• Sick of ESPN’s baseball coverage only showcasing the Yankees, Red Sox & Mets? Padres pitcher Heath Bell feels the same sourness.

• Fights, stabbings, gunplay - just another Opening Day at Dodger Stadium.
• John Calipari greets the Memphis faithful one more time - but not without some bodyguards.
• Former Duke basketball star Greg Paulus gets […]

How much do you spend every year on motor oil? I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it’s probably less than $1 million, which is what NASCAR’s Joe Gibbs Racing spends every year trying to perfect the oil it puts in its cars. With the oil experimentation going on for a […]

A little bit of NBA history will soon be history thanks to the current economic woes. The factory in which the Detroit Pistons got their nickname will be shutting its doors for good.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE reports that Zollner Piston, an auto parts maker that once employed 1,200 people, is now down to 38 employees. And […]

If you watch any sports television at all (and if you don’t, how did you end up on this site?) then you’ve seen the NutriSystem commercials featuring a bunch of aging fat sports figures like Dan Marino and Chris Berman (and Larry the Cable Guy?) talking about how it’s OK — and in fact delicious […]

You have to hand it to Norfolk State: while they might not be a sports powerhouse, their athletes keep finding new ways to get publicity (and in this age, notoriety is just as good as fame). First you had the two track athletes who were arrested for firing guns at a resort during Spring Break, […]

We haven’t had any A-Rod news around here in a while. Could be because he’s not actually playing yet, trying to recover from hip surgery. But we imagine rehab must be kind of lonely for Rodriguez - if only he had a special someone to heal his heart along with his hip.

Now it appears Alex […]

Orson attunes his ruptured testicle antenna to this Ole Miss football injury report from David Brandt of the JACKSON (MS) CLARION-LEDGER:

(Or as they call it in Oxford: “D.R.T.”)
Receiver Shay Hodge missed practice because of sore knees and heels. He should be back soon. Receiver Andrew Harris (who had the dreaded ruptured testicle) was back […]

Back in November 2008, Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia was the toast of his northern California hometown of Woodland. The town’s favorite son had just been named American League MVP and the entire Pedroia family was celebrated as a sort of royalty by proxy. Parades were held, banners were erected, and one would […]

There’s plenty of “unbreakable” records in major league baseball these days: Cy Young’s 511 wins, Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, the 17 prostitutes Mickey Mantle pleasured in one night. But even with all those iconic numbers firmly entrenched in baseball lore, the one most unbreakable of them all might be 2. That’s how many consecutive […]

Ah, love is in the air in the tennis world. And I’m not talking about Billie Jean King canoodling with Elton John at a Bud Collins-hosted Streisand listening party.

(Roddick finally nails it to the floorboards)
This week Andy Roddick will finally close the deal with Brooklyn Decker, marrying the SI swimsuit model. While Decker isn’t […]