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FanHouse Minute: It's Fair! I Mean Foul! I Mean... FAIR!

Posted: May 19th 2008 8:55 AM ET by Yankees Chick (RSS feed)
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FanHouse Minute is your 60-second rundown of the top five headlines of the day. Check back here every weekday morning for the latest.

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FanHouse's Top Five: The Nature Boy Is Back

Posted: Oct 1st 2007 8:45 AM ET by Larry Brown (RSS feed)
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FanHouse's Top Five scans the sports blogosphere for the best posts of the last 24 hours so you don't have to. Got something for this feature? Hit us up at fanhouse@googlegroups.com.

1) Ric Flair's now giving financial advice? Well, I guess it could be worse.

2) An early favorite for college football hit of the year.

3) Looks like MLB.com's shop jumped the gun on the whole Mets NL East crown thing. Any Yankee or Philly fans care to rub it in?

4) If you want to start a fire your coach .com campaign, it might cost you some kessef. Is Norv Turner's spot taken?

5) The Extrapolater is back with his Porn Name All-Star teams, this time, it's the ACC.

FanHouse Top Five: Vick's Marijuana Bust Could Be a Good Thing?

Posted: Sep 28th 2007 9:15 AM ET by Larry Brown (RSS feed)
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FanHouse's Top Five scans the sports blogosphere for the best posts of the last 24 hours so you don't have to. Got something for this feature? Hit us up at fanhouse@googlegroups.com.

1) 100% Injury Rate dug up some legal loophole suggesting Michael Vick getting busted for weed could actually reduce his prison sentence!

2) SI Extra Mustard's Hot Clicks has made every man's dream come true; they have a photo gallery of the world's largest swimsuit shoot. Must. See.

3) If you enjoyed the old site SEC Poon, With Leather says you'll feast your eyes on the likes of these new sites.

4) Ocho Cinco will have a sponsor for an upcoming touchdown celebration dance. Paging Roger Goodell.

5) While Unsilent Majority says boxing is thriving, he opines that the lack of network coverage is making the sweet science seem dead.

FanHouse's Top Five: Mustache Celebration

Posted: Sep 27th 2007 11:09 AM ET by Eamonn Brennan (RSS feed)
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FanHouse's Top Five scans the sports blogosphere for the best posts of the last 24 hours so you don't have to. Got something for this feature? Hit us up at fanhouse@googlegroups.com.

1). Looking for a list of the all-time great NBA mustaches? I knew you were. It's not exactly exhaustive, but The Blowtorch's photos hit all the highlights.

2). Speaking of the NBA, T-Zill at Ballhype takes us through the Southeast Division as only he can -- with plenty of discouraging news.

3). Mike Conley is an excellent ballhandler. Truth.

4). Thankfully, the 2007 summer of sports is officially over. Unfortunately, all of its extralegal baggage is not, and Davey at Epic Carnival redirects his eyes away from the Timmy Leary-inspired banner just long enough to take us through the details.

5). We Suck at Sports plays Start 'Em/Sit 'Em with Michigan's tenuous quarterback situation. Does Chad Henne deserve his gig back? Find out! Or don't! Totally your decision!

FanHouse's Top Five: It's Time to Pay the Piper, Baseball People

Posted: Sep 26th 2007 11:24 AM ET by Eamonn Brennan (RSS feed)
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FanHouse's Top Five scans the sports blogosphere for the best posts of the last 24 hours so you don't have to. Got something for this feature? Hit us up at fanhouse@googlegroups.com.

1). Vegas Watch leads off the festivities today with an insightful roundup of various baseball analysts' preseason predictions. Two things you thought might be true: Rob Neyer and Baseball Prospectus are good at this; Steve Phillips is not. Surprise, right?

2). As is the norm, Awful Announcing was the first with Mark Cuban video from last night's inaugural Dancing With the Stars appearance. Cuban's performance? I give it a solid eight, especially in the early rounds. What? I'm talking about dancing as if I know anything? Oh, right. Sorry.

3). Are Minnesota and Arizona conspiring to send Larry Fitzgerald to the North Country? From an Arizona summer to a Minnesota winter; do the Cardinals really hate Larry that much?

4). Signal to Noise reminds us that Beras fans ought to know who Brian Griese is, and that if they want to crown him, they can crown him ... but we really shouldn't.

5). In honor of the crazy and regrettable Milton Bradley injury, AZ Sports Hub highlights the top five freak injuries of all time. Ouch.

FanHouse's Top Five: Hester's Fly Ride

Posted: Sep 25th 2007 10:12 AM ET by PostmanR (RSS feed)
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FanHouse's Top Five scans the sports blogosphere for the best posts of the last 24 hours so you don't have to. Got something for this feature? Hit us up at fanhouse@googlegroups.com.

1) Via TBL, here's Devin Hester's fly ride. Sorry, Lance Briggs. This refurbished hoopty is better than your car. Do you have Louis Vuitton interior? I didn't think so.

2) Mister Irrelevant has video of some dead-air silence during Monday Night Football's halftime PTI segment last evening. Awwwkk-waaard.

3) Ah, so this is why the Titans and Saints played last night. Good thinking, Sports Hernia.

4) Signal to Noise points out that well, Brian Griese isn't that amazing either. My vote is still for Kyle Orton.

5) Hey look, ticket scalpers use Segways now. Good thinking.

FanHouse's Top Five: Mike Patrick Is No Perez Hilton, but He Sure Is Trying

Posted: Sep 24th 2007 10:50 AM ET by Eamonn Brennan (RSS feed)
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FanHouse's Top Five scans the sports blogosphere for the best posts of the last 24 hours so you don't have to. Got something for this feature? Hit us up at fanhouse@googlegroups.com.

1). There are few football ~~analysts~~ commentators worse than Mike Patrick. Formerly teamed with Joe Theismann on ESPN's Sunday Night Football -- before it became Football Night in America -- Patrick was one-half of the most knock-you-over-the-head team in professional football. "Now, look at this play right here. You see what I'm doing right here -- I'm showing you things that are so obvious no one could have missed them, yet I can't find anything else insightful to say, so I'm going with it! And then I hit the sweet spot right ... here! Look at that play! Wow!" Ugh.

So it's good to see that, since demotion to the college football ranks, Patrick isn't even trying anymore; he's just musing about whatever he feels in the most crucial moments of football games. This week? Britney Spears' life. Next week? Scones? 780p vs. 1080i? The influence of Eastern philosophy on web-based social networks? The possibilities are endless!

2). Speaking of brilliant college football video, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy's legendary defense of quarterback Bobby Reid -- in which he berates columnist Jenni Carlson to her face about "having children one day" -- is a must-see. And after reading Carlson's column, not exactly unwarranted. (Aside: At the end of the video, who, exactly, is clapping? Certainly not the media, I'd hope.)

3). Weirdly, instead of fixing the things that are bothersome about the next-gen versions of Madden 08 (players seem slow, juke moves are too effective, TOO MANY FUMBLES) EA Sports is rolling out yet another NFL game. Wha?

4). I recreationally hate Ohio State, but I have to admit: they are good this year, and not getting much buzz for it.

5). Dude, if you're going to rock an A-Rod jersey -- and I love the WBC idea, too -- please make sure it's spelled correctly.

FanHouse's Top Five: Thanks for the Add

Posted: Sep 20th 2007 11:44 AM ET by Eamonn Brennan (RSS feed)
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FanHouse's Top Five scans the sports blogosphere for the best posts of the last 24 hours so you don't have to. Got something for this feature? Hit us up at fanhouse@googlegroups.com.

1) You know it. I know it. Of all people, super-genius Charlie Weis knows it. So why would you try to hide it? You have MySpace, and you want to make friends. So, as JoeSportsFan reminds, does a fake Charlie Weis.

2) O.J. Simpson and Byron Leftwich are considerably different people, not just in outward physical appearance but in just about every abstract sense. Unfortunately for Leftwich, ESPN failed to recognize the distinction yesterday.

3) For some strange reason -- worn out his welcome, perhaps? -- Jose Mourinho, Chelsea's ebullient manager, is no more. How will Abramovich and company recover? By going shopping, that's how!

4) Joe Madden: the Mike Shanahan of fantasy baseball, or a good manager protecting a young arm? Both?

5) This video is so good. So good.

FanHouse's Top Five: SimmonsCookopolypse!

Posted: Sep 18th 2007 10:48 AM ET by Eamonn Brennan (RSS feed)
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1) ESPN columnist Bill Simmons does not like Dane Cook. He is not exactly alone in this; slowly, like a zombie waddling awkwardly in friendship, the tides of popularity are turning against Dane Cook. Realizations that he stole jokes from Louis C.K., not to mention America's collective gasp of "Wait, we thought this guy was funny? What were we thinking!?" -- that will end a career of popularity mediocrity faster than you can make loud noises instead of a punch line. Yes, Cook's time is nigh, and in recent columns Simmons has been merely piling on.

Ah, but Cook will not go quietly into the night: in an ESPN chat yesterday, he fired back at el Jefe Simmons. I smell a rap battle! (HT: Shoot Your Hopes and Dreams)

2) As a Bears fan, it pains me to link this, even though I know it's early in the season: Yes, the Lions are 2-0. (For the record, Michigan is 1-2. Side by side, something is really wrong with that picture.) How Motor City fans will handle this is yet to be seen, though I wouldn't rule out spontaneous cranial combustion.

3) All on the Field interviews Ball Four author Jim Bouton. He wrote a book. Do those have pixels yet? Because if they don't, I ain't interested.

4) If you haven't seen this video of Jimmy Clausen's Heismann bid flying past his head like so many errant shotgun snaps, go. You'll thank yourself.

5) Now Brian Billick is whining. Does anyone in the league not do things like this? Are we serious here?

FanHouse's Top Five: Blog Love Abounds

Posted: Sep 17th 2007 8:50 AM ET by Eamonn Brennan (RSS feed)
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FanHouse's Top Five scans the sports blogosphere for the best posts of the last 24 hours so you don't have to. Got something for this feature? Hit us up at fanhouse@googlegroups.com.

1) The above is video of CBS' Verne Lundquist randomly dropping some love on FanHouse's own Orson Swindle and Co. at EDSBS, the finest college football blog on the planet. (Sunday Morning Quarterback is a close, close second; what EDSBS is to brilliant goofiness, SMQ is to cogent, detailed analysis.) With this newfound attention, hopefully Orson will remember the rest of us proles between overseeing his recently opened mint and lighting cigars with game-worn Peyton Manning jerseys.

2) Speaking of blog love, let us drop some of our own: Big congrats to Maury Brown at Biz of Baseball, the blogosphere's go-to site for the business side of Major League Baseball. They say the first year is always the hardest, Maury.

3) Shelley Duncan is my new favorite baseball player. Click here to read why. (Via River Ave. Blues)

4) Someone at NFL.com is a very, very funny human being.

5) "My name is Ben Wallace, and I'm a motivational speaker! And I live in a van ... down by ... the RIVER!"