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I don’t follow college football (that’s why happens when you have a foreign father and went to college at a school with no team), and I possess little-to-no analytical knowledge of the NFL, but still! I’m going to be live-blogging the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft, starting in about…oh, 15 minutes. Why?
1. Everyone [...]

Or, “How A Cliché Changes Its Usage, In Five Easy Steps”
I: Status Quo
November 4, 2005:
What’s more important: talent, coaching, or swagger? These quotes may help you decide. Each tells us something important about that magical gait.
[...] FOX’s Adam Schein, on the Cowboys’ rout of the Eagles a month ago: “Finally, swagger and aggressiveness from the [...]

I owe Jay Leno an apology. For much of my life I’ve thought of him as a complacent old hack on the wrong side of history, with nothing better to do than spent his time telling humorless and mean-spirited jokes to an audience that thinks predictability breeds hilarity. I was making the cardinal sin of [...]

Hey, remember when “Avatar” made lots of money? Let’s use that as an opportunity to learn all the wrong lessons!
From USA Today:
This week, ESPN announced plans to launch an all-sports 3D [television] network on June 11, starting with World Cup soccer and eventually including the Summer X Games (extreme sports) and college basketball and college [...]

(I’m probably going to sound like one of those lame men’s rights groups in this post, but try to imagine me looking more like (:-/ and less like >:-o when you picture me reading it aloud.)
I’m going to assume that everyone knows the Tiger Woods story right now. If you don’t, read this right here. [...]

This is the Iranian Men’s Nation Soccer team. Four of these players wore green wrist bands in support of Mir Hossein Mousavi at their last match. They have recieved life-time bans retired from the team.
How about some post-game analysis?
Iran’s government is completely exposed, it seems like most people agree with the protesters, insane amounts of [...]

John Mullin is a contributing sportswriter for SI.com, which means that in theory it is his job to understand statistics and the English language. But in the middle of his ranking of the NFL’s best QB-RB combos is this gem:
An offense 32nd in rushing average is just that: average. Even with [Peyton] Manning.
There are 32 [...]

If the Senate Republican caucus was “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” Mitch McConnell would be The Brains, John Ensign would be The Looks and Arlen Specter would be The Wild Card.

Sometimes Specter is a hard-core Republican. He went at Anita Hill like a wild dog during Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court hearings and he was mixed [...]

Now I am what you would call a sports fan. I get upset when my teams win or lose, call bad plays, or do things I disagree with. Now as a sports fan there is a lot of tradition invovled with your team. Since players can’t stay forever you wan’t a few things to stay [...]

There was only one way 2009 could have gotten worse for Alex Rodriguez, and it just happened. From the NY Daily News:
A former Manhattan madam who supplied Eliot Spitzer with hookers also counted Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez as a customer - and found him so charming she dated him herself for free, former employees of [...]