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In another monumental win for Deion Sanders and the Jackson State football program, ESPN's "College GameDay" is heading to campus for the first time ever this Saturday. Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Lee Corso and the gang will be on-hand for the Tigers' rivalry game against Southern. Something that Sanders spoke on the gravity of with Mississippi's Clarion Ledger. “I don’t think our kids understand the magnitude,” Coach Prime said. “They really don’t. The grown folks do. But I don’t think we as HBCUs understand the magnitude of 'College GameDay' being here. We don’t.” Adding, “I just hope we...

The Obama campaign's technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong. Josh Thayer, the lead engineer of Narwhal, had just been informed that they'd lost another one of the services powering their software. That was bad: Narwhal was the code name for the data platform that underpinned the campaign and let it track voters and volunteers. If it broke, so would everything else. They were talking with people at Amazon Web Services, but all they knew was that they had packet loss. Earlier that day, they lost their databases, their East Coast servers, and...

After a nearly perfect start to the Pick' Em season it is not surprising that SportsNation faded a bit in Week 2, as the matchups got a little bit harder to call. Unexpected victories by South Carolina and South Florida, and Texas' victory over TCU, put a dent in the Nation's sparkling record. As we head into Week 3 of the college football season, SportsNation's Pick' Em record stands at 39-for-44, a very respectable .886 winning percentage. Week 3 of Pick' Em does not get any easier as No. 22 Tennessee meets No. 5 Florida, No. 21 Boston College takes...

Ho, ho, ho, the Eagles get T.O. The NFL gives us a holiday treat in 2006 as new Dallas Cowboys star Terrell Owens gets to face his old team, the Philadelphia Eagles, for the second time on Christmas Day. The first meeting will come Oct. 8 when the Cowboys travel to Philadelphia. The NFL released its schedule Thursday -- hasn't that become a holiday, too? -- and the two Owens-Eagles games stand out among the slate. The Christmas Day game is really good because we'll all get to see it, a nice diversion from putting together kids' toys or listening...

Today on ABC, the first matches of the Wild Card Round will be played! At 4:30 PM... Washington (10-6) at Tampa Bay (11-5) And at 8:00 PM... Jacksonville (12-4) at New England (10-6) WHO SHALL WIN?

Today, on the final week of the regular season... Arizona at Indianapolis 1:00 p.m. Baltimore at Cleveland 1:00 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Jets 1:00 p.m. Carolina at Atlanta 1:00 p.m. Cincinnati at Kansas City 1:00 p.m. Detroit at Pittsburgh 1:00 p.m. Miami at New England 1:00 p.m. New Orleans at Tampa Bay 1:00 p.m. Seattle at Green Bay 1:00 p.m. Later today... Houston at San Francisco 4:05 p.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville 4:05 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota 4:15 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia 4:15 p.m. And tonight, on ESPN's final Sunday Night Football game... St. Louis at Dallas 8:30 p.m. WHO SHALL...

Today, on the final week of the NFL regular season and on the eve of the new year... Denver vs. San Diego - 4:30 PM Tonight... Oakland vs. New York Giants - 8 PM on ESPN Tomorrow shall come a new thread. WHO SHALL WIN?

Today, on the Eve of the Lord's birth... Tennessee at Miami, 1 p.m. Detroit vs. New Orleans at San Antonio, 1 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Dallas at Carolina, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m. San Francisco at St. Louis, 1 p.m. San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Later this eve... Philadelphia at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. Indianapolis at Seattle, 4:15 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 4:15 p.m. Tomorrow, on the day of the Lord's birth... Chicago at Green Bay, 5 p.m....

Today on the NFL... Oakland at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Chicago at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. St. Louis at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m. Later on this afternoon... San Francisco at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. Washington at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. Kansas City at Dallas, 4:15 p.m. Miami at San Diego, 4:15 p.m. Baltimore at Denver, 4:15 p.m. Tonight on ESPN... Detroit at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m. And tomorrow on Monday Night...

Today on the NFL... Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m. Houston at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay vs. New Orleans, 1 p.m. (at Baton Rouge, La.) Jacksonville at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Later today... Washington at St. Louis, 4:05 p.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Denver at Kansas City, 4:15 p.m. N.Y. Jets at New England, 4:15 p.m. Tonight on ESPN... Oakland at San Diego, 8:30 p.m. And on...

Tee Bee over at Guide to Midwestern Culture has been keeping an eye on the story of the Packalope, whose distinctive headgear has been banned from Lambert, I mean Lambeau Field because his antlers, according to Green Bay officials, fall under the "anything that can be used as a weapon" category." The ban was announced in August. The Packalope, whose real name is Larry Primeau, has had a tough go of it recently. Visiting his web site, I learned Primeau's wife passed away last November. The Green Bay Packers have had a terrible 2005. Does this have anything to do...

Two games have been played already on Thanksgivinig...with Atlanta trouncing the Lions 27-7 and the Broncos squeaking past the Cowboys 24-21. Now for the rest of the games... St. Louis at Houston, 1 p.m. Carolina at Buffalo, 1 p.m. San Diego at Washington, 1 p.m. San Francisco at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Chicago at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. New England at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Later today... Miami at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. Jacksonville at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 4:15 p.m. Green Bay at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m. Tonight on...

Today on this day of thanks... Atlanta Falcons @ Detroit Lions - 12:30 PM EST on FOX Denver Broncos @ Dallas Cowboys - 4:15 PM EST on CBS WHO SHALL WIN?

Today, on the first round of games... Detroit at Dallas, 1 p.m. Carolina at Chicago, 1 p.m. Oakland at Washington, 1 p.m. Arizona at St. Louis, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Miami at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m. New Orleans at New England, 1 p.m. Later today... Seattle at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Buffalo at San Diego, 4:15 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Denver, 4:15 p.m. Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 4:15 p.m. Tonight, on ESPN... Kansas City at Houston, 8:30 p.m. And tomorrow, on Monday...

Today... Baltimore @ Jacksonville Houston @ Indianapolis Arizona @ Detroit San Francisco @ Chicago Kansas City @ Buffalo New England @ Miami Minnesota @ NY Giants Later this afternoon... Denver @ Oakland NY Jets @ Carolina St. Louis @ Seattle Green Bay @ Atlanta Washington @ Tampa Bay Tonight on ESPN Sunday Night Football... Cleveland @ Pittsburgh And tomorrow, on MONDAY NIGHT... Dallas @ Philadelphia WHO SHALL WIN?

Today, starting at 1:00 PM... Oakland @ Kansas City Houston @ Jacksonville Tennessee @ Cleveland Cincinnati @ Baltimore Carolina @ Tampa Bay San Diego @ NY Jets Detroit @ Minnesota Atlanta @ Miami Later this afternoon... NY Giants @ San Francisco Seattle @ Arizona Chicago @ New Orleans Pittsburgh @ Green Bay Tonight... Philadelphia @ Washington And on MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL... Indianapolis @ New England Open Date: Buffalo, Dallas, Denver, St. Louis WHO SHALL WIN?

Today on the NFL... Chicago @ Detroit Arizona @ Dallas Green Bay @ Cincinnati Minnesota @ Carolina Oakland @ Tennessee Jacksonville @ St. Louis Washington @ New York Giants (RIP Duke) Cleveland @ Houston Later this afternoon... Kansas City @ San Diego Miami @ New Orleans Tampa Bay @ San Francisco Philadelphia @ Denver TONIGHT... Buffalo @ New England And on Monday... Baltimore @ Pittsburgh WHO SHALL WIN?

Tennessee @ St. Louis New Orleans @ Minnesota Oakland @ Philadelphia Jacksonville @ NY Jets Carolina @ Miami Cleveland @ Indianapolis Tampa Bay @ Green Bay Cincinnati @ Chicago Atlanta @ Buffalo Starting at 4:05 PM... Arizona @ Seattle Dallas @ San Francisco New England @ Pittsburgh Tonight at 8:30 PM... NY Giants @ San Diego Tomorrow night for Monday Night Football... Kansas City @ Denver