Saturday, December 31, 2005

Sharapova tops Serena

That's right. Maria Sharapova's subway train grunt tops Serena Williams' lawn mower grunt 101 decibels to 88.

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Monday Night Football ends after 36 years

The New York Jets lost the first game of MNF 31-21 and lost the last game 36 years later by the same score.

Actually it's not really the last game of Monday Night Football. It will move from ABC to ESPN.

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Colts unbeaten streak ended by San Diego

Indianapolis' unbeaten streak ended Sunday in a 26-17 loss to a San Diego team desperate to make the playoffs.

In a game of dramatic turnarounds, the Chargers went ahead on a 49-yard field goal by Nate Kaeding with 6:42 left after the Colts erased a 16-0 deficit with a field goal and two touchdowns in a six-minute span of the third quarter. Then Michael Turner clinched it with an 83-yard touchdown run after rookie Luis Castillo sacked Peyton Manning to knock the Colts out of field-goal range.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Dan Hawkins headed for Colorado

Boise State coach Dan Hawkins has accepted the head coaching job at the University of Colorado, sources told ESPN. Hawkins will be introduced at a news conference on Friday. Hawkins had been rumored as a potential replacement since former coach Gary Barnett's dismissal last Thursday.

Reached Wednesday night, Hawkins said, "the process is not complete." "The only thing I know for sure is that I'm going to be in the theater tonight with my boys watching 'King Kong,' " he said.

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Reggie Bush wins Heisman

Bush was voted the nation's best college football player in a landslide Saturday night over Texas quarterback Vince Young and USC quarterback Matt Leinart, last year's winner.

Curiously, though Bush was the landslide winner, Vince Young earlier won the Maxwell Award and was the Cingular/ABC Sports Player of the Year which was nationally televised (hosted by Regis) earlier in the day.