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Sun May 25, 2008
(ESPN) Spiffy Lively Lakers look like likely champs; Spurs strive to stave off clamps: WCF Game 3 Discussion Thread (TNT, 8:30pm ET) (29)
(Miami Herald) Spiffy NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 discussion. Race time 5:45pm ET from Concord, North Carolina (673)
(ABC News) Asinine School bans 12 year old girl from playing on boys basketball team because of gender rule. The fact that she is 6 feet tall, scores 30 points a game and far better than the boys has nothing to do with it (76)
(Indycar.com) Cool Your Indianapolis 500 discussion thread. Online streaming and live timing available in link (680)
(ESPN) Obvious "The sobering results of Game 1 reveal just how ordinary the Penguins' Eastern Conference opponents truly were." (73)
(YouTube) Video May 25, 1965. "The Phantom Punch". Sonny Liston challenges Muhammad Ali in an attempt to retake the world heavyweight title. Watch the short, controversial fight still argued about to this day (30)
(ESPN) Misc Tigers score 19 runs in their victory over the Twins today to move into a share of last place in the AL Central (12)
(BBC) Obvious Avram Grant sacked as Chelsea manager. Jose Mourinho one of the favourites to replace him. Oh the joys of being a billionaire (17)

Sat May 24, 2008
(CNN) Strange Sss (37)
(TSN) Interesting Windass blows Hull into English premiership (8)
(THE OCTAGON) Spiffy UFC 84: Ill Will discussion thread. BJ Penn vs. Sean Sherk (148)
(Some NHL Guy) Spiffy Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals, Penguins vs Red Wings, 8:00pm on Vs (778)
(ESPN) Cool Since the playoffs don't start until the road team wins a game, Celtics' postseason Game 1 Discussion thread. (AKA game 3 ECF discussion thread) (147)
(Seattle Times) Amusing Mariners OF Ichiro Suzuki assesses his team's pathetic play: "If I was not in this situation, and I was objectively watching what just happened this week, I would probably be drinking a lot of beers and booing." (44)
(ESPN) Hero MLB Pitchers: 2, Cancer: 0 (26)
(Fox Sports) Unlikely Zitpwned (19)
(Sky News) Asinine Before you start feeling too bad for John Terry and that PK he missed for Chelsea, you should know that he now might be investigated for spitting at Man United's Carlos Tevez during the match. Instant karma's gonna getcha (37)
(ESPN) Obvious First-place Cubs still flying high, at least until discovering they don't get to play the Pirates 50 times a year (56)

Fri May 23, 2008
(OC Register) Dumbass C'mon, who HASN'T tried to drug a Russian Olympic gold medalist ice dancer? (33)
(ESPN) Followup No one can stop the Franzen, but one damn concussion... Franzen to miss game 1 of Stanley Cup Finals (44)
(ESPN) Amusing Baseball team trades its pitcher -- for ten maple bats. Suicide watch now implemented (38)
(ESPN) Amusing Jose Canseco's cons outweigh his pros as John McCain's running mate (4)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Game 2 of the NBA Western Conference Finals playoff thread: Will the Spurs bounce back from their epic collapse or will Kobe once again lure them into a false sense of security and dominate in the end? (47)
(ESPN) Amusing Pittsburgh fish market refusing to sell octopi to people who might be Red Wings fans (40)
(CNN) Amusing Latest MLB power rankings. Looks like SI.com isn't worried about getting fined by the No. 4 team (46)
(BBC) Amusing Today's F1 Quote of The Day is from Ecclestone to Mosley: "If he wants me to be the enemy, he should be very careful because if he makes me an enemy. I could make sure he never whips anybody again" (19)
(Philly) Followup Now that the umps have taken away a homerun from A-Rod, as opposed to just the Mets, the Yankees decide to make a few alterations to the stadium (30)
(Some Guy) Amusing Newspapers are slowly getting the hang of this Web thing: Shameless galleries and slideshows of NFL cheerleaders do the trick (15)
(Yahoo) Obvious FC Dallas fires coach after embarrassing loss to Galaxy -- now that's what you call accountability (14)
(Fox Sports) Unlikely "Danica Patrick will not change the world by winning the Indy 500. She will change it by becoming an agent of reform, by using her victory to convince men to start measuring a woman by her skill instead of her bra size" (205)
(Canoe) Video The 25 most brutal KOs in UFC history. Owwwww (116)
(Kansas City) Interesting Big 12 pushing for legislation to allow basketball players to sign professionally out of high school or commit to NCAA for three-year minimum. Kevin Durant and Michael Beasley unavailable for comment (33)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Is Dice-K the worst pitcher ever to start 8-0? (58)
(YouTube) Amusing After more than 20 years, finally - a decent tirade out of a Yankees manager (26)
(foosball water boy) Spiffy Rivals ranks the top 10 college football coaches (slideshow) (65)
(IndyStar) Interesting Debate over so-called "Danica Rule" is almost as hot as Danica (93)
(ESPN) Unlikely ESPN debates "Could An NFL Player Score A Touchdown Against A Bear?" Panelists obviously didn't watch Chicago at all last season (48)

Thu May 22, 2008
(Metro Boston) Dumbass Not News: The New England Patriots face cheating allegations. News: This time for something new. Fark: Revelations come from a guy called Tucker (126)
(CNN) Cool Joe Paterno tells conference commissioners to get off his damn lawn and get us a damn college football playoff going already, calling the arguments against a playoff "bogus" (21)
(Some Guy) Strange It has been used as a beer mug, a dog-food bowl and a baptismal font, and has visited Lenin's Tomb. Now it has been licked and dry humped by Hayden Panettiere (35)
(AP) Spiffy Hey look, there's another NBA game on tonight. Some teams from Boston and Detroit, apparently (86)
(IndyStar) Misc Colts fans peeved that season-ticket waiting list stays long despite new, bigger stadium. Packers fans console them with thought that at least they might get tickets in their lifetimes (16)
(WRAL) Cool 96-year-old woman drives laps at Indy Motor Speedway, leaves left blinker on entire time (11)
(Sports by Brooks) Cool Chris Cooley to wed ex-Redskins cheerleader (with provocative & possibly Not safe for work pics) (38)
(ESPN) Obvious NFL veteran: "for a young guy to get paid that kind of money and never steps foot on an NFL football field, it's a little disheartening" (36)
(Sports by Brooks) Obvious NHL star asked to rank quality of groupies: 1) Russian 2) Swedish 3) Canadian - American women nowhere to be found (36)
(ESPN) Stupid Baseball might try instant replay in fall league. Beacuse if there's one thing baseball needs, it's something to slow down the play (33)
(Sports by Brooks) Stupid Outfielder Luis Gonzalez rips Florida Marlins fans for not showing up to games; In other news, the Florida Marlins have fans (22)
(ESPN) Amusing Pedro Martinez backtracks on talk of retirement after the 2008 season, says he wants to stay on the DL for at least another 2-3 years (14)
(USA Today) Strange Minn. baseball team celebrates Larry Craig by giving away 2,500 bobble-foot-in-a-toilet dolls. This follows rectal exam giveaway in Wisconsin (51)
(CBC) Silly News: Women ski jumpers sue to ban their male counterparts from competing in Olympics Fark: They sue the wrong organization (114)
(Some Guy) Obvious David Beckham caught scoping out some cheerleader ass again at last night's Lakers game (84)
(ESPN) Dumbass Gagne to have his shoulder looked at, yeah thaaat's the problem (15)
(New York Daily News) Obvious Yankees begin process of grooming Joba for the disabled list (78)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Randy Moss has taken up Soccer. It's Wes Welker's fault (81)
(ESPN) Dumbass Fan plummets to his death at Turner Field after getting plastered and deciding that sliding down a long-ass handrail is a good idea. That does it. Let's ban handrails (139)
(LA Times) Amusing San Antonio Spurs hold Kobe Bryant to two points for entire first half, take insurmountable 20-point lead... and still manage to blow it (90)
(Home Run Derby) Interesting Bud Selig hearts White Sox GM Kenny Williams, as FireKennyWilliams.com has been registered ... by Major League Baseball (27)
(SeattlePI) Dumbass At the rate Team BMW/Oracle is crashing boats, we'll recapture the America's Cup by 2150. Dennis Conner cackles with glee (11)
(Some Guy) Video Albert Pujols injures 2 Padres in a half inning. Will injure the 7 remaining players when he feels like it (57)
(YouTube) Video Expensive 12 Car F1 crash, Why do they attempt to race these in the rain ? (72)
(CNN) Weird T.O. says he is "content" with his Cowboys contract, expiring after this season, and doesn't want to talk about an extension. Nah, I'm kidding, he really said -- wait, what, he did say that? (22)

Wed May 21, 2008
(ESPN) Amusing Humpy Wheeler steps down as president of Lowe's Motor Speedway. Possible replacements include Intercoursy Wedger, Coitusy Pulleyer and Horizontalmamboey Inclined-Planer (18)
(AP) Followup Jeter shakes off sore wrist. Wang stiff but won't get pulled (19)
(WSRZ.COM) Stupid U.S. Soccer team announces the 22 player lineup for their match in England. So... that makes about 32 people who are actually excited (36)
(Some Guy) Followup The UEFA Final shootout in its entirety (36)
(CNN) Obvious Less than 24 hours after losing on "Dancing With The Stars", the Dolphins announce that Jason Taylor will not be participating in their upcoming mini-camp (15)
(Mirror.co.uk) News Manchester United defeats Chelsea in sudden death for 2nd straight UEFA championship (91)
(Sports by Brooks) Followup Jason Taylor finally dancing his way off of the Dolphins' roster? (36)
(Sports by Brooks) Spiffy Rick Sutcliffe kicks cancer's ass, which means we can go back to posting that video of him drunk in the broadcast booth (with video, of course) (20)
(ESPN) Interesting Two-time Indy 500 winner and one-time "Dancing With The Stars" winner Helio Castroneves is the latest open-wheel star contemplating a jump to NASCAR riches (37)
(YouTube) Obvious With the NBA playoffs in full swing, here is a reminder of what true awesome is (150)
(New York Daily News) Scary Bad day for the New York Mets end in failure, bloody concussion (37)
(LA Times) Obvious San Diego Padres ready to hold fire sale. The only problem is that it's like trying to sell damaged goods at the Dollar Store (32)
(Yahoo) Obvious Atlanta Falcons hope they can make everybody forget about Michael Vick by throwing $72 million at QB Matt Ryan (47)
(USA Today) Interesting Derek Jeter goes down on A-Rod's comeback (29)
(Sports by Brooks) Obvious Nine months after leaving ESPN, Dan Patrick's ratings-less radio show is being broadcast live on three Top 25 market radio stations (38)
(ESPN) Dumbass "We've scheduled the NHL finals and the NBA Eastern Conference finals on the same days. Let's see if anyone notices" (120)
(BBC) Spiffy Chelsea vs. Manchester United. It's your official Champions League final discussion (543)
(leagueunlimited) Cool Punters favour Maroons over Cockroaches as Rugby Leagues State of Origin 1 game is set to kick off (18)
(CNN) Dumbass With the No. 1 draft pick going to the Bulls, what is D'Antoni thinking now? Crap, crap, crap (57)

Tue May 20, 2008
(ESPN) Interesting NFL considering adding 17th regular-season game. Patriots scrambling to trademark 20-0 (90)
(ESPN) Obvious Apparently, Lance Armstrong is the Pope of Cancer survivors (24)
(ESPN) Interesting NBA Eastern Conference Finals to determine the loser to the Lakers: Game one thread (42)
(Some Guy) Interesting The 2012 Super Bowl will be in Indianapolis, this isn't really a surprise because the only competitors were Houston and Arizona, and nobody wanted one of those (64)
(Some Guy) Weird Now starting for the Miami Dolphins... Maria Sharapova? (36)
(Sports by Brooks) Amusing Lakers & Spurs Game 7 travel plans up in the air - actually, they won't be, since their chartered airline is going out of business (11)
(New York Daily News) PSA Mike Piazza announces he's officially retiring from baseball, still not gay (52)
(Some Guy) Interesting Chelsea's Ashley Cole was injured in training and may miss out on his chance to be a two- time Champions League runner up (19)
(Telegraph) Followup Newcastle United's Joey Barton jailed for 'violent and cowardly' attack. As expected he fell to the ground and began writhing around when he was placed in handcuffs (9)
(Sports by Brooks) Obvious Gun-toting, pot-smoking FSU football player suspended for team's first two games against Western Carolina and Chattanooga. Will return just in time to face ACC powerhouse Wake Forest (24)
(ESPN) Followup Casino: Barkley still hasn't paid (25)
(Free Press) Sad While Red Wings, Pistons thriving, embarrassed and embarrassing Tigers analyze their suckage. "We used to pride ourselves on beating those high-dollar teams. Now we're that team we used to beat." (34)
(The Local (Sweden)) Amusing Swedish athletics star Carolina Klüft upset because arrangers make her look like Pippi Hügebøøbies (34)
(ESPN) Scary NFL Owners opt out of labor deal, scheduling a possible lockout in 2011. Coming in 2012 to the NFL: the Glowing football, gratuitous diving and an exclusive TV deal with Versus (47)
(Bloomberg) Obvious "We've not found Moscow to be the most hospitable place for English football fans.'' 6,000 Russian riot police most likely agree (11)
(Philly) Amusing Having spent his money on two divorces and enough steroids to turn a mouse into an elephant, Jose Canseco is now so broke he'll box anybody for money (106)
(Some Guy) Amusing Tom Brady's offseason can't possibly get any better: Posing for photos backstage with Miss USA and Miss Teen USA (34)
(Unlikely Science) Amusing New research has indicated that Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is not a cheating diver, but has a rare form of narcolepsy (17)
(ESPN) Followup After paying off $400,000 debt, Charles Barkley says he will never gamble again. Submitter offers 2:1 odds that he will (15)
(New York Daily News) Interesting Former referee Tim Donaghy claims prosecutors shut down their investigation to spare NBA embarrassment of discovering that other refs were also betting on games (30)
(faceoff.com) Dumbass Having worn out his welcome in the NHL, oft-suspended Chris Simon signs with Russian team (14)
(CNN) Dumbass Rather than rip his team, Hank Steinbrenner decides to try a little bit of positive reinforcement for the Yankees -- and ends up sounding just as stupid (16)
(New York Daily News) Sad NY Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez may retire at the end of the year to care for his daddy, which comes as a complete surprise to Mets fan who though Pedro was done years ago (sad tag for his dad) (38)
(ESPN) Interesting MRI discovers excuse for Andruw Jones' excessive suckage this season (22)
(Newsday) Amusing Remember the guy who buried the Ortiz jersey in the new Yankees Stadium cement? Apparently he also buried a 2004 Official Program, Schilling's bloody sock, and Byung Hyun Kim (32)
(Sports by Brooks) Amusing The latest to doubt Brett Favre's permanent retirement? Peyton Manning (10)
(Sports by Brooks) Followup By squatting behind home plate for Jon Lester's no-no, Jason Varitek becomes the first in MLB history to catch four no-hitters (65)
(The Sun) Interesting Drunken football yobs who cause trouble at tonight's Champions League Final will be stripped naked, given ice-cold showers and chained to their beds. Those Russians know how to party (17)
(Yahoo) Spiffy I felt a great disturbance in The Hive, as if thousands of Hornets fans cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced (32)
(BBC) Obvious Soccer friendly between England and USA forces TV scheduling conflicts in the UK. Both American soccer fans hope ESPN 8 picks it up stateside (33)
(CNN) Dumbass Yanks auctioning Thurman Munson's uniform, Lou Gehrig's jacket, Babe Ruth's 712th HR ball, and Jackie Robinson's bat for 2008 All-Star game. If baseball only had a central repository of sorts for historic memorabilia (21)

Mon May 19, 2008
(Some Guy) Cool Red Wings outshoot the Stars and head to the Stanley Cup Finals to battle Penguins (94)
(ESPN) Cool Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester, one year removed from beating cancer, throws a no-hitter against the KC Royals (219)
(ESPN) Interesting The Spurs have never won a series after trailing 0-2. The Hornets have never advanced to the Conference Finals. One of these statements will no longer be true after tonight. It's the Game 7 Spurs@Hornets thread (297)
(Some Guy) Cool 57-year-old driver sets the quarter-mile world record for a nitrous-powered car with a time of 6.066 seconds. Oh yes, and by the way, he drives a logging truck as a trade. STAY off his lawn (8)
(Yahoo) Obvious Kansas City Royals counting on young closer Joakim Soria for years to come. And by "years to come", it is presumed the article's author means "until the Royals have to pay him what he's worth" (16)
(Some Puckhead) Interesting Will Dallas make history? Will the Wings complete yet another classic Detroit collapse? Will the Franzen be ressurected? Its your NHL Western Conference Game Six Discussion Thread (767)
(Miami Herald) Interesting Idea to structure NBA draft like MLB's draft makes too much sense to consider (28)
(Houston Chronicle) Strange Houston high school to hire future Hall-of-Famer Craig Biggio as its baseball coach, and ex-NFL QB Don Hollas as its football coach. In Texas, sports can't be left to mere amateurs (22)
(FanHouse) Video Two guys punch each other simultaneously, leading to a rare double knockout in mixed martial arts (50)
(NHL.com) Sad Flyers eliminated by Penguins. NHL decides to rub it in. (LGT screenshot) (54)
(Sports by Brooks) Unlikely Miami Dolphin All-Pro Jason Taylor: "In 10 years from now, when I'm 43 years old, I'm hoping that people are talking more about the things I've done in the film business than what I did in football or dancing" (26)
(CNN) Unlikely Chicago Cubs ranked #1 in this week's MLB power rankings. Book it. Done (148)
(TSN) Silly Americans don't get hockey. Versus to revive the glowing puck, glowing Elisha Cuthbert (80)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Spiffy Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade buys mother a church. Most mothers would be happy if you just called them occasionally. After all she carried you for 9 months, fed you, bathed you, kissed your skinned knees, and this the thanks she gets... sniff (12)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Think Ichiro Suzuki is only a great hitter? Think again -- he just became the Mariners' all-time stolen base leader (53)
(MSNBC) Obvious Andy Roddick efficiently eliminates his impending second round loss at the French Open (14)
(ESPN) Amusing Major league umpire readily admits mistake on home run ball, navy blue outfit (33)
(ESPN) Amusing In a shocking move, Bengals cut freshly reinstated linebacker Odell Thurman instead of signing him to a long term contract (29)
(AP) Obvious Hank Aaron still considers himself the Home Run King. He won't criticize Bonds, but states, "be careful before you make choices. Avoid shortcuts. They are quick fixes and unrewarding." (35)
(Some Starbucks Drinker) Obvious Snobby, Seattle-based writer pens column: "On Not Being Interested in Sports", would like you to check out his other works: "On Not Owning a TV", and "Your Favorite Band Sucks" (45)
(Sports by Brooks) Dumbass Detroit Lions employees might consider disabling that pesky "reply to all" feature before responding to interoffice "f--- 'em all" email about the team's fans (25)
(FanHouse) Amusing New York Jets cheerleading auditions are open to drag queens; fiercest ones will try out for the defensive line as well (30)
(ESPN) Interesting Wang beaten again (59)
(CNN) Scary During a practice run at Indianapolis, AJ Foyt IV's car burst into flames, sending him crashing into the wall. What happened? The fuel cap blew off because some moron in his crew forgot to tighten it (18)
(Yahoo) Followup Celtics delay epic fail until Eastern Conference Finals (79)

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