Photo: Michelle Obama strikes the Heisman pose
President Barack Obama is known as a big basketball fan, but perhaps his wife's sport of choice is football. During an event in Dallas to help promote the First Lady's "Let's Move!" initiative,...
View ArticlePuck Headlines: Duncan Keith speaks; Steve Mason’s American Zombie mask
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. • Via Tony Galiffo, Steve...
View ArticleThe 10-man rotation, starring Andrei Kirilenko’s wife wearing a weird mask
A look around the league and the web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to...
View ArticleMore matchmaking: Tito Ortiz retirement bout set, Demian Maia drops down, and...
With no events on the books until Apr. 14, the UFC has plenty of time to make matches for the spring and summer run of events. -- Tito Ortiz will fight Forrest Griffin one more time. In what is...
View ArticleAfter technicality ends child sex abuse charges, Maryland teacher and coach...
In one of the most bizarre legal twists in recent years, a Maryland coach who has been accused of having sex with one of his former students once she turned 16 in high school is now fighting for his...
View ArticleTrending Topics: When does a reckless NHLer become ‘that kind of player?’
Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey, occasionally according to Twitter. If you're only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the...
View ArticleRafael Nadal criticizes French for steroid parody
Remember that unfunny parody a French television program did of a steroid-aided Rafael Nadal? The world No. 2 certainly does. Nadal was asked about the 60-second sketch on "Les Guignols" that showed...
View ArticleCreate-a-Caption: Chairman Ryan Howard
Gotta give Ryan Howard some credit here. While a lot of players wouldn't have let cameras anywhere near their chair-aided attempts to take some infield practice, the Phillies first baseman appeared to...
View ArticleCreate-a-Caption: A meeting in Memphis: ‘Ehh? Eeeeeehhhhhhh?’
You can eyebrow it up all you want to, Lionel Hollins, but Gilbert Arenas wasn't brought to the Memphis Grizzlies to go grab you a soda. He was brought here to blogs social media Web 2.0 Pinterest...
View ArticleDT Exclusive: Alex Ferguson and Roberto Mancini debate which Manchester club...
As the season nears its end and Manchesters United and City remain in contention for the Premier League title, the mind games have intensified as the two sides debate which club is more desperate....
View ArticleNobody likes Stella McCartney’s design for Great Britain’s Olympic uniforms
British fashion designer Stella McCartney was on hand at a ceremony this week to reveal the uniforms she created for the 2012 British Olympic team. McCartney, the daughter of Paul McCartney, is in the...
View ArticleGraeme McDowell goes low at Bay Hill with impressive 9-under 63
Graeme McDowell has never been a fan of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. That's not to say he doesn't enjoy seeing "The King" and spending time at Bay Hill, but one look at his track record at the...
View ArticleDale Earnhardt Jr. says incident with Jeff Gordon at Bristol was a “freak...
Usually at Bristol, the severity of the contact equates to the consequences from that contact. However, last Sunday, a slight side-by-side bump from Dale Earnhardt Jr. had disastrous results for Jeff...
View ArticlePuck Previews: Southeast Division battle; Ryan Miller on preseason...
Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished....
View ArticleDrivers react to John Middlebrook’s decision to overturn Jimmie Johnson’s...
Whenever Mike Helton has a press conference it's a big deal. So naturally, the main topic of Friday's press conferences at Auto Club Speedway was NASCAR chief appellate officer John Middlebrook's...
View ArticleCourt Report: From bad to worse for Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin hasn't practiced, let alone played, since aggravating his ailing right shoulder on March 11. The lack of noticeable improvement led him to undergo an MRI on Wednesday, which revealed a...
View ArticleA reminder about the new early-entry rules for the draft
Every NCAA Tournament, NBA fans get the chance to observe and appraise some of the top prospects in that year's draft. It's a fun time when people get to look at the league's future stars for an...
View Article‘Borat’ national anthem accidentally played for Kazakh athlete (video)
A gold-medal winning athlete from Kazakhstan was forced to stand through a national anthem that insulted other countries and boasted of her nation's "clean prostitutes" when organizers at a shooting...
View ArticleNHL suspends Duncan Keith 5 games for elbow to head of Daniel Sedin; agree or...
The NHL Department of Player Safety suspended Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith for 5 games on Friday for his elbow to the head of Vancouver Canucks star Daniel Sedin on Wednesday night. As we...
View ArticleFabio Coentrao defends birthday cigarette by declaring himself an ‘excellent...
Real Madrid fullback Fabio Coentrao was caught smoking while celebrating his birthday with Cristiano Ronaldo. Though it defies logic, Coentrao is far from the first footballer (and surely won't be the...
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