Cheap Shots #120

You know the deal. Send your links and such to s2nblog@gmail.com, and this post will hopefully be updated and bumped up with new stuff.
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Sweet College Basketball: You make it so unnecessary to watch anything else during conference tournament time. ‘Nova loses to G-Town, UConn is taking on WVU, OK State beat Texas Tech [...]

The Fall Guy

If the first crack you make after hearing that Broncos GM Ted Sundquist got the pink slip is, “I already thought they had a GM; his name is Mike Shanahan,” you’re not far off — and that’s why firing Sundquist is merely a cosmetic move, which will result in no real progress for the Broncos [...]

Hire A Failed Hack!

I’m telling you, you cannot make this stuff up sometimes. Stolen from an item in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has worked some tough rooms and has decided to offer advice about how to handle those crowds.
Fleischer, who prepped Selig before the baseball commissioner’s news conference after the release of the [...]

The Madness Doesn’t Draw As Many Eyes These Days

So sayeth CBS’ media folk, according to the Hollywood Reporter. You and I, being sports-addicted and particularly so come midway through March, on tall dudes playing two 20-minute halves in single-elimination tournaments, might think otherwise. The ratings have dropped 12% in the past three years, with last year holding a 6.1 rating, which is [...]