In case you hadn’t noticed, and after these many years it’s okay if you hadn’t, Chris Chelios has been around forever. For-eh-vur. The 47-year-old has literally spent a majority of his life as a player in the NHL, breaking into the league with Montreal during the 1983-84 season. Yeah, back when “Jump” was the hot [...]

Mariano Rivera has given his life to Christ, even marking his glove with Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through Christ who is strengthening me.”  In that spirit, he approached fellow (then-)Yankee reliever Scott Proctor and urged him to clean up his act.  It took a few years, but Proctor (now out for the [...]

To reference a certain “Star Trek” captain, baseball commissioner Bud Selig does not believe in no-win scenarios. He looks at a half-empty stadium and prefers to see it as half full, and said as much when addressing baseball’s significant attendance dip at the owners meetings in Manhattan on Thursday.

Overall major league attendance is down 5.3 [...]

Our older readers likely know The Rule, used to calculate whether a relationship with a large age difference is creepy. A sexual relationship is acceptable if the younger person’s age is at least 7 plus half the elder’s age. 30 can pull 22, for example, but any younger and you’re a total perv.

(”Also, I [...]

• We’re quite Bullish on Joakim Noah’s bare-breasted beach bunny:

• The Game 7 finale of the fantastic Penguins-Capitals series turned out to be a pretty boring blowout.
• Sam Young’s burgeoning NBA career may have been screwed up by a loose screw.
• Two strokes aren’t stopping an ump trying to get back to the Big Show.
• [...]

Compared to rest of this nation’s major sports, baseball is somewhat of an odd duck. Whether it’s the irregularly-shaped field of play or the leisurely pace of play, it’s always stood out from its less pastoral brethren on the sports scene. Its players come in all shapes and sizes, from all over the world, and [...]

• Bruce Pearl has Volunteered his heart for marriage once again, as the UT coach announces his engagement to the quite tasty Brandy Miller.

• Jessica Simpson gets so worried when Tony Romo is on the field that she texts everyone to pray for his protection.
• Sorry, folks, tonight’s Yankees game has been called on account [...]

There he was – Regis Philbin tossing out the first pitch for the Marlins on Monday. The TV talk show host came down to show support for the South Florida baseball club that he says he’s become a fan of.

And what thanks does Regis get for coming out to the ballpark and cheering on the [...]

If you’re the Florida Marlins, you should be optimistic: You’ve finally got the finances to build that baseball-only stadium you keep saying will rescue your attendance from sub-Monster Truck Rally levels; You have a dynamic roster filled with exciting talent; And you have arguably one of the top 10 hitters in baseball in Hanley Ramirez. [...]

There was a lot of attention surrounding UConn entering last night’s Sweet 16 matchup with Purdue, and it was all for the wrong reasons. In the midst of an ongoing investigation of the school’s recruitment of now-departed super-stud prospect Nate Miles, no one has received as much heat as UConn’s architect himself, Jim Calhoun.

Some are [...]