L.A. is all abuzz today about the prospect of Phil Jackson only coaching home games for the Lakers next season. While we haven’t got official word on who will get the gig, if you follow the Lakers like I do, you know there are some obvious candidates for the road game position.

(Handicapping - sorry Larry […]

• Our own Pete Gaines reminisces about the time he & his buddies ended up cavorting at a Chicago strip club with Michael Irvin.

• The Red Wings have released Chris Chelios, but that doesn’t mean the 47-year-old is ready to hang up his skates just yet.
• Sean Avery supposedly gets his own serving of sloppy […]

Sex: it’s lots of fun! Sure, it can lead to numerous problems, like STDs, pregnancy, and marriage, but it’s soooooo fun! Have you ever had sex? It’s amazing! Some people get to have sex as their job. They’re called superheroes.

(Our young hero, enjoying his Sex-Crazed Man of the Year award.)
One hockey player for the Polar […]

Earlier today, we shared a superb selection of tennis babe Maria Kirilekno showing her sexier side for Sports Illustrated. However, in the original article we wrote all those many days ago, we mentioned that Maria would be joined in bikini-clad company by another lovely lady of the lob - fellow Russian racket-eer Tatiana Golovin.

Well, it […]

In the wake of his Lakers’ championship and his own 10th NBA title, Phil Jackson gave an interview with Mychal Thompson and John Ireland with ESPN 710 today. Thompson decided to float an idea to Jackson that in light of his physical struggles near the end of the season, Jackson should skip the travel and […]

Four of the six players on the Iranian National Team who wore green wristbands last Wednesday to show their solidarity with Iranian protesters have been banned from the team for life by the nation’s governing soccer body, according to several reports.

(Ali Karimi)
The match, against South Korea in Seoul, ended in a 1-1 draw and ended […]

Adidas is no Nike (or even Reebok in its prime), but one thing the company does have on lock is tennis sponsorships. Hell, I just turned on Wimbledon and one of the girls was wearing a cute little Adidas dress. Or really, she’s wearing a dress and she’s cute. Whatever, go turn it on.

(Stefanie Voegele. […]

It’s official: European sports owners have a lot more fun than their counterparts in the U.S. Of course this is Silvo Berlusconi, who is also the Italian Prime Minister, and by all accounts has more fun than just about anyone. Berlusconi also owns seven-time UEFA Champions League soccer power AC Milan, and to put that […]

Sometimes a video comes along that’s so perfect, anything we add to it would be superfluous; the best thing we can do is just stand back and let the magic happen.

(We were tempted to photoshop a T-Pain hat onto Allen Iverson, but it would have been a little too esoteric.)
This would be one of those […]

The storybook criminal career of Lee Monroe Crider ended not how we thought it would — in a blaze of machine gun fire with G-Men while accompanied by a mysterious Lady in Red — but in a nondescript Sacramento courtroom. That’s where Public Enemy No. 1 received three years in the Graybar Hotel for one […]