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Sports & Leisure

Bowled Over: 2008's Worst Bowl Games

This college football season proves, without a doubt, that the current bowl system is the most farcical postseason exercise in the history of athletic competition.

By Matt Hooper
Who needs a playoff when you can enjoy the magicjack Bowl? This college football season proves, without a doubt, that the current bowl system is the most farcical postseason exercise in the history
Sports & Leisure

Chizik an underwhelming end to an embarrassing search

Auburn fired Tommy Tuberville for this? Gene Chizik's 5-19 record is hardly impressive in a league that includes the likes of Saban, Richt, Meyer, Miles, Petrino and Nutt. Regardless, he's the Tigers' new head football coach.

By Matt Hooper
Wow, and Nick Saban’s birthday isn’t until Halloween. I know it has been a decade since the Auburn Tigers last went shopping for a new coach, but this is the best you guys could do? Doesn’t the Int
Sports & Leisure

Electric Football: BCS Computers Ruining America's New Favorite Pastime

It used to be, that human beings watched football teams play each other on the field, and used their own judgment to determine which team was better than the other. That was then, BCS is now.

By Matt Hooper
Those of you who have flown into Denver International Airport at any point during the last 14 years know that it’s a pretty impressive structure. From the white canvas rooftop built to resemble the
News

Updating new Obama hires

By Matt Hooper
UPDATED - Dec. 7., 5:22 p.m.\ \ \ MORE ELECTION 2008 COVERAGE HERE!\ THE PRESIDENTS CABINET:\ Secretary of State - Hillary Clinton\ \ Secretary of Treasury -Timothy Geithner\ \ Secretary of Defense -R
News & Views

Pre and Post-Election Commentary...

By Matt Hooper
FROM KYLE WHITMIRE:\ War on Dumb: America's Political Intervention\ \ \ War on Dumb: Alabama Exceptionalism\ \ War on Dumb: Presidential Picker\ FROM MARK KELLY:\ No Small Change\ \ \ Obama for Presid
Politics

Magnanimous in Victory

By Matt Hooper
Four years ago, in the wake of a bitterly narrow election that refused to break until dawn and teetered on a fulcrum of only 120,000 voters in the Buckeye State, it was apparent that the weight and gr
Politics

Reliving Election Night...

By Matt Hooper
Here's Birmingham Weekly's running blog coverage from Election Night 2008...ah, memories:\ *UPDATE - Nov. 6 - 1:30 p.m. CST*\ NORTH CAROLINA GOES FOR OBAMA. NOW ONLY ONE ELECTORAL VOTE REMAINS FROM NE
Politics

The Moment of Victory...

By Matt Hooper
Relive history across the networks and the web...\ Obama moment of victory on TV:\ CNN\ NBC\ MSNBC\ FOXNEWS\ ABC\ CBS\ Obama moment of victory in Chicago:\ CLICK HERE\ Obama moment of victory on the W
News

The two most absurd things you'll see today...

By Matt Hooper
Only three days until Election Day...\ \ In the spirit of the Halloween season...you wanna see something really scary? Of course you do.\ \ With a hat tip to the Daily Kos and our very own Madison Und
Odds & Ends

Palin or no, book banning in vogue

By Matt Hooper
You don\'92t need Alaska\'92s version of Marge Gunderson to remind you that some people still get in a tizzy whenever they come across a library book that portrays reality. According to a Birmingham N