Brett Favre finally calls it a career. But will he make a South Beach encore?
• Allison Stokke is back in action, making the vault to college competition.

• A Boston scout is caught pulling his Dick Williams out in public. Try to keep it in your red sox next time.
• Speaking of Beantown baseball, a […]

A week or so ago, we wrote about a YAHOO story that stated the Broncos had been Belichick-ing on their own by secretly taping Chargers’ practices. Now, the Denver coach is bucking back.

The ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS reports that Mike Shanahan - or specifically, his attorney - sent a letter to writer Jason Cole & […]

Nolan Richardson is hog wild about coaching college basketball in Arkansas again. The ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE reports that the ex-Razorbacks coach has been chatting with Arkansas State officials about their opening.

Richardson’s interest in the Indians’ job shows he misses being part of the collegiate game. Oh, and he’s running out of money.

Even with today’s announcement, some folks aren’t totally convinced that Brett Favre is really ready to call it quits - including the QB’s own agent.

The MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL reports that James “Bus” Cook believes his client still has a little more football left in him:
“I think he wanted to play, I think he’s still got […]

“Hey, I’m glad to see you, too, though I don’t know why we’re meeting on this abandoned stretch of road. Anyway, it’s been a long time since I saw you. Two years since I signed with the Bears. Can you believe that? Still, I think I’ve got a good shot at the starting job […]

• FAN IQ’s 100% INJURY RATE uncovers photos of an Australian cricketer clocking a streaker.

• SIGNAL TO NOISE knows Randy Moss’ return to the Patriots can only mean good things for Tom Brady.
• DEUCE OF DAVENPORT cashes in word that a fantasy football site still owes its winners $450,000.

The US Department of Education reported that the NCAA’s 333 Division I women’s basketball programs that competed in the 2005-2006 season lost a cumulative amount of ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE MMMILLION DOLLARS!

THE SPORTS ECONOMIST, via the ST. PETERSBURG TIMES reported that the figure might even be conservative, indicating that 80 programs matched revenues to expenses, down […]

O Great and Glorious Commissioner David Stern laid down the ground rules this week for the highly unusual replay of the last 51.9 seconds of regulation from the December 19th game between the Miami Heat and the Atlanta Hawks. The do-over was called when the Atlanta Hawks scoring staff fouled Shaquille O’Neal out by […]

Any over/under on when “the cream and the clear” is replaced in the sports lexicon by “oil cooler lid?” Maybe Carl Edwards knows.

YAHOO! SPORTS reports that Edwards, who won the UAW-Dodge 400 in Las Vegas Sunday, failed a post-race inspection when his Ford Fusion was found to be missing its oil cooler lid, significant because […]

“It’s hard to be a marketer out here. The kids with their Internets and their rock’n’roll and their Tamagotchis. How do you reach them? Can we put something on their I-Pods? We should do what Apple does with their I-Tunes store and make money. So does anyone have any ideas about how we can connect […]