"Waltz With Bashir," a groundbreaking animated documentary about Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, won the National Society of Film Critics' 2008 best picture award Saturday.
Baltimore and Tennessee played one of the stranger playoff games in NFL history eight years ago, a 24-10 win in Nashville by the Ravens in which they had just 134 yards of offense.
When the New York Jets and Brett Favre opened the season by beating the Dolphins, few people thought the final game of the season would be Miami's chance for retribution and then some.
The holiday football festival known as college bowl season tends to start slow, with the first few days featuring games only hardcore fans can get fired up about.
The Dallas Cowboys are known for the relationships (or lack thereof) among the various parts of their offense, notably Tony Romo, Terrell Owens and now Jason Witten.
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has gone populist on its picks for best movies of 2008, choosing the animated smash "WALL-E" as No. 1 and the Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight" as runner-up on Tuesday.
This has to be the best week in the history of Cincinnati Bearcats football.
The Dallas Cowboys will get a better idea Sunday what Tony Romo's return from a broken pinkie has done for their Super Bowl hopes.
It would have been bad enough for the Detroit Lions if the Tennessee Titans were 11-0 coming in for the traditional Turkey Day feast on Thursday. It may be worse that the Titans are 10-1 because now they want to get rid of the sting of their first defeat.
Those who prefer a jumbled and angst-filled race to the BCS national championship game should be rooting for Oklahoma in Saturday's latest Big 12 game of the year between the Sooners and Texas Tech.
LSU won't be repeating as national champion. Lopsided losses to Florida and Georgia sealed that deal.
Even before the season, Oct. 11 was circled on the calendars of many college football fans. Now that six weeks of football have been played, Saturday's schedule looks even better.
A year ago, the San Diego Chargers were 2-3, just as they are now. They went on to the AFC championship game against New England, which just happens to be the team they play Sunday night at home.
Who knew Western Kentucky, Villanova and Davidson would reach the round of 16 in the men's NCAA tournament? Only two people from the more than 3.65 million entries in ESPN.com's bracket contest can brag they correctly picked the final 16 teams.
The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday named "There Will Be Blood," a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the best picture of 2007.
Oregon, South Florida and California were all ranked second in the country at some point this season. All will play in a bowl before the calendar flips to 2008.
It had been 11 years since Nos. 1 and 2 lost on the same day before LSU and California pulled the trick last week.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are likely to be without four injured starters when they play host to Cleveland on Thursday night. The Browns are likely to be with Derek Anderson at quarterback.
As great as a conference championship game can be, and there are five being played in the next three days, deciding a league champ the old-fashioned way can be fun.
It's usually easy to avoid Thanksgiving games, especially the early one. That's because Detroit is always involved and the Lions are what might be called "traditionally challenged" on a traditional day.
Georgia and Miami have a chance to right their shaky seasons and jump back into the Top 25.
Beware, Michigan. The No. 2 ranking has been more curse than blessing this season. Florida became the fourth team to lose while ranked No. 2 last week, falling 27-17 to Auburn, the previous No. 2 that lost a week earlier to Arkansas.
Rutgers plays its first game as a ranked team in 30 years on Friday and top-ranked Ohio State faces another Saturday night road test, this time in Iowa.
A week after Showdown Saturday, only two games match ranked teams this weekend. Ohio State looks for payback against Penn State on Saturday, and Arizona State and California jockey for position in the Pac-10.
Charlie Batch is proving that Ben Roethlisberger isn't indispensable to the Pittsburgh Steelers.