• Kevin Love is the first one to tell, er, Tweet the world that Kevin McHale would be leaving the Timberwolves.

• Now that’s what you call a road test fiesta! Thanks, Top Gear!
• Could Coach K depart Duke to land as head honcho for the Lakers?
• Eddie Van Halen is very hot at Nike for […]

So the Pittsburgh Pirates select Norwalk High (Des Moines, Iowa) pitcher Matt Dermody in the 26th round of the MLB draft, and tell the senior lefty that they will sign him, but won’t quote any numbers until they “see him pitch during the summer.” This may not have been wise.

Dermody threw a 6-inning perfect game […]

Even if your wife is the paragon of perfect health, you ignore her wishes at your own peril. If she’s oh, diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, “no” or “sorry” simply isn’t an option–especially with limited opportunities to fulfill her wishes.

(This won’t do.)
So Phil Mickelson, in his second tournament back after his wife Amy’s diagnosis with […]

Note to all nations playing host to the Summer Olympics in coming years: You cannot change the weather. We simply don’t possess the technology … just ask the 12 polar bears clinging to same small ice floe near the North Pole. But, damn it, they’re the British. They have to try.

We all watched with amusement […]

We already mentioned it as a throwaway link in yesterday’s Speed Read, because it was a funny parody of the strange treatment of thoroughbreds in the horse racing industry but nothing meriting more than one line in a morning post, but in case you missed it THE ONION put together an obviously, ludicrously fake piece […]

As the Windy City Series gets underway at Wrigley today, Ozzie Guillen managed to have a hearty laugh at some Cubs fans selling shirts that make a mini-mockery of his Hispanic heritage. After such grand guffawing, one is bound to be bedeviled by a parched throat. Hey, Ozzie, how ’bout a Pepsi?

And look who’s co-starring […]

Bud Selig’s big problem is that English is his first language. When caught up in one of his monumental f***-ups, it would be convenient if he could just sit back and claim that he doesn’t understand what anyone is saying. Coincidentally, that’s what Sammy Sosa has done on more than one occasion – including to […]

Some fans might remember the mini-kerfuffle that erupted between St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs fans earlier this season when someone began selling “Carlos Zambrano mows my lawn” t-shirts (seriously? that’s your joke? sigh). Luckily, Cubs fans have taken the high road, if by that I mean the exact opposite, turning the exact same joke […]

His identity is still unknown, but if Dave Wannstedt is wise he’ll find out pronto who it was who rifled a football from the street and into an upper-floor window of a church during the Penguins’ victory parade on Monday in downtown Pittsburgh. If you haven’t see the video by now, we have it below.

It […]

Apart from the obvious athletic benefits, there are plenty of reasons why a parent might want their son to join the high school football team. The young man stands to learn so much about responsibility, commitment, and teamwork: qualities that prepare him for a life in the real world. These are good things.

(We didn’t think […]