Category: Pro Sports

Matchups for the 2011 NHL playoffs

Imagine running a mile in five minutes. Now imagine it in 4:47:29. Now imagine doing that 26 times. Wilson Chebet did more than just imagine. He accomplished. The Kenyan finished the 31st Rotterdam Marathon Sunday in 2:05:27 and outpaced fellow Kenyan […]

MLB BATTING LEADERS Team AVG. Montero Arizona .501 Hundley San Diego .435 Kemp Los Angeles .429 Janish Cincinnati .423 Sandoval San Francisco .423 Howard Philadelphia .406 McCann Atlanta .406. RBI Team Total Howard Philadelphia 10 Davis New York 9 Fielder […]

GEICO Honda rider Justin Barcia got lucky number three. He won his latest race at the Edwards Jones Dome Saturday night. A major step toward the 2011 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Lites East championship. “I wanted this win really bad,” […]

The New York Yankees have signed free-agent pitcher Carlos Silva to a minor-league contract. Silva will report to the Yankees’ training facilities in Tampa on Tuesday. The veteran pitcher was released by the Chicago Cubs at the end of Spring […]

Manny being Manny until the very end. In shocking news, Tampa Bay Rays slugger Manny Ramirez has notified Major League Baseball that he is retiring after being notified of an issue under MLB’s drug policy. According to the New York […]

Tom Gores, a Los Angeles-based financier who grew up in Flint, Michigan, will be the Detroit Pistons’ new owner. Gores signed a purchase agreement on Friday to acquire the Pistons. The deal still needs approval from the NBA. Terms of […]

New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams will undergo surgery on Friday to remove bone fragments and scar tissue from his injured right wrist and will miss the remainder of the regular season. The team announced in a press release […]

I tend to disagree with most people on this. Maybe because it feels like I’ve been here before. I’ve seen a few struggling baseball teams before. And 0-6 sucks. The winless Boston Red Sox lost their sixth in a row […]

“I wanna be like Mike” was a slogan, but never one of Scottie Pippen’s M.O.’s. Except, perhaps, for one thing. He, too, now has a sculpture of his own outside the United Center. Pippen, along with Michael Jordan, led the […]