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 Mickelson Wins Masters By Two Shots |
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Monday, April 10 2006 @ 10:24 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Left-hander Phil Mickelson sealed his third major title and second green jacket with a two-shot victory in the U.S. Masters on Sunday.
One shot clear after the weather-hit third round was completed earlier in the day, the 35-year-old American fired a closing three-under-par 69 to finish on seven-under 281 in late afternoon sunshine at Augusta National.
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| Mayweather Wins Title Despite Drama |
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Sunday, April 09 2006 @ 10:32 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Floyd Mayweather Jr. can only hope his perfect career hasn't been blemished by his own uncle. Mayweather was comfortably ahead in his IBF welterweight title fight, cruising toward yet another championship belt Saturday night, when frustrated champion Zab Judah hit him in the groin and the back of the head with two flagrantly illegal punches.
That's when Roger Mayweather, a former fighter who trains his nephew, jumped in the ring to challenge and apparently choke Judah. When Judah's father followed, it sparked a melee that will take days to sort out, with the fighters' purses already suspended pending an investigation.
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| Farve Still Unsure |
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Sunday, April 09 2006 @ 10:29 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Football? Well, that's the big question the Green Bay Packers quarterback still can't answer. Not when he isn't sure if he wants to risk another losing season, and he wonders whether his team improved enough this offseason to justify coming back for one more year.
"I'd like to say I think we are better, but I don't know if we are," Favre said Saturday at his charity golf tournament. "I don't make those decisions, never asked to. ... I know when we signed Reggie White (in 1993), we knew we were going to be better right away.
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| Frankie Muniz Switches to Racing |
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Sunday, April 09 2006 @ 10:25 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Frankie Muniz is going to take a break from acting to be a professional race car driver. Muniz, the star of TV's "Malcom in the Middle" for the past seven years, recently wrapped up the final episode of the hit show and turned his attention to driving race cars for at least the next two years.
The 20-year-old Muniz got fired up about racing in 2004 when he was invited to take part in the Toyota Pro-Celebrity Race that has been a part of the Grand Prix of Long Beach for 30 years.
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| Army Woman's Hoop Coach Dies at 28 |
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Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 06:40 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 A month ago, 28-year-old Army coach Maggie Dixon left the Christl Arena court on the shoulders of jubilant cadets after leading the women’s basketball team to its first NCAA tournament berth.
On Friday, Dixon was mourned in a chapel across the U.S. Military Academy’s campus, a day after she died following an “arrhythmic episode to her heart.”
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| Young Claims Texans May Pick Him |
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Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 06:36 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Vince Young isn’t daunted by recent speculation that the Houston Texans will use the No. 1 pick in the draft on Reggie Bush.
The former Texas quarterback said Friday he still thinks his hometown team is open to drafting him.
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| Favre to Announce Decision |
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Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 06:33 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Brett Favre has scheduled a news conference for Saturday morning, and a family spokeswoman said he’s expected to announce whether he’ll return to play for the Green Bay Packers this season.
Becky Stuart, a personal assistant to the Favre family, said the news conference would be held at 8:30 a.m. EDT at Favre’s charity golf tournament at the Cottonwoods Golf Course at Grand Casino Resort in Tunica, Miss.
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| Bush Visits Texans |
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Friday, April 07 2006 @ 10:33 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Reggie Bush hasn’t asked the Houston Texans whether they will use the No. 1 overall pick in the draft to choose him, but he’s 99.9 percent certain he’ll go first.
The double-talk was dizzying during the Heisman Trophy-winning running back’s first visit to Houston on Thursday to meet with coaches and players.
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| The Harlem Hammer Gets 30 Years |
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Thursday, April 06 2006 @ 10:08 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Boxer James Butler Jr., who fought under the moniker "The Harlem Hammer," was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 30 years in prison for the death of sports journalist Sam Kellerman.
Butler will also pay $17,853 in funeral expenses to Kellerman's family, $10,000 to the state's victim restitution fund and $11,882 to the owner of the victim's apartment, which was left torched and blood-soaked after the killing, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.
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| Duke Lacrosse Coach Quits |
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Thursday, April 06 2006 @ 10:04 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 A lacrosse player’s e-mail rant about killing and skinning strippers in his Duke University dorm room has started a chain reaction resulting in his coach’s resignation, the season’s cancellation and an internal probe into the university’s response to alleged violence by athletes.
Wednesday’s cascade of events was the latest fallout from allegations that three players on the lacrosse team raped a stripper at an off-campus party on March 13.
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| Amare Stoudemire Out For Season |
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Thursday, April 06 2006 @ 09:56 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 All-Star Suns forward Amare Stoudemire had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Wednesday and won't play again this season.
The operation followed a comeback that lasted three games. He missed the first 66 games of the season after surgery on his left knee.
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| Culpepper Cleared in Sex Boat |
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Wednesday, April 05 2006 @ 09:57 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Quarterback Daunte Culpepper was cleared Tuesday of misdemeanor charges stemming from a boat-party sex scandal.
A judge ruled there wasn’t probable cause to determine a crime was committed by Culpepper, one of four Minnesota Vikings accused of misdemeanor lewd conduct during the cruise last fall on a suburban lake. Culpepper has since been traded to the Miami Dolphins last month.
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| NFL Sunday Night Flexible Scheduling |
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Wednesday, April 05 2006 @ 09:53 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 The league plans to hold off scheduling Sunday night games in seven of the final eight weeks — just as playoff races start heating up — to ensure the best games are played on NBC. The league has long wanted some kind of flexible scheduling, but could never implement one until now.
For Weeks 10-15 and Week 17, the final regular-season weekend, all Sunday games will be listed with start times of 1 p.m. or 4:05-4:15 p.m. EST.
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| Bonds on Bonds Talk of Steroids |
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Wednesday, April 05 2006 @ 09:46 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 "Bonds on Bonds" debuted Tuesday night on ESPN2, opening with footage of fans booing, a syringe being thrown at the San Francisco Giants' slugger and announcers discussing the steroid allegations on opening day in San Diego.
"If it makes them happy to go out of their way to destroy me or whatever they want to try to do, go right ahead. It doesn't bother me," Bonds said. "You can't hurt me anymore than you've already hurt me. You can't hurt my family anymore than you've already hurt them."
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| Shaq Blasts Refs |
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Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 09:47 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Shaquille O’Neal didn’t mince words about the five personal fouls he got in Miami’s loss to the New Jersey Nets, taking aim at referees and NBA senior vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson.
“That was the most ridiculous game I’ve ever been part of,” he said Sunday after the 90-78 loss. “When you got a guy like Stu Jackson at the top, it shows why referees are the way they are. It starts at the top.
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| Bonds Has Tough Road Trips Ahead |
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Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 09:43 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds endured a hostile reception on the opening day of the season on Monday, with a sold-out Petco Park making clear their views on allegations of the outfielder's illegal steroid use.
At the start of a campaign in which Bonds could become the greatest home-run hitter in major league history, the 41-year-old was booed at every opportunity by San Diego Padres fans and even had to remove a syringe from the field that was tossed in his direction from the crowd.
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| Bryant Lights it Up Again |
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Monday, April 03 2006 @ 11:12 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
 Another high-scoring game by Kobe Bryant, another Lakers’ milestone.
Bryant scored 43 points Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles’ 104-88 victory over Houston. It was his 23rd game of 40 or more points tying a Lakers single-season record set by Elgin Baylor in 1962-63.
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| Conte Denies Giving Steroids to Bonds |
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Friday, March 31 2006 @ 09:48 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 BALCO founder Victor Conte insisted Thursday that he never gave performance-enhancing drugs to Barry Bonds and that a new book that makes those claims is "full of outright lies."
Conte spoke to The Associated Press outside his San Mateo home hours after his release from prison, where he spent four months after pleading guilty to orchestrating an illegal steroids distribution scheme that allegedly involved many high-profile athletes, including Bonds.
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| Baseball Begins Steriod Probe |
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Friday, March 31 2006 @ 09:44 AM CST 3 commentsMost Recent Post: 02/08 05:08AM by ma1k0va74
 Announcing the investigation was the easy part for baseball. Now George Mitchell must try to find out how widespread steroid use really was.
In the wake of a searing book about Barry Bonds, commissioner Bud Selig appointed the former Senate Majority Leader - and currently a director of the Boston Red Sox - to lead the investigation.
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| Prior and Wood Both on DL |
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Wednesday, March 29 2006 @ 10:03 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
 Mark Prior and Kerry Wood were placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday, meaning the Chicago Cubs will start the season without both star right-handers.
Neither move came as a surprise, as both have been rehabbing from injuries. The moves were retroactive to March 27.
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