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Breakfast Buffet: Gonzaga’s WCC title streak has new life
1. Gonzaga's streak of 11 straight WCC titles has new life thanks to LMU's 75-60 upset victory over Saint Mary's on Wednesday night. The Zags will claim at least a share of the title if they win out,...
View ArticleVideo: ‘Conan’ writer Deon Cole begs Jeremy Lin not to take over the NBA
Remember when I told you that Jason Whitlock's misstep on Twitter was mostly offensive to me because it wasn't funny? This, from "Conan" writer Deon Cole, is funny: And before we rip on Conan O'Brien's...
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DJ Kitty’s debut: The Rays reveal new cat mascot
No need to adjust your monitors, folks. That really was a cowbell-wearing, hip-hop kitty stalking the front offices of the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday. Still puzzled about this pussycat? Well, it's...
View ArticleHighlights from UFC on Fuel for those of us who couldn’t watch
Since starting with Yahoo! Sports in September of 2008, I haven't missed a single UFC or Strikeforce event. There were a few I couldn't watch live, but I have DVRed or bought a replay of every...
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Zdeno Chara bleeds, Canadiens fans cheer, everyone lectures on ‘staying classy’
Despite getting a recent run from other cities when it comes to postgame arson, Montreal Canadiens fans still epitomize all that's wrong with hockey fandom in the eyes of many. The self-entitlement....
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Jimmie Johnson on 2011: No depression, plenty of regrets
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Losing sucks. For the first time since 2006, Jimmie Johnson arrives in Daytona as an also-ran, and for a guy who's spent the last half-decade carving his name into NASCAR bedrock,...
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Hall of Fame controversies have one voter wondering if it’s time to move on
Each year, the 44-person Hall of Fame Selection Committee gets together in a room during Super Bowl week and does a job they know full well will leave a lot of people very unhappy. From the players...
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Game Point: Wozniacki continues slide, Roddick wins
Game Point is Busted Racquet's roundup of facts, figures and links from across the web. Love -- Caroline Wozniacki lost her first match since falling from No. 1, blowing three match points in a 4-6,...
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Paul George (and Jeremy Lin, essentially) will highlight this year’s Dunk...
Two weeks ago, we more than excused 2011 Slam Dunk Contest winner Blake Griffin from appearing in this year's event. There isn't a whole lot more he can do, dunk-wise, he's starting in the actual...
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Missouri varsity basketball player dies shortly after collapsing in morning...
A small Missouri community is grieving the loss of a budding student athlete after a varsity boys basketball player collapsed during a gym class and died shortly thereafter. According to the...
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Syracuse AD refuses to play Rutgers twice in 2012
With the Big East now reduced to seven football schools for the 2012 season, the conference has been desperately trying to figure out a way to fill gaps in the schedule. One suggestion was to have...
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Yao Ming discusses Jeremy Lin as eloquently as you’d expect
In case you were wondering, the answer is "Yes. Yao Ming is still the best." From Fran Blinebury's profile on Yao from NBA.com: "What I see from Jeremy and what I hear in his interviews is he...
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The story behind those ‘Stanley Cup champion Nashville Predators hockey team’...
For the first time in franchise history, the Nashville Predators won a playoff series last season. That led to respect nationally, buzz locally and, if one were to judge the content of the following...
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Photoshop! Tim LINcecum meets #Linsanity
It really was Linevitable. With the sports world going nuts over the meteoric rise of Jeremy Lin, of course we were going to get in on the action of implementing the last name of the New York Knicks...
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Photo of the day: Diego Sanchez’s walkout at UFC on Fuel 1
When Diego Sanchez fights, you can count on two things: he won't quit and he'll bring a touch of wackiness to the fight. This is the man who brought us the "Yes! Cartwheel" and who used the UFC video...
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Maria Sharapova dazzles at New York’s fashion week (photos)
Maria Sharapova is is New York this week for the city's biannual fashion week. The second-ranked Sharapova dazzled at multiple fashion shows, posing for pictures for the paparazzi, hobnobbing with...
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Alabama fan’s face sign is an instant Internet hit
From a snarling Saddam Hussein, to a grinning Hulk Hogan, to a sultry Marilyn Monroe, students across the nation have waved all sorts of giant celebrity heads this season in an effort to distract...
View ArticleVideo: Matt Barnes is legitimately upset with former coach Mo Cheeks
Mo Cheeks is responsible for perhaps the coolest thing we've seen on a basketball court since Michael Jordan retired from the Bulls. He's a respected basketball mind, a trusted leader on a...
View ArticleMark Martin really isn’t upset about not winning Daytona, promise
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — If you'd lost a Daytona 500 the way Mark Martin did above, missing out by three feet to Kevin Harvick in 2007, you could be expected to have a little bitterness. But to hear...
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Deep Posts: Joe Flacco just wins, baby!
-- When will the NFL finally disavow the utterly ridiculous "Quarterback Wins" statistic? Right about when agents start using that number to push their clients' future contracts into the stratosphere....
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