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If you’ve been reading TSB the last couple days, and I know you have, then you’ve seen Spencer’s observations, photos, video, etc. from SEC Media Days. All his work has been outstanding, but he’s freakin’ fired for missing this one. Good thing one of our Campus Watch bloggers – Michael McCall – was on the scene as Kentucky wide receiver Dicky Lyons ...
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NCAA Football
Kentucky Wildcats
Spencer Hall is at SEC Media Days attempting to quantify Steve Spurrier's Awesome Quotient.
Steve Spurrier is running the anchor leg this year, and with good reason. Several good reasons, actually.
One: Spurrier always begins and ends the same way. A running bet in the journo pool ran thusly:
Journo One: He'll start with "Okaaaaaaaay."
Journo Two: Nah, he'll ...
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NCAA Football
South Carolina Gamecocks
Steve Spurrier
Alabama Crimson Tide
Rich "MaZe" Lopez
is the founder and editor-in-chief of KixAndTheCity.com. Lopez will
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him at info@kixandthecity.com .
After an immense build up, including a trip Back to the Future (insert FC link to McFly coverage here) and the creation of a Hyperdunk Hotline (did you do a post on this?), the Nike ...
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NCAA Basketball
Nike
Brook Lopez
Australia
Russia
Spain
Hey, welcome back to America, where we discuss players who matter. The Golden State Warriors, who I'm positing these days as America's weirdest team , have inked Monta Ellis to a mighty extension. From The Contra Costa Time :
The Warriors locked up restricted free-agent guard Monta Ellis with a six-year deal worth $66 million, according to an NBA insider. However, Golden State could be in ...
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NBA
Golden State Warriors
Monta Ellis
Spencer Hall is at SEC Media Days marveling at Bobby Petrino's reflection showing up in the mirrors in the Wynfrey ballroom.
It's quiet...too quiet. No subpoenas today, no jabs at other coaches...even questions about the Atlanta Falcons fiasco can't rile Bobby Petrino. I'm craving Spurrier's appearance if only because he's our last and best hope for a bomb thrown in the form of a jab at ...
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NFL
ESPN
Bobby Petrino
Atlanta Falcons
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Madden franchise, EA Sports is throwing a party at the Rose Bowl. After all, music plus large gathering equals a "palooza" being tacked onto the end of something. And I'm not going to lie, this sounds pretty fun. 300 Xbox 360 kiosks plus live music ... Hey, wait a minute, EA! You can't fool me! Who invited Good Charlotte?
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NFL
Okay, so that headline might be overstating things, but there is a bit of a tiff, if you will, developing between D.C. Sports Bog 's Dan Steinberg and the 'Skins.
On Tuesday, Dan took video at Redskins Park during practice of crazed fans. The video featured no players, coaches or anything else remotely associated with the Redskins, other than the fact that the fans were wearing burgundy ...
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NFL
Washington Redskins
Chris Cooley
The Miguel Cotto/Antonio Margarito fight tomorrow night is one of those events that illustrates just how far boxing has moved from the mainstream of the sports universe.
For hardcore fight fans, this is the Super Bowl, the one we’ve been waiting for, an Irresistible Force versus Immoveable Object contest that promises the kind of life-or-death drama that only boxing, at its best, can ...
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MMA & Boxing
Boxing
Too much Rod Benson: Injury update, quarter tricks | Ball Don't Lie
Rod Benson provides you with a simple way to entertain the opposite sex. I guess he didn't realize that just telling the ladies you're a blogger is all it takes to be in:
ESPN launches ‘blogosphere’ ... | We Are the Postmen
I praised ESPN for their blogging efforts in this space ...
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NBA
Rod Benson
ESPN
New Year's resolution right about now: I may have slightly overstated the impact of the invasion of Europe. Well, sort of. Josh Childress remains a unique case , and the one who could have the greatest long-term effect on professional basketball. He's versatile and good, suited to the international game, and primed for the experience of leaving the country.
But Carl Landry ? Delonte West ...
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NBA
New England Revolution
Delonte West
Cleveland Cavaliers
Aurburn coach Tommy Tuberville joins our grand tradition of pointing and looking awesome. Previous examples of awesomeness here , here and here .
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NCAA Football
Tommy Tuberville
Score one for wild speculation! When Derrick Rose and Michael Beasley bumped heads in their first summer league games, I took a stab in the dark that, if the games were a sign, Rose would land with adidas while Beasley could end up integrating into Jordan Brand .
Rose actually went on to also wear Nike Hyperdunks in summer league play before shutting it down with a knee injury, but he has ...
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NCAA Basketball
Derrick Rose
Adidas
Michael Beasley
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Today's Calls: Minor-league baseball vs. WNBA, Nancy Lieberman
vs. Brett Favre, Carlos Zambrano vs. Ryan Braun, Andris
Biedrins vs. Josh Childress and More. The Opening Pitch: Brawls are the new hotness! Not even Nancy Lieberman can stop them! ...
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NBA
A crusade has been launched today against the chanting of “Yankees Suck” during the Boston-New York series this weekend ... and beyond. But not by some sect of Yankee fans who are sick of being told the truth. No, this battle isn’t even being waged from New York. It’s Boston Globe’s Kevin Cullen who is calling for an end to “Yankees Suck” forever:
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Other
Not to make this all Europe, all the time, but for you steadfast separatists and Amero-centrists, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and his name is Bobby Brown. The former Cal State Fullerton guard, whom many thought would have cracked the NBA last season, signed with the Kings despite being avidly pursued by a Euro powerhouse.
From Kings Blog :
It's a guaranteed two-year deal ...
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NBA
Just a quick update straight from my inbox to you today on the status of the NCAA Football 09 patch that is supposed to fix issues with roster editing, depth charts and freezes related to said roster editing. It’s going to be delayed. (Runs and hides for cover, do not throw tomatoes at me.)
Yeah, the initial 5-10 days was what we thought originally. Turns out not to be the case. This ...
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Other
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Spencer Hall is at SEC Media Days. Why
this isn't the death of modern media, we'll never
know. PR Ninja, Volume One. Being the coach of a team for sixteen years must imbue you with a certain amount of indestructibility, or at least a complete ...
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NCAA Football
Spencer Hall is at SEC Media Days. Why this isn't the death of modern media, we'll never know.
PR Ninja, Volume One. Being the coach of a team for sixteen years must imbue you with a certain amount of indestructibility, or at least a complete lack of fear for what might happen to you. About three questions into the press conference someone asked the Tennessee coach about the subpoena, a ...
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NCAA Football
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Spencer Hall is at SEC Media Days and
marveling at the corporate efficiency of it all. Only
running twenty minutes late! Practically on time for Birmingham. If the Cultural Revolution had taken place in Alabama and not in China, they, too would ...
The MLS All-Stars take on West Ham United tonight in Toronto, a fact you undoubtedly already knew because you’ve all got big punch-and-cake parties planned with your fellow soccer fans here in the States. How does adidas celebrate the first foray into Canada for the All-Star event? Ridiculously ostentatious boots for David Beckham, of course!
2,000 pairs of the adidas Predator ...
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Shanoff's Wake-Up Call: More Crazy Brawling