Posts by Spike Friedman
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About Last Night: Fear da Bears
In case you were busy getting a fragment of moose antler removed from your foot … seriously … here’s what you missed in sports on Monday: Josh McCown threw for four touchdowns and ran for a fifth as the Chicago Bears continued their dominant offensive form, scything through the Dallas defense en route to a […]
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About Last Weekend: Welcome Back, Mamba
In case you were busy finding a new locker room from which to ban stat sheets, here’s what you missed in sports last weekend: Kobe Bryant returned to action after rehabbing from last year’s Achilles tear, but his Lakers suffered a rare home defeat to the Toronto Raptors 106-94. “It’s OK that we lost,” Bryant […]
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About Last Night: You Can’t Handle the Jags!
In case you were busy watching Frasier with Jay Z, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday: Break up the Jaguars, winners of three straight after they topped the Houston Texans 27-20 in Jacksonville. According to the Internet, that three-game winning streak is the longest active streak in the AFC. However, common sense would […]
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About Last Night: Down Goes Sparty
In case you were busy blowing $100k on trying to bump into a professional football player, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday: Roy Williams improved to 7-0 against Tom Izzo since taking the helm at North Carolina as the Tar Heels upset the top-ranked Michigan State Spartans 79-65 on the road. When told […]
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About Last Night: Warriors Come Out to Play
In case you were busy calling out traders on Twitter, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday: The Golden State Warriors exploded for 42 points in the fourth quarter as they overturned a 27-point deficit to beat the Toronto Raptors 112-103. Raptors head coach Dwane Casey was incensed after the game, saying, “The Warriors, […]
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We Went There: Seattle Is Going to Win Forever
Monday night at CenturyLink Field in Seattle was loud. Really loud. Uncomfortably loud. The loud started as a buzz in warm-ups, became a roar as the game began, and at times reached seismic levels as the Seahawks won their much hyped matchup with the New Orleans Saints, 34-7. After the game, I saw a man […]
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About Last Night: Timmy Time
In case you were busy snickering uncontrollably upon hearing that Johnson and Fister got traded on the same day, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday: Tim Duncan was in vintage form, collecting 21 rebounds and scoring 23 points including a game-winning jumper with 0.4 seconds remaining in the Spurs’ 102-100 win over the […]
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About Last Whatever: Iron Bowl Chaos
In case you were busy foolishly enjoying the company of friends and family this holiday season without a television on in the background, here’s what you missed in sports over the holiday: In one of the most stunning endings to a football game in recent memory, Auburn shocked Alabama in the Iron Bowl, winning 34-28 […]
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About Last Night: BCS Buster Stays Perfect
In case you were busy being thankful for Moises Alou’s Hall of Fame candidacy, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday: Jordan Lynch broke his own FBS single-game record for rushing yards by a quarterback with 321, as Northern Illinois finished its regular season undefeated with a 33-14 win over Western Michigan. “No! My […]
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About Last Night: King James’s Productive Reign
In case you were busy trying to figure out if the Xbox One is a prequel to the original Xbox, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday: LeBron James scored an extraordinarily efficient 35 points on 14 shots as the Miami Heat beat the Phoenix Suns 107-92. He did so despite a strange moment […]
