The Weekly Best for 12/1

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The 13th Annual Turkeys of the Year

David Fleming delivers a pre-holiday feast of the less-than-admirable actions in the football world.

The Weekly Best for 11/10

Welcome to the Weekly Best, giving you the cream of the crop in sports, pop culture and beyond.

...Louisville during a national semifinal college basketball game at the NCAA Women's Final Four Sunday, April...

Better be careful with those guarantees

In honor of Rex Ryan's and Lane Kiffin's big mouths, we look at some of the boldest recent statements in sports.

Summer of Mailbag revisited

While the Summer of Mailbag may have been derailed, Bill Simmons still delivers the latest and greatest the readers have to offer.

Disc golf has a pro tour, and momentum

Jack McCluskey spent a weekend on the professional disc golf tour, where the purses are small but the dreams are big.

One big-time tank battle, and lots more

...rant from Jason R. in Michigan: "Has any other year been as ruined as 2007 for fantasy basketball in the Oden/Durant sweepstakes? Leagues need to start the playoffs 3-4 weeks earlier … by...

A few questions, a few links

...wondered why I'd praise this year's NCAA Tournament (which has featured few upsets and a...The answer is simple: I like watching good basketball. That was the underlying theme of yesterday's...

NCAA renaissance peaks with great weekend

...me? • I can't remember enjoying college hoops this much since the early '90s. Look...J. Redick) were indisputably the two best college basketball players alive. 2. George Mason made the Final...

A fan's notes: Gus, Kevin, more

The Gus Johnson Question has turned into one of the defining sports questions in life. Where you stand says more about you than you'd think, just like...

Please rescue the Horns

...from someone who watched an insane amount of college basketball over the past four days. Player of the...

Vegas follow up

...those 403 "reported" arrests cover everyone who robbed cab drivers, menaced tourists in unpatrolled parking garages, pawed women's breasts, started fights in cab lines, skipped out on restaurant bills and everything else? In my...

More Cowbell: The Perfect Storm

...up going on waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. For instance, an unprepared Eddie Griffin (the comedian/actor, not the basketball player) babbled incoherently for about 20 minutes, to the point the teleprompter was flashing in capital letters...

More Cowbell: Recommendations

...a chance to play both "NCAA Football 2006" (recently released) and...program but men's and women's basketball. No, I'm not bitter...