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The NCAA Opening Round Game is more painful than a Styx concert. I’m watching this outstanding battle between hoop titans Alabama A&M and the Oakland Golden Grizz. I just watched a possession in which the ball was getting batted around the lane (and toward the hoop, occasionally) repeatedly. It looked a bit like a group of [...]

The part-cheesy, part-steamy pregame skit that caused a media firestorm in November of last year has gotten by the censors. Today the Federal Communications Commission, the governmental body responsible for policing “indecency” on the airwaves, gave ABC the “all clear” by stating that it would not be fining its networks for running the November [...]

Say it ain’t so, Big Mac It can’t happen. I can’t believe it. I won’t be deprived of one of the greatest moments in modern sports history, the true “Where Were You When?” that was McGwire blasting homerun number 62 off Steve Trachsel in September of 1998. Even though McGwire’s place in history [...]

Die-hard Cheeseheads and casual fans alike marvel at the toughness and brilliance of Packers’ quarterback Brett Favre on a weekly basis in the fall. His consecutive games played streak, graceful handling of an addiction to pain killers and his wife’s recent bout with cancer, and near-perfect Monday Night Football performance shortly after the death [...]

Hollywood Hulk Hogan headlines the class of 2005 into the WWE Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. Also making it in this year were “Rowdy” Roddy Pipper, Nikolai Volkoff, “The Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart, “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorf, and the Iron Sheik. All-time great and old-timer, “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair is still wrestling. In [...]

NCAA Championship Week, US Davis Cup matches, and Tiger versus Phil made today a great day for sports. NCAA Illinois finally lost. Their perfect bid came to an end when Ohio State’s Matt Sylvester hit a 3 with 5 seconds left. The NCAA tourney is less than two weeks away. Central Florida, Chattanooga, Eastern Kentucky and [...]

In a year that has been incredibly odd for the National Hockey League, almost nothing would be a surprise. But when a sports advisory company and an investment firm submit a bid to buy the whole damn league, 30 teams strong, it’s time to call Ripley’s. This season’s NHL cancellation marks the first time a [...]

“Every time we think this can’t get any worse, it seems to do so,” CU sociology professor Joanne Belknap said. When a college coach appears on TV in front of a bunch of law books, you know he’s in trouble. [Photo: CNN.] Indeed it does for the University of Colorado, whose troubles continue to mount. In [...]

Even fans of the Seattle Mariners haven’t suffered this long. Today, the fans of Washington, D.C. baseball saw a team don their colors for the first time since the Senators left for Texas in 1971. In a spring training game in front of a sellout crowd of 7,558 at Space Coast Stadium in [...]

ABCNews is reporting that Kobe Bryant has agreed in principle to settle a civil suit brought by the woman who accused him of sexual assault. ESPN.com news services Mar. 2 Kobe Bryant has agreed in principle to a settlement with the woman who accused him of sexual assault, sources told ABC News on Tuesday. The [...]