November 10, 2011
Pacquiao-Marquez: Great Rounds in Boxing History
Last Saturday, Alfredo Angulo and James Kirkland gave us a great round of boxing. This Saturday when Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez fight for the third time, we’re hoping that they’ll give fans an even greater spectacle. It’s not that far-fetched. Pacquiao and Marquez’s first two bouts — a 2004 draw and a 2008 […]
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Week 11 College Football Preview: BCS Countdown
By my count, there are 2.5 HUGE games left on the college football schedule between now and bowl season. The .5 is LSU-Arkansas on Nov. 25. It falls short of a full point only because I don’t believe Arkansas has a legitimate chance to win. We’ve been over this before — the Razorbacks have one […]
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How the Penn State Scandal Helped Ashton Kutcher Learn Basic Internet Skills
On Wednesday night, longtime Penn State coach Joe Paterno was fired. Everybody knows why, right? Right. Everybody knows why now, because someone has finally briefed Ashton Kutcher. Last night Kutcher sent the following tweet, which has been deleted, after learning that Paterno was out at Penn State: “How do you fire Jo Pa? #insult #noclass […]
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Penn State Scandal: Last Night in Happy Valley
Here’s a timeline and link dump covering all the activity that took place in State College, Pennsylvania, late Wednesday night. We’ll update throughout the day if the story continues to develop. At about 10:15 p.m. EST last night, the Penn State Board of Trustees announced that head football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham […]
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About Last Night: Chaos in State College
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday. After attempting to save his job with a unilateral retirement announcement, Joe Paterno has been fired as head coach at Penn State. Student demonstrations and riots in support of Paterno ensued at the university, where the kids […]
Read moreNovember 9, 2011
Club Trillion’s Only Partially Biased ACC College Basketball Spectacular
Best Team — North Carolina The Tar Heels are the near-unanimous preseason no. 1 team in all of college basketball, and Jay Caspian Kang already wrote about why they will win the national championship this year, so I don’t exactly need to go into too much detail here with this pick. But I will give […]
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Vegas & The Packers’ Quest To Go 16-0
Now that the Packers are 8-0, it’s about time for Mercury Morris to get his TV haircut, since he might be needed to pontificate about the 1972 Dolphins and their greatness very shortly. Since the Packers figure to be favored in each of their final eight games, we are facing the distinct possibility that a […]
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Grantland Network Podcast: Men In Blazers
It was a beige weekend of Premier League action, a favorite color of the Men In Blazers. In this week’s pod, the poppy-wearing gentlemen ruminate on the legacy of Sir Alex Ferguson, Neil Warnock’s Mom Jeans, and the everlasting career of American keeper and WWI survivor Brad Friedel. But it’s not all EPL talk. As […]
Read moreThe Fall of Fat Albert … Plus Five Others Who Should Follow
It was time for Albert Haynesworth to go. After being lauded as the next great reclamation project in New England before he ever took a snap (and then fell down) in anger, Haynesworth was alternately ineffective and injured during most of his tenure. The final straw came last week, when Haynesworth followed a holding penalty […]
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Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings
1. Julio Jones, Atlanta Falcons Nobody is going to call the Colts stiff competition (or competition, really), but Julio Jones played Sunday like a robot sent from the future to destroy us all. His falling catch in triple coverage is not something humans should be able to do. 2. Andre3000, rapper Just so we’re all clear […]
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Team Continuity Strikes Again with the Minnesota Twins
The Minnesota Twins fired Bill Smith earlier this week, after just four seasons as the team’s general manager. It was a remarkably quick trigger for the team more resistant to change than any other in baseball. No worries, though. They just brought back the guy he replaced and called it a day.
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Joe Paterno Says He Will Retire at End of Season
Embattled Penn State coach Joe Paterno, whose tenure was marred by a sexual abuse scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky, said in a statement Wednesday that he will retire at the end of this season. Penn State’s Board of Trustees is still expected to meet later this week, and it could decide on a different […]
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Fantasy Fantasy Football: The Experts’ Week 9 Picks
It’s time again for the most important weekly feature on the Internet: Fantasy Fantasy Football. Throughout the NFL season, we’ll be evaluating five fantasy football gurus as they tell us who to start and sit each week. Using a highly flawed method based loosely on mathematical principles, we’ll attempt to reveal the one true football […]
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About Last Night: Countdown to JoePa’s Exit
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday. Penn State trustees met regarding the scandal that has overtaken Penn State football. The New York Times reported that the university is planning Joe Paterno’s exit. Amid the growing furor on campus and around the country, Bobby […]
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