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That would make two apologies in the span of a week, since Holtz was compelled (forced?) to apologize for saying "hell" and "damn" a few times during last Saturday's late-night "College Football Scoreboard" show.

@Lizabelle: I've been about 7-8 times (my dad's family is from Rhode Island - and since there's absolutely nothing to do in Rhode Island, we always stay in Boston) and absolutely love it. Fantastic city - and Fenway is a blast too. And most of the people act/sound nothing like "Tawmy from Qwinzee", thankfully.

So, I suspect this may get me beaten (in a virtual sense), but all of this Midnight Madness talk makes me think once again about how, despite the NCAA Tournament being a ridiculously entertaining three or four weeks, the college basketball regular season is pretty meaningless for most big-time programs. I mean, the

@Yostal: David Wells, Norman Esiason and Chris Berman are confused.

@Artie Fufkin: I wanted to do the same - or even say "with a star!" (in my pre-execution days) - but then I thought that it might be a bad idea to tip my future employer off to what I'd spend most of my time doing in the office.

This is strange: I submitted a comment that originally said, "Evening, DUAN" - to which the Gawker overlords replied, "Your comment is a duplicate and will not be posted."

Evening, DUAN!

On an entirely different note, did Joe Maddon literally pull BJ Upton off of the field? I dont know the instance that Scoop's referring to, but it would seem to me that that'd be a bit much.

Today is 10/17/08....and Red Sox fans are douches.

This was also his exact quote when he put his grill on eBay.

@Silky John-STON!: Thank you. Anyone who would voluntarily play college football for Chuck Amato probably has something wrong with him.

I actually saw something yesterday (maybe in SI?) that showed the highest face value ticket at each Super Bowl since Super Bowl I: as recently as 1983, the highest-priced ticket was only $40.

This never would've happened if B.J. Upton hadn't gone 3-4 so lazily.

I would admire Freddy Adu more if he had exhibited less of an effort in defeat. - Scoop Jackson