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Thug U Strikes Again

The single most disgraceful act in college sports happened this weekend. Something so heinous, it’s almost shameful to admit to being a fan of sports. Of course by now, you know I’m talking about Miami taking on Florida Atlantic. Even with the idiotic behavior with the players, the more shocking thing might be the dumb comments by color commentator Lamar Thomas, an ex-Hurricanes player. Thomas went on to say the following, “Now, that’s what I’m talking about. You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked. You don’t come into the OB playing that stuff. You’re across the ocean over there. You’re across the city. You can’t come over to our place talking noise like that. You’ll get your butt beat. I was about to go down the elevator to get in that thing.”

Tags brawls, fiu, football, miami

Detroit Tigers

Believe it- Folks; The Tigers Are Living Their Destiny

Post author By BostonMac
Post date October 14, 2006
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Maybe it’s because they took it hard to the franchise of evil incarnate, the New York Yankees, the vaunted “Murderer’s Row and Cano” that was supposedly going to mash its way through the 2006 playoffs en route to a coronation in the Bronx for a 27th World Series title.

Tags alcs, Detroit Tigers, Oakland A's

General Sports

The Smorgasbord

By Rob LaBrie

For the past month or so, I’ve been a little busy trying to elude Stephen Jackson and his posse. Ever since I threw that beer on one of them in the Bada-Bing strip club, they’ve been tryin’ to bust a cap in my (butt) and chasin’ me with Cadillac Escalades. So, needless to say, I’ve been a little too busy to write about sports.

What better way to get back in the saddle than with a nice little smorgasbord (yeah, that’s how you spell it) of sport? A good smorgasbord covers all the bases. That means we’re going to need a little of everything, from the basics (“the player” and Blue Lips) to a first in the history of mankind; a sponsor for time.

Tags alex rodriguez, Chicago White Sox, cory lidle, MLB, stephen jackson, terrell owens

Oakland A's

Our Plea…..

Dear Sports Gods,

I did everything right. Everything. After my beloved A’s swept Minnesota, I held off on calling my friend Max and taunting him about it. Before the ALCS, I never once mentioned advancing to the World Series. Like Gene Hackman in “Hoosiers” my response was always that we will not be concerned about the next step until we climb the one in front of us. Heck, instead of poking fun at Yankee fans for losing to Detroit…..I took the approach of putting my arm around them and providing encouragement. I heard the words, “don’t worry Steinbrenner will get you some pitching next year” come out of my mouth. It’s not just that though. I did other stuff to help the A’s pull through in this series. Instead of pretending to read my newspaper and ignoring an old lady on the train, I got up and gave her my seat. Five times I was the last person to exit a crowded elevator. I do not understand why you are doing this to us, but it is just inhumane at this point.

Tags MLB, Oakland A's

NFL General

2006 NFL Week 6 Picks

Last week we went a combined 50-6, a win percentage of .893. But Trevor stole the show by getting every single one of his picks correct. This is the first that has ever happened on Sportscolumn’s Weekly NFL Picks. The Pick ‘Em Contest winner also had all his picks correct. Congrats to stevemc for winning the week 5 contest. Want to win your office nfl pool? Check out the picks below.

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Tags gambling, nfl picks

General Sports

Leyland is the Difference

Post author By Vtknowitall
Post date October 11, 2006
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The ALCS is a coin flip.
It is a coin flip for the better pitching. It is a coin flip for which front office has done a better job. It is a coin flip for who pulled the bigger upset. It is a coin flip for who had the better half, the A’s after the All-Star Break or the Tigers before.

Utah Jazz

The Long and Winding Road

As the Jazz training camp begins in beautiful downtown Boise, I’m reminded of a question that’s been in the back of my mind. Looking at this year’s schedule, this team indeed has their work cut out for them.

The Jazz have six extended road trips this season, four of them focused on Eastern conference teams.

If the Jazz hope to break into the playoffs, these trips will be vital to achieve that goal.

Here’s my question: if you had a Kirilenko `freebee,’ where would you spend it?

Let us consider it together:

Tags andrei kirilenko, Utah Jazz

New York Yankees

The Baseball Hangover

The only good thing to come out of the movie “Meet Joe Black” was a scene portraying a quick one-two punch of cars slamming into Brad Pitt. Right in succession. The only good thing to come out of this weekend was that I now have a reason to gratuitously reference this scene. That’s just the kind of few days it’s been.

Tags ny yankees

MLB General

America’s Dream

As I write this, the Tigers are celebrating a win over the Yankees 8-1, clinching a trip to the American League Championship series. With this, a team that lost 119 games just three years ago beat the most expensive, illustrious baseball team ever put on a field.

New York Yankees

Samba Pa Ti

This hurts right now. Here is what’s on my mind.

Tags ny yankees