The Roundup: the end of an HBO era, Shaq’s new wardrobe and the lost Mattingly love letters.
Baseball, Bill Simmons, College Basketball, NBA, NFL February 7th. 2008, 9:18am
After all these years, Brooke Burke still looks very healthy. She’s number 32 in AskMen’s most desirable 99 women of 2008 and is once again pregnant, in case you were wondering. I have no idea what she is standing in, but I bet it’s really comfortable.
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It’s official: Shaq is now a Phoenix Sun. [Yahoo! Sports]
While you’re thinking about that, enjoy this glimpse of Shaq’s new Phoenix Suns wardrobe. [Le Basketbawl]
The battle at Chapel Hill wasn’t as exciting as one would have hoped. [SI]
Maryland coach Gary Williams notches career win number 600. [Baltimore Sun]
After 30 years, Inside the NFL is no longer – at least on HBO. [The Hollywood Reporter]
I don’t know what the attraction is to a previously-owned-by-Bill Simmons jersey of Randy Moss, but it is for a good cause. [Ebay]
A hilarious column involving Don Mattingly’s lost love letters to his would-be wife. Seems relevant these days. [Phat Free]
Sam Cassell to the Celtics? [Boston Globe]
Restauranteur + death-metal+drunken Super Bowl threats = hilarious picture of weirdo. [100% Injury Rate]
These guys have taken the NBA’s “Where Amazing Happens” campaign and applied it to Super Bowl XLII. Nice. [Warning Track Power]
A look back at the interesting fad in basketball where grown men wore tights under their shorts. Kenny Sky Walker looks good, I’m not going to lie. [JoeSportsFan]
Get ready for more Spygate: Goodell meets with the president of the St. Louis Rams. [STL Today]
About the ‘Eli Manning Escape’, referee Mike Carey almost stopped it before it started. [NY Daily News]
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February 7th, 2008 at 9:25 am
brooke burke is like a $20 you find in jeans that went thru the wash. she’s unassumingly uber-hot with nothing that really stands out which makes you forget about her, but whenever you see her picture, youre immediately happy.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Not that it will ruin my life or anything but I hope HBO comes to their senses here. Imagine Inside the NFL on ESPN..it will be ruined. What I liked about the show is that for the most part is was classy. I also like how it was on a few times during the week so you could watch it whenever…I don’t think I ever watched it Wednesday @ 10. Imagine Chris Berman bumbling and stumbling the NFL Films highlights…yuck.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Pat, I don’t think she’s standing, I think she’s kneeling. Makes her look like an amputee.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:31 am
The fire in the background is a nice touch.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Inside the NFL on ESPN? What would they show the week the Cowboys are off.
And here’s my obligatory “Wow, I can’t wait for all those nationally televised Heat games now that Shaq doesn’t play for them anymore” post. Yep, that already-overplayed Shaq/Kobe “rivalry” Sunday should be fun. Oops….
February 7th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Google image with caution young skywalkers…NSFW but well worth the risk
February 7th, 2008 at 9:35 am
St. Bear…i agree. im a big fan of having fire pits adorn the middle of my indoor pool tho that buddha statue has to go.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:36 am
amputees are hot
February 7th, 2008 at 9:38 am
She looks like that crazy ass biotch from the Real World.
DON’T YOU EVER TALK TO ME THAT WAY!!!!!
I do not think she is attractive.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:43 am
hot milf
February 7th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Magglio,
Holy cow, dude, we can’t find two chicks that hot in the next three days in our “Winter Wonderland”. You’ve been to Ann Arbor, and your standards are that high??
February 7th, 2008 at 9:45 am
That Simmons jersey is up to over $700, are you kidding me?
Fuck Duke.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:46 am
virtual standards differ from actual standards.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:47 am
@GYD
Ann Arbor chicks <<<<<<< GR chicks.
You wouldn’t know unless you have been here. Also note: hot chicks hybernate. It is a fact. Spring comes around and chicks pop up. It is a tremendous sight.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:51 am
I have indeed seen GR chicks, and the hottest one turned out to be from Escanaba.
In my opinion, the hot chicks in MI seem to hibernate to another state.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am
@GYD
True enough, but the hottest chicks in Michigan reside in GR or richie east.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I was under the impression all the good looking women were in Detroit? Has Michael Moore deceived me?
February 7th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Don’t worry about Duke. Some physical SEC team will beat them in the Sweet Sixteen. And even if that game wasn’t exciting, at least it was more exciting than the coverage of National Signing Day. Zzzzzzzzz.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Michael Moore has deceived everyone,
There are not hot women in michigan…they all graduate from school, gain 40 lbs and…well I will just stop now
February 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am
@jgp
Speaking of NSD. What now? Do we seriously have to wait until March to hear what happens with TP? How lame is that? Also, how late was the info. coming in at rivals? It was like an hour after this shit went down that it finally came up on the site! This is supposed to be the age of information. I don’t know if I can justify getting excited about it again.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Sam Cassell to the Celtics?
Doubt that would go so unnoticed if it was the Lakers instead of Celtics.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:05 am
This stuff brings out the worst in people. That’s probably why TP is waiting. He knows he can milk this out, and ESPN, Rivals.com, Scout.com, will follow his every step. Pryor isn’t conflicted. He’s loving every minute of it. If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t be leaking out information, telling people to tell people he’s going to this school, setting up a visit to LSU and then pulling out at the last minute. We need to stop enabling them. I’m an LSU fan, so I have had to deal with this crap from Ryan Perrilloux and Joe McKnight for the last two years. I’m sorry for you Michigan guys when (if) he commits elsewhere and leaves you hanging. I’ve been on both sides of it.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am
We need a Duke/UNC post. That game was very underwhelming for a number of reasons.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:11 am
speaking of NSD…alabama smoked Auburn something fierce.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:11 am
@Maggs – Ummm…..which crazy Real World chick?
And yes, hot chicks hibernate. Nothing was better than April and May at the University of Minnesota. People would spend hours just walking, skating or biking around the dorms and sorority houses.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Who is Brooke Burke banging out these days? I remember she was married to some plastic surgeon and got divorced.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:28 am
David Charvet(sp) from Baywatch..
February 7th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Yes, I read gossip mags..
February 7th, 2008 at 10:29 am
@hawkeye -Dinky town in May is very nice. It would always shock me because they would just appear out of nowhere.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Well, at least the tarheels were underwhelming.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:31 am
the Real World girl in question is the “other” Brooke from the Denver series. She wasn’t good looking, but she had at least 6 or 7 classic meltdowns on that series.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:37 am
If you stumbled upon sportscenter this morning you would have thought the Duke/UNC game last night was for the national championship. There was so much coverage on it this morning I was forced to watch Saved By the Bell reruns. Ok, so I wasn’t forced.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:39 am
You haven’t lived until you’ve sufferred through Billy Packer calling a Duke/UNC game. You think Vitale is bad…
February 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Wait, you mean to tell me that an overhyped Duke/UNC game DIDN’T live up to the hype?! I’m sure that ESPN will tone it down for the next time these two schools meet…whenever that may be.
As for Inside the NFL, I think they’ve gotten a bit too crazy and tried to be more like everyone else. I used to enjoy it when it was Len Dawson and Nick Buoniconti and it was highlights, analysis and interviews with players and coaches. Now, they gotta have these goofy roundtables where Bob Costas leads everyone in talking about the “major” topics in the NFL.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am
@pki – You know it. Noon on Northrup Mall was always nice. Made those afternoon classes in Smith Hall right difficult!
February 7th, 2008 at 10:48 am
CRM,
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has locked up all the talent in D town. Google him and you’ll see what I mean.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:30 am
BraveSrRob: You called it! I had to watch Raycom coverage of the game for the first time ever, and I never thought I would yearn for the voice of Dicky V. YEARN I TELL YOU. I almost didn’t even realize a basketball game was being called. So boring and uninteresting. ESPN’s coverage annihilates that crap. Plus the game kind of sucked too.
Sloppy play from both teams. UNC had no options whatsoever on offense except Hansbrough (who was destroying Duke), yet they wouldn’t give him the ball. It made no sense to me. You’d think Roy in his infinite wisdom would have noticed that too.
I was impressed that Duke won, but I think that also has a lot to do with how unimpressive UNC was. They didn’t look that special. They looked pretty one dimensional. Maybe that’s all because of Lawson being out, I don’t know.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:59 am
@Sean Jean:
I don’t know if you noticed this, but one of the weirder things was Packer absolutely fellating the shit out of Hansborough. Packer sucks all the joy out of any game he calls, yet he’s raving about how much he likes a player destined to be playing in Europe.
And oh was that game ever sloppy.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
UNC plays no defense. That got highlighted last night. Without Lawson they are a very good offensive team rather than an excellent one. They really can’t beat other good teams without excellent offense courtesy of their ‘Ole Defense…
February 7th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Duke won? I didn’t notice….
February 7th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
i missed it, did Stu Scott do another slam poem about UNC and Duke on sportscenter?
February 7th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Did they photoshop her legs out of the picture? There’s nothing from the knee down.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Yeah Packer did like Hansbrough a lot, but to be honest, he was pretty good last night. Most of the times they were getting him the ball inside he was scoring over one or two guys. He was their only option it seemed. I really thought they were a better team than they looked last night. And Duke is more athletic than I thought.