Jim Brunner of the SEATTLE TIMES has news that we find appalling: The Seattle Sonics new Oklahoma-based owners basically planned to move the team to OKC from day one.

E-mails obtained by lawyers for the city of Seattle show Sonics owners were talking enthusiastically last April about moving the franchise to Oklahoma City — despite telling […]

From the RED SOX MONSTER emerges an Avis car commercial rife with stereotypes about people from N’Yawk and Bahst’n. That’s actually how the cities are spelled, by the way. The apostrophes represent either pizza or lobster, depending on your point of view.

The HR representative introducing the new guy, I read in the commercial’s director notes, […]

Attention breathless media members: If you want to know where Ron Artest plans to play next year, we suggest you start scouring Sac Kings online forums.

Sam Amick of the Bee reports today that Artest is reading Sacramento Kings message boards in an effort to determine if the fans want him back.

North Dakota State athletics have had a pretty good year so far. Their football team, in the lesser Championship Subdivision, won games at two FBS schools (Minnesota, Central Michigan) and their basketball team won a game at then-9th-ranked Marquette. And now their baseball team threw a combined no-hitter against Creighton University yesterday! Just one problem:
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There’s only so many Whataburgers a guy can stand. Following our Final Four coverage, we were one of the tens of millions affected by the American Airlines flight cancellations this week, stranded in Texas for 48 hours after our originally scheduled departure.

You would think it sucked being stuck in the Austin airport for that long. […]

In the game of hockey, two opposing teams try to win by outscoring the other. Of course, unwritten in the rules is that late in the game, the two teams will usually fight each other for the smallest reason. So it’s no wonder that the Democrats and Republicans have picked NHL arenas for their national […]

In an ongoing attempt by many clubs to make an MLB game look affordable occasionally (and get people into the park to sell full-price concessions to), the Toronto Blue Jays offered four dates this year with CDN$2 tickets in certain upper deck sections.

(Did she find Ferris or not?)
However, in an ongoing theme for Toronto fans, […]

Albert Pujols had been pretty quiet this season, only going 2-for-14 & having his Opening Day home run washed out from the stat books. But the St. Louis slugger finally spoke up Wednesday night, hitting his first two official homers of the year in a 6-4 win over the Astros.

So, what finally go Pujols out […]

Meet Stephanie Rice, the Australian swimmer who will be fishing for gold this summer in Beijing. And her chances are good, as she recently set new world records at the Australian Olympic trials.

But it’s not all work for Steph. She likes to have a good time away from the pool - and like most young […]