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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Just three days after his Super Bowl coup of brilliance, Will Ferrell was mixing sports and comedic irreverence in a way that... well, the movie Semi-Pro was supposed to.
Ferrell introduced the visiting Chicago Bulls before their game at New Orleans on Wednesday night, throwing in an insult for each Bull ...
Posted in Chicago Bulls, NBA, New Orleans Hornets | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
What's the greatest moment in Super Bowl history?
The answer depends on whom you ask, of course, as one is typically partial to their own team's success.
For some, it might be Joe Namath running off the field after completing his guaranteed upset in Super Bowl III. Maybe it's The Fridge leaping ...
Posted in TV commercials | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Things I thought of during this year's Super Bowl, not necessarily in order of importance or chronology:
- Some lucky bastard in Vegas must have made a fortune on a prop bet that the first points of the game would be scored on a safety. If the same lucky bastard was ...
Posted in New England Patriots, New York Giants | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The most mystifying sub-.500 team in the NBA this year is surely the Milwaukee Bucks, who knocked off the Heat for the second time in little over a week on Wednesday night. (If you are mystified by the Knicks being under .500, you know less about basketball than anyone should ...
Posted in Milwaukee Bucks, NBA | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 30th, 2012
You know a good joke? This game!
An excerpt from Sunday's conversation --
Phillips: Do you think you can have something for tomorrow?
Me: Of course, no problem.
And then I realized what day it was. The day of the Pro Bowl and the NHL All-Star Game. What the hell am I going to ...
Posted in Hick Flick's ramblings | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 27th, 2012
The Ivy League was founded on a bunch of hoity-toity ideals that include not giving out athletic scholarships and not allowing its football champion to play in the Division I-AA (aka FCS) playoffs.
Turns out the Ivies are just as morally challenged as the rest of college football, though that probably ...
Posted in College Football | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
On Sept. 23, 1908 Fred Merkle became the first athlete to achieve national infamy for a gaffe that ultimately cost his team a shot at a championship.
Merkle's Boner, as they called it back then, has been joined by dozens of choke-jobs in the century following — two of which came ...
Posted in AFC Championship Game, Choke Jobs, NFC Championship Game | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
He's the feel-good story of the NFL this season -- the former first-round draft pick derided by most as a below-average quarterback who led his franchise to heights it hasn't experienced since a Hall-of-Famer was playing the position.
You just haven't heard all that much about him.
No, really. You haven't. Because ...
Posted in Alex Smith, NFL, San Francisco 49ers | 3 Comments »
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Without question, the most underplayed story from this week in sports is the one where Roy Halladay rescues a guy in the Amazon who had just been attacked by an anaconda. No, seriously.
Halladay was on a fishing expedition with former teammates Chris Carpenter and B.J. Ryan and pro angler Skeet Reese (do ...
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Last year, we began what we hope becomes a tradition here at Rumors and Rants and tipped our hats to Cheap Trick by naming the losers of the year in every sport we pay attention to.
In case you are wondering, there is no scientific formula to being named loser of ...
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