soon challenge Tiger […]

A friendly reminder - the Patriots’ victory parade (same day as Super Tuesday) is less than a week away!

• A putrid parent faked his kid’s cancer just so they’d get a visit from Steve Yzerman.

• Disgraced TV anchor Alycia Lane may be back on the airwaves - with the WWE?
• Argue with Sonics owner […]

When it comes to books *authored* by athletes, we’ve always been dubious of ghostwriters. That is, until we started attempting to read edit-free blogs written by athletes. We find most of them to be spectacularly narcisstic and boring, with a few notable exceptions (Gil Arenas is the best read).

Yardbarker.com is a sports community that’s […]