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10 Things You Don’t Want to Hear on Christmas Day
Ah, Christmas. It’s a relaxing time to spend with family and the last hurdle before you let your hair down on New Year’s Eve.
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16 Reasons You Suck at Your Job
When you were little you may have been like millions of other kids who dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
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12 Clues Bobby Valentine May Be a Bust As Red Sox Manager
The Boston Red Sox have introduced Bobby Valentine as their new manager, throwing him into the pressure cooker of what is one of the most demanding jobs in sports.
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11 Disasters That Can Ruin the Green Bay Packers
The Green Back Packers are a sterling 9-0 after the team’s 45-7 thumping of the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night. While many pundits think the defending Super Bowl champs have the horses to complete a perfect season, there are potential pitfalls.
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10 Observations on the NCAA Conference Realignment Issue
The landscape in college sports continues to go through more changes than Lady Gaga’s wardrobe during an awards show, with no signs of conference realignment slowing down anytime soon.
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10 Awesome Celebrity Boxing Matches That We Want to See
Lenny Dykstra’s battle with Jose Canseco in one of those dignified celebrity boxing matches never took place over the weekend after Dykstra pulled out for reasons that remain unclear.
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College Football Top 25 Weekend Recap
The college football season is underway. Week one was mostly a humdrum affair, with Notre Dame and TCU suffering the biggest upsets among ranked teams. Here’s a complete look at how the top 25 did:
#1 Oklahoma 47, Tulsa 14
Junior walk-on RB Dominique Whaley rushed for 131 yards and four touchdowns in the top-ranked Sooners’ season opener. Any chance Tulsa had in the game vanished
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Real Madrid Soccer Club Signs 7-Year-Old Boy
We’ve all heard stories about how athletes are recruited at younger and younger ages by college teams, but Real Madrid, the professional and well-known Spanish soccer club, has gone a step beyond that.
The team has signed a seven-year-old boy from Argentina. That’s right — he’s seven.
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Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Kevin Love to Play Beach Volleyball During NBA Lockout
There may be an NBA lockout, but that won’t stop Kevin Love from dunking around a net.
The Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star is planning to play beach volleyball in next month’s Manhattan Beach Open, as part of the pro volleyball tour.
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Will Brett Favre Come Out of Retirement to Back Up Michael Vick?
Here we go again — Brett Favre may come out of retirement.
And this time, he could potentially join another polarizing and controversial quarterback.
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LAPD Arrest Two People for Brutal Beating at Dodger Stadium, Previous Suspect Cleared
There’s been a new twist in the investigation into the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium back on Opening Day.
On Thursday, police in Los Angeles arrested two men in connection with the attack on 42-year-old Bryan Stow.
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New Mexico Basketball Coach Steve Alford Bans Players from Using Twitter
Incoming University of New Mexico basketball player Jarion Henry had better let his play do his talking for him.
New Mexico head coach Steve Alford tells the Albuquerque Journal he has banned all his players from tweeting, a decision that may not sit well with Henry, a six-foot-nine forward who, like many teenagers, likes to write on the social media site.