The Roundup: Duck! Flying Shoes Are Dangerous
Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, Media Gossip/Musings, NASCAR, NBA, NFL, Other College Sports December 15th. 2008, 8:00am
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Grizzlies sign Darius Miles … he’s told to keep a safe distance from OJ Mayo at all times. (Yahoo Sports)
Auburn recruit on new Tigers coach Gene Chizik, who went 5-19 at Iowa State: “That ain’t attractive.” (Huntsville Times)
Tim Tebow has the 4th most Heisman trophy votes of all-time. Reggie Bush is 5th. If Tebow stays, he almost certainly boots OJ from 1st place. (One More Dying Quail)
Fantasy baseball alert: Some strange Bill James 2009 predictions for Phil Hughes and Barry Zito, among others. (Roto Authority)
Maryland tops UNC for the college soccer title. (DC Sports Box)
Houshmandzadeh will not be making a 27-mile walk now that the Bengals have two victories. (Vent About Sports)
Bill Parcells is making a move on Antonio Bryant … which of course, is illegal. (Joe Bucs Fan)
Huge weekend for A-10 hoops, highlighted by 35 from Christmas in the win over Tennessee. (NY Daily News)
No positive news to report on the Rodney Rogers front. (NY Times)
With 19 defeats this season, NBA rookie Kevin Love has lost more times than he did in high school and at UCLA, combined. (LA TImes)
Urinal cakes and the Bengals. (Who Dey Revolution)
The Tampa Tribune appears to cast a public stone in a newspaper battle with St. Pete … we’ll pull up a chair. (TBO)
The sport that apparently will be hit hardest by the world’s economic woes: NASCAR. (NY Times)
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December 15th, 2008 at 8:04 am
If Miles suits up and plays, he goes back on the Blazers’ cap for this season right?
December 15th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Yes, that’s correct. $18 million.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:09 am
The urinal cakes at the game were awesome.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:20 am
the urinal cakes are a good luck charm.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:22 am
TBL, you’re not getting it. You constantly SHOVING ROMO DOWN OUR THROATS is why some of us anti-Romo. You and the rest of the fucking media. The guy seems humble, genuine and not a fuck (and also a poor decision maker). But for fuck’s sake, let it rest.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Wah?
December 15th, 2008 at 8:28 am
in english please.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:29 am
I think Romo’s a great story. Three years ago, nobody outside of his family had heard of him. Undrafted. Dating starlets. QB of the most popular sports team in the united states. In interviews, he seems like a cool, laid back guy. He’s got moxie, and is a high risk, high reward guy – he’ll make great plays out of nothing, and then commit epic fuck-ups that come with the territory.
I like the guy. Others don’t. Life goes on …
December 15th, 2008 at 8:31 am
It’s almost like someone being shoved down our throats via Sony, Mastercard, Sprint and DirecTV commercials.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Hey, those companies are paying him to do that. TBL and the rest of the media is sucking Romo’s dick free of charge.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Cut That Meat! Cut That Meat! Cut That Meat!
December 15th, 2008 at 8:43 am
I think the Dark Knight for best picture is ludicrous, but dammit if this poster isn’t fucking awesome.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:43 am
TBL, I didn’t know you were still writing at FanHouse:
I’m not a Cowboys fan. Far from it, in fact. Still, it’s hard not to like Tony Romo. He’s lovably goofy, which would make him something of a mascot if he wasn’t such a good quarterback. But it’s not his gutty performance against the Giants Sunday night in what can legitimately be described as a must-win game that merits a mention here, it’s how he so deftly handles the incandescent media glare in his “aw shucks”Gomer Pyle sorta way. It’s pretty amazing to watch, actually.
/runs out of room to hurl
December 15th, 2008 at 8:44 am
lol
lol
Can you imagine the nightmare if Romo took the Cowboys to the Super Bowl? We might have to put Sanders on suicide watch
December 15th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I personally enjoyed the bottom line on ESPNEWS this morning:
“T Owens 8 Targets, 3 catches, J Witten 9 Targets, 5 catches..”
Maybe they can start running what they had for lunch and if Owens really likes Witten or the new foreign exchange reciever thats in algebra class.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Oy. It wouldn’t be so much Romo as a media week full of TO and the marshmallow man behind the podium. But I’ll be the first to admit, another Manning Bowl would probably be much worse and we’d certainly see ESPN pull out that PM junior high dance thing again.
Anyone else find it hilarious how defensive ESPN is being over this whole TO calling Ed Werder a liar thing? Deion’s on the NFL Network basically calling for Werder’s head, while Trent Dilfer is saying TO will still destroy the Cowboys.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:48 am
“T. Owens, 6 peanuts in morning shit. J. Witten, 4 peanuts in morning shit.”
December 15th, 2008 at 8:50 am
bsanders37 with a surprise pick to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl…
December 15th, 2008 at 8:51 am
CRM
- Don’t put words in my mouth.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:51 am
No team has overcome more adversity this year than the Cincinnati Bengals. That they’ve managed to win 2 games and tie another is a testament to the strong coaching and good character players we have.
/Eat it, bsanders
December 15th, 2008 at 8:53 am
The New York Giants are jealous of both the Cincinnati Bengals’ winning ways and the relative lack of criminals on their roster.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Eli Manning still can’t understand why when he gets sacked eight times John Madden shrugs it off like nothing, but when Romo gets hit half as many times he’s a courageous warrior. Doesn’t he know Eli Manning is unstoppable?
December 15th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Jessica is supposed to make us like Tony Romo? She looks like she needs to mix in a salad in that pic.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:15 am
@NickP – I couldn’t have said it better myself.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I’m not kidding, she looks enormous. Did she eat the Jessica Simpson from Dukes of Hazzard?
December 15th, 2008 at 9:39 am
if golf’s not a sport, then NASCAR sure as hell isn’t.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Golf’s not a sport.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:56 am
you’re not a sport.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:56 am
way to stay classy with your jp losman commentary.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Link?
December 15th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
i can certainly agree with that.
a skill? absolutely.
a sport? wwwweellll…