Game Recap: Texas prevailed in a slow, half-court contest with Oral Roberts, 66-56, to improve to 11-0. Oral Roberts may not be a name team, but the Golden Eagles are a solid ball club that gave the #4 Longhorns all they could handle for forty minutes.
Texas was lucky to [...]
Texas wins again to move to 11-0 on the season, but it wasn't the easiest victory the 'Horns have enjoyed this season. The game was close throughout, with Texas assuming command late to secure the win. Once again, I couldn't see the action and AW will be along later [...]
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It isn't that long ago that we heard some talk of Charles Oakley wanting to make a comeback in the NBA. Unless a team like the Pacers wants to roll the dice on [...]
Florida State’s football program has been on a consistent downward spiral since losing to Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl following the 2000 season. After word broke Tuesday of another scandal 2007 may be remembered as the year that the Seminoles hit rock bottom causing fans to [...]
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The practice court, that is. Michael Jordan is the Managing Member of Basketball Operations for the Charlotte Bobcats, but you wouldn't necessarily know it based on his actions. Jordan has maintained almost too low of a profile since joining the [...]
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The Atlanta Falcons are a mess right now, and if there's one person in the National Football League who knows how to clean up messes, it's Bill Parcells. Filed under: Louisville Basketball, Big East Basketball, Conference USA Basketball
It took longer than anticipated, but Louisville Coach Rick Pitino notched his 500th career win with an 85-75 win over Marshall. Louisville failed in two prior efforts against Dayton and Purdue. Filed under: NCAA Basketball Injuries, NCAA Basketball Media Watch, Featured Stories
Love or loathe Dick Vitale, you have to hope for a full recovery from surgery on his vocal chords. Vitale had the surgery to deal with ulcers on the left vocal chord. He [...]
Filed under: Atlanta, Braves, Fantasy Baseball, The Dugout
During the 1986 baseball season, I was three years old. Instead of appreciating the Royals' season as reigning world champions, I was watching Captain Kangaroo. I was probably asleep when that ball rolled through Bill [...]
Bobby Bowden probably punched a few walls today.
ESPN and other sources are announcing today that as many as 20 Florida State students were involved in a cheating scandal. According to FSU, players got answers directly from a football team tutor so that they were able to breeze through a few [...]
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Filed under: Knicks, Pacers, Eastern, NBA Gossip, Indianapolis, New York
The Pacers stomped the Knicks 119-92 last night, and it seems they entered the game with a bit more motivation than usual. Before the game, they caught [...]
Despite his poor performance last Sunday against the Eagles, Tony Romo has done a pretty good job in his first full season as starting QB for the Cowboys. He leads the league in INTs, but he also ranks 3rd in the NFL in passing yards, 2nd [...]
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT TO KILL THE BOOKIES AND THOSE ISLAND ACCOUNTS!!! WE WOULD HAVE WON
LAST NIGHT IF THE VIKES DIDN'T TURN THE BALL OVER LIKE A HOT POTATO. HOWEVER, WE GOT THEM TONIGHT.
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I love college football…but I have a confession to make. I’m totally one of those “gamer girls.” Yeah, one of those. Anyone out there, I’ll challenge you to a one-on-one game of Halo, right here, right now.
And there’s nothing that makes me cream in my jeans faster than a combination [...]
Filed under: Celtics, Bulls, Rockets, NBA Media Watch, Boston, ESPN
ESPN.com's Bill Simmons published his annual NBA trade value column this morning. It's a heady task, leaving yourself open to endless criticism, pulling cohesive narrative value out of a glorified [...]
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With Rich Rodriguez hired as the head coach at Michigan, WVU is turning back the clock and interviewing several candidates with Mountaineer roots.
Terry Bowden has called it his dream job and he is considered one of the [...]
Back to back losses to Texas A&M.
Let that sink in a minute, if it hasn't already. If you need help getting depressed about it, remember that Aggieland exists for one reason only - beating Texas - and we lost to a head coach who was fired despite winning two [...]
Back in June, 2006, Trooper Taylor did a radio interview during which he told of the time that his mother made he and his 14 brothers and sisters clean up a beach they had been visiting. What made it extraordinary is that they didn’t make the mess [...]
Filed under: New York, Yankees, AL East, Breaking News, The Word, PEDs
Over the weekend, Andy Pettitte came forward with an admission that he used HGH. Fernando Vina went on ESPN and announced that he, too, had crossed [...]
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A look inside Monday Night Football. Filed under: Knicks, New York, MSG
The Big Lead has an incredible video from 1982 which you should definitely watch, but definitely not at work with the sound on. F-words, b-words, s-words. No, not that s-word. A different one -- one which takes a [...]
The restraining order against Elijah Dukes that we told you about yesterday has been dropped after the woman who requested it failed to show up for a court hearing. From the AP:Dukes, who was traded last month by the Tampa Bay Rays [...]
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USC has sent a counter-proposal to the Coliseum Commission in their ongoing negotiations over control of the historic stadium saying, “put up or shut up.”
The counterproposal sent to the commission gives the panel “the first opportunity to try to raise the funds and do the improvements itself, but if [...]
Implying that father Bush is disappointed with the performance of his son as President, Bill Clinton says that the first thing his wife would do next year is to send Presidents 41 and 42 on a global mission to repair diplomatic damage of the George W. Bush administration.
”Well, the [...]
Because officials at LAX have dragged their feet at modernizing the airport’s antiquated baggage system, they have decided instead to punt responsibility for fixing the system to the airlines.
Commissioners said the baggage-screening system planned for five terminals had become too technologically complicated and was part of an overall project [...]
Filed under: Atlanta, Braves, NL East, MLB Transactions
Who says you can't go home? Javy Lopez, who spent the first 12 years of his career with the Braves, officially re-signed with the team this weekend when he inked a minor league deal [...]
What started out as an athletic department investigation into academic fraud mainly outside of the Florida State football team now looks likely to name twelve or more current Seminole football players.
The investigation - which was initially reported to the NCAA in September - found that twenty-three FSU athletes [...]
In the meantime, stay warm the (new) West Virginia way:
At least in his short, uh, blaze of [...]
I love Rick Barnes. He is not The best college basketball coach in the country, but he is certainly one of the most honest, most demanding, and, I’m happy to say, most quotable. Barnes is especially honest after losses or, as in the case of Saturday’s game, a disappointing win. [...]
Sorry boys and gals but the ole production here may be on a bit of a decline for the next two weeks. Because I haven't taken many of my vacation days this year and they evaporate at the end of the year my last day of work [...]
Once considered a front-runner for several coaching vacancies, Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly has signed a new contract with the Bearcats.
The new deal voids the remaining four years on Kelly's current contract. He'll receive a guaranteed salary between $1.2 million and $1.35 million over the next five years [...]
"As far as my reaction to that job, we are Michigan State. So that's my reaction."A portion of the first sentence was [...]
With yesterday's loss to the Miami Heat, the Minnesota Timberwolves now have a record of 3-20. Can the Wolves win 10 games this season and avoid posting the worst record in NBA history? It's going to be a close call, folks. That's why we've decided [...]
When you’ve been caught with your hand in the cookie jar its best not to deny it. Last week’s release of the Mitchell Report put nearly 100 current and former major league baseball players under public scrutiny by linking them directly to steroid use.
South Carolina kicker/punter Ryan [...]
NBX Wisegirl Jessica thinks you should mull the following trends over before sending in your Play of the Day pick today...
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Lakers are 4-0 ATS in the last 4 games between these two teams.
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Larry Coker, who was fired from Miami after the 2006 season despite a 60-15 record in six seasons at the helm, is reportedly a candidate to become coach at Southern Methodist, a job that has been open for eight weeks.
Fat City. Bowl season starts in two days. You've been warned. [...]
Stewart Mandel, SI.com: Is the Bowl Championship Series giving us the best matchups? It appears not. How a proposed Orange Bowl matchup between Oklahoma and Virginia Tech was busted by the BCS.
