MLB.com's Carrie Muskat hears from a Cubs official that there's nothing to the rumored three way deal between the Cubs, Rangers and Mets. However, four to six teams are interested in Bradley to varying degrees. 10:58am: The latest Milton Bradley trade scenario comes courtesy of Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune, who considers Bradley going to the Rangers, Kevin Millwood to the Mets, and Luis Castillo to the...  Comment

To no one's surprise, Jason Bay has decided to see what the 29 other teams in the big leagues have to offer before deciding whether or not he wants to return to the Red Sox. Jon Heyman of SI.com reports that Bay turned down a four-ye...  Comment

Okay, so how many jokes can you think of where the punch line is, "they should change the name of the award to the 'High' Young." Rimshot! Clearly, Tim Lincecum is in the news for the...  Comment

Jon Heyman of SI.com says that Jason Bay has rejected the Red Sox initial contract offer, and will head to the open market beginning tomorrow. ...this isn’t unexpected, as Bay has made it very clear throughout the month that he wants to test free agency...  Comment

Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! has a half-harrowing, half-hilarious tale out of Minneapolis, where sources say Tracy McGrady put on his uniform Wednesday to confront coach Rick Adelman about the team's timetable for the fallen star's return. Wo...  Comment

LeBron James recently proposed a league-wide retirement of Michael Jordan’s No.23 jersey. James says he’ll start by ditching his own No.23 in favor of a new jersey number (6) next season, which inspired last week’s post about the 12...  Comment

Kobe Bryant had a quick response for reporters when asked what L.A. missed most about Pau Gasol early in the 2009-10 season: “He’s one of the top players in the world.” Top 15, yup. Top 10, maybe? Either way, he’s really goo...  Comment

A four-time scoring champ leading Mike D'Antoni's up-tempo offense? It looked like a match made in heaven on paper, but the Knicks have apparently decided the intangibles surrounding Allen Iverson -- including ugly exits with tw...  Comment

It's an Ohio State tradition for students to jump into the university's Mirror Lake in the week leading up to OSU's matchup against arch-rival Michigan. But it appears that there may be a downside to so many people gathering in one body o...  Comment

Tony Dungy has become the de facto spiritual advisor to what seems like every troubled figure in the NFL. He's even doing it with college football coaches now as well. With that in mind, he would have to be a natural fit to start a group where pl...  Comment

The Big 12 North remains a ways from returning to the prominence it enjoyed when the conference first formed in the late 1990s, but if Saturday's matchup between Kansas State and Nebraska for the division title is any indication then better days are certainly on the horizon...  Comment

Those in favor of firing Charlie Weis for the sake of firing him are missing the point. Weis isn't Notre Dame's biggest problem. That Weis was the program's third straight bad hire is a far bigger issue. Rail against Weis all you want, but don't for...  Comment

Sweet sassy molassey was this an ugly fight. Flyers center Danny Briere makes it abundantly clear why he has only been credited with two fights during his career with yesterday's atrocious "brawl"...  Comment

Very interesting article here about the tickets being sold in North America (and other places) for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Apparently they all get sold by one man, Sead Dizdarevic. As a result he gets to name his own...  Comment

A kid got nailed in the face during a dodgeball game at his school, and now he might sue the city. Maybe he needs to sue evolution for not giving him the reflexes to survive in middle school gym class...  1 Comment

You park your car, walk in the side door of the Hoffman Estates Community Center in suburban Chicago, and the first thing you see is some gray-haired, slightly hunched guy standing under a sign that says, &quot...  Comment

Michelle Wie is gone, putting all the attention on Lorena Ochoa's player of the year fight with Jiyai Shin at the LPGA Tour Championship. Wie withdrew from the season-ending event Thursday because of a...  Comment

Any guy who plays sports has had this discussion with his buddies. Could our rec league hoops team beat a WNBA team? Could our softball team beat a college softball team? Could a great recreational golfer beat a player on the LPGA tour playing from the women’s tees? These questions are rarely answered. Although my softball team did play the women’s semi-pro state championship team and...  4 Comments

In a bizarre match of U.S. Open women's tennis Sunday, Kim Clijsters pulled off a major upset of No. 3 Venus Williams, winning 6-0, 0-6, 6-4. To put it in perspective of how strange this match was, the third set took longer than the first two put together. Clijsters came out on fire in the first set, shutting out Venus in 28 minutes. Venus looked restricted by her heavily bandaged left knee and could not move well enough to hold even just one service game...  6 Comments

Andy Roddick's U.S. Open is over much sooner than he expected. Coming off a close-as-could-be loss in the Wimbledon final, Roddick came to Flushing Meadows with a rebuilt game and some serious self-belief. Running into strong-serving, 6-foot-9 American John Isner in the third round proved to be too much to handle.The 55th-ranked Isner smacked 38 aces to beat the No. 5-seeded Roddick 7-6 (3), 6-3, 3-6, 5-7, 7-6 (5) Saturday.It's the first time Isner has...  2 Comments

Days before David Beckham and the L.A. Galaxy are scheduled to take the pitch against Real Salt Lake in MLS Cup 2009, it appears the British star is taking precautions to address a foot injury. As seen above, TMZ snapped some photos of ...  Comment

LA Galaxy forward Landon Donovan has been named the 2009 Volkswagen MLS MVP for the first time in his career. Widely considered as the best American player ever, Donovan added to his 2009 awards after being named to the MLS Best XI and the winner of...  Comment

International football federation Fifa has dashed Irish hopes for a 2010 World Cup qualifying re-match, saying in a brief statement that it had replied to a request for a re-match from the Football Association of Ireland: “In the reply, Fifa states that the result of the match cannot be changed and the match cannot be replayed. As is clearly mentioned in the Laws of the Game, during matches, decisions are taken by the referee and these decisions are final”...  Comment

A season is a long time in football and nowhere has this been more readily shown than in the MLS. David Beckham’s return to America fr...  Comment