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University of Hawai'i made over $300,000 on Sugar Bowl merchandise sales. Now that's pure cane profit. [Honolulu Star-Bulletin]
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To Watch Tonight
To Watch Tonight: This (Almost) Concludes Our Broadcast Day
What to watch while preparing for a good night's sleep before your big Buttcrack Summit...
• Something of a Theme: Beer for My Horses (7:00 pm ET) [CMT] and "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road" (7:30 pm ET) [COM] - We may not have to hear The King's English all night.
• Movie: The Cable Guy (7:15 pm ET) [Starz] - Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac. (Also, this movie is exactly why we haven't complained all weekend about our non-functional pay television service.)
• NFL: New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles (8:15 pm ET) [NBC] - Maybe these two cities would be filled with less rage if they stopped poking each other so often. They could then focus their energies in a more constructive manner, like hating Providence. God, Providence sucks.
• Movie: Young Frankenstein (10:00 pm ET) [FMC] - O Sweet Mystery of Life, at last I found you! -
Poker
World Series of Poker Resuscitated by ESPN Cameras
ESPN's gambit to shut down the World Series of Poker for four months to give them time to pump up the nine participants at the final table (and position the final table action in a better time slot and month for them) seems to have paid off, with ratings up on the shows leading up to the main event's final table. That table took their seats today at 10 am local time and will play until two are left, allowing for another round of television love onMondayTuesday (see after the jump for proper details). More » -
Mlb
Diamondbacks Lay Off Dozens of Employees (Not Including Adam Dunn)
The purge of off-field employees has started in earnest this Credit Crunch offseason, with the Arizona Diamondbacks releasing 31 employees (around 10% of the entire front office), mostly from the broadcast side of the business as a result of selling all their games to Fox Sports Arizona. Yet again, the tight economy has been given as the reason for the cuts. More » -
Soccer player coyly courted for Ireland's 2012 Olympic team because he throws the soccer ball ridiculously far. This is only slightly less desperate than hiring Daunte Culpepper to be your quarterback with four days' practice. [Daily Star]
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Blogdome
Afternooon Blogdome: Just a Little Off the Top
• Keeping it all in the family in Boston could lead to skimming "foam" off the top of beer sales at Fenway. (The foam is your money.) [Fenway West] More » -
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Football
HS Championship Game Delayed Due to Lack of Referees
Sure, game officials are the bane of existence and they're all out to cheat for the other team and they're incompetent and corrupt and love being the center of attention and cause eczema in laboratory rats. However, unless someone figures out how to call their own 12-men-on-the-field penalties, you kinda need them to play a football game. The participants in the Georgia Region 7-AAAA championship game found this out the hard way when the referees' association forgot to schedule officials to work the game. More » -
2008 Beijing Olympics
Speedo's Olympic Success Leads to Financial Dilemma for Universities
The theory of trickle-down economics got an Urban Dictionary-style redefinition after the Summer Olympics in August after watching approximately 312,847,708 world records mutilated in the Water Cube, thanks in large part to wearing new LZR Racer suits from Speedo. Now, of course, collegiate and high school swimmers want the same advantage or else their own competitors that put out $550 per suit will create two unofficial divisions: those with money (and suits) and those without. ("Good job, Brandi... your time was second-best in the Poor People Division!") More » -
For Your Viewing Pleasure
For Your Viewing Pleasure: Is This How You Kids Go Hawaiian?
• 12:00 — Biography: Donny and Marie Osmond [BIO] - "Well, you might like to hear some accordion; make that squeezebox swing." (This is our way to suggest that perhaps this is the day to clean out the eaves if you're not a fan of the football.)
• 12:00 — Sport: Tennis - Sony Ericsson Championships, Final [ESPN2] Venus Williams versus Vera Zvonareva. Vicious. (Confidential to WKND: This is Doha.)
• 1:30 — Sport: College Hockey - Notre Dame at Boston College [ESPNU] - We leave all our college hockey commentary to Geoff from Hoover Street Rag.
• 3:45 — Sport: Auto Racing - Sprint Cup: Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 [ABC] - Under the new Chase for the Cup playoff rules instituted to keep fans jam-packed with entertainment until the last race, Jimmie Johnson has to race in Phoenix while strapped into a HANS device made entirely from cactus. (And this has been your NASCAR narrowcasting joke of the week.) -
Actually, we're not sure if there's an orifice on Ron Zook that doesn't excrete intensity. [Chicago Tribune]
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Blogdome
Morning Blogdome: And Pennzoil Sponsored the Honeymoon
• Carl Edwards will have his main sponsor, Office Depot, create his wedding invitations using Office Depot wedding invitation stock. Now that's devotion to a sponsor that his bride-to-be will appreciate only after seeing that first check she officially owns half of. (And for the record: if you value your current number of appendages, you will not suggest to a bride that a trip to Kinko's would really speed up this process.) [The Fast and the Fabulous] More » -
Boxing
Roy Jones, Jr.'s Boxing Future Annulled by Calzaghe
Joe Calzaghe fluttered Roy Jones, Jr. with a million love taps and took a unanimous decision at MSG over the man who seemed to have married into the Pound-for-Pound-Champion clan in the late 90s as it seemed to become his surname. That divorce is final as Calzaghe, 36, recovered from a bit of a surprise knockdown in the first to poke Jones, 39, into Bolivian (though we're partial to the Haitian divorce, ourselves). After the shakeup in the first round that sent Calzaghe to the mat, Jones didn't have much to do in the fight but bleed in one place. That 37th birthday is a bitch, we guess. More » -
Tips! We can almost remember yesterday's tips now
That time you told them to us; oh, you know how
And tips... we thought the only lonely blogger was one without tips.
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DUAN
Obama Love Can Have No Boundaries (Like Decorum)
This is Vancouver's General Motors Place, home of the Vancouver Canucks. During Tuesday's Canucks-Predators game, the largest cheer came for Barack Obama's ascendancy in American politics. Our time in Canada involved mostly two questions, ad nauseum: "Are you an American?" and "Isn't it great about Obama?" (We also spent a lot of time explaining the Electoral College. We now believe, through our solitary efforts, that more Canadians understand the Constitutional anachronism than Americans.) From the hastily-written "Obamarama" sign on one young lady's cashier machine at GM Place to Obama stickers on people's coats and cars, there was more than just the dismissal of the old at hand: people wanted the Obama package. Needless to say, there's plenty of people in sports looking to attach themselves to a rising brand, not the least of which we already mentioned today. More » -
To Watch Tonight
To Watch Tonight: Whatever Happened to General Eisenhower?
What to watch while not watching porn at work anymore ...
• Movie: *batteries not included (8:30 pm ET) [HBO Family] - "Frank! It's the love boat to Cuba! Shuffle board and pineapples filled with rum. Know what they do? They put little paper umbrellas sticking out the top so that when it rains, it don't thin out the liquor."
• College Football: Oklahoma State at Texas Tech (8 pm ET) [ABC] - Matthew Bartholomew Sussman will join you for a lively blogging of the night's events. (Unless you're one of the poor bastards that has to watch Berkeley and L.A. renew their sad li'l rivalry. Then he'll lively blog events that have little-to-no meaning for you.)
• College Football: Notre Dame at Boston College (8 pm ET) [ESPN] - Matthew Bartholomew Sussman probably won't mention this.
• College Football: Florida at Vanderbilt (8 pm ET) [ESPN2] - Matthew Bartholomew Sussman definitely won't mention this. -
"Despite the NFL's immense popularity among TV viewing audiences in America, ESPN executives told Arizona State University (journalism) students Friday that it is still a challenge to get the nation to care about (Monday Night Football)." Maybe another John McCain appearance? Stack people like cordwood in the booth until America notices. [Arizona Republic]
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Nfl
Install Texas Stadium End Zone in Your Back Yard (Cheerleaders Included)
In a blatant effort to rearm the Salvation Army in order to fight street to street in the urban centers and rural battlegrounds of America, Jerry Jones and a Coalition of the Willing to Appear Charitable in a Very Public Fashion have offered a unique combination of the gauche and the gaucho to the well-heeled Dallas Cowboys fan: he will send a crew over to paint the Texas Stadium end zone on your palatial lawn and a party on your newly-marred stretch of land, complete with the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. More »5:35 PM on Sat Nov 8 2008
By Tuffy
3,278 views, 9 commentsMost discussed Afino: This has to go to a guy who has a white house. Please. more »
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Blogdome
Afternoon Blogdome: Cause AI and Obama Both Have Lousy Shot Selection
• Rasheed Wallace hooks up the Pistons with Obama Undrcrwn gear, which leads to a very unfortunate AI-Obama comparison from a very white man in desperate need of a segue. [Need4Sheed] More »
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