Kendrick Perkins just doesn’t ‘understand’ why Oklahoma City goes away from...
The last time Kendrick Perkins was in the NBA Finals, he wasn't in the NBA Finals. We're probably going to have to be mindful of that moving forward. Prior to last Tuesday's Game 1 — a game that saw...
View ArticleSummer league hoops team travels 3,590 miles, through four states, in nine days
The numbers would be staggering for an NBA squad, let alone a summer prep basketball team. In the span of nine days, the Santa Maria (Calif.) St. Joseph boys basketball squad travelled 3,590 miles...
View ArticlePatrick Reed Monday-qualifies for the fourth time this year
Lost amongst the stories of Webb Simpson winning the U.S. Open, Tiger Woods struggling on the weekend at another major and Patrick Cantlay's professional debut at the Travelers Championship is a pretty...
View ArticleFirst Down: Percy Harvin has the Vikes in quite the pickle
Clearly, Percy Harvin is one unhappy mini-camper. The explosive receiver, coming off his finest season to date, is not pleased about his current situation. Refreshingly, unlike with holdouts Matt...
View ArticleUFC set to stage 2,000th fight in company history
Barring any last-minute changes, the opening fight of the main card at UFC 147 on Saturday between Yuri Alcantara and Hacran Dias will carry a little more significance than normal. It will mark the...
View ArticleWashington deals away its potential cap flexibility, and Rashard Lewis, to...
The New Orleans Hornets, with a much-debated-about top overall pick set to take to the team in the coming week and free-agent vets like Eric Gordon and Chris Kaman rumored to be headed elsewhere as...
View ArticleGame Point: Brian Baker qualifies for Wimbledon
Game Point is Busted Racquet's roundup of news, links and stats from around the web. Love -- Seedings for Wimbledon were announced Wednesday. In a stunner, Novak Djokovic was slotted at No. 29 by the...
View ArticleFemale Senegalese wrestler one of the country’s best medal hopes
What football is to America, traditional wrestling is to the African country of Senegal. Large stadiums are filled to watch men compete one-on-one in a sport that resembles freestyle wrestling. It's...
View ArticleCreate-a-Caption: Chipper and the Cap’n
Quick! Is this Chipper Jones mugging after hitting a double at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday or Bette Middler posing for the cover of her latest Broadway playbill. No matter your answer, let's all hope...
View ArticleLeBron James mocked by hockey players; Paul Martin’s secret concussion; Brian...
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Nail Yakupov not only...
View ArticleArt of the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, one year later
Thinking of the post-Game 7 riot in Vancouver last June evokes some revolting images: Burning cars, looted businesses and overwhelmed law enforcement officers facing off against creepily gleefully...
View ArticleDwyane Wade’s ex-wife Siovaughn Funches-Wade arrested for her alleged...
On Wednesday afternoon, Miami Heat All-Star Dwyane Wade sat down for a thoughtful and deliberate 20-minute meeting with the press that belied the significance of his current professional task —...
View ArticleUConn headlines list of 10 teams banned from postseason next year
Inadequate classroom performance will keep one of college basketball's heavyweights from participating in the NCAA tournament next season. As expected UConn was among the 10 men's college basketball...
View ArticleNorthwestern, Duke lead football APR rates
Northwestern and Duke were among the leaders in the NCAA's annual football APR, which measures something or other about academic progress and graduation rates; we're not really sure. It's like a...
View ArticleMiddle school girls basketball coach arrested for sexual relationship with...
A middle school girls basketball coach in Hudson County, New Jersey has been arrested following the discovery of an ongoing sexual relationship with one of his players. As first reported by the The...
View ArticleRays’ ‘Turn Back the Clock’ uniforms want to party like it’s 1979
Everyone knows that Major League Baseball arrived in St. Petersburg, Fla., for the 1998 season. What the Tampa Bay Rays presuppose by having a "Turn Back the Clock" to 1979 day is, what if it didn't?...
View ArticleHappy Hour: Which driver is next to break a long winless streak?
Welcome to the latest Happy Hour mailbag! You know how these work: You write us with your best rant/ joke/one-liner at happyhournascar@yahoogroups.com or on Twitter at @jaybusbee, we respond to your...
View ArticlePuck Daddy’s 2012 NHL Awards Live Chat!
The glitz! The glamor! The awkward comedy! But enough about the players' acceptance speeches ... Please join your friends from Yahoo! Sports, Puck Daddy, Buzzing The Net and the hockey blogosphere for...
View ArticleClay Guida says tenacity will be difference in key fight with Gray Maynard
The similarities between Clay Guida and Gray Maynard are striking: Each are elite wrestlers whose striking has come a long way. Each is coming off a loss to a lightweight champion, Guida to Benson...
View ArticleMichael Bourn’s spectacular wall robbery (Video)
Nine home runs were hit in the Braves' 10-5 win over the Yankees on Wednesday, a total that qualified for a Yankee Stadium record. It might've been 10, too, if Michael Bourn hadn't made this incredible...
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