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Please Don't Make Legends Wear Their Old Uniforms
Most frighteningly, as The Serious Tip points out, their collective voices sounds like ... well, an old friend....

Vinny Del Fuego Returns To The NBA
We don't know about you, but man, are we ever giddy about the Bulls' hiring of Vinny Del Negro as their new head coach. Vinny Del Feugo! Heavens, how we've missed that guy; NBA Jam never would have survived without him....

Lamar Odom Wants You To Know Boston Sucks
This Lakers fan T-shirt might seem particularly ill-timed to you, what with the Lakers down 2-0 to the Celtics and looking like they could really use a certain seven-foot-tall 20-something center with knee issues. But you don't know the half of it....

Mark Prior, Still Broken
• At this point, we fully expect to learn that Mark Prior has just had mono for the last five years. [Tynan's Anger] • Bill Plaschke follows up on his angry email. [Machochip] • It has been nine years since Bobby Valentine wore his mustache in the dugout. [Three Idiots On Sports] • Man, are we ever ...

Goodbye To The Gap-Toothed Wonder
We don't know about you, but we'll kind of miss Michael Strahan, who retired from the NFL today, probably because he thinks coming off a title might make him John Elway. (It won't.)...

Media Approval Ratings: Skip Bayless
It's kind of amazing to think that, at one point, Skip Bayless was one of the top up-and-coming sportswriters in the country. At the age of 25, Bayless was hired as lead columnist for the Dallas Morning News, an amazing opportunity. He embraced this job by constantly claiming Troy Aikman was gay. An...

For The First Time, You Can Bet On A Gay Sports Event
Call it either a leap forward for equality in gay sports, or just the last refuge for the helplessly addicted gambler, but for the first time, you can bet on a gay sporting event....

ESPN's Featured Comment Of The Day
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its boldest, cleverest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others ......

To Live, Lose And Be Pummeled In L.A.
That's actually a substantial fight, one worthy of praise; had there been a game going on, they'd have broken it up so much sooner. We hope this was a run-of-the-mill dispute, the kind that happens when you file thousands of people into a confined space to watch the home team stink it up for three-p...

Do Not Rile Up The Germans
Mike Cardillo of the great That's On Point will be with you for a daily Euro 08 closer throughout the tournament....

Joba Would Like To Take Off the Training Wheels Now
Until Hank Steinbrenner can get Dayan Viciedo signed, five innings of Joba Chamberlain are going to have to do. Chamberlain, who was lambasted by critics and audiences alike in his first starting role last week, came back with a slightly stronger effort on Sunday to lead the Yankees over the Royals...


You Always Gotta Put A Body On Leon Powe
We knew Henry Abbott had come a long way over at TrueHoop, but did you realize he was live blogging with Dr. Jack Ramsey?. How do you think they explain to Dr. Jack what a live blog is? Does he have any idea what's going on?...

Lakers Get Bleeps In Gear, Almost Steal Game 2
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who would like to know where the bleep Boston's killer instinct is. When he's not freaking the bleep out over the Celtics playing stall ball, he can be found venting his bleeping angst over it at bleeping Basketbawful. Enjoy!...

About Last Night
What you missed after turning off the game with the Celtics up by 24 ... • NBA: Could this be the most unsafe 2-0 lead in finals history? Celtics 108, Lakers 102. • Tennis: Claymation ... Nadal beats Federer to win French Open. Don't drop the trophy! • MLB: Go Fish ... Hanley Ramirez homers twice as...

Hey! Game 2 Is Here! What, Already?
Thanks for the three-day delay between games at the same site, NBA. Kobe might have to skip out on the Olympics with this series scheduled to go on for the entirety of the summer. Just more time for Paul Pierce to get ready to play act some more and Kobe to prepare to be swallowed up by more Celtic...

Wayne Rooney Stag Party Photos Make Eye Gouging Sound Fun
Man U's Wayne Rooney is having a "stag do" (Huh? Googling, googling, googling...oh! A stag party. Crazy Brits.) in Ibiza in advance of his marriage to fiancee Coleen McLoughlin. Among the zany antics, Wayne has been ordered to wear a mankini , the green thongish thing Borat wore in the movie, by s...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while giving into sloth, greed, lust, wrath, envy, pride and especially gluttony....

Somebody Has Been Watching "Rookie Of The Year"
Yesterday during the NCAA Super Regional, UC Irvine got out of a base loaded jam in the 7th inning against LSU by pulling the Hidden Ball Trick, which is best known to people of my generation from the movie Rookie of the Year, which also taught us that pitchers got big butts. Except UC Irvine didn't...