(H-L photo/Mark Cornelison) Big Blue Links for Sunday: Ricky Lumpkin’s halftime speech sparks Kentucky past Vanderbilt 38-20, reports Chip Cosby of the Herald-Leader. If it was Randall Cobb’s farewell, it was a magnificent one, says my Sunday column. Mark Story of the H-L writes that Derrick Locke turned on the late show. Derrick Locke needed [...]
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Liverpool Takes a Subtle Step Towards “Moneyball”
Is Damien Comolli the man to bring "Moneyball" to the Premier League? The name Damien Comolli is probably not one that’s immediately recognizable to most fans; the names of specific backroom staffmembers aren’t usually paraded about in the same way that the names of footballers’ mistresses are. For Spurs fans, however, Damien Comolli is a [...]
Charlie Adam Takes On Blackpool
In a worrying development for Ian Holloway and Blackpool, club captain Charlie Adam will take his club to a Premier League arbitration court next week over unpaid bonuses. Adam is set to take the club to court over unpaid payments after the Seasiders avoided relegation from the Championship. While Adam of course is right to [...]
Too much focus on Kevin Durant on final play takes Charlie Villanueva’s greatest triump as a Piston away from him
Charlie Villanueva can’t catch a break. Friday’s loss against the Oklahoma City Thunder certainly wasn’t his best game as a Piston, but after establishing himself as a physical presence on the offensive glass, after battling on defense and after getting crunch time minutes — a rarity for him last season — for the second straight [...]
Chad Ochocinco Takes 64 Twitter Followers Out to Dinner (Video)
Chad Ochocinco combined his talents of self-promotion and Twitter usage this week. On Wednesday night, Ochocinco tweeted that he would treat the first 64 people who showed up for at 6 pm at Indianapolis’ St. Elmo’s to dinner. Reportedly, there was a line outside by 4:30 pm and it was sold out by 5 pm. [...]