• Attention, ladies! (And Derek Jeter & Madonna!) The legal wrangling has been put to rest, and A-Rod is now a free man!

(“Toodle-oo, Toots!”)
• The NBA fines Michael Beasley $50,000 for his role in the Mario Chalmers -Darrell Arthur marijuana mess. Boy, he must feel like some a dope.
• A large 800-pound animal was seen [...]

I knew that the economy was in pretty bad shape at the moment, but I didn’t think that things were this bad. You may remember a few weeks ago when both Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur were sent home from the NBA’s Rookie Transition program after the two college teammates were busted in their room [...]

THE APPLE CORE speculates on Michael Phelps’ rap-centric iPod playlist. So he’s getting doped up before the race by listening to Young Jeezy?

LIQUID GENERATION has a video montage of The Greatest Gymnastics Crashes. And yes, the guy running into the vault horse – the Citizen Kane of gymnastics bloopers – is in there.
TIME proposes using [...]

• MR. IRRELEVANT inks up news of Michael Beasley representin’ D.C. by sporting a brand new Washington Nationals tattoo.

• DEADSPIN can’t decide what to watch on August 28 – Barack Obama’s convention speech, or Wake Forest @ Baylor.
• HOME RUN DERBY discovers that this season has been so bad for Barry Zito that his Fathead [...]

• Are Alex Rodriguez and the little missus on the fast track to splitsville?

• The Kansas City Wizards sure know how to treat their female employees.
• What Dwyane Wade & Michael Beasley have is a failure to communicate.
• It’s dangerous to come between a man and his woman, but it’s even worse to come between [...]

A one-act play, wherein one day of the Miami Heat is encompassed in a slightly humorous and revealing manner and we reveal why Michael Beasley did not return Dwyane Wade’s call recently:

(C’mon, kids; we’re puttin’ on a play! Call Harry Morgan!)
Dwyane Wade: Thanks for Beez’s number, Coa… Pre… Pat. I’ll call him [...]

This is just typical for the Miami Heat – their first-round NBA Draft pick gets hurt in his first team practice.

The AP reports that Michael Beasley was only 45 minutes into his first drills as a member of the Heat, when the #2 overall pick was struck in the chest by an inadvertent elbow. Beasley [...]

To the surprise of pretty much no one, the 2008 NBA Draft began thusly:

1. Chicago Bulls – Derrick Rose, Memphis
2. Miami Heat – Michael Beasley, Kansas State
3. Minnesota Timberwolves – O.J. Mayo, USC
The only real suspense in the opening stages was who was going to go next after the big three. And the next two [...]

If you visit BULLS.COM today, you’ll see quite the sexy little animation asking the musical question we’ve been dealing with as a weary nation since the Bulls’ balls busted through to the top spot: Derrick Rose or Michael Beasley? Rose is the hard-working point guard from Chicago. Beasley is the athletic beast from… [...]

• Move over, Jeff Reed & Vince Young – DEADSPIN finds another shirtless stud that likes to party with his top off: NBA old-timer Charles Oakley.

• The WINSTON SALEM (NC) JOURNAL tries to take the sting out of Kobe Bryant’s so-called shunning of the Charlotte Hornets.
• THE BIZ OF BASEBALL hungers at the news [...]