Starting Five
1. Boise State Broncos defeat the BYU Bronco Mendenhalls, 7-6, as Steve Young, Gifford Nielsen, Ty Detmer, Jared Zabransky and Kellen Moore turn away in disgust. Boise state defensive tackle Mike Atkinson scored the game-winning Fat Guy TD on a 36-yard INT return. The Blue Turfers were held without an offensive touchdown (edit: at home) for the first time since joining the FBS in ’96, and they still won.
2. Texas Tech and Billy Gillispie part ways, and Yahoo! sports columnist Dan Wetzel pens an insightful column about where and how Gillispie’s career careered out of control.
3. “I want something thinner, taller, smarter.” Men! iPhone users!
4. WALK AND TALK! WALK AND TALK! WALK AND TALK! (Now this is how you run a political ad) (notice the nod to a certain iconic film that Josiah Bartlett starred in shortly before the 3:00 mark)
“They’re baaaaaack.” On YouTube.
5. Natitude! Playoff baseball is coming to Washington, D.C., for the first time since Herbert Hoover was president. (Those Washington Senators, by the way, were led by 26 year-old player-manager Joe Cronin).
Joe Cronin, progenitor of Natitude.
The Reserves
If an NFL game takes place on a Thursday night on NFL Network — even if one of the teams is the defending Super Bowl champion — did it really happen?
Should the Eighties New Wave band The Alarm be receiving royalties from Notre Dame, which is urging fans to “Take a staND”? “Come on and down and meet your maker/Come on down and take a stand.” The Irish are urging their non-student fans to stand during Saturday’s Michigan contest after years of septuagenarian octagenarian experienced ushers playing school marm to anyone outside the student section who dared to be raucous.
Rick Reilly: “What’s the secret to staying single?” Derek Jeter: “It goes without saying, doesn’t it?” Spoken like a G, DJ.
Paging Dr. Crane! Paging Dr. Crane! Kelsey Grammer walks out on scheduled interview with Piers Morgan after host showed photo of his ex-wife while teasing the segment.
We congratulate Bruce Arthur on this encomium, but isn’t the Canadian sports press closing the door on the year 2012 in like, the seventh inning?
This morning’s Google Maps vs. iPhone5 kerfuffle inspires us to resurrect this video of our favorite tune from 2004, which was a pretty darn good year for tuneage.
Pakistanis setting movie theaters on fire in Peshawar to protest “The Innocence of Muslims.” I was moved to do the same after spending $12.50 on “Moonrise Kingdom”, but I respect the concept of free speech.
Geoff versus the volcano: Adventurer Geoff Mackley rappels into an active volcano. Check out the video.
What Dr. Evil might refer to as, “Mmm-agma.”
Flushed out of the Pocket: Arkansas coach John L. Smith is $25.7 million in debt, which is nothing to SMILE! about.
The New York Mess have scored 13 runs in nine games at Citi Field this month. Last night the Philadelphia Phillies scored 16 runs there. Manager Terry Collins, asked if his team has quit, says, “You’ll have to ask them.”
Jimmy Kimmel, who will host Sunday’s Emmy awards and just had his show moved from midnight to 11:35 p.m., is asked if this is the greatest year of his life: “I think the year that I discovered masturbating might be the only one that was better.” Might be?
Yet another Twitter list that (almost) no one is happy about…
Disturbing trend: College football becoming a prime-time event. We are completely fine with the choice college football game of the weekend being held back until prime-time, but not three of them. This weekend Michigan and Notre Dame will kick off on NBC at 7:30 p.m., Kansas State and Oklahoma at 7:50 p.m. on Fox, and Clemson and Florida State at 8 p.m. on ABC. Those six schools represent one-third of the AP’s top 18 teams. We all savor a college football feast, but we don’t necessarily relish the idea of having to be Joey Chestnut.
This is how the networks expect you to devour Saturday night’s college football menu.
Pink performs acoustic-style on The Daily Show (NSFP: “Not Safe For Phyllis [Walters]).
Apparently, “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” extends beyond just being able to procure choice seats to Bob Dylan concerts.
In other film news: The ads certainly do not presage the huge acclaim that Looper (opening Sept. 28) is receiving.
“The Blue Turfers were held without an offensive touchdown for the first time since joining the FBS in ’96.” Correction: it was the first time AT HOME since ’96; they actually went without an offensvie touchdown a few weeks ago at Michigan State.
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