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After the Lions’ loss to the Packers yesterday, reporters asked Detroit quarterback Jon Kitna what he was thankful for. As everybody now knows, Kitna wears his Christianity on his sleeve. And we really have no problem with that.
But we can’t help but question the motivation for all that faith, after we read what Kitna said he’s thankful for.
Lions quarterback Jon Kitna on what he’s most thankful for: “That I don’t have to go to hell.”
We don’t know if Kitna’s next comment was, “Unlike SOME people” while eyeing the reporter warily … but man, we hope so. Because nothing says love and devotion than doing something because you’re afraid you’ll be tortured for eternity if you don’t.
What Jon Kitna Is Thankful For [The World Of Isaac]
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As usual, the Thanksgiving Day slate of games yesterday was hardly compelling. All three games were blowouts, and it’s never a positive sign when the most dramatic moment involves the phrase, “hey, the Lions are within 15 now!”
That is, after all, all we ask of our Thanksgiving Day games: Keep it close enough to allow us to stare at the television rather than talking to our family. (That’s not an insult, inherently, to families; it’s just that everybody needs a break.) But it’s difficult to convincingly look wrapped up in a game that’s 27-3, even if you’re a Cowboys fan. And that Colts-Falcons game was too sloppy and scattered for anyone to watch.
Mainly, we could just enjoy Ryan Grant and the Packers. That team is freaking 10-1 now. The Packers! They play at the Cowboys next Thursday in a game that will be hyped enough for the next six days without us starting it up now.
The Hobbesian Life Of A Running Back [Cake Rocks The Party]
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Yep, Andre Iguodala and the rest of the Sixers visit the Palace of Auburn Hills to face a team who had it’s fire rekindled by Chauncey B-B-B-Billups.
25 points and 15 assists, that’s the kind of game Chauncey Billups had the last time the Pistons were on the court, beating the New York Knicks 98-86 to improve their record to 7-4 this 2007-08 NBA basketball season.
25 points is a season-high for Chauncey Billups who just recently, came back from an injury. Talk about coming back with a bang huh? The Pistons bitch-slapped a New York Knicks team that seemed more determined to see their head coach, Isiah Thomas, lose his job than simply winning a basketball game.
‘’They looked like they didn’t want to compete,'’ Detroit Pistons guard Flip Murray said. ‘’They were just out there. All you had to do was look at their body language. I don’t know what’s going on over there, but they’ve got a lot of issues.'’
Of course, all those issues surround New York Knicks head coach Isiah Thomas. Apparently, Thomas is no longer liked by the rest of the New York Knicks and when a coach is no longer liked by his players, that coach is pretty much…
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And this crazy season continues in college football with Week 13 of our second favorite (and only) football league.
And as ya’ll know by now, the top teams this 2007 NCAA college football season continues to shuffle faster than your local poker card room dealer. The Kansas Jayhawks are finally in the BCS national championship picture while the LSU Tigers are still on top of everyone else.
Speaking of them LSU Tigers, they enter this week’s game with the Arkansas Razorbacks in the middle of controversies surrounding their head coach Les Miles and the open head coaching job in Michigan.
Les Miles is one of the top candidates to replace Lloyd Carr as head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. Of course, that has something to do with the fact that Miles once played for Bo Schembechler at Michigan.
‘’Michigan has not called. It’s unfair to Michigan to say that they should, and it is unfair to me and my time,'’ Les Miles said. ‘’What I am doing is what you should be doing, let it rest.'’
And let it rest is what they should do, considering that they have a very tough Arkansas Razorbacks team, with…
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10-1, boy, these guys are really on it now.
Week 12 of the 2007-08 NFL football season began Thursday, on Thanksgiving, to kick off a series of Thursday Night Football games that would only mean one thing and one thing only, we can watch more football from here on out.
And this Thanksgiving, we had three Thanksgiving games that sure were a beauty to watch. (Of course, we didn’t have much of a choice anyway with the NBA taking the day off but still…)
One of those games was the contest between two NFC giants, the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. At the end of the day, one team made sure everybody realized that they are REALLY going for the Super Bowl now, no matter what the rest of us say.
That team is the Green Bay Packers. After winning their 10th win of the season, the Packers are now solid title contenders in the NFC. Hell, not even a fumbling Favre in the first quarter, on their very first play, could throw them off their game. Oh yeah, that was the time Favre teased the Detroit Lions, giving them false hope of an upset win over his Packers. Now why would…
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The two best point guards in the 2005 draft class go head to head Friday night after a day without the NBA to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Yep, it’s Chris Paul going up against Deron Williams, two young guns who have probably become the two best prototypical point guards in the game this 2007-08 NBA basketball season.
Chris Paul and the New Orleans Hornets will try to snap a two-game skid after playing their infamous ‘’13th game'’ with a rather bittersweet ending to it. You see, last season, the Hornets watched star forward Peja Stojakovic go down and out with an injury on their 13th game.
Last Wednesday, Stojakovic CAME BACK from an injury for the Hornets’ 13th, but they ended up losing to the Indiana Pacers, 105-93.
The New Orleans Hornets also had point guard Chris Paul back in the starting lineup Wednesday night, but center Tyson Chandler remained on the bench nursing a knee.
The Indiana Pacers took advantage of New Orleans’ injury problems as they pulled away at the beginning of the second half, opening the third quarter on a 13-2 run. They beat the Hornets 105-93 before 11,609 at the New Orleans Arena, handing the Hornets their…
