What’s up with these religious peaceniks ruining sports? First, the city of Leicester would rather put up a statue of Gandhi instead of Gary Lineker? And now Chinese officials are claiming that the Dalai Lama wants to sabotage the Beijing Olympics.

Maybe they mean this kind of Sabotage. The Lama could probably rock a mean […]

“Hello? Neal? Neal Huntington, wake up! This is your boss, Bob Nutting. I just saw the damnedest informercial on the Food Network and we totally have to get this for the Pirates. It’s this pitching machine, right? But instead of looking at the machine shoot you the ball, it’s […]

The Minnesota Twins would seem to be dealing with the same adversity of any cash-strapped small market team: losing high-priced free agents Johan Santana and Torri Hunter to bigger markets and having to dip into public funds to finance the team’s new stadium. Makes some sense, except when you take into account that the team’s […]

BET.com’s PLAYA HATER blog catches up with 17-year-old Anthony Erskine, the guy who ran onto the court during Wednesday’s Knicks-Cavs game to have a word with his hero, LeBron James. And a word it was. “I said, “Yo, LeBron, what’s up? I just wanted to meet you, I love the way you play,’” said Erskine, […]

Since “Dollar” Bill Wirtz shuffled off the liquor distribution coil last fall, his son Rocky has slowly started righting the Chicago Blackhawks through the kind of wise leadership that even Jeffrey Loria is occasionally capable of. There are now home games on local TV. Bob Pulford has been promoted to Vice President of […]

Miami Heat head coach Pat Riley might getting to the end of his tether. After dropping Wednesday night’s game to the Chris Bosh-less Raptors by 25 points at home, and bringing the team’s record to a paltry 11-47 (and 3-29 over its last 32 games), the MIAMI HERALD quoted Riley picking an interesting way to […]

LARRY BROWN SPORTS via PRO FOOTBALL TALK punches up news that Cincy receiver Chad Johnson ruined Marvin Lewis’ only playoff appearance (so far) by taking a swing at the Bengals coach during halftime.

Current Browns DT Shaun Smith made the revelation during a talk with the Central Maryland Browns Backers (apparently there is such a thing). […]

Three was a special number for UCLA Thursday night. The 3rd-ranked Bruins clinched their 3rd-straight Pac-1o regular-season title with a 77-67 OT win over 7th ranked Stanford.

In addition, UCLA set a new regular-season school record by notching their 27th victory of the year. Coincidentally, 27 is divisible by 3 (3 x 9 = 27), as […]

There’s something about the Nation’s Capital that brings out the bombastic behavior of basketball announcers. There’s the Wizards’ Steve Buckhantz who likes his daggers. There’s Georgetown’s Rich Chvoktin who believes a player got fouled. And now only 33 miles away in Annapolis, another b-ball broadcaster goes nuts:
In the opening round of […]

UNPROFESSIONAL FOUL gives a heads up of potential trouble brewing in the English city of Leicester. A local charity wants to build a statue of Mahamta Gandhi, in recognition of the city’s growing Asian population - and presumably, as UF attests, it’s “phenomenal” Indian food.

However, one local soccer fan is against the idea. Instead, he […]