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Sun September 09, 2007
Fox News Cool Patriots seem unfocused with Brady's new kid and the addition of Randy Moss. Just kidding, they crushed the Jets like they were Michigan (16)
Yahoo Obvious You're doing it wrong: Dale Jr. fails to make Chase for the Nextel Cup. Again (12)
Newsday Obvious "Newspapers wanted material to fill space between games. That's all I had in mind, something to keep the pot boiling. Sports was living off controversy, opinion, whatever. This was just another exercise in hoopla" (1)
ESPN Cool Dario Franchitti wins the Indycar Championship as Scott Dixon runs out of fuel in turn 4 on the last lap (4)
(Some Guy) Interesting 20-20-20-20 (16)
Yahoo Cool Everybody who can play tennis better than Roger Federer, take one step forward. Whoa, not so fast there, um, everyone else on planet Earth (20)
CNN Amusing This week's AP Poll is out with USC still at the top. Michigan doesn't even receive a single sympathy vote this time (34)
ESPN Cool Official Sunday Night Football discussion thread (409)
YouTube Video Most awesome Australian Rules Football promo you will ever see. With obligatory AC/DC 'Shoot To Thrill' soundtrack and no wussy pads (45)
(AskPatty.com) Cool Deborah Renshaw rips NASCAR a new one, tells why no chicks are driving at stock car racing's top series (31)
ESPN Cool Are you ready for some football? Week 1 NFL discussion thread (1049)
(Rugby World Cup) Obvious Rugby World Cup Day 3 Discussion: Wales start slow, but eventually remind Canada what it means to be professionals (14)
MSNBC Cool Justine Henin defeats Michigan Wolverines for US Open Women's title (26)
Yahoo Spiffy Not wanting to be overshadowed by Michigan, Auburn chokes at home to South Florida (45)
ESPN Cool A-Rod joins Babe Ruth, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa as the only players to hit 50 home runs in three different seasons (101)
ESPN Spiffy Georgia Tech scores 45 points in a half, the most since the 222-0 victory over Cumberland (17)
MSNBC Amusing Michigan starts season 0-2 following loss to Oregon, will consider move to Division III (74)

Sat September 08, 2007
IndyStar Dumbass Idiot offers cop $20 to let him park his Corvette illegally at NFL season opener. Jailarity ensues (29)
(NFL Betting) Amusing Betting odds of the Suck Bowl 2007: the Detroit Lions v. the Oakland Raiders. The Lions couldn't suck their way into the #1 pick of the draft while the Raiders can't manage to sign the #1 pick after they acquire him (28)
London Times Amusing Somehow, England--the country that leads the world in understanding cricket--finds itself baffled by the rules of rugby (9)
CBS News Sad Faced with adversity, the Michigan Wolverines rally together as a team, play tough, and save their season. Just kidding, they rolled over for Oregon (67)
ESPN Spiffy Texas A&M beats Fresno State in triple OT. Best game of the day (27)
(speed) Interesting 2007 Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti flips over to NASCAR starting in 2008 (22)
CBS News Amusing Much like their contests with Iraq and Afghanistan, Army needs overtime to defeat regional insurgent powerhouse University of Rhode Island (13)
Toronto Star Amusing Police say they're going to beef up security at Winnipeg Bombers games because they're having an increasingly difficult time keeping drunk, naked fans off the field (33)
ESPN Obvious ESPN exposes all of you hypocrites (159)
(UFC) Cool UFC Light Heavyweight discussion thread. Who is your pick and how will they win? (52)
(Some Left Turnin' Guy) Followup Another Busch race & Brad Keselowski winds up wrecked. Is Keselowski Polish for "Waltrip"? (10)
YouTube Video A stirring historical reenactment of the Infamous Pine Tar Incident of 1983. Never forget (27)
Yahoo Amusing Having learned nothing from the WUSA experiment, a new professional women's soccer league is slated to take off in 2009 (12)
ESPN Asinine Jamarcus Russell, a number 1 draft pick who has never taken a snap in the NFL, is still crying that he isn't getting paid more than Tom Brady and Peyton Manning and won't play this Sunday (54)
BBC Cool Rugby World Cup Day 2 Discussion Thread: The prospect of getting obliterated by England has the Americans still looking for a rule that’ll let them wear all those nancy tough guy pads (82)
Rocky Mountain News Spiffy Colorado Rockies use record ten pitchers in nine innings, pound Padres (6)
Yahoo Cool Today's official college football discussion thread. Everybody pull up a chair and laugh at Notre Dame and Michigan (1351)
Yahoo Unlikely Cubs, Brewers, and Cardinals all lose. Doesn't anyone want to win the NL Central? (16)
Yahoo Interesting Justine Henin beats Venus Williams to reach US Open final. Serena still doesn't want to talk about it (13)
(Fox Sports) Amusing Brewers manager "itching" a mosquito bite accidentally signals the runner on second to steal third. Anyone living in the Midwest right now can sympathize (12)

Fri September 07, 2007
Yahoo Cool A-Rod's 49th homer of the year moves him past Ernie Banks for 17th on all-time HR list. And he's only 32 years old (52)
(www.mlb.com) PSA Major League Baseball conducts its annual parade of coin flips to determine home field in the event of one-game tiebreakers. The Braves... yeah, right (24)
St. Pete Times Florida Yankees fan, who thinks his Yankees flag was burned by mean-spirited Red Sox fans, plans to sell his house and move. Right after he prosecutes the bastards for committing a hate crime, of course (19)
(Seacoastonline) Asinine UNH quarterback charged with murder (24)
Philly Obvious What a surprise -- the Philadelphia Eagles are probably going to be a major let down this year (80)
(Fox Sports) Amusing FAIL and FAIL (27)
CNN Obvious Raiders dispute imminent signing of No. 1 pick Russell; consider bringing back Jeff George for third time (57)
DallasNews Amusing Trust making T.O. a player Cowboys can bank on. And by bank on, they mean he can be counted on to make a complete ass out of himself (29)
CNN Obvious Clay Buchholz has pitched in three games and already has more wins than $46 million "phenom" Kei Igawa (312)
(Post-Gazette) Interesting Pittsburgh Pirates fire GM David Littlefield (28)
Yahoo Dumbass Cincinnati Bengals WR Chad Johnson displays his good sportsmanship to the Baltimore Ravens. Ha, ha, no.... Says he's going to hit Ed Reed, Ray Lewis and Bart Scott in the mouth, then do a special TD celebration (56)
Starpulse Obvious A-Rod upset as Derek Jeter flirts with Brad Pitt by signing bat and ball for Maddox Jolie-Pitt at Yankees/Mariners game (28)
ESPN Obvious NCAA doesn't accept that a prospective football player -- who could not complete half of requisite courses during five years of high school -- has completed more than was required during a four-month period. Critics claim racism (34)
(RWC Official site) Cool The Rugby World Cup starts in a few hours with France vs Argentina (70)
(Philadelphia Weekly) Interesting In the market for some dubs for your Rolls-Royce, 140 glass paperweights, or a Maserati for you kid? Allen Iverson has an auction for you (2)
Sports by Brooks Interesting Rappers Kanye West and 50 Cent turn to the one man that can help conclude their feud: ESPN's Stuart Scott. Booyah (15)
ESPN Cool Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim outfielder Garret Anderson breaks team record of team by getting at least one RBI in 11 games of consecutiveness (16)
ESPN Asinine Duke lacrosse players trying to suck $30 million from the city of Durham (287)
London Times Interesting Chelsea to be questioned over Ballack conundrum. Said to be "so very scared" (31)
(Some Guy) Amusing An unbiased statistical analysis of the four greatest NBA players of the last decade: Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James and Ralph Macchio (6)
(JC Online) Dumbass Cincinnati Bengals to draft entire Purdue football team as three more players get charged. This time with stabby goodness (20)
Yahoo Cool Peyton Manning throws for 288 yards and three touchdowns while recording two commercials as Colts stampede Saints 41-10 (115)
LA Times Interesting Someone else from the team is finally speaking up to echo Kobe Bryant's complaints that the Lakers haven't delivered on their promises to improve the team. It's Phil Jackson and he may just retire (6)
(NY Daily News) Dumbass You know the feel-good* story that is Rick Ankiel? We may have HGH to thank for that (139)

Thu September 06, 2007
Kansas City Amusing The WNBA finals have begun. In other news, the WNBA has played an entire season without anyone noticing. Again (36)
Yahoo Spiffy In the wake of Appalachian State's victory, the Associated Press changes its polling rules to make lower division teams eligible for ranking. Still no word if Michigan now qualifies for the separate Div I-AA poll (40)
ESPN Interesting MLB: Wagner traded for $2.8 million (14)
ESPN Amusing Cubs bullpen implodes again, Lou Pinella Terror Level skyrockets off the chart. Chicago residents advised to remain inside their homes, Ryan Dempster's family anxiously awaiting word (22)
(Go Chargers!) Stupid NFL sportswriters wish they had a crystal ball for the new season...as it's mentioned 12 times in the same article (2)
(WFAN) Interesting The Yankees have Mr. October and November, but now they have Mr. September (86)
ESPN Cool Let's get ready to ruuuuuuumble. Saints vs Colts opening night NFL discussion thread (634)
SeattlePI Obvious Seahawks get bashed on blindside Bush blitz (46)
Philly Sad The only good pitcher on the Philadelphia Phillies is out for the season, thus ending their playoff hopes. Just kidding, they never had any playoff hopes (15)
ESPN Amusing Rule No. 57: Do not call the opposing punter a wuss from the safety of the stands. He's probably tougher than you are. And if he's from Northern Colorado, he might have to cut you (28)
(The Big Lead) Spiffy Position by position MLB All-Star Team based on hot spouses/girlfriends. Sorry A-Rod, Jeter doesn't count (25)
DallasNews Interesting Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens went to dog fights while growing up. Although that could mean he went last week, since he hasn't grown up yet (28)
ESPN Sad The Baltimore Orioles continue to make significant progress since last month's 30-3 drubbing by the Texas Rangers. Last night, they only lost 17-2 to Tampa Bay (21)
Lancashire Evening Post Obvious David Beckham "was never a problem until he got married" (8)
(Full Metal Wrestling) Sad Ric Flair may be on his way out of the WWE. Wooooooooooooooooo (52)
ESPN Spiffy The greatest manager in the history of English football signs a three-year contract extension (37)
ESPN Unlikely Alan Houston hopes to play five games of basketball in the NBA this season (9)
Yahoo Amusing Former basketball power Serbia rolls over and dies at EuroBasket with an 87-83 loss to Israel, eliminating them from the 2008 Olympics (6)
AP Interesting Don't be looking for much news about Rugby World Cup after world's three biggest news agencies suspend coverage in protest of governing body's NFL-like restrictions on what they are allowed to broadcast or post to the Web (11)
WTOP Dumbass Man shoots self in leg after robbing stadium vendor at Washington Nationals/Florida Marlins game. No word on how many people were robbed by the vendor, Nationals ticket sales (13)
ESPN Cool NFL season kicks off tonight. In related news, the Oakland Raiders have been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs (233)
Fox News Interesting After last night's Yankees game, the question of "Which team will be the one to make A-Rod baseball's first $30 million per year player?" becomes even stronger (85)
Kansas.com Survey Not news: Wichita holding name-the-baseball-team contest. News: Most choices related to city's aviation history. Fark: One related to George Michael. Add your own in thread (with voting) (42)
(Some Guy) Scary Rugby player allegedly cut opponents with a shard of glass he hid in his fingers as he shook hands with them at the end of a game (10)
AFP Interesting Several NBA U.S. American Basketball association players such as uh, some, uh, giving maps to the South Africa (8)
ESPN Cool Former pitcher Rick Ankiel now has as many homeruns as Boston's $70 million mistake, D.L. Drew (55)
Sports by Brooks Interesting Maria Sharapova wins Teen Choice Award over Serena Williams, Annika Sorenstram, the Rutgers women's basketball team and a horse. Insert your own WNBA joke here (9)
(MLSnet) Amusing L.A. Galaxy captain Landon Donovan says Coach Yallop is not going anywhere, "We will run through the wall for that guy, all of us." England's national football coach breaths a sigh of relief that David Beckham can't run (8)
Fox News Dumbass Courageous teammate of courageous quarterback Brady Quinn courageously arrested at Cleveland airport (26)

Wed September 05, 2007
CBC Interesting Pierre Turgeon retires. Career highlights include scoring 500 goals and captaining the last team to play at the Montreal Forum. Good night, French-Canadian man (20)
MSNBC Cool Tiger Woods and Ernie Els heap effusive praise on the PGA's well-planned, player friendly FedEx Cup championship. Just kidding. They said it sucked and was foisted upon the players without any of their input (18)
ESPN Amusing Welcome to your 2007 annual choke job, Phillies fans. But hey, at least the Eagles play on Sunday (39)
Seattle Times Cool After winning against MLS teams Chivas USA 3-1 and Colorado Rapids 5-0 in U.S. Open Cup, USL First Division team Seattle Sounders lose in semifinal to FC Dallas 2-1. Seek expansion status in MLS for 2009 (27)
(Fox Sports) Interesting Giants/Jets unveil plans for new shared stadium, with Mafia turncoats to be buried under each end zone (10)
Philly Dumbass Remember two years ago when Terrell Owens said he'd rather have Brett Favre as his QB instead of Donovan McNabb? Now says that he'd rather have Donovan McNabb over anyone, including Tony Romo (46)
Yahoo Florida Former MLB pitcher Bill Henry would like it to be known that his recent obituary was not actually for himself, but some guy who lived in Florida with the same name who pretended to be him (29)
Yahoo Dumbass Houston Rockets forward Justin Reed arrested for marijuana possession (22)
Yahoo Interesting Obvious: Tiger Woods will one day accumulate a billion dollars in earnings. Slightly less obvious: that's just counting his PGA retirement plan (20)
Philly Amusing Philadelphia Phillies give out maracas, making the game nearly unwatchable. Gary Matthews eventually got a pair of the maracas to annoy Chris Wheeler (with video) (18)
ESPN Cool The Manning Family hosts a Quarterback 101 camp. Summer Camp students include: Ben Roethlisberger, Donovan McNabb, Tony Romo & Jay Cutler. Tom Brady too scared to leave pocket to attend (43)
(Some Guy) Cool NBA to expand use of instant replay. Still no solution for refs throwing games and robbing the Phoenix Suns of a championship that was rightfully OURS (62)
Chicago Sun-Times Interesting Charlie Weis bails on Notre Dame's season already, will start freshman QB against Penn State. Hell, Joe Paterno has hemmoroids more experienced than this kid (61)
Yahoo Amusing Chicago Cubs manager Lou "Captain of the Titanic" Piniella reminds his team that "the only sport where they don't boo is golf" (22)
ESPN Stupid Todo list: Get cut by NFL team. Assault father. Get contract offer from Cincinnati (18)
Denver Post Cool Rockies rally against Giants with a "never say die" attitude, the kind that can only come with a belief in everlasting life and salvation (9)
ESPN Obvious English football fans prefer their games on Saturday rather than Sunday, chiefly because if you get pissed as a fart on Sunday, it makes it that much harder to wake up and stand in the dole queue on Monday (37)
ESPN Amusing Golfers like a birdie and love an eagle. An emu, not so much (5)
EITB24 Ironic Beckham bringing frustration rather than revolution, Ferguson says (36)
ESPN Dumbass Chipper Jones takes the Atlanta Braves' 10th loss in 14 games with grace and dignity. Ha, ha... no, not really. He's blaming the umpires (30)
Yahoo Interesting Yankees win game, but suffer injuries to their Rod, Wang (371)
MSNBC Scary Stunning 17-year old girl could be first girl to be play college football as a lineman...submitter very careful with wording out of fear of being used as a barbell (98)
Yahoo Amusing Rugby World Cup rivals complain about Australia's blatant use of performance enhancing uniforms (9)
ESPN Spiffy Ferrer is Nadal's nadir at the US Open. Roddick prepares for his next huge embarrassing loss to Federer (19)
BBC Obvious English football teams spent more than a billion dollars buying foreign players this summer after concluding English players can't clutch their knees and writhe up to world standards (36)
Miami Herald Misc Shaq actually divorces someone other than Kobe (24)

Tue September 04, 2007
Philly Obvious After unceremoniously getting cut by the Eagles, former Olympian Jeremy Bloom isn't getting any speaking engagements. “We didn’t have that many requests for him, but without football I doubt we’ll get any calls.” (18)
ESPN Obvious In true Yankee fashion, Roger Clemens will not miss more than a month on the DL rehabbing a fake injury (36)
Fox News Sad Determined to suck for another five years, Dale Earnhardt Jr. drags his crew chief with him to Hendrick Motorsports (32)
USA Today Obvious That sound you just heard was Michigan falling out of the USA Today Top 25 coaches poll (133)
(Corn Nation) Interesting The Nazis may have influenced development of American football. And you thought the only Nazi in football was Tom Coughlin (19)
ESPN Obvious Carr focusing Michigan's attention on upcoming Oregon game. In contrast to the rest of the sporting world, which is still focusing on Michigan's epic fail (38)
ESPN Spiffy You'll steal these to use as your own greatest/funniest golf stories EVAR (18)
ESPN Cool Subby says you must / review TMQ's haiku / NFL preview (28)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Jeremy Roenick, who announced his retirement via text message a few months ago, signs a one-year contract with the San Jose Sharks (19)
ESPN Interesting Phil Mickelson, who actually played all 72 holes this past week, will be absent from the upcoming BMW Championship tournament. Presumably this time off will be taken so he can catch his breath (8)
(Some Minor League Guy) Strange With just two games left in season, every team in minor league baseball's Northwest League has a losing record but one (16)
Yahoo Scary Home invaders storm through Houston Texans' cornerback Dunta Robinson's house like... well, like wide receivers storming through the Houston Texans' secondary (12)
Sports by Brooks Amusing Buckeyes and Spartans console Big 10 brethren in Ann Arbor over shocking Appalachian State loss. Just kidding -- they love it (87)
CNN Strange Peter King's column actually makes sense and is a good read this week. Of course, someone else wrote it for him (12)
Sign On San Diego Amusing LaDainian Tomlinson carves up Bears defense before season starts (62)
Yahoo Unlikely Journeyman QB, 37, hopes to reverse Miami Dolphins' quarterback decline in the years since Dan Marino retired. Good luck with that (12)
ESPN Obvious It's September in Chicago, and that can only mean one thing -- the Cubs getting shelled like a basketball court in Grenada (27)
Chicago Tribune Obvious Carlos Zambrano butthurt over fans booing him (64)
(NY Daily News) Obvious Tiki Barber whines that mean old coach Tom Coughlin chased him from football. Waahhh (70)
CNN Obvious Roger Clemens back to his old Yankee habits: After getting shelled, he fakes an injury (334)
CNN Sad Ottawa Lynx play their final baseball game. Team likely to be replaced by Mississauga Mosaics (21)
YouTube Video Bill Murray fills in for Harry Caray in 1987. Will ESPN hire him now please? (15)
ESPN Dumbass Brewers owner gives manager Ned Yost a vote of confidence which means Robin Yount and Paul Molitor should polish up their resumes (13)

Mon September 03, 2007
Yahoo Obvious Just like everyone else, the Bowdens are tired of the Bowdens (21)
ESPN Obvious Defensive end Simeon Rice mulls over Rams free-agent offer, signs with the Broncos instead. Dodged a big fat injury-prone bullet there, St. Louis fans (14)
(MLB.com) Spiffy Maddux to D'backs: Hitters--suck it. First place--not yours. Lawn--off it (40)
ESPN Spiffy Phil Mickelson unexpectedly doesn't choke on 18, wins Deutsche Bank; I guess even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then (17)
CNN Cool Tour de France cyclists have hearts that are 20%-40% larger than average. However, their hearts are still way smaller than Brady Quinn's courageous heart, which is chock full of bravery, fierceness, and an indomitable spirit and will to win (30)
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Amusing Joe Paterno makes good on threat to make misbehaving football team clean the stadium, even calling them back to do a better job (74)
(MLB.com) Spiffy For the 3,000th time, some hitter finds out who his daddy is as Pedro Martinez becomes the 15th major league pitcher to reach 3,000 strikeouts (104)
ESPN Interesting Kenny Rogers forsakes chicken rotation for Tigers rotation (10)
ESPN Spiffy We were *THIS CLOSE* to seeing Danica Patrick drenched in alcoholic beverages yesterday (59)
(Some Guy) Interesting The top 10 worst NFL draft picks (99)
Reuters Obvious South African Springboks "confident" they have a plan to win Rugby World Cup. Let's see – 1. Get in draw with England. 2. Cheat (14)
(Some Guy) Interesting Why Arsenal fans should be against any takeover with the backing of David Dein, so long as he's willing to jump into bed with this sort of person. Arsenal don't need that kind of money (15)
YouTube Video Last two minutes of the Michigan/Appalachian State game (149)



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