(above : bunch of delusional motherfuckers who don’t have the common sense to know their achievement pales in comparison to the outcome of the Big Sky Tournament final) “I can’t see, if you’re a baseball fan, how you can’t get into this tournament,” insisted Team ...

I’m in Los Angeles this afternoon, where there are a few things that never seem to change.  Seeing a sign that reads “Flynt Aviation” always makes me wonder if I’d really trust Larry Flynt to run an airline.   The jukebox at Barney’s Beanery still plays Dramarama (ha...

In Monday’s Guardian, TV Go Home / “Nathan Barley” creator Charlie Brooker (above) considers the results of a recent survey that revealed nearly two-thirds of the public have lied about reading such tomes as “War & Piece”, “Ulysses” and “The Bible...

I couldn’t help but think of a couple of old Cincinnati Enquirer articles after yesterday’s college basketball action. On January 22, columnist Paul Daugherty asked, “Has Xavier outgrown the A-10?,” worrying that the Muskies were “too dominant.” Then February came...

Chelsea’s 2-0 defeat of Coventry earlier today put the latter into the FA Cup Semi-Finals, a feat accomplished with the assistance of Ashley Cole despite the defender’s mid-week arrest on charges of, uh, swearing at police.  Cole had the misfortune of making headlines at roughly the sam...

(a particularly uncouth collection of soccer fans, hellbent on ruining a journalist’s quiet afternoon in the fresh air) Middlesbrough’s recent attempt to hush up a particularly raucous section of the Riverside has met with global ridicule, but the Independent’s DJ Taylor has consid...

The absence of venues for serious sportswriting is one of my stock bitches. This is in part because it’s true, although that kind of tracks with the decline in high-profile venues for good writing, period. But it’s also because I like to imagine that a dearth of deserving venues is the o...

Well, that takes a bit of the shine off UConn’s 64-50 win over South Florida. While the Hartford Courant’s Christopher Keating cites Calhoun’s tormentor, freelance journalist Ken Krayeske as a bit of a provocateur (and at least one Connecticut scribe has described Krayeske in terms...

“I don’t want to hear about Duke’s “Cameron Crazies” and all the wickedly clever things those egghead sports nerds come up with to shout” sneers The Daily Herald’s Ted Cox after watching a preview of HBO’s hoops documentary, “Battle For Tobacco R...

Of Peter Gammons’ oft-criticized interview with Alex Rodriguez last Monday, the former told ESPN’s Le Anne Schreiber, “my feeling is, this was not Frost/Nixon.”  And while the Ombudslady reminds us that even (the real) Frost/Nixon failed to garner a full disclosure of guilt ...