• The Mets are mad at Dwight Gooden for holding an impromptu autograph session on their brand new Citi Field walls.

• Some pretty exciting playoff performances by the Bulls & Sixers so far. Too bad it’s all a formality until the Lakers-LeBron finals.
• It’s one thing for linemen to get the late-night munchies, but stealing […]

At first blush, Virginia doesn’t seem like the kind of state that’s prone to large swaths of poverty or gang violence. When you think of urban areas in Virginia, after all, you probably think of Richmond, the DC suburbs, and, like, Roanoke. But right by Norfolk on the eastern seaboard are two places you really […]

There are understatements, and then there is this from LOHUD.COM: Police had to rescue two golfers at the Beekman Country Club in East Fishkill, NY, after they were trapped under their golf cart. The reason wasn’t that they had flipped it after too many trips to the beer cart, but because a “weird wind event” […]

Dude, for some grade-school kids in Minnesota, gym class is about to get a lot more, uh, gnarly (is that a word the kids still use?). That’s because Hayes Elementary School in the town of Fridley has added skateboarding to its P.E. curriculum. Yet another reason that I was born 20 years too soon.

(”But mom, […]

In a terrible shock to equestrian sports since the Eight Belles tragedy, 21 horses that were brought from Venezuela to Florida for a polo tournament suddenly collapsed & soon died - 14 by Sunday evening, and 7 more by Monday morning.

And officials & police are trying to figure out what killed the horses of the […]

Today our thoughts and prayers are with former LSU wide receiver Demetrius Byrd who, according to USA TODAY, is in intensive care at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami after an auto accident on Sunday. Byrd was expected to be a mid-to-late round pick in this weekend’s NFL Draft, but all of that takes a back […]

Last December, Ole Miss basketball coach Andy Kennedy was back in his old stomping grounds of Cincinnati, where he had previously taken over the Bearcats on an interim basis after Bob Huggins bugged out. And during his visit, Kennedy saw some old friends - and made new enemies, after he was arrested for cursing out […]

Oklahoma City fans are so paranoid about their team. They ought to relax, since the Thunder are locked into a nice long lease. And owner Clay Bennett would never think about breaking a lease…

Okay, let’s start this over. Oklahoma City is so defensive about being considered a major league sports city (spoiler alert: it’s not), […]

Every year we are subjected to stories in the news marveling at the exorbitant and ever-climbing rates charged for television advertising during the Super Bowl. Earlier this year, 30 second ad spots during Super Bowl XLIII were going for the princely sum of $3 million. With all that money floating around, surely broadcaster NBC is raking […]

No doubt millions of people throughout the United States had spent their winter counting down the days to the Southern Mississippi spring game, and on Saturday the day they’d been waiting for finally arrived. Of course, the problem for all of those Golden Eagles fans in New York, California, and everywhere outside Mississippi was that […]