Carolla Alone Can’t Fill Comedic Chasm In Our Soul

Dont laugh: One of the great comedic tragedies of our generation was the breakup of Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel.

(Jenna to appear at Carolla’s premiere - appropriate as both spit on-camera)
We’re being serious now, how many iconic movies and TV shows would we all be quoting these days if the pair had stayed together. Unfortunately […]

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Byron’s Bogus Win Means Tiger Streak Best Ever?

Our obsession as humans with streaks of uninterrupted success or failure reveals a disappointingly slavish devotion to the Gregorian calendar. For example, we had to invent the “Tiger Slam” for Tiger Woods’ amazing achievement of winning four consecutive major tournaments because the ancient Romans thought January 1 would be a nifty place to start […]

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Soccer Streaker Interviewed; Internet Now Justified

When young inebriated Tiffany May took to the pitch in Tampa to celebrate the land of her birth in roughly the same outfit of her birth, she also captured the hearts of this nation. (Well, not hearts. Lower. Lower. There.) Therefore, we could not be more thrilled to report her […]

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Will Penn State Finally Put JoePa Out To Pasture?

Joe Paterno is set to begin his 43rd season with Penn State this year, unfortunately without the services of touted recruit Terrelle Pryor. Now having lost out on the two-sport Pennsylvania product, the Penn State Board of Trustees are taking a long, hard look at Paterno’s immediate future, reports the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE.

The Penn State Board […]

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Red Sox Will Do Anything to Avoid Book Report

You’re a professional athlete. A baseball player, let’s say. You’re stuck on a 19-hour flight to Tokyo for business after a brisk protest and exhibition game. The doctors tell you to stay awake through the whole flight so the jetlag isn’t as bad. How do you entertain yourself for nearly a […]

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Did Blogs Bump Berman From Masters Coverage?

This may be a little presumptuous on our part, but Phil Mushnick of the NEW YORK POST reports today that Chris Berman will not be involved whatsoever in ESPN’s early-round Masters coverage this year.

(“Iron Myron” modeled after this swing)
Instead, Mike Tirico will anchor the net’s broadcast.
So, why the sudden 180-degree turn by ESPN?

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College World Series MVP Busts Caps, Arrested

Oregon State flame thrower Jorge Reyes is in trouble with the law along with a teammate after shooting up a neighbor’s fence, car and house, reports the CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES. Reyes, the 2007 College World Series MVP, is charged with unlawful use of a firearm, a Class C felony.

Police and neighbors say this was more than […]

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PETA Makes March Madness More Sanctimonious

PETA, that clear-headed, red-paint-tossing, band of animal rights advocates has put together a bracket of mad scientists, with “16 of the nation’s most reprehensible, university-funded animal torturers going head-to-head” in what is surely to be the most depressing of the mock gimmicky tournaments out there.

They’re calling it the first-ever Vivisector of the Week tournament […]

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Besides Belmont, A Pretty Boring Day Of Brackets

The 2008 NCAA Tourney opening round is starting to look familiar to the 2007 Tourney - no big upsets, but plenty of blowouts.

The closest excitement fans were treated to on Thursday was Belmont’s close call against Duke. The 15th-seed Bruins had the 2nd-seed Blue Devils on the ropes, but a bad inbounds pass and […]

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Baylor URLs Send Surfers To Texas A&M Website

With URLs named baylorbears.net, baylorbears.biz and baylorbears.name, you would expect to see sites celebrating the Big 12 school’s sports teams.

And you do see a Big 12 school - but it’s Texas A&M.
Those addresses - along with baylorbears.tv & baylorbearssuck.com - all forward surfers to the Aggies’ official athletic site. But now an arbitrator has ruled […]

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