1:50 PMChris Mannix of SI tells Jim Rome on Rome's radio show today that he expects Floyd Mayweather to fight Manny Macquiao in May, possibly on Cinco De Mayo.
1:31 PM ESPN's Pat Forde reports the Univ. of Tennessee just issued a press release that Nu'Keese Richardson and Mike Edwards have been dismissed from the Volunteers football team by Lane Kiffin.
1:20 PMThe Onion has breaking news from my hometown: Kansas City has failed to pick up the option on the Royals.
1:17 PMRyan Ballengee of the golf blog Waggle Room reports, "The lawyer for Doug Barron - the first PGA Tour player suspended under the Tour's Anti-Doping Program - implied that the Tour is hiding positive drug tests from the public."
SPORTS COLUMN serves up video of a guy taking a 50 m.p.h. tennis ball to the groin - all in the name of science!
The clip comes from the Fox Sports show “Sport Science”. Apparently, the experiment was to determine how the anticipation & pain of getting hit in the nads affects the heart rate. (Surprisingly, it goes up.)
This tennis ball test to the testes also presents additional scientific benefits - such as giving folks something to watch now that “Jackass” is off the air.
