The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City has struggled since its strongest proponent, Buck O’Neil, passed away in 2006.  Surely part of the museum’s woes are related to the omnipresent financial times, but the museum also misses the tireless O’Neil, whose mission to create a shrine to the young men that couldn’t play Major [...]

The Worldwide Leader dropped the bomb around midnight that Terrell Owens, whose given name could be Mercurial T. Owens, has been let go by the Dallas Cowboys. Clearly, anticipated chemistry issues with Jon Kitna forced the move. Kitna is on the record as preferring Sweet’n’Low while Owens is all about the Equal.

(”Ha ha ha ha… [...]

Basketball: it’s a beautiful game. Or fantastically ugly, depending on which game you watched last night. On one hand, you had the Phoenix Suns putting up 140 points for the second straight game in their 142-119 victory over the depleted Los Angeles Clippers. On the other, there was Penn State and Illinois, who combined scored [...]

Remember how unbelievable Alex Rodriguez’s last season in Texas was? That it was so far beyond anyone else, they had to give the MVP to a guy on a last-place team? Those stats: .298 BA, 47 HR, 118 RBI, and now, one giant asterisk.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, showing us all once again that they’re not obsolete, [...]

Sure, it’s like talking about the least attractive supermodel you’ve had sex with or the dumbest brain surgeon. But after years of promising starts by dominant teams like the Colts and Patriots, maybe it’s time to turn to the Tennessee Titans, halfway to perfection, and just ask, “Really? You guys are the best team in [...]

In honor of the X Games, MAXIM brings us the 8 Hottest Girls of Action Sports. Sadly, most of them are not participating in the actual X Games, but feel free to include them in on your X Games fantasy teams.

Josh Howard is arrested for driving 40 miles per hour over the speed limit and [...]

• THE SPORTS CLUTURE looks back on the best & brightest moments of Manny being Manny: The Red Sox Years.

• FANSIDED compares the ongoing Brett Favre saga with Brendan Fraser’s latest “Mummy” movie, and isn’t entertained by either.
• DEADSPIN feels as high as a 46-foot fall onto a skateboard ramp, as ESPN’s X-Games begin once [...]

• The Green Bay Packers are willing to part with $20 million just to keep Brett Favre back at home in Mississippi.

• Some S.O.B. steals a poor kid’s wheelchair during a Twins game.
• Les Miles knows how to roll with Snoop Dogg. Geaux Tigers, fo’ shizzle!
• An Olympic journalist pleases his palate with a meal [...]

For Ken Griffey Jr., it’s so long, Skyline Chili – hello, Portillo’s!

(Junior learns it’s no fun to play “Pull My Finger” by yourself)
Ken Rosenthal of FOX SPORTS reports that the Cincinnati Reds slugger has agreed to be traded to the Chicago White Sox. Reds management had proposed the trade earlier Thursday morning, but they needed [...]

The Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs will each send seven men (theoretically) to defend the honor of their respective leagues in the 2008 MLB All-Star Game, including two-thirds of the starting NL outfield and the right side of the AL infield. (”Theoretically” means David Ortiz’s limp wrist is listed but shall not participate. [...]