COACH GIVEN THE SHAKE FOR GENITALIA COMMENT: The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports a high school basketball coach in Maine, Mike Remillard, was fired after he told his team before a recent game that the contest “was about who had the biggest (male genitalia) in town.”
Leavitt High School’s principal reports the coach “required his players […]

NETS TARGETED FOR *SLAVE-TRADING* SPONSOR: The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS reports *Reverend* Clinton Miller of something called the Brown Baptist Memorial Church in Brooklyn will hold a press conference on Sunday to protest the Nets $400M arena naming-rights deal with Barclays.

The Daily News notes Barclays is “the British bank that activists have claimed profited from […]

SUPER BOWL TIX = PAPER IN FIRE: Darren Rovell reports on CNBC that the value of Super Bowl tickets are plummeting.

Rovell: “The ‘get in’ price is now hovering around $2,000, from the $3,100 it was yesterday.”
The sports biz reporter opines that ticket brokers have initially overpriced their inventory, and sticker shock is driving prices down. […]

LATE SHOW’S MOONVES OVER MIAMI: Bill Murray did his best to lubricate the grinding gears of Letterman’s Late Show by drumming up an amusing Super Bowl bit with the rapidly-fossilizing host last night.
During a guest sitdown, Murray *convinced* Letterman to phone CBS President Les Moonves about getting tickets to the big game.

Letterman to Moonves: “Are […]

Thanks to US Airways’ failure to buy Delta, it can now afford to furnish Steelers Nation with its own plane that will be unveiled later this year.
The airline already has a Philadelphia Eagles-themed plane but found it necessary to reassure fans to the plane’s safety. Once it was realized that the plane only represents […]

Jose Mourinho can’t keep a healthy roster these days at the Bank of Chel$ea:
“It’s like having a blanket that is too small for the bed,” Mourinho said of his limited options. “You pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the […]

If you’re near Hollywood Beach, Florida tomorrow, you may want to catch the NFL-sponsored cheerleader challenge.
Select cheerleaders from the Philadelphia Eagles squad will square off against a team of cheerleaders representing NFL squads from around the league in events like beach volleyball, flag football, kayaking, tug of war, and dancing.

Though the winner will be […]

For once, it seems that fans and coaches are holding players responsible for bad behavior when it comes to voting for the All-Star game.
Having served a 15 game suspension for fighting earlier in the season, Carmelo Anthony was worried that the negative impact would prevent him from starting at the game Michael Wilbon refers […]

As Peyton Manning prepares to secure his legacy with a Super Bowl win on Sunday, Ryan Leaf will take on a new coaching job at West Texas A&M.
“What is West Texas A&M? They have a football team?”
Of course they do; Leaf is their coach. But West Texas also has a golf team and […]

After Owen Hargreaves won the Nationwide England Player of the Year a couple days ago, I realized that a disturbing trend is developing in sports — Canada is trying to assert dominance.
England Player of the Year - Owen Hargreaves, Canadian
MLB AL MVP - Justin Morneau, Canadian
NBA MVP - Steve Nash, Canadian
NHL MVP - Joe […]