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There are lots of contenders for the worst part of the Detroit Lions' miserable 2008 NFL season, starting with the jokes. How do you keep a Detroit Lion out of your backyard? Put up goalposts. There are the utter on-field embarrassments: a 47-10 nationally televised loss to the Tennessee Titans on Thanksgiving, and last week's 42-7 home defeat at the hands of New Orleans, in which on one play, Saints receiver Devery Henderson caught a pass with no Lions defender in sight, then scampered across the field for another 23 yards while cowardly Lions tried like...
...personal favorite: it's gotten so bad that during last Sunday's game against the Saints, Ford Field fans started chanting "We want Joey" at New Orleans third-string quarterback Joey Harrington, who frustrated hoards of Lions faithful during his four-year train wreck as Detroit's starter from 2002 to 2005. Now even Detroit's former whipping boy can poke fun at his ex-team. "It's weird to think I was here in the heyday," deadpanned Harrington, who finished with a sickly 18-37 record as the Lions' quarterback. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments...
...When he was at the University of California in the '80s and the first half of the '90s, I heard about his reputation in the United States as the top person in his field," Lee said. "I don't think his reputation has diminished much since he's been here...
...first half performance—17 points, making 5-of-6 shots from long range—allowed the Crimson to enter the locker room after the first period with a one-point lead. Lin chipped in 17 points for Harvard but made just 29-percent of his field goal attempts. Harvard faces off against Maine on Saturday for its third straight road game...
...scoring, and added four assists, moving into third place on Harvard’s all-time assists list. Tay and sophomore Emma Markley each had 16 points. In the end, the Crimson could not overcome a large difference in shooting percentage. Harvard shot just 37.5 percent from the field while the Trojans hit 54 percent. “I loved our patience and our balance, but some of out shots just didn’t fall,” Delaney-Smith said. USC used a 16-2 run in the middle of the first half to take a 19-point...