By Mark La Monica
Our weekly salute to the bold, brash and otherwise counter-culture maneuvers in sports.
Props to the dude in the Virginia Tech sports information office who had the guts to list the Dec. 1 ACC Championship football game against Boston College on their Web site's schedule days before the Hokies needed to beat in-state rival Virginia to earn the right to play in the championship game. In today's world of online message boards, fan forums, Facebook and MySpace, that's guts. That's the pure embodiment of Props. And if someone from the VT office wants to step up and lay claim to that move, we'll name an award after you.
Props to Stephen A. Smith for this gem to blowhard Skip Bayless who in the middle of one of his stupid "I hate everything in sports that's not me" rants, "What did he do, steal your lady? You got veins popping out of your neck!" Bayless was yapping on SportsCenter about how David Stern should step in and get rid of the Dolans as Knicks' owners.
Props to the Knicks, for winning a real, live, professional basketball game against the Chicago Bulls on Saturday. That takes onions!