Bill Simmons is going everywhere promoting his latest work entitled The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy including a second visit to The Colbert Report. Bill was first interviewed by Colbert in 2006 (Shanoff breaks down the interview) to promote “Now I Can Die In Peace.” In his latest trip to The Report Simmons says baseball is for old folks and Wilt Chamberlain is gay. Now that’s how you sell books! Read the full story

The United States’ soccer team got the country interested in the world’s game for a few days last week by pulling off an upset of number one ranked Spain. The U.S. citizens were ready to go into full bandwagon mode when Clint Demspey and Landon Donovan put Team USA up 2-0 against Brazil, but the Brazilian rally put the party on hold.

Being the loyal American that he is, Stephen Colbert supports the U.S. soccer team, and makes a good case for supporting soccer in general. Read the full story

Stephen Colbert presented another edition of his Sports Report last night and offered his opinions on Team USA’s victory over Spain, Brett Favre going to the Minnesota Vikings, and the irregular betting patterns at Wimbledon. Read the full story

Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski joined Stephen Colbert for an interview Tuesday, but I’m a little split on the results. Coach K was kinda dry and the conversation between him and Colbert didn’t flow smoothly. On the other hand we get to find out why Krzyzewski is “hording consonants” and his feelings on high school players jumping straight to the NBA.

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It’s the holiday season and the Plaxico Burress shoots self in the leg story is the gift that keeps on giving. Earlier this week I brought you the Plaxico Burress/50 Cent “In da Club” video, and now courtesy of The Colbert Report comes the story of A Man Named Plaxico.. And his Glock.

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