I recently googled “worst four year starting quarterback” while doing some research. The first four results were links to statistical analysis of NFL quarterbacks, but the fifth was to Reggie Ball’s wikipedia. I think Georgia Tech’s fans would agree he doesn’t have much of a legacy on the field, but his statistics weren’t all that awful considering the rest of the team...

During the NBA lockout Allen Iverson claimed to be interested in making an NBA comeback. Well, it’s already February and he has yet to land anywhere. But fear not AI fans, there is hope that he will play professional basketball this year, only it won’t exactly be where he was thinking. On Monday Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Iverson’s representatives have contacted...

Despite the NCAA coming down hard on the school, the University of North Dakota, due to a confluence of signed petitions and laws passed by the state's legislature, will continue to use the Fighting Sioux nickname...for the time being.

Just three days after his Super Bowl coup of brilliance, Will Ferrell was mixing sports and comedic irreverence in a way that… well, the movie Semi-Pro was supposed to. Ferrell introduced the visiting Chicago Bulls before their game at New Orleans on Wednesday night, throwing in an insult for each Bull along the way. “At forward, No. 5, he still lives with his mother...

These Warriors might play Soca, but they ain’t no suckas! That’s the message 13 Trinidad and Tobago World Cup veterans relayed to the nation’s soccer federation Wednesday after going all “Operation Repo” on the governing body’s offices. Still owed bonuses for appearing in the 2006 World Cup, former players, accompanied by policemen, raided the...

What’s the greatest moment in Super Bowl history? The answer depends on whom you ask, of course, as one is typically partial to their own team’s success. For some, it might be Joe Namath running off the field after completing his guaranteed upset in Super Bowl III. Maybe it’s The Fridge leaping over hapless Patriots at the goal line, Neil O’Donnell telegraphing...

Last Tuesday, a buddy and I decide last second to go to the Indiana Pacers game. It’s Super Bowl Week and it’s an excuse to go downtown for some SBXLVI ambiance. Plus, the tickets are $2 on StubHub, which is pretty much the norm for Pacers games these days. Midway through the first quarter, a tall, black man emerges from the concourse into our upper deck section and begins...

The Los Angeles Lakers decided not to use their amnesty clause before the start of this season, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t planning to exercise it at some point. While the Lakers enjoy having Ron Artest Metta World Peace on their roster, and he’s very popular with his teammates, general manager Mitch Kupchak is likely to amnesty the man referred to MWP this offseason...

Los Angeles Lakers star guard Kobe Bryant opened Monday night’s contest against the Philadelphia 76ers 23 points behind Shaquille O’Neal for fifth place on the NBA’s career scoring list. It only took him one half to pass his former teammate. Bryant nailed a long jumper to give him 24 points on the night and move him ahead of O’Neal into fifth place on the all-time scoring...

Things I thought of during this year’s Super Bowl, not necessarily in order of importance or chronology: - Some lucky bastard in Vegas must have made a fortune on a prop bet that the first points of the game would be scored on a safety. If the same lucky bastard was in a squares pool with “Giants 9, Patriots 0″ as his numbers after the first two quarters, he would...

Yep, that’s conservative radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh in the upper right of the above photo relaxing in New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s suite during Super Bowl XLVI last night. And if you look closely he’s clearly going to town on his nose with his right index finger (If the above photo is too small for you, click to expand it). Sadly, picking his nose live on television...

The Jacksonville Jaguars recently hired Mike Mularkey as their new head coach and it didn’t take long for the first scandal to hit the team’s new head man. Mularkey’s son was among three former University of North Carolina athletes arrested for possession of cocaine on Friday. Shane Michael Mularkey was arrested along with Nicole Marie Suarez and Jacob Carl Groeschen. The three...

Colts owner Jim Irsay took to Twitter this evening to refute earlier reports that Peyton Manning would be cleared to play next season, preempting a team statement scheduled for Friday.

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning has been medically cleared by two doctors – including the doctor who performed the most recent surgery on Manning’s neck – to resume his NFL career. Dr. Robert Watkins was one of two men who evaluated Manning and decided he could go back to playing football. Sources claim Watkins recently examined the 35-year-old quarterback...

The most mystifying sub-.500 team in the NBA this year is surely the Milwaukee Bucks, who knocked off the Heat for the second time in little over a week on Wednesday night. (If you are mystified by the Knicks being under .500, you know less about basketball than anyone should ever admit). Milwaukee won 105-97 on Wednesday despite 40 points from LeBron James, 24 of which came in the...

Former boxing trainer Angelo Dundee, best known for training Muhammad Ali, has died at the age of 90. He also trained Sugar Ray Leonard.

Tuesday's match between Everton and Manchester City had an unusual delay, when a protester ran onto the pitch and handcuffed himself to the goalpost. 

The UFC heavyweight has been charged with misdemeanor battery related to an incident Jan. 2 in Las Vegas where he allegedly shoved a woman in the face.

Lionel Messi is the best soccer player in the world. The diminutive whiz is the three-time FIFA world player of the year. So naturally he’d grace plenty of magazine covers worldwide. However here Stateside, King Leo apparently isn’t worthy yet (you know because soccer is still a niche sport in the U.S. despite the MLS’ continued growth and the exponential leap...

This week should be one of celebration for women’s soccer in America as the U.S. team qualified for the London Olympics emphatically, outscoring its CONCACAF opposition 38-o over five matches. Instead, news that the WPS is shutting down shop for the 2012 season has overshadowed any positive headlines the U.S. team’s play in Vancouver garnered. An ongoing legal dispute...

You know a good joke? This game! An excerpt from Sunday’s conversation – Phillips: Do you think you can have something for tomorrow? Me: Of course, no problem. And then I realized what day it was. The day of the Pro Bowl and the NHL All-Star Game. What the hell am I going to write about? Peyton Manning and Jim Irsay? Overdone, with or without Rob Lowe. Djokovic and Nadal...

The Ivy League was founded on a bunch of hoity-toity ideals that include not giving out athletic scholarships and not allowing its football champion to play in the Division I-AA (aka FCS) playoffs. Turns out the Ivies are just as morally challenged as the rest of college football, though that probably shouldn’t come as a surprise in the same year Joe Paterno went from Last...

Despite struggling over the past two seasons, compiling a 13-12 record, the University of Texas' Board of Regents looked at the big picture and Mack Brown's entire resume and extended his contract through 2020.

With plenty of extra cash to throw around, Wayne Rooney has spent plenty on cars, homes and a new hairline. Now, it looks like the Manchester United forward is setting his sights on music memorabilia. You’d think a Scouser like Rooney would stay true to his Liverpudlian roots and go for John Lennon’s notebook or Ringo Starr’s mustache. Nope. Tony McCarroll, Oasis...

The Boston Red Sox have been looking for starting rotation help all offseason and now they’ve started to make moves to add some guys there. The Red Sox have now made offers to both Edwin Jackson and Roy Oswalt, the two best starters left on the free agent market. After moving an anchor of a contract in Marco Scutaro to Colorado, the Red Sox have now moved quickly in an attempt...