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• Nets coach Lawrence Frank may have been the one who caught Bobby Knight’s ‘91 locker room tirade on tape.

• Hey, baseball fans: Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em! (You, too, NFL fans!)
• The Baby Boss bawls over baseball being “singled out” over […]

Bethlehem Shoals of THE SPORTING BLOG examines and expands on our idea to have New Orleans host the NBA All-Star game every year:

I hereby offer a slight variation on Brooks’ idea: Why not make a point of putting the game in places that, like New Orleans, have tons of issues with crime, poverty, unemployment, and […]

In case you didn’t know (and it’s a good bet you don’t), hockey legend Wayne Gretzky just notched his 100th win as coach.

The CANADIAN PRESS reports that the Great One reached the century mark Monday night when his Phoenix Coyotes beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-0. But Gretzky really doesn’t have much to be happy […]

SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY reports through the BBC that soccer fans have united and bought an actual English club by way of the World Wide Web.

Members of MyFootballClub.com approved the $1.24 million purchase of the Ebbsfleet United club in January, and the takeover was made financially official on Tuesday.

SPEED TV reports this afternoon that “after 12 years of warring that cost open-wheel racing much of its sponsorship, audience and momentum, common sense has finally prevailed.

“Indy Racing League and Champ Car have officially, and mercifully, agreed to become one entity. A press conference could come as early as Wednesday.”

THE SUN sends along spirited news that a soccer goalie for Arsenal believes his house is haunted.

Manuel Almunia claims he’s heard chains rattling and stereos turning on by themselves in the middle of the night at his Abbots Langley home. And his wife has even supposedly seen the ghost of a monk:

DEADSPIN (via INDY CORNROWS) leaks out word of who may have secretly recorded one of Bobby Knight’s better-known locker room blow-ups: New Jersey Nets coach Lawrence Frank.

On the heels of tonight’s Indiana-Purdue game, the INDIANAPOLIS STAR looks back at the 1991 tirade of the ex-Hoosier coach spewing out profanities in classic Knight form (definitely NSFW). […]

David Lennon of NEWSDAY has this blog entry today from Mets Spring Training:
Just found out why Pedro (Martinez) was a little wild this morning. He was throwing with his eyes closed. Martinez actually threw 15 with his eyes shut and only missed with three. Not bad.

Turns out it’s just another Rick Peterson mind trick. He […]

• Keeping on the cancer stick shtick, KISSING SUZY KOLBER and WE ARE THE POSTMEN enjoy the smooth flavor of this classic Marlboro commercial for the NFL:

• UMPBUMP has the shattering news of Astros outfielder Hunter Pence losing his fight with a sliding glass door.
• FOOD COURT LUNCH jabs us wit their punchable faces of […]

Via FARK, we have located a dandy YouTube video of a prank that’s a bit less harrowing and nasty than the Phillies’ Brett Myers setting up the fake trade bit on Kyle Kendrick: the Dallas Stars took rookie defenseman Matt Niskanen’s Pontiac Sunfire and “pimped” it.
It’s all surprisingly rather low key in comparison — […]