What happened on Sunday, January 4, 2014?

  1. SO MUCH FOOTBALL: So much that we’ll have a special edition of our NFL One Liners coming out in a little while. Watch this space (as Rachel Maddow says) for those convenient reminders of what to say if someone engages with you in a conversation about football.
  2. Cavaliers struggle without their horse: Sports writer and impresario Bill Simmons has a theory he calls the Ewing Theory that teams often counter-intuitively play better when they are missing their star player. This isn’t proving true for the Cleveland Cavaliers. After losing to the Dallas Mavericks 109-90 yesterday, the Cavaliers have lost three of four games while their star Lebron James is out with a knee injury.
    Line: Not that it disproves the Ewing Theory, but the Cavs stink without LeBron.
  3. So long, Stuart Scott: A popular and groundbreaking ESPN personality, Stuart Scott, died yesterday. Scott started at ESPN 22 years ago and is remembered most fondly for his time as an anchor on the sports highlight show, Sports Center. In the 1990s, when that show was the biggest thing in sports, Scott was one of the most charismatic anchors. People throughout the sports world (including President Obama, who said of his fellow Chicagoan: “I will miss Stuart Scott. Twenty years ago, Stu helped usher in a new way to talk about our favorite teams and the day’s best plays.”) are paying tribute to Scott. For more, read the ESPN obituary here.
    Line: [Whatever you say about someone who has died at 49. If you knew his work, I wouldn’t try to feed you a line. If you didn’t, just ask people who are sports fans what they remember about Scott.]

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