University of Miami football analyst and former player Lamar Thomas was fired today for remarks he made during the brawl between Miami and Florida International University football teams Saturday night. As the fight raged, Thomas made some idiotic remarks.
“Now, that’s what I’m talking about,” Thomas said as the brawl raged out of control. “You […]

Interesting stat posted over at Will Collier’s From the Bleachers weblog:
Total offensive touchdowns over the last 8 games vs. SEC opponents:
Auburn: 26
Florida: 26
Vanderbilt: 26 (!)
Georgia: 22
LSU: 22
South Carolina: 21
Arkansas: 20
Tennessee: 17
Kentucky: 16
Ole Miss: 10
Mississippi State: 9
Alabama: 8

Pay attention, football fans: today marks the 100th anniversary of the forward pass. Through 1905, football was entirely a running game, but in 1906 the forward pass became legal and Saint Louis University became the first team to use the play, in a 22-0 victory over Carroll College. SLU’s first pass attempt fell incomplete, but […]

Dispense with the first 90 minutes and go straight to the overtime and the penalty shoot-out. Of course, the same thing could be said of hockey and basketball. How long now until the college football season kicks off?
Congratulations, Italy!

World Cup Ends for the United States.

USA and Italy played to a 1-1 tie in the World Cup today. The American players, unfamiliar with World Cup rules, believed they could win the game on a tiebreaker by beating the crap out of the Italian team. They didn’t win the tiebreaker, but did collect two red cards.

How do you give up a goal in the first five minutes? Isn’t that like allowing a touchdown run on the first play from scrimmage?

Seen on Ernie the Attorney’s blog:
Many people know that golfer Phil Mickelson won the Masters again this year, and many people know he’s a great guy. Phil Mickelson came to town for the PGA tour event that was played here this past weekend, and at the outset he announced that he would donate […]

When was the last time a Southeastern Conference team other than Kentucky won the men’s basketball championship? The most recent I can recall Arkansas ten or more years ago. There have been some close calls - Florida made it to the final game a few years ago, and of course LSU made the Final Four […]

The Major League Baseball season opened in Houston today. Just moments ago, the Houston Astros beat the Florida Marlins 1-0, clinching the game on a beautiful double play. I only caught the last few moments of the game, because I was previously busy getting my mud-and-horsehair treatment, but what I saw looked like a game […]

Remember a while back I wrote about people who could solve the Rubik’s cube at amazing speed? Well, just the other day I found a video of someone named Gan demonstrating his speed-solving technique. In this clip, Gan solves a scrambled cube in 16.5 seconds!
In other Rubik news, TechEBlog is reporting something called the Touch […]

OK, so I was wrong, that wasn’t self-censorship on the part of Mick Jagger, it was the ABC censor who dropped one word from “Start Me Up”. What fooled me, listening to it live, was that there was no dead air during the ‘bleep’ - I could hear the guitar, drums, the crowd, etc. It […]