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Tony Kornheiser Is Very Fussy About His Shellfish
In case you were wondering just what Tony Kornheiser is really like, apparently these days the needle on the douchemeter is pressed all the way to the right. I can't imagine going to a seafood restaurant and throwing a fit because my favorite variety of crab isn't on the menu, but then I don't work ...

Jeff Allison's Re-Renewed Sense Of Purpose Comes From Hamilton
Jeff Allison, the 23-year-old pitcher buried in the Florida Marlins farm system is destined to hear the Josh Hamilton comparisons throughout the rest of his career. Like Hamilton, Allison was a highly-touted prospect, a high school pitching phenom, who's been featured in more fall-from-grace stories...

Cuervo Girl Throws A Pretty Decent Splitter
There are many many reasons to enjoy AVP Tour volleyball, not the least of which is pictured here. Becoming a Cuervo girl, I hear, not only requires a certain body type, but one must also have a variety of promotional mini-volleyball deliveries. This one here appears to be two-seam fastball. But I c...

Tony And Jessica Think That Journey Totally Rocks
It wasn't all fun and wetness at the American Century Championship golf tournament at Lake Tahoe this weekend. Tony Romo and a very orange Jessica Simpson spent some quality time at the Journey/Heart/Cheap Trick concert at Harveys outdoor arena on Saturday night. Here they are arriving for the festi...

Colts Fans Scalping Tickets to Free Tour of New Lucas-Oil Stadium
Hundreds of Indianapolis Colts fans lined up for free tickets to walk through the new Colts stadium. In a month. Now you can see why Indianapolis's advertising slogan is, "Like Detroit without the culture." Tickets to tour the stadium are going for as much as $75 online now. Some Colts fans were und...

Morning Blogdome: Whither Dicks?
•The return of Richard: Interesting phenomenon pointed out by the Bugs and Cranks crew: There hasn't been an active player named "Dick" in the major leagues since 1996. (Dick Schofield, raise your hand.) To commemorate the passing of Dicks, they've put together an All-Dick team. And when Dick Willia...

Hamiltonmania, Rick Reilly On Race, And Chase Utley Tells New York Fans Where To Shove It
What they're saying out in the ether about Monday's Home Run Derby ......

The All Josh Hamilton Edition
Each weekday morning Awful Announcing, video slash and grab extraordinaire of the sports blogosphere, gives us a visual rundown of everything you missed from the night before. If there's something sports-related you'd like to see with your coffee, shoot him an e-mail and let him know....

Josh Hamilton Doesn't Win Home Run Derby, And You Don't Care
Congratulations to Justin Morneau for winning the Home Run Derby. Too bad the stories tomorrow aren't going to be about you and instead about Josh Hamilton's 28 longballs in the first, his tattoos, his rehab-induced dream about doing this, and his blow habit....

Home Run Derby Live Blog
Eight guys with bats. One Berman. And Three Doors Down, for some reason. It's a Home Run Derby live blog, Charlie Brown. Please adorn your Chan Ho Park faces (for safety reasons) before entering the dinger zone after the Gordon Jump....

The Mighty Wind Of The All-Star Game Festivities Comes Blowin' In
That's apple-bottomed "Today Show" correspondent Maria Menounous all decked out in her finest Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball game get-up presumably ducking from the unholy zephyr that has taken hold of Billy Baldwin's comb-over. This event will be seen tonight on ESPN after the Ho...

Marbury's Head Tattoo Reveals Itself To The Cheap Sneaker-Hungry Masses
Here it is, in all of its brand-pate'n glory, with nary a photoshop magician in sight. Starbury took some time to speak with announcers about his new fashionable (and cheap!) head tat during the Cleveland Cavaliers/New York Knicks summer league game. It's probably as subtle as you can get for a head...

Naked Rock Climbing Hugely Popular with Hot Chicks in America
At least according to the loveable British newspaper The Daily Mail (Some of these images may not be safe for your place of employment. But they're rather tame on the nude-lady-rock-climbing pictorial scale.)The Brit newspaper says, "It is the latest extreme sport craze to sweep the US, and is now t...

Why Is Brett Favre Talking To This Woman?
The strange and seemingly unending saga of Brett Favre's un-retirement took another odd twist this afternoon, as Brett decided that the first person he would talk to about this whole mess is none other than Fox News talking blech Greta Van Susteren. Huh?...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while relaxing on the folding sofa ... • Cycling: Tour de France, stage 10, Pau to Hautacam, France (8 p.m., ET). But emotionally I'm only at stage 9! [Versus] • MLB: Home Run Derby, at New York (8 p.m., ET). Team Uggla, represent. [ESPN] • MLB: Taco Bell Legends & Celebrity Softball G...

Dara Torres' Ex-Husband: Low On Sperm, High On Animosity
It appears the press might be getting a little sick of Dara Torres' old lady swim feats. At least that's the only reason it would seem the Palm Beach Post has decided to interview her embittered ex-husband. West Palm surgeon Itzhak Shasha and Torres were married for 16 months, but then divorced. Soo...

Dallas Talk Radio Rift Features Guns, Women, Booze, Cocaine, and Suicide Attempt
Before reading this story I had no idea who Dallas talk radio host Greg Williams was or why I'd be remotely interested in how he lost his radio gig and came close to taking his life. With Mike and the Mad Dog's alleged feud getting a ton of attention, this story is worth a read and no one is paying ...

Afternoon Blogdome: Colt Brennan Is Ready To Be Objectified
• Somewhere Jeremy Bloom is crying: Last year, Brady Quinn took the homosexual world by storm and this year, it appears the Washington Redskins have hit paydirt with their gay fanbase by signing Colt Brennan. Judging by some of the excitement about Brennan in the past — "Was anyone watching College ...

Dan Patrick Bites Back (Softly) At Jason Whitlock
Unamused by Jason Whitlock's "Football Night In America" take-down piece, Dan Patrick fired back at the mighty Whitlock today on his radio show. Patrick was pretty reserved, but seemed a little miffed at how he was painted by Whitlock as a person "who doesn't care about football." Patrick said on ai...

Charles Barkley Knows Not Of These 'Blogs' You Speak Of
So I was mocked repeatedly for my "interview" with Charles Barkley on Thursday, when I introduced myself and told him that I would be blogging his rounds all weekend. Yes, it somewhat resembled Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney. But I'll have you know that from that brief exchange came the ca...