A skosh of old news is never old if you just heard it for the first time. We’ve gotten behind on our back issues of the WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS, but they report that New York University’s commencement ceremony this summer will be at Yankee Stadium.

Y’know, not all NYU students are Yankees fans. Many are […]

Nobody expected Barnsley FC to beat Liverpool last month, considering they were literally in different leagues. But after this afternoon’s 1-0 upset of another world-class team, Chelsea, Barnsley is now becoming the George Mason of soccer.

Keep in mind that Barnsley is not even one of the best teams of England’s “minor league” of soccer. […]

The fledgling baseball league called Major League Baseball is trying to squeeze some money out of the juggernaut Cape Cod Baseball League. Oh, wait, it’s the other way around?

(That’s a mighty fine hat. MLB would like 11 percent of it now, please.)

BOSTONIST found a story in the CAPE COD TIMES about MLB’s attempt to force […]

When/if Wrigley Field undergoes a $250 million extreme makeover in the future, Chicago Cubs chairman Crane Kenney hinted at the idea of the team playing home games in U.S. Cellular field for an indefinite period of time.

Kenney told a gaggle of Cubs beat reporters — one of them employed with the CHICAGO TRIBUNE — that […]

• CELEBSTONER finds a great doctored video of Roger Clemens’s famous HGH denial.
• BLOGGING THE BOYS ruminates on Julius Jones leaving the Cowboys to sign with the Seahawks.
• George Karl calls shenanigans on the Pau Gasol trade, quoth LARRY BROWN SPORTS.

Little Joshua Irizarry, fresh off perhaps renting “Little Big League,” applied to be the head football coach of West Virginia, and last month got an adorable rejection letter back from the college.

THE (MERIDEN, CT) RECORD-JOURNAL reports that after the 12-year-old boy from Southington, Connecticut wrote to WVU applying to be the coach, WVU president […]

In an interview on 680 AM in his hometown of Atlanta, Pacman Jones joked about having his own stripper pole, at which point the radio host quickly pointed out that Jones was not serious — just in case Roger Goodell was listening and doesn’t get self-deprecating humor.

(It’s a stripper pole, for the rigamarole.)
Jones, you may […]

Swiss robot scientists were unable to create a version of cyborg Roger Federer that was immune to all the mortal diseases we Earthlings have to endure. His agent told THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the Federer-X3000L model played the Australian Open with mononucleosis.

He was diagnosed with the human illness after the Australian Open, and his agent said […]

After the Suns dropped to 3-6 in the Shaquille O’Neal era following a 126-118 loss to the Utah Jazz, coach Mike D’Antoni told the ARIZONA REPUBLIC they’re still a better team with the Big Arid-Stottle.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt. Not play-wise, but on paper and what we see. We can be a better team […]