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By Michael Tapia The GM winter meetings are here and with them, the huge contracts featured in baseball. A lot of talk this off-season has been oscillating around the New York Yankeesā€™ captain Derek Jeter whose contract expired this year. It is obvious that Jeter who is a lifelong Yankee and the face of the […]

Maryland (HuffPo)– After Washington Washington Football Team quarterback Donovan McNabb was benched against the Detroit Lions on Oct. 31, former teammate Terrell Owens ripped him on “The T.Ocho Show,” suggesting that McNabb couldn’t run the two-minute offense when they were together.

Maryland (AP)– Given all of Vick’s brilliance throughout the Philadelphia Eagles’ 59-28 victory over the Washington Washington Football Team on Monday night ā€” four TD passes, two TD runs, plenty in between ā€” it seemed reasonable to ask him whether he’s ever played a better game. Vick paused, then delivered an honest answer. “I’ve had […]

Las Vegas (TMZ)–Floyd Mayweather is being charged with assaulting a security guard in his gated community in Las Vegas, according to TMZ. Read The Whole Story RELATED STORIES Manny Pacquiaoā€™s Trainer Says Floyd Mayweather Is Too Busy Hitting Girls To Fight Floyd Mayeather Charged With Threatening To Beat His Children And Kill Ex Share this […]

By Michael Tapia This past summer, Amarā€™e Stoudemire parted ways with the team that welcomed him into the league wishing to pair up with LeBron James in New York. Knicks GM Donnie Walsh lured the 6ā€™10 big man as part of their efforts to create an attractive team to get James and perhaps another superstar […]

By Michael Tapia— The late Franklyn Delano Roosevelt once said, ā€œthat the only thing we have to fear is fear itselfā€. The Boston Celtics have done it again; they proved all the pessimists around the league wrong by beating the much-feared Miami Heat for a second time in as many weeks. The Celtics clearly defied […]

Pittsburgh (PittsburghLive)– Police in western Pennsylvania have decided to take advantage of local felons passion for the Pittsburgh Steelers by using a Steelers van as bait to serve warrants.Ā  Pittsburgh Live reports: Pennsylvania Constables Hubie Coleman and Albert “Rocky” Younkin serve arrest warrants and take those individuals to district court but have an especially long […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A new study finds major gains in the number of minority head coaches at college football’s highest level but less progress in other leadership positions. The report released Thursday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida examines the 120 schools in the Football […]

By Michael Tapia – Add Joakim Noah to the Kevin Garnett hater club, the Chicago Bullsā€™ center is the latest basketball player to express his discomfort towards the Boston Celticsā€™ power forward. Noahā€™s rant comes just a week after we learned about Garnettā€™s issues with Charlie Villanuevaā€™s alopecia disease. According to Villanueva who is another […]

By Dwayne Nelson–Since the Kobe Bryant vs. LeBron James debate should officially now be over, it’s time NBA fans move forward to another high-profile case.

In Jackson, Mississippi, Murrah High School basketball coach, Marlon Dorsey is being sued by three former players who claimed that he physically and verbally abused them. Dorsey has admitted that he paddled the boys and is on administrative leave. There is video of Dorsey paddling a player after he missed a play. RELATED STORIES VIDEO: […]

South Carolina– A Charleston jury deliberated four hours before returning a verdict of guilty of criminal sexual conduct and burglary for former NFL running back David Meggett.