Kent State is the biggest surprise in this week’s BCS standings
Thanks to Notre Dame, the suspense was all but taken out of Sunday's BCS standings release. The Irish, who are No. 1 in the BCS standings, defeated USC on Saturday to lock up a spot in the BCS...
View ArticleFour days after criticizing player safety rules, Bernard Pollard likely to...
On the opening series of the Baltimore Ravens' 13-10 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers last Sunday night, Ravens safety Bernard Pollard let up on a play, assuming that quarterback Byron Leftwich was...
View ArticleAlex Smith gets left behind as 49ers move on with a new quarterback
The old notion that a player can't lose his job due to injury is used almost exclusively by terrible coaches. Good coaches play the best players, regardless of how they got their chance. And Alex...
View ArticleSaints DT Brodrick Bunkley kicks 49ers OL Alex Boone in the head, is ejected...
With all the folderol about whether Ndamukong Suh did or did not kick Matt Schaub in the man-parts during the Houston Texans' overtime win over the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving day, the move that New...
View ArticleSunday Scene, Week 12: Colin Kaepernick delivers again, restates his fantasy...
The second game of the Colin Kaepernick era is now in the books, and the kid is 2-0. Last week, he shredded one of the league's top-ranked defenses. This week, he was at the controls as the Niners won...
View ArticleWatch Jason Zucker score 5 seconds into OT, tying AHL record (VIDEO)
The Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League have been unable to get away from being part of record-breaking feats this month. First, on Nov. 2, the Heat scored two shorthanded goals in three...
View ArticleGiants silence their critics with 38-10 win over the Packers
Eli Manning passed for 249 yards and three touchdowns and the defense produced five sacks and a pair of turnovers as the New York Giants quieted their critics in a convincing 38-10 win over the Green...
View ArticleBrandon Weeden, several Bears headline Week 12′s injury roundup
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning leads our Sunday night Rx report after undergoing a concussion test and X-rays after taking a shot to the head in Sunday's 17-9 win over the Kansas City...
View ArticleWeek 12 MVPs: RG3 still leads the pack
Robert Griffin III, QB, Washington Redskins: Yeah, we're going a few days back here, but could we really start our MVP list this time with anyone but the man who has thrown for eight touchdowns and...
View ArticleLate blunder by Norman Powell dooms struggling UCLA to embarrassing loss
In an embarrassing second-half collapse filled with ill-advised shots and cringe-inducing defensive lapses, UCLA guard Norman Powell made the most egregious mistake of all. Powell lost track of the...
View ArticleFlorida teacher hits fairly routine half-court shot, goes absolutely nuts...
Usually, half-court shots that end up on high school highlight reels land there because they were scored in clutch, buzzer-beating situations, often with a game on the line. During a recent Florida...
View ArticleGiants lose Andre Brown to broken fibula
The New York Giants cruised to a 38-10 win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night, but they did not emerge from the game unscathed. No. 2 running back Andre Brown suffered a broken fibula after a...
View ArticleBreakfast Buffet: Elias Harris’ improvement helps spark Gonzaga’s hot start
1. Gonzaga's Elias Harris is quietly showing signs of disproving those of us who have said his game has plateaued the past couple seasons. Harris had 24 points on 9 of 11 shooting and 10 rebounds in...
View ArticleWeek 12 Splash Plays: Reggie Bush and Michael Bush score at the same time
Bush and Bush score simultaneous touchdowns At exactly 54 seconds past 2:03 Eastern Time on Sunday, both Reggie Bush of the Miami Dolphins and Michael Bush of the Chicago Bears hit the end zone. Ray...
View ArticleHarrison Barnes arrives with Dunk of the Year candidate on Nikola Pekovic...
If you're anything like me, you're having a little bit of trouble shaking loose the cobwebs following a four-day holiday weekend full of eating, driving back and forth between family members' couches,...
View ArticleEvan Longoria and Rays sign $100 million extension, deal could go through 2023
The term "Tampa Bay Ray for life" has more or less been made an impossibility by both the philosophy and financial limitations of baseball's little franchise that could. Evan Longoria, however, was...
View ArticleLuke Rockhold off Strikeforce event with wrist injury
Strikeforce: Champions just took another hit. The Jan. 12 event, which is rumored to be Strikeforce's last, lost Luke Rockhold to injury. The middleweight champion has a wrist injury and had to...
View ArticleWhat We Learned: In which the NHL goes back to lying about Don Fehr
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team....
View ArticleWho got shook worse: Tony Parker or Paul Pierce? (VIDEOS)
Exhibit A, from the San Antonio Spurs' visit to Indianapolis to take on the Indiana Pacers on Friday night, courtesy of Indy reserve Lance Stephenson: And Exhibit B, from the Boston Celtics' trip to...
View ArticleThe Chinese government declined a political party’s application to name...
Goofball fringe political parties, candidates, motions, petitions, and movements aren't unique to American politics. Neither is an obsession with sports that borders on the fanatical and often crosses...
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