Daily Dose: Did “The Office” really win Best Comedy last night?

Jan 26, 2004 | Andy

Awards shows, especially Hollywood awards shows are really nothing more than a chance for really dumb rich people to give trophies to other really dumb rich people. But once and a while, they get something exactly right. There I was, nearly comatose on the couch...

Green Street Journal: Greg, We Hardly Knew Ye

Jan 23, 2004 | Andy

It is a lonely Friday in the pastoral wind-blown beauty that is Champaign-Urbana this morning, so let?s take a look at the two biggest stories of our little sports world of the last couple days. First, media reports saying Greg Maddux had rejected an initial contract...

Daily Dose: Why can’t people call it the SUPER BOWL?

Jan 23, 2004 | Andy

What’s more annoying, any radio commercial with Mike North yelling or any radio commercial in which they have to refer to the Super Bowl as “The Big Game?” The NFL started cracking down on people infringing on their trademark of calling the NFL...

Daily Dose: ESPN Page 3? Is that the third circle of hell?

Jan 22, 2004 | Andy

I think we can all agree on something here. ESPN is the biggest force in sports. There’s just no denying it. SportsCenter is the biggest sports TV show in history. They broadcast college basketball, college football, the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball,...

More fun with Yahoo news photos!

Jan 21, 2004 | Karry Ling

Hello again everybody, your old pal Karry Ling here with another round of those exciting Yahoo news photos that you can’t get enough of. One of you, perhaps even the real Dennis Miller, accused me of ripping off his schtick and I think we all know there are two...