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Sharks Gameday: Let's Hurt Somebody
Next Game San Jose Sharks @ New Jersey Devils Friday, Oct 21, 2011, 4:00 PM PDT Prudential Center Complete Coverage > <!-- END WIDGET --> Hey, everything sucks right now. Well, okay, not everything. There are some bright spots, if one is inclined to look for them. If one were...
Jarvis Jones Cleared to Play by NCAA; Eeyore and Chicken Little Cautiously Peer Out From Under Umbrellas
Normally, I am very leery of public expressions of optimism regarding the Georgia Bulldogs; it has been my experience that evincing too sunny a disposition is followed frequently by rotten news, and this was supposed to be Slow News Day Tuesday. This week, though, I have shown increasingly...
VIDEO: Optimism Personified
op·ti·mism [op-tuh-miz-uhm] -noun a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome. the belief that good ultimately predominates over evil in the world. the belief that goodness pervades reality. the...
Kyle Whittingham's weekly press conference
Kyle Whittingham held his first press conference of the season yesterday and the U has been kind enough to upload video of it to YouTube. Discussion, of course, revolves around Utah's opening game against the Pitt Panthers. Whitt seems optimistic about this season and the progress the team has...
White Sox Open Season in Style
You can't beat Opening Day. Yes, it gets capitalized like all the other "real" holidays. It's the end to that long winter cooped up hiding from the dreary Chicago weather, the only day of the year when every team is a contender, when there is hope for even the hopeless. More than anything else, to...
The most exciting sentence in UConn football history
Learn to love watching this young man. ------------------ OK, I vividly remember the last time I was excited about UConn football. It was right after this moment, when Donald Brown announced he would return for his senior season, in order to lead my soon-to-be alma mater to the Orange Bowl. And I...
Hersh Wants Sasha Cohen Back!
Philip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune is begging Sasha Cohen to come back and save figure skating for the U.S. ladies field. In his reasoning: The six best scores of her career (including those at the 2006 worlds and Olympics) are better than those of any U.S. skater except the Meissner who once was...
It's all in the jumper (well, almost) for Andray Blatche
In the spirit of reminding everyone that we're not even one-tenth of the way through the season, let's talk about the one major bright spot of the first eight games -- Andray Blatche. Blatche has arguably been the Wizards' best player thus far this season. (This is where your jaw drops and you...
The Morning Blitz: Daily Utah links
It's funny. Prior to the season, many fans were quick to suggest Oregon might be one of Utah's losses this season. We said as much because the Utes were rebuilding; the Ducks were supposed to be really good; the game was only three weeks in and on the road. Yet here we are, a few days out and now...
What Excites You The Most About Cal Football? (2009 ed.)
A few weeks ago, we focused on the Debbie Downer side of Cal football. Would the sky fall on our team's chances from the opening kickoff? Would quarterback, quarterback, quarterback continue to torment us? Would one of those doomsday scenarios that chowder was thinking of here unfold? Yeah,...
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