7:53 PM This is pretty damn cool: Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times has picked Hoop Dreams as the greatest American documentary of all-time. Ebert also called it the best film of the '90s.
7:50 PM With Newcastle United fans incensed about the perilous direction of the venerable English Premier League team, eminent Northerner Sting has stepped into the breach and formed a group aiming to buy out Owner Mike Ashley.
7:16 PM Former Nationals GM Jim Bowden Tweets this afternoon that the Washington's MLB club has hired Jim Riggleman as its new manager. Our sincerest condolences go out to Riggleman's friends and family.
7:01 PM 26-year-old Steven Smith, an assistant varsity football coach in Paso Robles, CA, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after shooting a pregnant woman several times, including in the head. He remains in a local jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
For many years some of the top high school football talent in Texas — a state ripe with football players — have ventured north to South Bend, Indiana, to play football at Notre Dame. Well, now it seems that the state of Texas would like to take something back from South Bend for itself. Specifically, the College Football Hall of Fame.
Dallas mayor Tom Leppert has joined a star-studded group of people including Roger Staubach, Deion Sanders, and T. Boone Pickens in campaigning to have the Hall of Fame relocated to Dallas where Leppert believes that they can bring a lot more to the experience.
Things seem to be rolling Roger Staubach’s way. First, his Navy Midshipmen finally beat Notre Dame for the first time since Roger was under center in Annapolis. Now, the ex-Cowboys QB is about to become $700 million richer.
FORBES reports that the Staubach Company, Roger’s real estate services firm, is about to be purchased by a larger conglomerate for a sum about as handsome as he is:
NFL PLAYERS ONCE ONLY HAD SEX WITH ONE GIRL? *GASP*! Sports blog DEUCE OF DAVENPORT has this classic clip from a 1975 interview between old(est) school hottie Phyllis George and Roger Staubach:
