Milwaukee Brewers batter Prince Fielder reacts after he hit a ball out of the ballpark foul against the New York Yankees before striking out in the eighth inning of their MLB interleague baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, June 30, 2011. REU...  1 Comment

Prince Fielder has reportedly agreed to a $214 million, nine-year deal with the Tigers, making him just the third player in major league history to receive a contract worth $200 million or more. He joins Alex Rodriguez, who has done so twice, and Albert Pujols, who signed with the Angels for $240 million over 10 years in early December.  Comment

The Cubs avoided arbitration with catcher Geovany Soto by agreeing to a $4.3MM deal, tweets Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. MLBTR had projected the Wasserman Media Group client for $4MM. The Cubs still have a slew of unsettled cases.  Comment

The 2012 Baseball Hall of Fame inductees will be announced at 3 p.m. Eastern. But there's no need to wait for the official numbers to be announced, as more than a hundred BBWAA voters have already published and defended their ballots.  Comment

Moments after the final buzzer sounded on the Los Angeles Lakers ' latest extravaganza of hard fouls, trash-talk and outright wrestling matches with the Los Angeles Clippers , Pau Gasol might have topped it all when he patted Chris Paul on the head. Anybody who still believes the Staples Center's co-tenants don't have a rivalry should get his own head checked. The Lakers' 96-91 victory Wednesday night is only going to heat up the simmering campaign for city supremacy.  Comment

I bet, when you heard that Dwight Howard asked for a trade from Orlando to the Lakers, Mavericks, or Nets, you thought he was a front-runner. (OK, the Nets aren't so "front," but they do offer nearly unlimited access to Jay-Z and Howard could live in Manhattan.) You thought Dwight Howard only  1 Comment

Odom's numbers through 11 games: 19.5 minutes, 6.6 points, 4.7 rebounds. And this excoriating column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: But even if Odom is acting instead of playing basketball, he has already qualified as our runaway No.  Comment

Chris Bosh sat down with GQ's Mark Anthony Green this week for a "GQ&A." Some things we learned: Bosh's favorite book is The 33 Strategies of War, he has "probably" felt depressed before, and he thinks that Dwyane Wade is both a better dresser and better in the clutch than LeBron James.  Comment

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are about to make a shocking move for their next head coach. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Rutgers University coach Greg Schiano is the man they plan to hire:Schiano has been rumored for many jobs since his breakout yea...  Comment

During the grand jury's investigation of Jerry Sandusky, it was Joe Paterno who provided the testimony that corraborated Mike McQueary's story, which is what led to the perjury and failure to...  Comment

Nobody does offseason talk-radio bullshit quite like the New York Jets. And nobody does shit-stirring quite like the New York tabloids. So when the Daily News devotes front and back covers to a malcontent locker room flinging repressed resentment at the hapless Mark Sanchez, we get out the popcorn. This spectacle is going to be bloodier and more martyrly than any Filipino self-flagellation ritual.  Comment

Tim Tebow beat the Pittsburgh Steelers because he was Tim Tebow. He could also have lost because he's Tim Tebow. His final pass of the fourth quarter was, as you said, Josh, the kind of play that's a gimme for Drew Brees or Ben Roethlisberger or Tom Brady or Kurt Warner or, honestly, Phil Simms. A great passer would have made the connection there; a good passer would have at least put the ball where the receiver had a chance to make the play.  Comment

The Equatorial Guinea swimmer had never dipped a toe in an Olympic pool but left a hero despite a hapless performance • Eric the Eel's story in pictures "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential t...  Comment

After being found on Jan. 5, the secret dossier was given to The Sun newspaper, which gave it back to the police. "Restricted" files spell out the security plans in place at the sites of events and provide minutes of top-level meetings in which ways to beat terrorists were discussed.  Comment

Dana White has been making the radio rounds lately and there has been a lot of great information coming out of it. From his statement that Cyborg had been stripped of her Strikeforce title to his announcement of The Ultimate Fighter Brazil airing on Fuel TV in the U.S. to now making a guarantee that New York will legalize the sport of mixed martial artis this year.  Comment

A little run-in between Ovechkin and Blue Jackets winger/agitator Derek Dorsett on Saturday went mostly unnoticed: Dorsett ran Ovechkin, Ovechkin got in his face, the two received matching minors, then everybody went home to celebrate New Year's Eve.  Comment

A dominating win by Roger Federer in his 1,000th career match and a more difficult workout for Rafael Nadal set up a rare Grand Slam marquee semifinal between the former top-ranked players. Four-time Australian Open champion Federer advanced to his ninth straight semifinal at Melbourne Park with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 quarterfinal win Tuesday over Juan Martin del Potro, the man who beat him for the U.S. Open title in 2009.  Comment

Elin Nordegren is SO rich -- she's basically building a replica of the multimillion dollar estate she knocked down. TMZ has obtained renderings Elin submitted to the Palm Beach County Dept. of Planning, Zoning & Building. Compare the exterior elevation drawing with the pic of the house that was on the $12 million property before Elin razed it. Both are traditional/colonial homes with a very similar shape.  Comment

This past weekend's Accenture Match Play set off one of the most tumultous weeks at the top of the Official World Golf Rankings in recent memory. (Yes, some people moved up and some moved down....  Comment

A bit of unfortunate economic news from the world of golf today, as the PGA Tour has indicated this year's Heritage will be the last one unless a new title sponsor is found. Scheduled for April...  Comment

David Beckham hits the field in the rain as the L.A. Galaxy takes on the New England Revolution on Sunday (March 20) in Los Angeles. Supporting the 35-year-old soccer star were his expectant wife, Victoria, and their 6-year-old son, Cruz, who watche...  Comment

Ask and you shall receive. Well, so long as you’re one of the greatest players to have ever graced a football pitch with your otherworldly abilities. Ronaldo asked the Brazilian...  Comment

Brawls happen. Sometimes they seem to happen a bit more frequently in ertain places, but they happen on every level at some point. Tis the nature of the competitive beast. A junior brawl erupted...  Comment

That was undoubtedly the maddest weekend of the 2010/11 season so far. Goals, in England especially, were a dime a dozen in the past few days as clubs all over the planet went goal crazy. The...  Comment