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Jul 21

Gregg Doyel of CBS Sports Unleashes a Torrent of Venom at Alabama Columnist Paul Finebaum

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As far as writer-on-writer crime goes, this one’s a homicide, and investigators have determined that Gregg Doyel used a hammer, knife, crowbar, and every other weapon imaginable to browbeat mouthy Alabama homer Paul Finebaum. Good thing everyone will sympathize with his motive. Read the rest of this entry »

May 19

Got a Dilemma? The Roundup Is Here To Help.

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Capping a wild week in the national hazing scandal, university big-shots everywhere are facing a maddening dilemma: How the heck to we stop kids from posting pictures of themselves doing stupid shit on the internet. Answer: You can’t stop the internet, you can only hope to contain it. (New York Times)

Ever wonder if Albert Pujols was on the juice? Wonder no more. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Get to know your underclassmen who entered the NBA draft. And let us know if you laughed as hard as we did. (Sportsline)

Who’s leaking all the Larry Brown-is-out information to the media? And where the hell are these bogus Ben Gordon-to-New York trade rumors come from? The omnipotent Peter Vecsey knows. (New York Post)

Randomly feel like getting crunked for next month’s World Cup? Then this video, complete with scary Star Wars-like music, is for you. (You Tube)

Apr 18

Roundup the usual suspects: We wouldn’t know this guy, either

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Whoever is compiling the best NBA columnist quotes this season, here’s a classic from Sam Smith of the Chicago Tribune while writing about the differences between Knicks center Eddy Curry and beleaguered coach Larry Brown: “So it was no surprise to many that, before Brown left ill last week, Curry was regularly being benched for Jackie Butler, whoever that is.” (Chicago Tribune)

Throwing shit at Barry Bonds while he’s standing alone in the outfield, wondering where it all went wrong, will get you arrested. (Sports Illustrated)

In case you didn’t get enough of our two-part interview with the mastermind behind the 1986 World Series re-creation, you can find a lot more here. (Yahoo.com)

We’ll weigh in on all the college defections later, but for now, whet your appetite withthis piece on poaching players. (Sportsline.com)

If you’re still not believing the Mets are spitting hot fire, witness their 4-3 victory last night over the slumping Atlanta Braves. Natch, Mets fans are beyond blissful. (MLB.com; Metsblog)

Apr 17

Huggins making Kansas State interesting

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Bob Huggins, our favorite rules-bending, drunk-driving college basketball coach, seems close to nabbing his first elite recruit, which should at the very least throw a scare into the rest of the Big 12. Not too long ago, Gregg Doyel lambasted Huggins for stealing a coach to nab a recruit, and here’s an update:

Wildcats assistant Dalonte Hill is scheduled to visit next week with Beasley. Their relationship runs deep, going back to the days Hill coached Beasley in AAU basketball in Washington, D.C. It’s part of the reason why Beasley last year committed to Charlotte, where Hill was an assistant before leaving to join Huggins.

We can’t wait until Bill Self of Kansas or Rick Barnes at Texas battle Huggins for a player. That will be priceless.

Beasley’s coach believes he will join Wildcats in ’07
 (Kansas City Star)
EARLIER: Bob Huggins is already Making Friends and Influencing People

Apr 13

You can’t win, Rocky NC State

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This man you see before you is Cedric Simmons, a rim-rocking terror who has just crushed the hearts of North Carolina State fans everywhere by declaring for the NBA draft - but not signing with an agent – which leaves the door slightly ajar for a return to Raleigh.

The leaves the Wolfpack down four starters from last year, and no longer makes them an attractive destination for the big-name head coach they so desire. The Pack shouldn’t waste any time even approaching LSU’s John Brady – $3 million couldn’t pry him away from that nasty nucleus of guard Tack Minor (back from injury), talented freshman Tasmin Mitchell, and likely bruising forward Glen Davis .

What we’re loving about this NC State mess is how the school’s admissions policy is supposedly standing in the way of making the Wolfpack a National Championship contender.

N.C. State has won two national championships. But look at the coaches who won those titles, Norm Sloan and Jim Valvano, and more important, look at their reputations from an NCAA investigative standpoint. Is N.C. State a place where you can win a national championship without cutting large corners here and there? It hasn’t been done — cleanly — yet.

Nice to know grades still matter when it comes to big-time college basketball.

N.C. State would be wise to call Haith (The Sporting News)
Why coaches choose to turn down N.C. State (Sportsline.com)
Simmons to test draft (Raleign News & Observer)

Apr 12

Fools, fighting, stalkers and Doyel

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Just in time for the postseason, Ben Wallace of the World Champion Detroit Pistons is acting up. To punish or not to punish? That is the question. (Detroit Free Press)

Dumb, da dumb dumb …Five University of Virginia athletes get busted for breaking into a frat house, and then fighting once inside. (Washington Post)

How braindead do you have to be to still be using steroids? Mets minor-leaguer gets 50-game ban after positive test. So do three other guys. (New York Post)

Memphis hoops fans: Stalk much? Tracking Cal’s flight on the net? Showing up at the airport in the middle of the night? Imagine if the Tigers had reached the Final 4 … (Memphis Commercial-Appeal)

Stay or go? College kids and their posse always seem to foul this one up, so our favorite ornery college basketball guy, Gregg Doyel tells these 10 ballers what to do. (Sportsline.com)

Mar 31

Here’s mail you don’t want to open

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Earlier in the week, while chronicling the early stages of what is sure to be a controversy-filled fun-filled era for Bob Huggins at Kansas State, we touched on the joy that Gregg Doyel’s weekly mailbag brings us. It’s out now, in all it’s kiss-my-ass, idiot! splendor.

The beauty in the mailbag – aside from the sophomoric comebacks of a grown man, flung at seemingly clueless fans – is that Doyel does his homework. Armed with what we can only imagine is a google-made bio of his emailer, Doyel lashes out at them in a manner that will make 50% of his audience laugh; and the other 50% sneer. Where do you fall?

From: Tom Buttery
Well Gregg, you are a holy rascal aren’t you! If IU hadn’t hired Sampson, would you have been writing the article on his nasty “violations”? ….. Your article was a cheap shot!

Buttery, you have to be joking … Finally, if this episode had happened at Purdue you’d be laughing at Indiana. But because it’s your school, you’re coming after the messenger (me). I can take it, because at the end of the day, only one of us is named for a fattening, high-cholesterol flavor. And it’s not Doyel.

From: Tom Bolan
Nice Hate Mail the other day about Iowa State fans who e-mail (and calling them) psycho. The couple of e-mails you featured in the article were very immature and, as you put it, psycho, … Maybe a feature story on all-state two-sport athlete who turns into a wannabe Jim Rome reporter.

Mr. Bolan, you’re late for your eighth-grade art class. Yes … I looked you up. I also cleaned up your grammar to make your e-mail worthy of publication. Shhhh — I won’t tell your students if you don’t.

Hatemail: Stop the madness (CBS Sportsline.com)