NHL offers 50/50 split in revenue, no rollback in order to preserve 82-game...
The National Hockey League issued a new proposal to its players on Tuesday that significantly pushed the sides toward a potential resolution of the lockout: a 50/50 split on hockey-related revenue — as...
View ArticleFlames: Palmer, Raiders D/ST your remedies for the bye week blues
Each week the Noise highlights 12-13 somewhat obscure, unobvious names who he believes are destined to torch the competition. To qualify, each player must be started in fewer than 60 percent of Yahoo!...
View ArticleDerek Fisher could be a Los Angeles Laker again, thanks to a contract...
He's flirted with the Chicago Bulls (who, legally, can't even sign any players until mid-December as it is) and the Oklahoma City Thunder, but veteran guard Derek Fisher has always seemed like a "Los...
View ArticleOregon teams combine for state record 172 points, with winner scoring 106
Don't ask the Klamath Falls (Ore.) Triad School football team if it was trying to set a scoring record in racking up 106 points during the squad's victory on Friday night. It wasn't. Rather, they were...
View ArticleAlameda Ta’amu suspended two games by Steelers after arrest
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin announced that rookie defensive tackle Alameda Ta'amu has been suspended for two weeks without pay, the first wave of punishment the fourth-round pick from...
View ArticleTom Daley’s sponsorship with British Gas causes an awkward moment (PHOTO)
Sponsorship for Olympic athletes usually helps both the Olympian and the company sponsoring them. The Olympian gets money to train and live, and the sponsor gains valuable exposure. But in the case of...
View ArticleDTotD: Brazilian U-13 match turns into a large kick fight
A U-13 derby match between Bahia and Vitoria in the Independence Cup final resulted in the kind of violence we're more accustomed to seeing from adult footballers. It started when a Vitoria striker...
View ArticleOutside the Game: Jags cornerback Aaron Ross has learned a lot from his...
After five years in the Big Apple, and two Super Bowl wins with the New York Giants, cornerback Aaron Ross has moved on to Jacksonville. It's now there that he lives with his wife, fellow athlete and...
View ArticleSlideshow! 10 great photos of old-school takeouts
One of the only good byproducts to come from this Matt Holliday-Marco Scutaro takeout slide kerfluffle is that it has sent the baseball blogosphere in search of old confrontations that were even more...
View ArticleVOD: Oregon endorses ‘sporks,’ not Arizona State’s ‘forks’
Oregon and Arizona State will meet Thursday in a matchup of the Pac-12's top teams. And while the teams themselves have been relatively quiet when it comes to smack talk, the mascots have been...
View ArticleFrench TV show angers Japan with insensitive ‘Fukushima Effect’ joke
Franco-Japanese relations took a punch to the gut this week when French TV presenter Laurent Ruquier appeared to mock the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster via the medium of goalkeeper...
View ArticleTop RB stops 1 yard short of end zone to set up touching TD tribute for...
When Michael Ferns was racing toward the end zone, the Clairsville (Ohio) St. Clairsville High star had nothing in front of him but green grass and glory. He was seemingly seconds away from scoring his...
View ArticleMostly NFL Notes: Week 6 Recap
After a major hiccup in Kansas City, the Ravens' offense got back on track Sunday, but Baltimore has won its last four games by an average of just 3.3 points, so they haven't exactly looked dominant....
View ArticleStat Attack: Why Texas A&M freshman QB Johnny Manziel should be on your...
Through the first half of the season, there have been two quarterbacks that have inspired that "Wow" factor during nearly every game this season -- West Virginia's Geno Smith, and Texas A&M's...
View ArticleSee the glory of the best of ‘NBA Inside Stuff’ (VIDEO)
NBC's "NBA Inside Stuff' was designed and created in 1990 to appeal directly to someone exactly like me — a 10-year-old NBA freak that was too old for cartoons but not too jaded to take in the...
View ArticleLuke Fickell agrees with the fired pizza guy that the Ohio State defense...
Last week, an unnamed pizza delivery guy claimed that Amy Fickell, wife of Ohio State defensive coordinator Luke Fickell, got him fired for making comments about the Buckeyes' defense. "I said, we...
View ArticleBall Don’t Lie’s 2012-13 NBA Season Previews: The Washington Wizards
For the first time in two years we'll have an orthodox, full-length NBA season to look forward to. No lockout nonsense, and precious little obsession as to whether or not LeBron James will ever win...
View ArticleReaction to NHL’s proposal; don’t choke coaches; Andrew Ference, spin fighter...
• Struggling to decide which college hockey team you should cheer for? Let this chart, which was created using the science of emotion (i.e. not science) be your guide. Click to enlarge to readability....
View ArticleSan Siro scoreboard test shows Disney characters scoring for Italy and Denmark
While Italy warmed up ahead of their World Cup qualifier against Denmark at the San Siro, the scoreboard operates ran a test that also offered a cartoonish prediction of how the match would play out....
View ArticleJustin Verlander’s start does not guarantee the Tigers a sure victory in Game 3
Justin Verlander is no sure thing against the New York Yankees on Tuesday night. The Detroit Tigers did what they were hoping to do and more in their first two games of the ALCS, winning not just one...
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