Category: Non-Rivalry News
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QUINCY CORONERS THE MARQUETTE
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Marquette will not honor Q-Pon: Washington’s Quincy Pondexter pronounces the Golden Eagles legally dead, and the Cause of Death is a Q-Pon bankshot Jack-ed up two seconds before time expires What a(u)topsy-turvy opening day of the NCAA! Three games went into Overtime (which is as many as the whole Tournament last…
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RANDLE ON
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Bears Planted in South, Devils turn Page: Bruins “dove” like a Zeppelin made out of Lead in their Swan Song, but from the darkest depths of Mordor, Dazed and Confused UCLA fans’ allegiances are Going to California and Washington (ASU got No Quarter), hoping they can reach the Stairway, and salvage a…
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RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
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Doggy-Smile, Holmes: As Monty burns, the Dawgs are in Baskers-ville, after biting back the Bears to become Big Dance-bound, while it’s elementary that Cal should still be a sure lock What’s brown and black, and looks good on a trojan? A Doberman Pinscher. And another cockeyed classic canine query: Who let the Dawgs in? …
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AVATARRED AND FEATHERED
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Pandora Boxed Out: Avatar and James Cameron get defused by The Hurt Locker and Cameron’s ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman ever to win Best Director POOR James Cameron. The man who has directed the top two moneymaking films of all time just suffered a crushing blow: The film that…
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THE HEADLESS HORNSMEN FALL SHORT
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Longhorn LEGEND Colt McCoy gets injured early, and Texas falls behind by 18, before giving SLEEPY Alabama a scare, and then a HOLLOW win, 37-21 The Alabama Crimson Tide are the BCS National Champions, because they were able to do what usc couldn’t: They held off a furious comeback in the Rose Bowl by the…
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“What’s YOUR deal?”
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Deal or No Deal: Pom Pom’s whining about Harbaugh going for two is the ultimate “Irony Alert,” and it just cries out to be immortalized on t-shirts How cool would it be if Pete Caroll was confronted with hundreds of “What’s Your Deal” t-shirts when he emerges from the Mausoleum…
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27 YES’S
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A 27-shot salute to the Bronx Bombers on their 27th World Series Title (There’s a good reason why Wooden’s Bruins were called “The Yankees of College Basketball”) The Yankees used to do this all the time. But it’s sure been a while. The highest-paid team in Baseball finally earned their inflated…
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SNAKE PIT(INO)
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No pity for Pitino: Louisville coach and “Father” of 5 admits cheating on his wife, with the woman who tried to extort him for $10 Million I (don’t) pity the fool. Another story about a college coach who is cheating, but it’s NOT about Pete Carroll or Tim Floyd? Yeah,…
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YOU CAN NOT BE SIRIUS!!!
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Billy Don’t Be a Hero: Satellite Radio has the right idea, but the programmers need to understand their genres a little better, and that means losing a couple of Billy’s Imagine — Driving to work in morning rush hour traffic, and NOT having to listen to commercial after commercial. Imagine…
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HI, TROJAN-HATERS
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Introducing the new Trojan-Haters’ MASCOT. Would you like to take her out for a spin? Unbeknownst to her, this barely legal model has won the Trojan-Haters’ Mascot Contest, and will now start to grace these pages on an ongoing basis. You think I should tell her? She was the only…
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PHONEY ORLANDO & YAWN
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Tie a Yellow (and Purple) Ribbon: Magic phone it in from long distance and don’t connect, while Lakers dial up Rings, as Kobe and Ariza answer Call (of Greatness) in easy win that will have L.A. hanging up another banner after cutting off Orlando and NBA Finals in just 5…
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POISON, POISON…AHHH, TASTY FISH!
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Ice Fisher: In early rounds and early in Game 4, Fisher couldn’t shoot fish in a barrel, but with ice-water in his veins, he reels in Orlando ice-holes, sinking a three to force O.T., and another one in O.T. to win the game, as Lakers hook a commanding 3-1 series lead…