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The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison today. Ironically, prosecutors weren’t all that aggressive in seeking the max amount of jail time for the performance-enhanced, now-former Olympic gold medalist. But U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas dropped the hammer on Jones anway, who we’re sure you remember previously crying […]
Read more...Those of you who enjoyed the death and destruction wrought by Muslims over the cartoon depictions of Islam in Denmark can now get excited over a somewhat similar freakout in India.
THE AUSTRALIAN reports today that “INDIAN sport is facing a fierce new controversy as ultra-nationalists targeted rising tennis star Sania Mirza after she was photographed […]
Read more...The BILOXI (MS) SUN-HERALD scores an exclusive with home boy Brett Favre and the 238-year veteran (ok, it’s 17) provides the paper with a couple revelations.
Favre, who is having his best season since 1996, first says, “I am trying to enjoy it because this could be my last game in Green Bay. For the […]
Read more...We’re not sure how sad a day it is in Cleveland just yet, as the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER reports that Jacobs Field has been renamed to “Progressive Field”.
Excerpt: “The Indians have reached an agreement with Progressive Insurance for the naming rights of the 40,000-seat facility on the corner of Ontario Street and Carnegie Avenue, a […]
Read more...The spirits of St. Louis University basketball have sunk to a new low, thanks to a record-breaking performance Thursday night.
(The St. Louis Billiken points to how low his team scored Thursday night, and the nearest rafter he’s going to hang himself from.)
The ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH passes the news that the Billikens lost to George Washington […]
Chuck Knoblauch finally spoke out about being mentioned in the Mitchell Report. But it appears he doesn’t have much to say.
The NEW YORK TIMES gets the first public reactions from the ex-Yankee about former trainer Brian McNamee supplying him with HGH. And it turns out he more or less declined comment about the issue:
“I have […]
The website COACHES HOT SEAT came out with their final 2007 rankings. And the guy with the toastiest buns was Washington’s Tyrone Willingham:
Another disappointing season in Seattle - and a 11-25 record in 3 years - has Ty taking top honors. And Husky fans aren’t too comfortable being #1 in that category. One benevolent […]
Read more...The GARY (IN) POST TRIBUNE ain’t looking for trouble, they’re just talking with Gary Fencik about the “Super Bowl Shuffle”.
The all-time interception leader for the Chicago Bears, who nowadays serves as a corporate speaker, reminisces about the 1985 song during a talk at the Gary Old-Timers banquet.
But what he remembers most is the reluctance of […]
A famous mountaineer has passed away. And much to the chagrin of West Virginia fans, it’s not Rich Rodriguez.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the top of Mount Everest, died on Thursday at the age of 88.
The New Zealand explorer and his Sherpa guide Tenzig Norgay are best known for making their […]
• 100% INJURY RATE rah-rahs the news of cheerleaders in China for the 2008 Olympics:
• WITH LEATHER shows video of this soccer streaker stung by the team mascot.
• HOME RUN DERBY remembers when Harry Caray would root, root, root for the…White Sox?
• DEADSPIN gets a glorious look at the mug of new Nebraska coach Bo […]
