Coach Buster Douglas appreciates the compliment.

The Official State Religion (TM) follows a predictable pattern each season: Huskies’ opponent keeps it tight for the first couple minutes, then UConn wakes up and blows out the opponent by 60something points, Geno gets pissed about something, the announcers (SNY and ESPN) run out of fresh things to say about them four…

“Of all the Cleveland Browns in the world, you’re the Cleveland Brownest!” — Lucy

B-E S-U-R-E T-O- D-R-I-N-K Y-O-U-R O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E.

What’s Craig T. Nelson doing in the middle of the photo?

Flipper is the last thing I would’ve expected. The full 7:45 “Generic” version of “Sex Bomb.” Whoa. I did overnight and morning-drive radio for years at WPKN, Connecticut’s crunchier cousin of WFMU, and that was the one song I didn’t have the, ahem, balls to play. Not even when I was extorting listeners for $$$ during…

I’m kinda surprised it isn’t the Rams, considering the move back to L.A. What might be the most challenging year of Payton’s career (and maybe Brees’ most challenging since 2005) makes for a compelling story. As a longtime fan of the Saints (as well as the Giants — long story not worth going into here), I’m not sure I…

Sure, the ‘76 Chevette was a piece of shit, butit was a durable piece of shit. I’ll always remember it fondly because back in ‘86, in my 20s, I wanted an El Camino in the worst way — and I got one ... in the worst way. A ‘74 with a 350, Turbo 400 tranny and mags, white with multicolored striping — and everything wrong…

Here’s the whole letter for the full effect.

Stink at the NBA All-Star Game, Coldplay at the Super Bowl ... wonder what easy-listening wonders MLB will come up with for its All-Star Game ...

I think I saw the first three in a Twilight Zone episode once ...

How the fuck did Paul Dano NOT get a nomination for playing Brian Wilson?

This is a WOW.

This is where that quote came from. A newspaper story from 1975, Lemmy talking about his new band after leaving Hawkwind ...

“I never was some Motörhead superfan, and I’m not going to pretend to have been one” ... but that was the beauty of this fucking ugly band! You didn’t have to be a hardcore fan; once you heard Lemmy, he kinda wormed his way into your DNA, never to leave. They were, to nick a cheesy line from a commercial for an…

Glad someone pointed this out. I own a grand total of one of the 50 albums in Pitchfork’s so-called best-of list (Sleater-Kinney, and gladly so). Any so-called “rock” publication that can’t find room for The Sonics (“Oh, sorry, dude — like, they’re as old as my grandparents”) or Barrence Whitfield & the Savages on…

Those are great stories! But I’m boggled at how a restaurant in Colorado decided to name itself after a ‘60s New York TV cop (the Joe E. Ross character in “Car 54, Where Are You?”)

Yesterday morning, I stumbled into the new documentary on The Jam, “About the Young Idea,” on Showtime. It just premiered last week on Sky in the UK. Fucking great. Lots of great nuggets from all three of them, plus Paul Weller’s childhood mate/band co-founder, Steve Brookes, plus fans from all over the spectrum (from…

One of the greatest lines in the history of rock — “I saw it in books, I read it on TV!”

The Zambonis talk Bob Marley and the Hartford Whalers.