• NBA TV analyst Cheryl Miller layeth the smack down on Scot Pollard for showing up to their program late.

(”Mechanical aircraft problems, my ass!”)
• Maybe MLB should schedule their Opening Days in warmer climates.
• Is giving a restaurant a bad review really worth an MMAer beatdown?
• Did Manny Ramirez do steroids? Jose Canseco says there’s […]

When you hear the phrase “athlete turned artist”, you usually think of music - and ear-cringing vanity records like efforts by Ron Artest or Kobe Bryant. But the SPORTING BLOG says that there’s a new contender who actually puts the “art” in “artistic”: Rams RB Steven Jackson, who has taken the time to post some […]

Last I saw ESPN reporter Shelley Smith in person, it was a few years ago at a cheeseball tourist bar called Saddleranch on Sunset Blvd. That night, she appeared to be flying solo, but in considerably better condition than this recent Youtube video of her. (At least it appears to be her.)

(Video via BUSTED COVERAGE […]

As if we needed more proof that the New York Yankees aren’t going to do anything second-rate, word now comes that there’s going to be a full-scale blessing performed at the new Yankee Stadium by finely-coiffed super-preacher Joel Osteen.

(”Cody Ransom? You guys need more help than I thought.”)
And it won’t just be before a […]

Ever wonder what it was like to be a professional baseball player, and have to go through the morally-questionable decision about taking steroids? Well, now you have the chance! (Sort of.)

A video game production company called Addicting Games (owned by Nickelodeon, no less) has come out with “Baseball *Juiced”, an online mini-adventure where you play […]

Detroit’s gone through some tough times lately, so it’s perhaps not entirely shocking that there are some people trying to take advantage of the tourists that have descended on the city for the Final Four.

One such tourist was Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard, whose city is hosting the 2010 Final Four. On the walk back to […]

Here’s a sign recently snapped at the Texas Longhorns football facility:

One small detail: The Longhorns technically didn’t win the Big 12 football championship this year. So where is Texas Tech’s sign too?

If there are two stereotypes that I know about the British, it’s these: They are incredibly polite and afraid of offending anyone, and they have horrible teeth. The second one is apparently true, based on a documentary I saw on TV last year called “Britian’s Worst Teeth.” These people made Shane MacGowan of The Pogues […]

As the rest of baseball (and the sports world) tries to make sense of the current economic situation, they would do well to look at the Boston Red Sox; or perhaps avoid looking at them if they don’t want to be ridiculously depressed. Because according to the BOSTON GLOBE, even the venerable Red Sox - […]

It’s pretty much a given fact of life that Zach Randolph is bad at things. We mean everything. If Zach were tasked to build a car out of Legos, he would end up handing you a dead fish covered in asbestos and lead paint. So when he decided to get sensationally drunk (on a Sunday […]