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6182. wonkers2 - 10/9/2008 2:08:38 AM David should be playing with the Globe Trotters!! 6183. wabbit - 10/13/2008 5:28:28 PM Texas rode its resounding Red River Rivalry upset right to No. 1. The Longhorns leapfrogged No. 2 Alabama on Sunday and sit atop The Associated Press Top 25 in the regular season for the first time in 24 years after beating Oklahoma 45-35. Texas' jump to No. 1 is the largest since Miami went from No. 6 to No. 1 on Aug. 29, 1988, after beating preseason top-ranked Florida State 31-0 to start the season. Texas received 39 first-place votes and 1,599 points from the media panel. Alabama received the other 36 first-place votes and 1,582 points.
It certainly has been a fluid situation. The Longhorns are the fourth No. 1 team this season, following Georgia, Southern California and Oklahoma. So it's just more of the same following an unpredictable 2007 season that had four No. 1 teams and eight different teams ranked second. For the second time this season, three of the top four teams in the country lost on the same weekend. While the losses by the previously top-ranked Sooners, Missouri and LSU weren't stunning, they did a number on the rankings.
Unbeaten Penn State moved up three spots to No. 3. The Sooners dropped three spots to No. 4 after their first loss. Florida jumped six spots to No. 5 after pounding LSU 51-21 on Saturday night. No. 6 Southern California is followed by Big 12 rivals Texas Tech and Oklahoma State, which upset Missouri 28-23 and has its highest ranking since November 1985 when the Cowboys were seventh. No. 9 BYU and Georgia round out the top 10. Missouri dropped eight spots to No. 11. The Tigers could vault right back up the polls when they play Texas in Austin on Saturday.
NCAA Football
6184. wabbit - 10/13/2008 5:29:07 PM  Jamie Moyer sure looked his age against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 45-year-old Philadelphia left-hander — the second-oldest pitcher to start a postseason game — put the Phillies in an early hole Sunday night and they never recovered. Moyer gave up three singles and a run on his first five pitches, barely resembling the 16-game winner he was during the regular season. The Dodgers went on to a 7-2 victory that left them trailing the best-of-seven NLCS 2-1, with Game 4 on Monday night at Dodger Stadium. Neither team has won on the road in 11 meetings this season. The Phillies fell to 3-12 in Game 3 of playoff series, including 2-5 in the NLCS. Moyer allowed six runs and six hits in 1 1/3 innings, and struck out two in his shortest outing since July 4, 1998, when he lasted one inning for Seattle at Texas. His stint was also the shortest by a Phillies starter in a postseason game since Larry Christenson lasted one-third of an inning in Game 4 of the 1980 World Series against Kansas City…
B.J. Upton and the Tampa Bay Rays won a game of home run derby with a shallow fly ball. Pinch-runner Fernando Perez dashed home on Upton's sacrifice fly in the 11th inning and the Rays outlasted the Boston Red Sox 9-8 early Sunday, evening the AL championship series at one game each. The teams combined for seven home runs, tying a postseason record. The Rays wound up winning a game that lasted 5 hours, 27 minutes when the speedy Perez tagged up on Upton's one-out fly and beat right fielder J.D. Drew's throw home. The series shifts to Fenway Park for Game 3 Monday, with left-hander Jon Lester pitching for Boston against Matt Garza…
MLB news
6185. wabbit - 10/13/2008 5:29:58 PM  Jason Elam made the most of his second chance, kicking a 48-yard field goal on the final play to give the Atlanta Falcons a stunning 22-20 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday. Elam appeared to be the goat after hooking a 33-yard attempt wide left with less than 3 minutes left, squandering a chance to give the Falcons an insurmountable nine-point lead. The Bears took advantage of Elam's first miss in 31 attempts, quickly driving down the field and going ahead for the first time in the game when Kyle Orton hit Rashied Davis on a 17-yard touchdown with 11 seconds remaining. Robbie Gould booted through the extra point that gave Chicago a 20-19 lead. But the surprising Falcons, coming off an upset of the Packers in Green Bay, weren't done. With many fans heading for the exits, Gould pooched the ensuing kickoff, and Harry Douglas managed a 10-yard return to the Atlanta 44…
Philip Rivers threw three touchdown passes and San Diego's defense stuffed quarterback Matt Cassel on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line to highlight a 30-10 win over New England on Sunday night. Rivers and the rest of the Chargers (3-3) know that beating the Patriots doesn't make up for the loss that kept them out of the Super Bowl or that mind-numbing home playoff defeat two seasons ago. What it did, though, was put to rest the questions about the Chargers' maddening inconsistency, especially since they head out on a long and winding road trip that takes them to Buffalo and then London for a game against the New Orleans Saints. With passes of 49 yards to Malcom Floyd, 4 yards to Vincent Jackson and 1 yard to Antonio Gates, it was the fourth time this season that Rivers threw three TD passes. Rivers completed 18 of 27 passes for 306 yards. Cassel, making his fifth career start, was sacked four times and intercepted once. He was 22-of-38 for 203 yards…
NFL scores
6186. jexster - 10/13/2008 6:11:12 PM Jeez they should have stuck a rapid infuser into Moyer's arm before they put that old nag on the mound last night. 6187. jexster - 10/13/2008 6:11:44 PM And Boston should have kept Manny and given LA Big Poopy 6188. jexster - 10/14/2008 2:12:46 AM There is no joy in BeanTown
Big Poopy has struck out 6189. jexster - 10/15/2008 11:58:34 PM D. Ortiz dh .071 6190. wabbit - 10/16/2008 2:17:16 AM zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 6191. jexster - 10/16/2008 2:22:48 AM Exactly. That's what's happened to the Red Sox bats!
Now we have to endure as many as four games in that barn, Tampa calls a baseball yard 6192. wabbit - 10/16/2008 3:37:15 AM I actually don't mind losing to Tampa, they've got a good team and they've worked really hard this year. They have earned their shot.
And while this isn't strictly speaking a sport, perhaps it could be. I could dig up a video like this pretty much every day.
6193. jexster - 10/16/2008 7:55:33 PM Tampa's great. I always love it when low budget teams do well.
I hate their ballpark. Still I was for the Phillies in the post season from the start more so after Palin's reception at the Flyers game....got nothin here in the Bay Area in any sport (cept the Sharks maybe) for the forseeable future so I am now ALL PHILADELPHIA
Gimme a Pat's Cheesesteak STAT or a Geno's...or whatever
They're lovin Manny in LA
Wonder if they'll keep him. They're not a low budget org. 6194. jexster - 10/17/2008 5:11:44 PM Holy Moly Wabbit...rumors of the Big Poopies deaths were premature. I popped in a movie and when I saw the headline "Red Sox Monster Comeback" I thought it was a joke article 6195. wabbit - 10/17/2008 6:21:50 PM From SI:
…Down 7-0 with seven outs left in their season, the Sox rallied for the biggest postseason comeback in 79 years, denying the Rays a win in their first try at the World Series and sending the crowd at Fenway Park into a delirium. J.D. Drew provided the pièce de résistance, punching a 3-1 pitch from J.P. Howell over the head of right-fielder Gabe Gross for the game-winning hit…
Doesn't mean they'll win the ACLS, but they sure are entertaining. And it was nice to see Ortiz smack one. I had just turned the tv on and went to the 11pm news, and a reporter was standing outside Fenway with all hell breaking loose. Pretty cool.
I gotta say, though, these 1:00am games are killing me.6196. jexster - 10/17/2008 6:33:09 PM I missed EVERYTHING. I so dislike listening to Buck and McCarver that watching a 7-0 ballgame in the late innings is just too much to endure 6197. jexster - 10/17/2008 6:33:50 PM I don't like what they say..I can't even abide their voices 6198. wabbit - 10/17/2008 6:53:39 PM I agree. I turn the volume down and just watch the game. I used to listen to the radio announcers, but watching the game in silence is just fine. 6199. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/18/2008 12:09:01 AM What a nice surprise this morning to feel resurrected after going to bed condemned to relive the frustrations of the old days. 6200. wabbit - 10/18/2008 1:04:28 AM You betcha!
she says resignedly… 6201. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/20/2008 5:52:57 AM From worst to first--good for them!
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