We also share Goose Gossage’s salute to the Yankees coaching staff.
• Meet Claudia Porras - college basketball bencher & Bolivian bikini beauty:

• Michelle Wie smiling after 69. Need we say more?
• The Marlins will finally be getting a new stadium. Now, Jeffrey Loria better get a new team.
• Chris Berman […]

Good news for Kelvin Sampson! The Indiana coach won’t be suspended by the school - because he’s resigned from the Hoosiers.

The INDIANAPOLIS STAR reports that Sampson accepted a $750,000 buyout and turned in his coach’s whistle Friday evening. As part of the buyout, Sampson will not sue the university over his job loss. Assistant […]

Female athletes are realizing that there’s no shame in being sporty & sexy simultaneously. We’ve shown that with basketball beauty Claudia Porras, and now we have further evidence - English soccer player Natasha Hughes.

UK’s SPORT MAGAZINE profiles Hughes, a 20-year-old defender for the Doncaster Rover Belles club. Natasha admits that sex sells, and she’s not […]

Barack Obama poses with Earl Campbell’s tobacco-stained Heisman Trophy in Austin yesterday:

We’re a little dubious about his run to secure the Democrat Party’s presidential nomination. The result would likely mean a widespread slowdown in the manufacturing of pantsuits. Which in turn could cripple women’s college basketball as we know it.
On second thought, Go You B.H.O.!

BUSTED COVERAGE has this poignant moment between Goose Gossage and his fellow Yankee coaches at Spring Training in Tampa:

Caption from the photo, found on Flickr.com: “Notice the placement of the fingers. Someone on the coaching staff was throwing some standard baseball insults after he signed autographs for about 30 minutes and talked to the fans.“
Either […]

• LAND THIEVES broadcasts their top 5 reasons why Erin Andrews always seems to be covering Big Ten basketball.

• The MYRTLE BEACH (SC) SUN NEWS puts a feather in their cap, as Jerome Bettis & Eddie George have teamed up to invest in Pelicans.
• FAN IQ’s 100% INJURY RATE finds an English […]

When Joe Torre decided not to return as the manager of the New York Yankees, former Yankee great Don Mattingly seemed to be next in line to be skipper. But in the end, Mattingly was passed over in favor of former Florida Marlins manager Joe Girardi.

According to Mattingly, the decision that the Yankees brass […]

Garry Parrish of CBSSports.com reports today that IU players walked out on Athletic Director Rick Greenspan when he tried to tell them that Hoosiers basketball coach Kelvin Sampson was going to be fired.

One player reportedly said to Greenspan before the exit en masse: “We don’t care what you do. But if Sampson ain’t coaching, […]

With this year’s dunk contest regaining much of the fun of the old days, it’s worth pointing out that today is Julius Erving’s birthday. Hard to believe Doc is now 58 years old - as we enjoy this video demonstrating how smooth the man was on the court. Plus, a little mid-day […]

ESPN.com’s J.A. Adande polled 15 different participants during All Star weekend in New Orleans about which guy in the league they’d most like to see get a championship ring.

His polling subjects ranged from young stars like Brandon Roy to old vets like Tim Duncan. There were two players who dominated the responses: Boston big […]