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In the aftermath of the already infamous Cincinnati/Xavier brawl, along with the post-game press conference where an XU player proudly exclaimed his locker room being filled with gangsters (he meant ‘tough guys’), MSF presents the ten top fights/brawls/confrontations in college basketball history.
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The lengths to which David Stern has gone to keep Chris Paul in New Orleans inspired this David Stern/Chris Paul/Kathy Bates/James Caan mash-up (which I created in lieu of writing my weekly “Things We Learned This Weekend” column).
Watch it now. If there’s any truth to this report, it could be moot by later this week.
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This weekend I attended my very first professional football game.
I’ve been a fan my whole life, but as any fan of the Green Bay Packers knows, tickets are hard to come by. I came into the tickets through a friend’s uncle, which is the standard connection for getting tickets, I presume.
Whenever I told people last week that I was going to the game, the reaction was almost universally “That’s awesome! Where’d you get the tickets?” Sure you can buy them online, often for the small sum of an arm and a leg, but how fans go about acquiring their tickets is often a story in and of itself.
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We have been rather effusive in our praise of Tim Tebow on this site over the past month and a half, a fact of which I’m proud – mostly because I think we’ve kept Tebowmania in something resembling proper perspective. For every “TEBOW WON!” article, there has also been an article focusing on the personal attributes that make him so compelling or a generally down-the-center piece focusing on the Tebow phenomenon itself.
In this article, I don’t even really want to talk too much about Tebow (even though I will…that’s just how it goes). Rather, I want to offer up a few plaudits to quarterbacks whose important contributions to the NFL landscape are getting predictably lost in the Tebow Maelstrom.
T.John Skates…this post is for you.
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The St. Louis Rams (2-10) will travel to Seattle to take on division rival, the Seahawks (5-7) in Week 14′s edition of Monday Night Football.
I’m sure I’m not the only person who is still scratching their head and trying to figure out why this is a primetime game. Both teams are struggling with the game and fighting injuries leaving fans less than thrilled.
What do I think you should watch for in this game? Check it out.
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KCChiefs.com is reporting that head coach Todd Haley has been “relieved of duties” in the wake of the Chiefs’ loss to the Jets yesterday.
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I love to argue.
I love to argue so much that when I was in college I joined the school debate team.
I loved that so much that when I was a junior I changed my minor to speech.
I loved that so much that when I graduated I became an English and Speech teacher – so I could teach kids how to reason and think every single day.
Debate is OFTEN one of the most fun parts of sports. If you watch a game, follow a given team, or cheer for a certain player, you can develop opinions. But after a while, your convictions on said game/team/player grow, and you become entrenched in your opinion. If anyone disagrees with you, you almost feel that you are being personally attacked.
I have spent hours arguing over Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. I have spent days arguing over the NBA and college basketball. I have probably wasted weeks of my life arguing over Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.
That last one hurts me the most.
Why? Because I may never get to appreciate Peyton Manning on my team again.
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I already know that some of you are going to love this post, and some of you are going to hate this post, and it doesn’t even really matter what it contains.
Because it’s about Tim Tebow, many people will view this post through the prism of how they view Tebow. “Love” him, you’ll love this post. “Hate” him (or at least the hype surrounding him), and you’ll hate this post.
I’ll urge you, regardless of your stance on Tebow The QB, to view this post with as open a mind so you can to learn something from Tebow The Leader.
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I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed Week 14.
No, I didn’t make the playoffs in all of my leagues, but I did get to enjoy a couple of Week 14 byes, and my teams that did play meaningful Week 14 games all did well.
Sure, it all could come crashing down this week, but I’m going to spend a few extra minutes studying stats and trends and matchups to ensure that I put myself in the best possible position for victory.
And it all starts with analyzing the waiver wire to see if there are any players out there who may be able to help me out now that the fantasy pressure is racheted up to its highest levels.
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This could be the first step in the Americanization of the game. Probably, few people would be willing to call it that, but some purists feel the pull. It’s like a riptide over the Atlantic Ocean.
And, yet, other purists say they’re ready for it.
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Dear Ryan Braun,
Somewhere, Robin Yount weeps.
You can’t even begin to imagine how much I hope the allegations against you are untrue. I don’t want to believe that you used performance-enhancing drugs, but part of me just knows that it’s true.
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Statistics are an often overrated part of sports; the only thing that truly matters is winning. Winning is what determines success, and Tim Tebow finds a way to win, no matter how bad the statistics appear.
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The following poem was left as a comment here just a few minutes ago by “APHI SISTER” with the description “Wanted to share a poem written by The Biggest IU fan I know, Noelle Fitzpatrick McBride.”
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I have always loved watching Saturday Night Live, and I thought it would be fun if I reviewed last night’s clips and told you what I thought of them.
(Hopefully this does not get lost in the shuffle on Sunday when MidwestSportsFans turn into MidwestTebowFans. But I can’t blame anyone because I have as big of a Teboner as the next guy.)
Enough talk, lets get it started.
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The Giants are heading to Dallas to take on the Cowboys in a game that is very important for the race in the NFC East.
The Cowboys currently hold a one game lead over the Giants and control their own destiny in the division. The two teams will meet once again in Week 17, so this game will be important for setting the stage for the end of the year meeting.
