-Rams 20, Raiders 0- On ESPN's Sports Guy column, they joked about the Raiders' season. The punch line was the title of Art Shell's book: "It Worked So Well In Practice: The Art Shell Story." Which sums up the Raiders season--. comedy gold, Jerry, comedy gold. ...

And you know what? We just don't really care about this. The whole Bonds chasing Ruth thing? So over it. You know how you're at a party and there's this guy who says they know this great trick and so they gather everyone around and try it, only to fail. And then they try it again and fail. And then again and again until after like the fifth or sixth time, they finally do it, but at that point, everyone has already moved on to something else? That's what this thing has been like. Yeah, call it a function of our general attention deficit disorder and wanting to be entertained here and now, not have it dragged on week after week after week (unless it involves polar bears on tropical islands and strange buttons in strange hatches and even that grates), but waiting game after game after game for these big hits just finally bored us to it all. And we know we're not the only ones. ...

After the Giants played their home opener and the Giants' faithful gave Barry a hero's welcome, there was much blather over whether or not we Giants fans were maybe possibly the worst fans in sports because of it. Why is it, they'd wonder, that despite all the allegations, all the stories, all the purported jack-asserie, Giants fans still stood by their man? Why won't we hate on someone who so clearly deserves to be hated on? ...

When we first heard news about the Bonds book, our first reaction was somewhere along the lines of "oh sh--, there goes the season." Once that passed, we got that sinking feeling in the pits of our belly that this is going to be bad. Like asterisks on records, Giants ownership in trouble, Bonds suspended kind of trouble. But instead, right now, it's not looking that bad. In fact, the reaction seems to be along the lines of "yawn, tell us something we didn't know." That's not to say that things won't get worse because clearly it will, especially the closer the Barry gets to the hallowed records. The Barry Haters are in full froth mode and screaming for chemically grown heads while Giants fans are awash in truthiness. But there does seem to be a consensus building about most of this. Mainly that we all kind of knew what was going on but that it was all in the past and we're moving on. Like a bad haircut from back in the day that we're kind of embarrassed about but that's what they wore back then and we have such a better haircut now. ...

As we look ahead to week 14 of the 2005 NFL season we see a pretty dreadful slate of games featuring the hometown teams. So we tried to think of a compelling reason why you should watch the games this weekend instead of going out with your homies to see the "gay cowboy eating pudding movie" (you know you want to) and we actually were able to come up with a few things. The biggest,......

There's not a whole lot of movies opening up this weekend, or at least none mentioned in the Chron as they were too busy with their annual "New Year's Eve Hat" cut-out, a tradition looked forward to by no one and an idea so lame it doesn't even work ironically. Suffice it to say, that with the big holiday movies already being released, the studios have been quietly dumping their Oscar-bait movies on us, those......