Sorry, I can’t separate the *man* from his art. I grew up during the height of M.J.’s popularity, and to hear people compare his death to 9/11 or JFK’s assassination saddens and disturbs me.

Here’s some well-meaning young ladies on the beach in Los Angeles today who don’t share my cynicism. Ah, the innocence of youth […]

• Shaq will be lacing ‘em up with LeBron on a more continual basis, as the Big Cactus becomes the newest member of the Cavaliers.

• Rodney Harrison is sick of the whole Brett Favre brouhaha, too.
• Boston sure loves their Rajon Rondo - well, everyone except Celtics GM Danny Ainge.
• An Oklahoma mom is sentenced […]

So that’s two close calls for Matt Nader. The former Westlake High School (Texas) football player nearly died in 2006 when, as  a senior lineman, he collapsed on the sideline during a game at College Station. His life was saved by an automated external defibrillator, and the University of Texas, with whom he had earned […]

College football fans will likely recall Matt Vasgersian’s epic call of Owen Schmitt’s touchdown in West Virginia’s upset win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. As the burly Schmitt barreled down the sideline en route to a long touchdown, Vasgersian yelled, “Like a runaway beer truck!”

(This isn’t a mugshot, but whatever his mugshot looked […]

So this is refreshing: A Major League player was busted for drugs, and it didn’t have anything to do with performance enhancers. The International Baseball Federation announced Thursday that Chicago Cubs’ catcher Geovany Soto tested positive for marijuana while playing for Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic in March. Bad catcher!

“While I full acknowledge […]

TMZ reports that Michael Jackson has died. The self-proclaimed King of Pop apparently suffered a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home Thursday afternoon.

The site says paramedics arrived at Jackson’s home but could not revive him. He was later taken to a hospital where further resuscitation proved unsuccessful. The 50-year-old entertainer leaves behind three children.
*UPDATE*: […]

One of the most remarkable aspects of this year’s Orlando-Los Angeles NBA Finals wasn’t that it only took five games for the Lakers to dispathc the Magic, but how very close Orlando was to having their own 3-1 lead going into Game 5. Twice, Orlando had shots to win a game before it went into […]

Apparently we have a new poster girl of tennis (why was I not informed sooner?) after Argentine Gisela Dulko upset Maria Sharapova in the second round of Wimbledon on Wednesday. But lovely Gisela took a back seat today to a ball girl who got swamped by the press after having played against Tommy Haas on […]

In the various American professional leagues’ amateur drafts, attention is paid to both physical and personal characteristics. The NFL is generally thought of as the most egregious offender in overanalysis of prospects, to the point where the 49ers reportedly ruled Matt Stafford out for not being open enough about his parents’ divorce or something.

(Not the […]

Tensions had been brewing for some time, but the war between Jon Stewart and the baseball fans of Philadelphia officially got underway on Thursday at approximately 11:14 p.m. EST. Ironically, it was during a segment on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” in which the host was attempting to lampoon North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, […]