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6229. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/1/2008 3:59:31 AM So ya wann run with the bulls, doya?
 6230. robertjayb - 12/7/2008 2:31:59 AM Florida 31, Alabama 20...Yeah! Now it's on to Missouri v. Oklahoma, the playoff for teams defeated by Texas.
Snarl... 6231. wabbit - 12/22/2008 2:10:15 PM  Rajon Rondo made things looks easy in the third quarter. Kind of like how the Boston Celtics are making NBA games look. Rondo scored 18 of his 26 points in the quarter to help the Celtics tie a franchise record with their 18th straight win, beating the New York Knicks 124-105 Sunday night. The win improved Boston's record to 26-2, matching the NBA mark for the best start by a team with two losses. The Celtics can break the record at home against the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night…
LeBron James scored 31 points and Mo Williams provided the kind of scoring punch expected out of him when he was brought in to be LeBron's sidekick as Cleveland finished a four-game road trip with a 102-91 win Sunday night over the Oklahoma City Thunder. On Saturday, James for the first time said that he'd ''consider'' re-signing with the Cavaliers at the end of this season and forgo his first chance at being a free agent a year later. He followed that up by eclipsing 30 points for the fourth straight game, providing another example of why he'd be so coveted if other NBA teams got to bid for his services…
The Dallas Mavericks have one of the best point guards in NBA history. The Washington Wizards have 21 losses in 25 games. On a night when Jason Kidd took over the game in the fourth quarter, the Wizards again imploded in the fourth. Kidd had 11 assists - six in the game's final 6:05 as Dallas sent Washington to its sixth straight loss, 97-86 Sunday night. Washington tied a 42-year-old franchise record for worst start - the 1966-67 Baltimore Bullets also started 4-21. The win was Dallas' 13th in 17, even though the Mavericks made only five of 30 3-pointers two nights after a 24-point loss at New Jersey. Jason Terry scored 25 points and Dirk Nowitzki added 23. Kidd, who is averaging 9.3 points, missed all seven of his field goals and had just a single point, but as the Wizards languished in the fourth quarter for the fourth straight game, it was Kidd's game…
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6232. wabbit - 12/22/2008 2:10:32 PM  Blake Wheeler had to improvise when Boston teammate David Krejci headed off the ice for a line change. Minutes after Wheeler opened the scoring, the rookie right wing used a spin-o-rama move to score a short-handed goal in Boston's 6-3 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Sunday night, the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins' fifth straight victory. Phil Kessel , Wheeler's teammate for a season at the University of Minnesota, had two assists to extend his points streak to 18 games. Kessel's streak is Boston's longest since Adam Oates had a 20-gamer in 1997-98. Michael Ryder had a goal and an assist, Shane Hnidy , Marc Savard and Vladimir Sobotka also scored, and Manny Fernandez made 29 saves. The Bruins are 19-3-1 in their last 23 games and 24-5-4 overall, their best 33-game start since the 1929-30 season…
Tomas Vokoun was quick to credit his Florida Panthers teammates after his second shutout of the season. Vokoun made 23 saves for his 27th career shutout, and Brett McLean , Richard Zednik and Bryan McCabe scored goals in Florida's 3-0 victory over Colorado on Sunday night. It was Vokoun's third start in four games and third strong performance. After giving way to Craig Anderson in six of seven games from Nov. 28 to Dec. 11, Vokoun gave up two goals in a shootout win at Calgary on Dec. 12 and made 35 saves in a 2-1 overtime loss at Carolina on Thursday night…
The Carolina Hurricanes came up with a perfect storm of their own for a big win in snow-snarled Montreal. Tuomo Ruutu scored 1:43 into overtime to give Carolina a 3-2 victory over the Canadiens on Sunday night. Ruutu got behind Carey Price and brought the puck around the left post before sliding it over the goal line after a shot squirted through the Montreal goalie's pads. Eric Staal had three points for Carolina, including his 14th goal in the second. Sergei Samsonov had a goal and an assist, and Cam Ward made 26 saves to help the Hurricanes improve to 4-1-3 in their last eight games…
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6233. wabbit - 12/22/2008 2:12:42 PM New England whupped Arizona 47-7 with a blizzard of points on a snow-covered field Sunday. It might not be enough to get the Patriots in. Miami, tied with the Patriots at 10-5 but with the tiebreaker edge, would win the AFC East with a victory over the New York Jets next Sunday. Baltimore would get the AFC's one available wild-card spot by beating Jacksonville, leaving New England out for the first time in six years. But on Sunday, the Patriots showed total superiority to the struggling champions of the weak NFC West. They pressured Kurt Warner into one of his worst games in 11 pro seasons as he threw for just 30 yards. The Cardinals' defense was more miserable than the weather, allowing the Patriots to score on nine of their 10 possessions before Matt Cassel got the rest of the game off. New England held a huge margin of 514 to 186 yards over the NFL's second-highest scoring team. The Cardinals (8-7) didn't blame their fourth loss in five games on the snowy conditions that they never see in Arizona. The Patriots are 10-0 in home games in which snow has fallen during the game and, unlike the Cardinals, practiced in it last week…
 When Mike Smith took over as coach of the Atlanta Falcons in January, he inherited a team still smarting from Bobby Petrino's defection and sickened by Michael Vick's incarceration. Things are coming together much faster than even the white-haired optimist ever could imagine. Matt Ryan threw for a touchdown and made no big mistakes, Justin Blalock recovered a fumble in the end zone for another score and the Minnesota Vikings committed four turnovers in 24-17 loss on Sunday that clinched a postseason berth for the Falcons. Michael Turner rushed for 70 yards and a touchdown for the Falcons (10-5), who were 4-12 a year ago and ended the season without a head coach or a franchise quarterback…
The coldest conditions any Miami team has played in couldn't stop these history-making Dolphins. Thriving in mind-numbing frigidity, Chad Pennington threw three touchdown passes Sunday in a 38-31 victory over Kansas City that continued one of the most remarkable comeback seasons in NFL history. A year after going 1-15, the Dolphins can clinch the AFC East next weekend by beating the New York Jets , the team that cast Pennington aside when it acquired Brett Favre. The Dolphins (10-5) became the first team to win 10 games after winning only one the previous season, but needed a 14-point fourth quarter after Kansas City (2-13) took a 31-24 lead late in the third…
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6234. wonkers2 - 12/24/2008 8:29:01 PM wonkersphoto: 6235. wonkers2 - 12/24/2008 8:31:53 PM 6236. wabbit - 1/7/2009 9:50:15 PM I missed the entire bowl season. There are so many bowl games, it's hard to keep track, but the results of some of the big games were: - Rose Bowl
- USC 38-24 over Penn State
- Cotton Bowl
- Mississippi 47-34 over Texas Tech
- Sugar Bowl
- Utah 31-17 over Alabama
- Gator Bowl
- Nebraska 26-21 over Clemson
- Orange Bowl
- Virginia Tech 20-7 over Cincinnati
- Fiesta Bowl
- Texas 24-21 over Ohio State
The BCS Championship game is tomorrow night between #1 Florida and #2 Oklahoma.
The office of Jack Kemp says the former housing secretary, congressman and Buffalo Bills quarterback has been diagnosed with cancer. A statement issued in Buffalo, N.Y., says Kemp is undergoing tests to assess the origin of the disease and the best treatment. The statement issued Wednesday did not disclose the type of cancer. Kemp says he will continue to serve as chairman of his Washington-based Kemp Partners consulting firm and will remain involved in charitable and political work.
Despite winning 11 games, the Patriots did not make it into the NFL Playoffs. With the wild card games over, the divisional playoff games are set. On Saturday, the Titans play the Ravens at Tennessee, and the Cardinals play the Panthers at NC. Sundays games will be the Eagles and the Giants at the Meadowlands, and the Chargers and the Steelers at Pittsburgh.
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6237. wabbit - 1/7/2009 9:50:44 PM  Whether by blowout or shootout, the Washington Capitals needed a win over the "we don't like them" Philadelphia Flyers to give their winning streak a serious sense of accomplishment. It happened by shootout, their seventh straight win and one supported by a home-ice crowd that - for a change - didn't leave much room for the rival fans. The Capitals dished out some payback Tuesday night, getting a 2-1 shootout win to avenge the only loss they've had in a month and ease some of the sting from last year's first-round playoff series loss. Theodore made 33 saves and stopped all three shots in the shootout, strengthening his claim to the No. 1 goaltender spot. Nicklas Backstrom scored on the power play in the first period for the Capitals, and Viktor Kozlov was the only player from either team in the shootout to find the net. Washington has won 12 of 13 and 18 of 20, its last defeat a 7-1 drubbing at Philadelphia on Dec. 20. The Capitals improved to an Eastern Conference-best 18-1-1 at the Verizon Center and have never had a better overall record at the midpoint of an 82-game season…
The Minnesota Wild showed why they're the NHL's top defensive team by completely shutting down the league's best offensive club. Niklas Backstrom stopped 28 shots for his second straight shutout and fifth of the season to lead Wild to a 1-0 win over Boston, handing the Bruins their first shutout of the season on Tuesday night. Marek Zidlicky scored a second-period power-play goal, lifting Minnesota to its second win against the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins this season. The victory was the sixth straight against an Eastern Conference team for the Wild and raised their mark to 10-1-1 against teams from the East this season. It was Boston's second straight loss, coming after its longest winning streak in nearly 36 years was stopped at 10 games on Saturday…
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6238. wabbit - 1/7/2009 9:51:06 PM After 19 straight wins and an NBA record 27-2 start, the Boston Celtics have lost that swagger. The lockdown defense and the poise are missing, too, as teams line up to get a shot at the defending champions. On Tuesday, it was the lowly Charlotte Bobcats , as Raymond Felton scored 25 points and rookie D.J. Augustin added 11 of his 20 in overtime in a stunning 114-106 win that sent the Celtics to their fifth loss in seven games. Going from unbeatable to vulnerable in less than two weeks, the Celtics were searching for answers after being left battered, bruised and angry by Larry Brown's upstart Bobcats…
David West scored 15 of his 40 points in the final period to outscore Los Angeles by himself, and New Orleans beat Los Angeles 116-105 to snap the Lakers' 15-game home winning streak. The Lakers led 92-89 entering the fourth quarter before shooting just 5-of-21, including 3-of-11 from 3-point range while being outscored 27-13. Bryant led the Lakers with 39 points and seven assists, but scored only two in the fourth quarter, shooting 1-of-6 after going 13-of-16, including 6-of-6 from 3-point range in the first three quarters…
Randy Foye assured the Minnesota Timberwolves would achieve their longest winning streak in two years. Foye scored 23 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 40 seconds left, and the Timberwolves weathered a late rally to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 94-87 Tuesday night. Following his basket, Foye blocked O.J. Mayo's shot on the next Memphis possession, leading to a fast-break basket by Ryan Gomes , and the Timberwolves secured their third straight win - the first time they've won three in a row since January 2007…
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6239. psychprof - 1/9/2009 4:07:35 PM Baseball trip with sons to St Louis/KC...we take one to different location every year.
6240. wabbit - 1/9/2009 10:17:04 PM How many left to visit, PP? 6241. wabbit - 1/9/2009 10:18:21 PM Let's try that again…
How many left to visit, PP?6242. wabbit - 1/9/2009 10:19:16 PM  As he stood on the confetti-strewn field at Dolphin Stadium late Thursday night, just moments after his team earned its second BCS championship in three seasons, Florida safety Ahmad Black wasn't bragging. If anything, he was still coming to terms with the pivotal role he played in the Gators' 24-14 victory over Oklahoma. "Now I can lay down tonight and say I picked off the Heisman Trophy winner," he said.
This was a different stadium in a different time zone with an entirely different set of players, but the overriding image of the Gators' latest national championship victory seems all too familiar to anyone who watched the last one against Ohio State.
Oklahoma, the highest-scoring team in modern football history, fresh off a streak of five-straight 60-point outings, scored 14 points Thursday night -- the exact same amount scored by the previously unstoppable Buckeyes two years earlier.
Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford didn't suffer nearly as humbling a night as '06 Heisman winner Troy Smith, who completed just four passes, but Bradford did finish with his third-lowest passing yardage (256) of the season and his first two-interception game since Oklahoma's last loss Oct. 11 against Texas…
6243. wabbit - 1/9/2009 10:21:01 PM How 'bout those off-season deals for the BoSox? John Smoltz, Brad Penny and Rocco Baldelli… I hope they all stay healthy. 6244. psychprof - 1/9/2009 10:24:39 PM Wabbit...we have been to ST L, KC, Boston, Yankits, Toronto, Detroit, Cleve, Philly...this spring to Houston A's and Texas R's... 6245. wabbit - 1/9/2009 10:45:16 PM No doubt you'll get to the new Yankee stadium soon as well.
I took my f-i-l to a BlueJays game many moons ago - it was a cold day and we were sitting on metal benches. Not good for his 80-year-old bones, but he was determined to see the whole game, and so we did. I couldn't tell you who they played, but I remember the big grin on his face. 6246. wabbit - 1/11/2009 6:13:25 PM  Playoff football has a pretty simple truism: The team that makes the fewest mistakes wins. If that's the case, then Baltimore should have won this game 38-10. Instead, Tennessee made this one interesting by outgaining Baltimore by 180 yards, running 19 more plays and possessing the ball for eight more minutes. Tennessee lost the game by fumbling five times, turning it over twice in the red zone, getting penalized 12 times for 89 yards and, in general, looking more like the 12th seed in the AFC than the first. The Ravens' 13-10 win (Recap | Box) was a terrific, if slightly sloppy, AFC division playoff game in the cold central Tennessee mist Saturday evening. And once again, the moral of the story is Baltimore has a quarterback playing so far over his head that he'd be towering over Yao Ming if this were basketball. In eight playoff quarters, rookie Joe Flacco is a pedestrian 20 of 45 (44.4 percent) for 296 yards and one touchdown. Game-manager, right? I'll get to that fallacy in a second. But in 18- and three-point playoff victories in his first two postseason games, Flacco hasn't thrown an interception, been sacked or fumbled…
Not one of the pundits in the pregame show picked Arizona, though Terry Bradshaw did make a complimentary comment before picking Carolina to win. Wow, were they wrong. Arizona thoroughly dominated the favored Carolina Panthers 33-13 Saturday night in an NFC divisional playoff game. Two hours after the Panthers scored a meaningless touchdown on an 8-yard catch by Steve Smith, onlookers were still trying to wipe the rain and the disbelief from their eyes in Bank of America Stadium. Carolina entered the game 8-0 at home this season, while Arizona was 0-5 in the Eastern time zone. The Panthers had scored 28 or more points in seven consecutive games to end the regular season, while the Cardinals had surrendered 35 or more in four of their final six, including 47 or more on two occasions. When Carolina opened the game by marching 50 yards in five plays for a 7-0 lead, most assumed the contest would be a rout. They were right. They just had the wrong team. Thanks to an efficient offense and a playmaking defense, the Cardinals grabbed the game by the throat and did not let go. They got 220 yards passing and two touchdowns from QB Kurt Warner, a franchise playoff record 166 yards and one touchdown on eight receptions by Larry Fitzgerald and six takeaways by the defense, which intercepted Jake Delhomme five times and recovered one of his fumbles…
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6247. wabbit - 1/12/2009 7:50:28 PM  David Tyree's helmet catch. Plaxico Burress' game-winning touchdown reception. A slew of sacks. Last year's run to the Super Bowl title was full of magical moments for the New York Giants. There was no encore this year, no big plays in their one-game postseason. The Giants' run to a repeat is over. The Philadelphia Eagles -- labeled as this year's Giants -- ended the run by Tom Coughlin's team by making Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning and his offense look ordinary in the red zone and by keeping the sack pack at bay in a 23-11 victory in the NFC semifinal Sunday. Everything was there for New York (12-5) to go on. It had the ball three times inside the 20-yard line and came up with three field goals. Two other trips inside the Philadelphia 30 ended with John Carney missing field goals, only his second and third miscues of the season. He had two others blocked…
There is a home-field advantage in the NFL playoffs after all, and it belongs to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now they've got to prove it means something against the team they despise like no other, and in the game they lose at home like no one else. The Steelers, owners of the NFL's best home-field record since the 1970 NFL merger, shook off a 7-0 deficit barely two minutes into the game, controlled pint-sized playmaker Darren Sproles and returned some normalcy to the postseason by beating the San Diego Chargers 35-24 in an AFC divisional game Sunday. With a now-healthy Willie Parker running for 146 yards and two touchdowns, Ben Roethlisberger ignoring his late-season concussion to throw for a score and lead an efficient offense, the Steelers did what the favored Titans, Panthers and Giants couldn't do by winning at home. It was the first time since 1971 that three road teams won during a single playoff weekend, and the Steelers made certain that road teams didn't go 4-for-4…
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6248. wabbit - 1/12/2009 7:53:15 PM Peter King, SI: Think of the headlines from the weekend. [ … ] Arizona, a team with 28-, 21- and 40-point losses since Thanksgiving hosting a league championship game. But the other headlines are pretty strong too:
- McNabb, yanked in November, leads Eagles to fifth title game this decade.
- Flacco, no Fluke-o, the rookie QB wins his first two playoff games.
- Will third Steelers-Ravens meeting of year be another Texas Steel Cage Match?
- Eagles, Steelers in a possible Keystone State Super Bowl.
- Two top seeds combine for 21 points, go down with a whimper.
- Giants, winners of 4 of last 5 last year, lose 4 of last 5 this year.
- Did Eli Manning's easy-to-decipher cadence cost the G-Men their season?
- Sixth seeds 4-0 after two playoff weekends... all, of course, on the road.
- Kurt Warner bids to be second QB to pilot different teams in Super Bowl.
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