After Minnesota escaped with a 33-31 win over Baltimore yesterday, Ravens rookie Tackle Michael Oher said this to the BALTIMORE SUN about his opposite in the game, maniacal Vikings Defensive End Jared Allen: “There is nothing really special about him … I think he found out I’m an OK player. Guy makes like $100 million. […]

Angels beat the Yankees 5-4 in 11 innings today in Game 3 of the ALCS.

(Source)
Yankees still lead the series 2-1, so ARod needn’t help Jeter keep his pants on.

The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports the NFL has suspended Carolina Panther Dante Wesley for his cheap shot on Tampa Bay Buccaneer Clifton Smith yesterday.

(Video after the jump)
NFL executive vice president of football operations Ray Anderson in a letter to Wesley: “The prohibited contact in this case went well beyond simply interfering with the receiver. Instead, […]

As the Yankees head to California to wrap up a World Series bid, controversy brews back home. Did Nick Swisher take a fan’s original T-shirt idea and trademark it for himself, in order to make some extra cash? Because everyone knows $5.3 million in ‘09, $6.75 million in ‘10, $9 million in ‘11, and a […]

How desperate are the Jacksonville Jaguars for fans and/or revenue? Here’s a shot of the Gator Bowl yesterday:

(World’s largest seat cover, edging out Charlie Weis’ film room recliner) 
The Jags covered an entire section of seats with an advertising tarp featuring an ad for an insurance company.
Tarp should come in handy later, keeping things nice […]

Scene: Notre Dame Stadium. Two Irish fans ask if they can get onto the field before Notre Dame’s battle with USC - one that would prove to be a heroic seven-point loss. The usher obliges, because sometimes this is a civil society after all. The two take their picture, but there appears to be a […]

A UConn football player has been identified as the second victim in Sunday morning’s fatal stabbing of Jasper Howard at the University of Connecticut.

(Brian Parker, Jasper Howard)
The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports “Brian Parker, a 19-year-old sophomore wide receiver from Sarasota, Fla., sustained minor injuries in the attack that killed teammate Jasper Howard outside a university-sponsored […]

It’s been over three months since the awful story about Steve McNair’s murder first broke, and from virtually the first moment on, all the convenional wisdom has suggested that his illicit girlfriend, Sahel (or “Jenny“) Kazemi had killed McNair before turning the gun on herself.

CBS NEWS, however, seems to think otherwise - or at the […]

The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS reports this afternoon that a Hartford man has been arrested but not yet charged in the death of UConn football player Jasper Howard.

(UConn Coach Randy Edsall, UConn player Desi Cullen, Howard)
Johnny Hood, 21, is being held on $100,000 bond in connection with the early Sunday morning stabbing outside a […]

This week on a very special What You Won’t Watch, Fitness dominatrix Denise Austin — who has become a regular here — convinces you to stretch in ways you never thought possible. Also, horribly putrid college football, constructing a Donald Trump combover, and “CBS Early Show” hosts annoy the nine-year-old kid who made that amazing […]