Archive for the 'Skiing' Category

Mar 04

The Roundup: Jeff Teague is a Poster-Maker

Athletes and Celebrities, College Basketball, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, Politics, Skiing, Soccer TheBigLead 36 Comments »

Since Sean Avery’s back, so is Elisha Cuthbert … the end of Virgin Record stores … blind man stomps drinking buddy to death … journalist Letterman ribs gets laid off … the deer that lives with a family in Scotland … after the jump, a dunk of the year candidate in college hoops …

DC summer league fixture was the guy heckling Obama at the Wizards game Friday. (DC Sports Bog)

“Memphis plays in a Conference (USA) where you can win 55 straight league games without breathing too hard,” and other NCAA tourney tidbits. (LA Times)

Bummer: On the heels of Greg Oden being down another 10 days, sharpshooter Martell Webster is out for the regular season. (Blazer’s Edge)

Sad: Woman kills girlfriend (and unborn child) of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle. (Chicago Tribune)

Tough times for Deuce McAllister’s car dealerships. (Friends of the Program)

Edge James begs out of Arizona, and if he’s gone, the Cards would lose two of their top three RBs. (PFT)

Downhill skiing legend Bode Miller prematurely calls it a season … but doesn’t quite announce retirement. (Daily News)

A couple photos of Ben Roethlisberger’s Vegas party. (TMZ)

Brady disses baby mama by getting married in her church! (Inside Track)

Getting listy with it – the most overpaid players in the NBA. (Fox Sports)

Many England soccer fans prefer their girl wearing their favorite team’s colors instead of lingerie. (Lion in Oil)

Austin Carr has fans, apparently. (Shaver Sports)

We will no longer be mentioning the Hoyas anywhere near the bubble until they win four Big East tourney games in a row: St. John’s 59, Georgetown 56, OT. (Wash Post)

Supposedly, Cristiano Ronaldo has added an unattractive unknown female to his resume. (Sports Crackle Pop) Read the rest of this entry »

Mar 05

That Gnarly Skiing Injury

Skiing, Video TheBigLead 14 Comments »

This is graphic. If you get queasy at the sight of limbs bent entirely the wrong way, you may want to look away. The Austrian skiier, Matthias Lanzinger, had his lower left leg amputated yesterday.

Jan 23

PM Roundup: Sasquatch On Mars (No Joke!)

College Football, ESPN, Movies, NBA, Pop Culture, Random, Skiing, Television, Video TheBigLead 31 Comments »

* Or, it’s just a hairy man walking around on Mars. With Video! (CNN)
* Movie on Len Bias? Sure, we’ll see it. (Movie Trailer)
* Three inches of snow falls, so a high school student calls the chief operating officer for the county system and asks why school isn’t cancelled. COO’s wife calls back and leaves a very surly message on the kid’s cell phone. He proceeds to upload audio to his Myspace and Facebook, and hilarity ensues. (Washington Post)
* Pro Extreme Skier dies after jump. (Salt Lake Tribune)
* This has disaster written all over it: Students in Atlanta are getting paid to stay after school and learn. (AJC)
* Former ESPN radio announcer sentenced to 51 months in jail. (Post-Gazette)
* Allen Iverson’s totally like us – he jocks Michael Jackson. (Yardbarker)
* Is Mangina not getting coaching offers because of his girth? (Daily Kansan)
* It was inevitable (and quick): Jerry O’Connell spoofs Tom Cruise. (Funny or Die)

Dec 31

The Roundup: Tom Brady’s Kid, a Marvin Williams Sighting, and Skiing Drunk is Apparently Cool

Baseball, Blogging, College Football, Courts, Legal, NBA, NFL, Skiing TheBigLead 27 Comments »

Not fans of Lindsay Lohan anymore, but something about this myspace photo of her is mildly alluring … we assume only a few of you are at work today, so we’ll get the posts up early and often and head for the bottle around noon … we hate it when people say that Tiffani Thiessen was “fat” or even “chubby” – she was always phenomenal … photos of Tom Brady out partying (read: walking in the street, somewhat bewildered) Sunday night after beating the Giants … the is-Jen-Aniston-preggo stuff doesn’t interest us, but her rear end certainly does … Conan, Letterman and Leno are back, but do you care? …

The skanky-looking chick with bad fake boobs who partied with Jim Leyritz the night he got plastered and got in a drunk driving accident that killed a mother of two. (Busted Coverage)

Sure, Nate McMillian sounds like a mad genius for instituting a drill that got his players hating one another in the preseason. (Can’t Stop the Bleeding)

Everyone used the headline “Sweet 16.” (Joe Sports Fan)

In the UK, skiing drunk is popular. (Daily Telegraph via Fark)

Perhaps this is the season Marvin Williams stops being a tweener and starts being a factor. (True Hoop)

Canseco, blah, blah, book, blah, blah, SI writer, blah, blah. (Steroid Nation)

Some year-end awards. (Ken Dorsey’s Jock Strap)

Was Colin Cowherd blowing us up the biggest sports blog story of the year? (Ballhype)

Texas, home of the quarterbacks! (ESPN)

Not sure how we missed this, but … Tiki Barber, overrated? (Cousins of Ron Mexico)

Was Tom Brady’s son at Saturday’s game to watch him break records and guide the Pats to 16-0? (Inside Track)

You talk generous, you have to talk NFL Network. (Meaningful Collateral)

Think about Biggie and then cue up, “I’ll be missing you” by Puffy when reading this. (Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Blog)

The city (well, just the media) that pushed out Chad Pennington is already turning on Kellen Clemens. (NY Post)