Archive for October, 2008

Football Night in America’s “Discombobulating” Crew

Posted October 7, 2008, 2:15 pm by Jason McIntyre (46 Comments)

Cris and Bob and Tiki and Peter and Jerome and Dan and Keith are OK in our book. Did we miss anyone? Interesting piece today from Sandomir in the New York Times ruminating about the crowded NBC Sunday night football highlights show. (It is the second mostly negative piece about the NBC team; you may [...]

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EliteXC: Heat Live-Blog

Posted October 4, 2008, 9:00 pm by Stephen Douglas (CRM!) (119 Comments)

Welcome! Thanks for joining us tonight. We should be in for a fairly good show. I might type in the third person tonight. In addition to my typing like a typical blogger, we’ve got two of the absolute biggest and least-accomplished names in Mixed Martial Arts on display tonight. The recently disrobed, first lady of [...]

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An Interview with Michael Rosenberg of the Detroit Free Press

Posted October 3, 2008, 12:15 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

He lives in Detroit, works alongside Mitch Albom, and spent three years researching and writing War As They Knew It, a book on Woody and Bo. Oh, we almost forgot the best part: He’s had the pleasure of covering Matt Millen’s tenure in Detroit. Naturally, we had a lot of questions for Mr. Rosenberg. Q: [...]

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Pat Forde and Rick Pitino: Conflict of Interest?

Posted October 2, 2008, 11:00 am by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

Huge Pat Forde fan. We’ve mentioned it a few times on this site – when it comes to college sports, he’s among the best in the business (Dara Torres probably disagrees with us). But here’s something odd that is worth discussing – Forde recently wrote a book with Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. With is [...]

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The Kids Gotta Eat: Travis Henry in Coke Bust

Posted October 1, 2008, 5:00 pm by Jason McIntyre (12 Comments)

It’s not like our heart is bleeding for the guy, but we do feel bad for his kids, the nine of which could comprise a baseball lineup: Aug, 2007: It is revealed that Travis Henry has nine different children with nine different women in four southern states. There is a run of Shawn Kemp headlines [...]

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