Month: November 2008

I've never been a Kobe Bryant fan, but he's won me over with this great TV commercial for Guitar Hero IV. He is the perfect lead singer in the ad for a four-man band with Alex Rodriguez, Michael Phelps and Tony Hawk. The earnestness and enthusiasm Bryant pretends to bring to the performance is just […]

The firing of Phil Fulmer as the University of Tennessee head football coach reflects the ugly underbelly of sports. Fulmer has the third highest win percentage (.746) of active coaches in Div. 1 college football. He just signed a seven-year contract extension. But the university is letting him go. The university will point to his […]

Tennessee leaves Jim unimpressed, though. A player kisses his coach, the Colts get a needed win and the Raiders really stink.How Cyd and Jim saw NFL Week 9. E-mail Cyd Big kudos to Baltimore and Atlanta. No one, and I mean no one, predicted this. Two teams who won a combined nine games last season […]

Opposition to Proposition 8 in California, which strips away marriage rights from same-sex couples, is getting a big boost from the support of two Hall of Fame athletes: Steve Young and Magic Johnson. Former NFL quarterback Steve Young has posted several signs at his house urging people to oppose Prop. 8. The proposition’s biggest supporters […]

If you missed the end of the Texas Tech-Texas game, you missed one of the great endings in recent college football history. Texas Tech scored on a 28-yard touchdown pass from Graham Harrell (right) to Michael Crabtree with one second left to lift the Red Raiders over No. 1 Texas, 39-33, in Lubbock. The Longhorn […]

We featured a video a while back of Charlton, a 400-meter runner from Britain, flexing in his bedroom. He's back with an even longer video. We featured a video a while back of Charlton, a 400-meter runner from Britain, flexing in his bedroom. He's back with an even longer video.