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Posted by Jay Mariotti (RSS feed)
Filed Under: NCAA Football
BATON ROUGE, La. -- He's quite the drama king, this
Tim Tebow lad, always involved in some sort of swirl that prompts debate, wonderment and humor. No one knows if he'll make it in the
NFL, despite a career as storied as any in college football history. He's an avowed virgin even as coeds clamor to have his babies, including one who stopped him at Radio Shack, asked him to pose for a picture and lifted her shirt as her proud mother took the shot. While other Florida students go to South Beach or Cancun for spring break, he heads to prisons and speaks to inmates.
Or flies off to a poverty-stricken village in the Phillippines and helps circumsize children.
Posted by Holly Cain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: NASCAR Rumors, IRL
HOMESTEAD, Fla. --
Danica Patrick climbed out of her race car Friday afternoon, all smiles about a solid seventh-place qualifying effort for Saturday's IndyCar season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and liking her chances about a career-best ranking (fifth) in the standings.
She joked with reporters about missing her public relations spokeswoman and spoke earnestly of her Andretti Green Racing team's pressing need to find more speed.
Just don't ask her about the big elephant on pit road -- her contract status and whether she plans to give NASCAR a go.
When asked simply if she had hoped to be able to announce something by now, Patrick pointed her finger and said, "Why do you gotta end it like that?'' abruptly turned her back on the group of a half-dozen reporters and stormed away.
The interviews were over. The speculation will continue.
Posted: Oct 10, 2009 12:08AM By Michelle Smith (RSS feed)
Filed Under: WNBA
PHOENIX -- The best Finals series in the history of the WNBA ended Friday night with the Phoenix Mercury hoisting the trophy for the second time in three seasons.
Phoenix finished off the best-of-five series against the Indiana Fever by winning two straight games, including a 94-86 win at the US Airways Center that gave them the title in front of a boisterous, sold-out home crowd.
They finished as the best team in the league from start to finish, but they also finished as battered and tired as they were victorious after an intense, fiercely competitive series.
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 11:17PM By Tim Povtak (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Mavericks, Wizards
WASHINGTON --
Gilbert Arenas may be eliminating the often outrageous, sometimes peculiar behavior that once added to his popularity, but the rest of his game is coming back just fine.
The explosiveness has returned.
The 28-29-point scoring average may be fading into history, along with the Agent Zero and the Hibachi personas, but a more valuable, more productive 20-point, 10-assist guy could be brewing inside him.
It's what the Washington Wizards need.
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 9:54PM By Mick Elliott (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Presidents Cup
SAN FRANCISCO -- The greatest shots in Presidents Cup history? No, not a chance. All the same,
Justin Leonard played them perfectly.
Let's talk shot making.
He drained them.
"It was knowing I needed to come out and play well today," he said.
Leonard teamed with
Phil Mickelson for Friday's Presidents Cup second round and played top shelf. He birdied the first hole to get the American twosome going in the best-ball competition. He kept pounding until finally rolling in a 12-footer at No. 16 to finish off the International team of
Retief Goosen and
Adam Scott 3 and 2.
It was a performance instrumental in allowing the United State to lead 6½-5½ going into Saturday's third round.
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 9:45PM By David Whitley (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Olympics
SAN FRANCISCO -- The world's greatest golfers awoke Friday to news they can now be Olympians.
Somewhere the ancient Greeks are weeping. What's worse, somewhere the modern Chinese are working on a Human
Golf Hormone drug.
Their orders are to seize any child who resembles
Tiger Woods, pump him full of top-secret Birdie Juice and bring home the gold in 2016 from Rio de Janeiro.
Or else.
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 8:00PM By R.J. White (RSS feed)
Filed Under: NFL Sleepers, IDP Leagues
Think IDP leagues are the way to go? Then Ballhawkin' is for you. Here, we pick out a few Individual Defensive Players that could have huge weeks and are possibly sitting in your free-agent pool. After
Antwan Odom's monster day against the
Packers, it's become pretty clear that you must start your defensive ends against Green Bay. Not that anyone was benching
Jared Allen in the first place. The Minnesota monster was unstoppable, sacking quarterback
Aaron Rodgers 4.5 times while forcing a fumble and scoring a safety. Now that's the kind of performance that can win you the week on its own. Unfortunately, that offensive Packer offensive line has a bye this week, but there are other matchups to exploit.
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 5:00PM By Michael David Smith (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Southern Miss
Hours after Southern Miss coach Larry Fedora released a
statement mourning the death of punter Peter Wilkes, the school said that Wilkes is not dead. But Wilkes is reportedly in grave condition after a gun accident in his home on Thursday night.
College Football Talk
reports that "Wilkes suffered an irrecoverable injury Thursday night." The Associated Press
retracted a story saying Wilkes was dead, adding, "Southern Miss officials and police now say Wilkes is alive." The AP says a new story about Wilkes will be published soon.
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 5:00PM By Lem Satterfield (RSS feed)
Filed Under: WBA, WBC, Showtime, FanHouse Exclusive
One of the more touching moments of Showtime's
Fight Camp 360: Inside The Super Six World Boxing Classic is followed by one the most brutal sequences.
Check out the complete first episode before Saturday's debut (10:30PM ET) exclusively on FanHouse below.
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 4:23PM By FanHouse Newswire (RSS feed)
EDMONTON, Alberta -- Former
NHL star
Theo Fleury says he was sexually abused by a junior hockey coach.
Fleury's account is detailed in an autobiography called
Playing With Fire. The book is to be released next week. Excerpts appeared Friday on
the website of Maclean's.
The former forward, who played for the
Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks during his career, accuses Graham James of abuse. James was jailed in 1997 after admitting to sexually abusing two players on his junior hockey team -- one being ex-NHL player Sheldon Kennedy.
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 4:07PM By Ed Price (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Yankees, MLB Injuries
NEW YORK -- The surgeon who repaired
Alex Rodriguez's right hip in March said A-Rod is now at 95 percent strength, and the
Yankees clean-up hitter may not need a follow-up procedure, as originally planned.
Marc J. Philippon of the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colo., was in New York on Friday for a meeting and stopped by Yankee Stadium to examine his famous patient.
"I need a little more tests," Philippon said, "but so far I don't think he will need surgery."
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 4:00PM By Matt Snyder (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Giants, NFC East, NFL Injuries, NFL Quarterbacks
After suffering a plantar fasciitis injury last weekend against the
Chiefs, it was really up in the air whether or not
Eli Manning would be able to play this Sunday at home against the
Oakland Raiders. After Friday's practice, though, Eli's chances of playing look pretty solid.
After practice,
Giants head coach
Tom Coughlin told media members that Manning did about "half" of the team activities and he was "absolutely" encouraged by what he saw from his veteran signal-caller. Whether or not Manning will play is still considered a game-time decision, but Coughlin said he was "hopeful" that No. 10 is going to be suiting up to play the
Raiders.
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 3:30PM By Thomas George (RSS feed)
In his first 48 hours, Sherman Lewis felt the eyes on him. He joined the Washington Redskins on Tuesday as an offensive consultant. As "a fresh set of eyes," the Redskins described it. Lewis is 67. He had coached football for more than three ...
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 3:04PM By Tom Fornelli (RSS feed)
It had been one of the greatest mysteries of the baseball postseason thus far in 2009. Who would start Game 3 for the Philadelphia Phillies in their NLDS matchup with the Colorado Rockies? It was an answer that became somewhat clearer, yet more ...
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 2:00PM By Christopher Botta (RSS feed)
If someone told you Tony Romo was getting helpful advice from the quarterbacks coach of the New York Giants, wouldn't you find that odd? What if some of the Chicago Cubs were getting batting tips from the hitting instructor of the St. Louis ...
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 1:45PM By Terrance Harris (RSS feed)
After two weeks of will he or won't he, Oklahoma announced Friday that Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford will return to the lineup for Saturday's Big 12 opener against Baylor. Bradford, a junior, has missed the Sooners' (2-2) last ...
Posted: Oct 09, 2009 1:00PM By Dave Goldberg (RSS feed)
This seems to be the weekend of the big spreads: there are four that are double-digits in a league that always boasts about its close games. The one that best demonstrates the DIS-parity in the NFL this year is the line on the Raiders-Giants game at ...