For those of you who think the San Francisco Giants are rapidly in danger of becoming a perennial also-ran, think again! Chris Haft of MLB.com reports that the club’s starting pitchers have hatched a plan to reclaim respectability in the National League West.

The starters intend to wear stirrup socks, a staple of bygone eras, […]

St. Louis’ RIVERFRONT TIMES gives us the latest update on our favorite high school basketball coach of all-time, Vashon High’s Floyd Irons.

The Times reports he “personally spent between $25,000 and $30,000 to house, feed and clothe two Vashon High School basketball players during a five-year period, according to the transcript of his November 12, 2007, […]

Maybe it’s because we’ve seen too many Globetrotters games over the years, but the NBA touting Chris Paul’s four half court makes during All-Star weekend as setting a “World Record!” is a little much.
We’re not saying we could net a quartet from that distance in five-dozen tics, but surely there are many more (Reggie […]

Curt Schilling spoke to the media today for the first time about his ailing shoulder. The bacon-laced one made it clear that he would prefer surgery on the joint from personal physician Dr. Craig Morgan, which would apparently have him back by the all-star break. But the Red Sox instead have prescribed a strengthening program […]

After last week’s report on Andy Pettitte using his dad to pick up his shipments of human growth hormone, the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS digs deeper and finds out that the Yankee hurler’s childhood friend, Kelly Blair, is the one whom Tom Pettitte got his son’s HGH from.

More interesting though is how Pettittie’s sordid HGH […]

AWESOME TIME reports that last weekend holdout high school football recruit Terrelle Pryor had an Artest-esque episode with fans during a high school basketball playoff game:

“Despite scoring 24 points, along with 21 rebounds, seven blocks and six assists to lead Jeannette to a tense overtime victory, Pryor became rattled as the game progressed. He began […]

Some fun at the Houston Rockets game last week on Valentine’s Day:

If our prospective husband’s hair was that product-impaired, we’d have done the same thing.
UPDATE: OK, we’re now wagering the above proposal was a fake. As noted at Fark.com, this looks astonishingly similar (girl tearing off into the distance):
And MUSEUM OF HOAXES documents another fake.
We […]

After Devean George put the kibosh on the first attempt of the Dallas Mavericks to obtain Jason Kidd from the New Jersey Nets, some tweaking may have finally achieved Jason Kidd’s second tour of Dallas duty.

Jeff Caplan of the FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM reports this morning that the Mavs are now “set to part with point […]

The BOSTON GLOBE reports that Bill Belichick and Pats official Scott Pioli decided to do a little character assassination on Matt Walsh.

New England’s coach and player personnel VP both spoke out in regards to the whole “Spygate” affair - especially after former team employee Walsh helped blow the lid off past illegal videotaping of […]

It turns out that George Brett’s not the only athlete to have his self-named eatery suddently bite the dust.

The HARTFORD COURANT chows down news that Vin Baker’s Connecticut restaurant has been closed down. TD Banknorth, the bank that financed Vinnie’s Saybrook Fish House, says they’re owed almost $1 million in unpaid loans from the former […]