Could we please check with NCAA officials to make sure all four teams Saturday night received the same schedule of events? This seems to have been a problem all week, what with all the blowouts. One team gets notice to show up for a game at an appointed time and the other team […]

Isaiah Rider, a former NBA player, was arrested for investigation of auto theft in Los Angeles Saturday after failing to stop at an intersection at 2:30 am. Upon inspection by officers, the license plates were found to belong to a car reported stolen from South Los Angeles. As of Saturday night, Rider, 37 […]

Los Angeles will play host tonight to the latest attempt by Major League Baseball to draw attention to itself through “stunt casting”. Much like Sammy Davis, Jr., on “All in the Family”, Joe Namath on “The Brady Bunch”, or Britney Spears anywhere on television, it’s an attempt to goose the viewing numbers through one-time […]

John McCain could really use a young and vital person as his running mate to offset one of his main perceived flaws: being 71 years young. For example, how about a Navy Midshipman linebacker that went to Iraq as a Marine officer and was awarded the Silver Star? That sounds like a winner, […]

Educators, politicians, and talking heads often wail when the latest study of math and science scores for schoolchildren. America’s 17th in math! 34th in science! 89th in cheating on math and science tests! Why does the United States spend so much on defense and so little on education? The video […]

• 10,000 TAKES delivers the goods: mascot-referee violence in hockey.

• REUTERS alerts us that India’s Olympic air weapon competitors are so angry that they could shoot somebody. Fortunately for all involved, they’re angry because they’re out of ammo.
• MONDESI’S HOUSE points out that Seattle’s still a little pissy (and spitty) about the results of […]

UPDATE: The message board’s working again! Let the bile spew.
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE and CHICAGO SUN-TIMES have been taking out their anger over their ownership kerfuffles on each other recently, especially in their sports departments (where it doesn’t look quite as petty, perhaps).
First, a Tribune intern wins a Sun-Times video contest disparaging Tribune Company and […]

There’s little more repelling than the harsh scent of desperation. Calling too soon after the meet cute; asking for a loan from relatives repeatedly; declaring “Eliot Spitzer Night” 24 hours after the downfall of the naughty governor. It’s wise to stay away from all these people since they’ll just burn a hole through […]

THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION has had better weeks in the sports department. First, it discovers they’ve got a salty old columnist running around the back offices demanding that we stop being nice to the Japanese. Now they’ve pulled down their paean to their brand new Mr. Georgia Basketball within hours of posting it to […]

Here is an exclusive sneak peek at the entirety of Bill Self’s pre-game speech to his Kansas Jayhawks before Sunday’s game against plucky Davidson in the Elite Eight:

“This guy! Him! Cover him. See how there’s no one else in frame on this picture? Bad! Cover him. Cover. Him. Don’t […]