Category: Sports

Nine seconds left, and the Miami Heat down by one. Miami’s point guard sets up to inbound the ball but who does he throw it to? His options are both plentiful and enviable. In one corner: a two-time MVP. A league scoring champion and hands down the most gifted athlete in the game. In the […]

Golf icon Tiger Woods lost more than just his nearly perfect image after reports leaked of his infidelity late last year. According to Sports Illustrated’s annual analysis of the highest-earning professional athletes in the U.S, Woods’ estimated earnings has taken a huge hit so far in 2010. Woods is still No. 1 on SI’s total […]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. may not have much to say about a possible fight with fellow superstar boxer Manny Pacquaio, but that’s not stopping his father from speaking his mind. Mayweather Sr. blasted Pacquiao in an On the Ropes Radio interview on July 19, found on blogtalkradio.com, calling him everything from a “Filipino midget” to a […]

Critics just can’t get enough shots at the Miami Heat’s new trio. So when Michael Jordan recently told reporters: “There’s no way, with hindsight, I would’ve ever called up Larry , called up Magic and said, ‘Hey, look, let’s get together and play on one team,’” media members went into overload. Jordan then added: “Things […]

Superstar boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. finally spoke to the media about any possible deals on a match with Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, but it may not be what most fight-craving fans wanted to hear. After being cornered by reporters at a celebrity charity basketball game hosted by NBA stars Dwyane Wade and Alonzo Mourning […]

Golf star Tiger Woods struggled through most of the 139th Open Championship, mainly because of a switch to a new putter designed by Nike. According to Woods, he used the Nike Method putter with hopes of it helping him adjust to the slower speed of the greens at the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland. […]

The Washington Wizards caused their star summer league duo of John Wall and JaVale McGhee to sit out for the last game of the week and it cost them a perfect summer league record, as the team dropped a 109-107 overtime heartbreaker to the New York Knicks at Las Vegas’ Cox Pavilion on July 17. […]

Washington Wizards fans saw a lot this week from their team in Las Vegas’ Summer League play. They saw rookie phenom John Wall jump, they saw him run and they saw him score. They saw Washington close the week with a 4-1 record. And they also saw a work in progress as the 19-year-old guard committed […]

John Wall has been the headliner in Vegas this week for the Washington Wizards’ summer league team, but his teammates have often provided the opening and closing acts. Wall had another solid performance July 15, dropping in free throws while his teammates dropped in jumpers and jams to help Washington drop the Dallas Mavericks 88-82 […]

The excitement this summer’s free agency created for the NBA could all be for naught by this time next year. That’s when the association’s current collective bargaining agreement (CBA) expires, which could trigger a league-wide lockout. If a deal between the NBA Players Association and the league’s owners isn’t reached by June 30, 2011 when […]

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert may have gone too far in a letter posted on the team’s Web site lambasting superstar LeBron James for choosing to leave Cleveland to join the Miami Heat. But renown social activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson gave everyone another target when he suggested Gilbert’s letter personified a “slave master’s mentality.” […]

NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor pleaded not guilty on July 13 to allegedly paying a16-year-old girl $300 for a sexual encounter which occurred in May. Authorities allege Taylor had sex with the teen runaway from the Bronx, identified only as C.F., in a New York hotel room. He is charged with third-degree rape, […]