Tiger Woods will be around for the weekend after strong finish
We've seen Tiger Woods produce some incredible finishes over his career, and while Friday's closing stretch at the Honda Classic wasn't for the win or a spot in the final group on Sunday, it was the...
View ArticleVideo: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Brad Keselowski make a Daytona 500 run for the toilet
Closing off the last of the Daytona 500 with this gem: Brad Keselowski and Dale Earnhardt Jr. racing for the toilet during the Explosion Delay. Looks like Kes overshot his marks, so Junior was able to...
View ArticleAnkle surgery gives Rob Gronkowski a chance to wear his Zubaz pants
No one likes being injured, but there is a silver lining to Rob Gronkowski's ankle sprain. It's a chance to break out the Zubaz pants. The elastic cuffs at the bottom are perfect for sliding over a...
View ArticleCoach takes blame for costly swimming shaving incident, calls mistake a...
The Broadneck (Md.) High girls swimming team received national attention when it was stripped of a county swimming title after one of its swimmers was disqualified for illegally shaving at the meet....
View ArticleLamar Odom’s sad downward spiral continues as he’s demoted to the D-League
In what is easily the biggest demotion for a celebrated player of his kind in NBA history, Dallas Mavericks forward (and 2011 Sixth Man of the Year award-winner) Lamar Odom has been sent to the...
View ArticleAndrei Zubarev scores crazy bank-shot goal in KHL playoffs (VIDEO)
The KHL's Gagarin Cup playoffs got under way this week with one of the matchups seeing Nikolai Zherdev's Atlant take on Niclas Bergfors' Severstal. Early in the third period of Thursday's Game 2,...
View ArticleActor Jon Hamm recalls playing ball with Roger Clemens at Texas: Is it true?
So actor Jon Hamm of "Mad Men" appeared on "Late Night with David Letterman" on Thursday, and he told a story about playing baseball with the legendary Roger Clemens at the University of Texas. One...
View ArticleCoach, referee of second grade hoops game banned from Catholic gym after...
A youth basketball coach and referee have both been banned from ever setting foot on the campus of a Nashville area Catholic school after an ugly incident that occurred during a basketball game between...
View ArticleOrthodox Jewish school in New York adopts Oregon as its unofficial football team
Lander College for Men doesn't have an official football team, but it has an adoptive one — the Oregon Ducks. Assistant Dean Herb Ratner, went to grad school at Oregon, has spent the past seven years...
View ArticleFather knows best? Archie Manning says that Peyton is throwing with ‘no...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Calling him a "big boy," Archie Manning said on Friday afternoon that he anticipates that son Peyton Manning will be able to return to the NFL and play in the 2012 season, having...
View ArticleThe New York Knicks were given some terrible advice on how to curb insomnia
On Feb. 3, the New York Knicks lost to the Boston Celtics, dropping their record to 8-15. The team had hoped to join the ranks of those C's, the Miami Heat and the Chicago Bulls amongst the Eastern...
View ArticleSaints’ ‘bounty fund’ could have them in a lot of trouble with the league
ESPN's Adam Schefter was the first to report that the New Orleans Saints are alleged to have maintained a "bounty system" through at least the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons. The NFL's security...
View ArticlePuck Headlines: Nicklas Lidstrom, JVR injury updates; Nystrom vs. nasty tweets
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Sidney Crosby was...
View ArticleUFC on FX 2, Strikeforce picks: Flyweight favorites are huge and Tate’s an...
MMA fans will be inundated with great fights this weekend and the show stealer could be a fight between two females. The final note on the two big cards is the Miesha Tate-Ronda Rousey fight tomorrow...
View Article59 Watch! Brian Harman flirts with immortality at Honda Classic
Golf tends to toss up great out-of-nowhere stories about once a month, and March's version arrived on the second day: Brian Harman, the second alternate coming into this week's Honda Classic, stood on...
View ArticleThe band Chicago dedicates its 2012 tour to Brian Kelly’s wife, Paqui
The band Chicago has decided to dedicate its 2012 US tour to Paqui Kelly, wife of Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly. Chicago has partnered with the American Cancer Society for the third consecutive year...
View ArticleDrivers weigh in on Brad Keselowski’s Twitter fiesta
Just days after Brad Keselowski's Twitter tour de force, drivers took time at Phoenix to discuss the politics and ethics of carrying a phone in the car. And while no driver indicated he'd be following...
View ArticleChris Lowery goes from coveted coaching candidate to out of work
At the apex of Southern Illinois' emergence as a perennial mid-major power in Feb. 2007, the most popular man at the school then known as Floorburn U explained why he had no intention of leaving the...
View ArticleRick Santorum returns to NASCAR on a new ride
First rule of NASCAR advertising: if it works once, go to the well until it doesn't. Encouraged by the attention they received from the Daytona 500, the honchos at the Rick Santorum presidential...
View ArticleCharles Barkley blames Michael Jordan’s woes in Charlotte on M.J.’s yes-men
The Charlotte Bobcats are 4-29 with half of the NBA's lockout-shortened 66-game season to go. The team is last in offensive efficiency and 29th out of 30 teams in defensive efficiency, which is quite...
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