Tag Archives: Sport

Don’t taunt the football gods.

The Houston Texans are supposed to be one of the best teams in the NFL this year, but they’ve had some hiccups, including some very erratic play by Matt Schaub, their starting quarterback. Going into yesterday’s game, Schaub had thrown … Continue reading

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A dirty truth about sports

Pearls Before Swine:

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Well that’s reassuring….

I’m really glad to see something like this happen to a Major League Baseball player, because that’s pretty much the nightmare scenario that went through my head in grade school gym class every single time someone hit the frakking ball … Continue reading

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Tales in the Photo

OK, there’s a photo making the rounds on the Internet via various sports fansites and gossip whatevers. It’s of a nicely-dressed blond woman making an effort-filled obscene gesture in the face of one of the opposing team’s players at an … Continue reading

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O tempora! O mores!

Dear baseball players of the world: You are ruining everything! So some dope interrupted the Murdoch family’s stammering and mumbling today by “throwing a pie” at Rupert Murdoch, which actually meant waving a styrofoam plate in Murdoch’s direction as some … Continue reading

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Is Gonzaga Porkins, then?

March Madness explained by invoking Star Wars: Of course, the fact that a geek like this has to ask why Luke has a grenade on Hoth with which he blows up an Imperial Walker is disappointing. Come on, pay at … Continue reading

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Super Thoughts

A few random thoughts on the Super Bowl…. :: This was the first football I’ve watched since week four or five of the regular season. I haven’t watched this little football in a single season since the mid-1980s, and in … Continue reading

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How I’d fix the Bills and the NFL (but really, screw sports, anyway)

OK, I’m finally getting back to the “Gimme a Title!” game that I launched way back a couple months ago before I got all “Meh, I got a book to finish!” and stuff. I got two suggestions that were quite … Continue reading

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Cartoon Violence for Men

I’m thinking a lot about football lately, in light of the recent ‘Bounty’ scandal involving the New Orleans Saints, their coaches, and their players, who engaged in a system of paid incentives to players for injuring opposing players. Saints head … Continue reading

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On Whitney and the Anthem

In comments to the previous post on Whitney Houston, Kerry asks why I didn’t post the video of Houston’s now-iconic performance of The Star-Spangled Banner at Super Bowl XXV. It’s a fair question, worthy of a couple of answers. First of … Continue reading

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