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Big Ben has been battered and bruised this season behind a makeshift offensive line. He is playing with an injured throwing shoulder, yet despite it all he threw for three touchdowns Sunday as the Pittsburgh Steelers (4-1) rallied for a 26-21 win over Jacksonville. Check out all our thoughts on Week 5, including an historic […]

Autumn came to the University of Michigan this weekend, and so did I. My partner’s 10th dental school reunion drew us back for homecoming. Ann Arbor is a lovely little town, especially with the light cool breeze that October brings. While we didn’t make it into the stadium for the 45-20 clobbering of Michigan at […]

The Colts pull out a miracle, the Giants keep dominating and four teams that have underachieved. How Cyd and Jim saw NFL Week 5 E-mail Cyd The Giants have looked good, no arguing with that. But consider their schedule. Their last three opponents are a combined 1-12 (barely beating the Bengals), so I’m not overly […]

Two games in, four baseball teams are already on the verge of having their playoff runs ended. But while each of the four Division Series stands at 2-0, they haven't been without some surprises. While it's not much of a surprise (even to an admittedly biased observer such as myself) that the Philadelphia Phillies are […]

There is no North American pro sports franchise that has gagged more than the Chicago Cubs, who will now have gone 101 years without winning a World Series. The Cubs lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-1, and were swept in the first round of the National League (3-0). The Cubs were only the second […]

Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. This is the hardest week to pick against the spread since Week 5. Why? Public opinion has set in and is now backed up by four weeks of results. And with […]

The six-man Washington ‘Mo’s relay team won the Ultra Division in the 181-mile Ragnar Relay race. The team also finished third overall out of 109 teams. Obviously, given their name, all six runners are openly gay. Five of them swim with the gay-oriented District of Columbia Aquatics Club. More on the race and a team […]

San Diego Charger Jacques Cesaire (left) was a featured highlight yesterday at an anti-gay-marriage rally sponsored by iprotectmarriage.com, we have learned from Good As You blog. They have an audio recording of the event in which Cesaire and NFL free agent Akbar Gbaja-Biamila (right), brother of Packer Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila (KGB), encourage everyone in attendance to […]

The WNBA Finals tipped off last night with a victory for the Detroit Shock over the San Antonio Silver Stars (I had to look that one up), 77-69. The League is touting an increase in ticket sales and TV viewership this season, which is nice. But then I looked at the numbers. The average rating […]

English soccer player Sol Campbell is under nasty verbal attack by fans of his former team who are hurling racial and homophobic slurs at him. The former [Tottenham] Spurs captain faced a barrage of abuse from Tottenham fans during a match with Portsmouth on Sunday. A large bunch of terrace thugs sang: “Sol, Sol, wherever […]

This guy is named Adam, from Britain, and he's a junior 400-meter runner who also loves to show off his body on his YouTube videos. And he knows who his audience is since he addresses this one by saying, "Hi guys, gonna do some flexing for ya." Be our guest. This guy is named Adam, […]

Lane Kiffin’s personal hell is now over. Al Davis fired him this morning and has replaced him with offensive line coach Tom Cable. One of the items that’s getting buried in this story though is Al Davis’ stubborn refusal to pay Kiffin the rest of his contract. It was widely assumed he’s waited this long […]

The Boston Globe has apologized for running a photo of New England Patriots backup quarterback Kevin O’Connell, who was wearing a wristband with the words “My dick is tiny too!” (photo after the jump). The Boston Globe has apologized for running a photo of New England Patriots backup quarterback Kevin O’Connell, who was wearing a […]

Fu Manchu mustache enthusiast Todd Jones wrote in his Sporting News column last week that he was hanging up his spikes. He pitched 16 seasons for… well, pretty much everyone. He ended his career with 319 saves, 868 strikeouts and an ERA just a hair under 4. His greatest, and probably most revealing moment came […]

It was a hot and cold week for the Dirty Dozen with upsets galore. Top-ranked USC went cold at Oregon State, continuing its trend of losing at least one game a season when it's heavily favored. Georgia went cold at home, then turned hot against Alabama in the second half, only to fall in the […]

The UCLA Bruins are struggling at 1-3, but we thought you would like these photos of some players following a preseason practice taken by Brent Mullins. For more of quarterback Kevin Craft (right) and others, see below the jump. The UCLA Bruins are struggling at 1-3, but we thought you would like these photos of […]

Get up and boogie! A Google search for the song led me to this blog about how, in 1976, five members of the Phillies — Dave Cash, Larry Bowa, Mike Schmidt, Greg Luzinski and Garry Maddox — recorded this disco "classic." They won the NL East for the first time that year, but that's no […]

If you like tall (6-3), lean, good-looking receivers, then Walter was your fantasy star on Sunday. The Houston Texans wideout had eight catches for 76 yards and two touchdowns as the Texans finally showed some offense this season, before losing in overtime in Jacksonville, 30-27. In other Week 4 news, Terrell Owens of the Cowboys […]

Baseball's regular season is over … almost. Seven playoff spots are set, with only the American League Central race between Chicago and Minnesota unresolved. Minnesota leads Chicago by one-half game, and the White Sox have a makeup game set Monday against Detroit. If Chicago wins, they play Minnesota Tuesday for the Central crown. A loss […]

On a wild college football weekend that saw nine ranked teams lose, including three in the Top 5 (USC, Georgia and Florida), Oklahoma is the AP's new No. 1 team, with surprising Alabama No. 2. USC fell from 1 to 9; Georgia from 2 to 11 and Florida from 5 to 12. Expect a lot […]