• Sexy soccer WAG Danielle Lloyd gets laid out in a bloody nightclub brawl.
• The real big racing news from this weekend: Danica Patrick’s new GoDaddy commercial, complete with a cop who keeps losing her clothes.
• Quite a memorable Memorial Day – Jose Canseco gets mauled in his MMA debut, while Mr. T mauls “Take [...]
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College football fans don’t agree on much. You’ve got your Michigans versus your Ohio States, your Floridas versus your Georgias, and your Notre Dames versus, well, everyone. One thing pretty much everybody agrees on, though, is that the BCS in its current format is a woefully corrupt system that needs revamping in some way shape [...]
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A few months ago, we learned that ESPN is taking over the television rights for all of the BCS games starting in 2011 (the games at the end of the 2010 season). And Brooks has theorized that ESPN’s acquisition of the games will actually help make a college football playoff a reality.
(Is the Brennaman-Tebow love [...]
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Remember how Barack Obama promised he would use some of the resources and goodwill of the Office of the President to work towards a college football playoff system? Remember how he reiterated it on “60 Minutes”? Remember how those that make their money at the teat of the college bowl system giggled like snide schoolgirls [...]
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Florida Congressman Cliff Stearns has a big problem. The representative of the Gainsville district is, appropriately, a die-hard Florida fan who is desperate to watch Thursday night’s BCS Championship Game between his beloved Gators and Oklahoma. Like most people, he usually would be able to … except that his job is getting in the way: [...]
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We know that universities spend an inordinate amount of money on their revenue athletic programs, on things like ridiculous salaries for football coaches, stadium renovations, and state-of-the-art practice facilities. But now schools are dumping more and more money into tutoring and other “academic services” for athletes. Many programs are spending well over $1 million per [...]
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• Why tune in to the Las Vegas Bowl this Saturday? I got six words for ya: David Hasselhoff sings the national anthem.
Any chance to elect Gary Coleman as Grand Marshal of the Las Vegas Bowl parade?
• Stephon Marbury shows up courtside for the Knicks-Lakers game, after all – not on the bench, but in [...]
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• Before he begins his senior season, should Tim Tebow follow God’s work in the Philippines, or stay a god in Gainesville?
• All 34 bowl games are now squared away. I was really worried about who would get invites to the PapaJohns.Com Bowl.
• One ESPN.com contestant’s Streak for the Cash reaches 25 games – and [...]
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ESPN’s master plan to slowly take over every televised sporting event is meeting some resistance in the form of the National Association of Broadcasters. It wasn’t such a big deal when ESPN announced it would show the entire British Open from now on, but the NAB is a bit concerned about ESPN’s deal with the [...]
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All last-minute 11th-hour college football playoff protest lock-in petition candlelight vigils have failed, and the BCS has already declared who will play for the national championship. Sorry, Texas, Alabama, and Utah — two other states, Oklahoma and Florida, are going to the BCS Championship. Is it the right one? Meh, probably. But if we had [...]
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