Derek Jeter is a creature of habit — baseball players are overly superstitious by trade — but the Yankee shortstop apparently carries that behavior into his bedroom as well. After splitting with Minka Kelly and returning to a life of single leisure in New York City, the suitors in Jeter’s life have caught on [...]
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Tony Sparano and Todd Haley won division championships in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Today, they’re unemployed. The Dolphins fired Sparano with the team sitting at 4-9, not even a year after giving him a two-year extension. Owner Stephen Ross tried to sway Jim Harbaugh last offseason by plying him with beachfront views and millions [...]
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For the sake of the victims already involved and the potential ones still out there, we hoped the Jerry Sandusky scandal wouldn’t get worse. It did. The former Penn State defensive coordinator was arrested today after two more boys came forward with allegations of sexual assault. Both new victims were between 10-12 at the [...]
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The Big East watched teams leave the conference this summer and apparently decided if realignment was the future, why not go national with new acquisitions? Boise State, the University of Houston, SMU, Central Florida and San Diego State will join the Big East in 2013, assuring the conference ten football-playing members. The Broncos [...]
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It was Andrew Luck’s award to lose. Then it became Trent Richardson’s destiny prior to the LSU loss. Now, the Heisman Trophy appears headed to a very unlikely, but very deserving locale. Waco, Texas. Robert Griffin III, according to Heisman projection site, Stiff Arm Trophy, possesses an early but commanding lead in accumulated voting. [...]
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BCS National Championship: Alabama v. LSU Oklahoma State made a valiant attempt at unseating an all-SEC title game. But even a conference winning, 44-10 victory over Oklahoma couldn’t prevent the rematch. LSU and Alabama face off for the second time in New Orleans, this time with the crystal football on the line. In [...]
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Mike Sherman made the mistake of concluding his season with a loss to a bitter rival. It wasn’t the sole reason Texas A&M fired him but losing to Texas coupled with a string of bizarre second-half collapses sealed his fate. Ask the most disappointed of Texas A&M fans and they’d tell you the team [...]
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The Pirate has found his next port. Washington State needed a flashy coaching hire to boost interest in the program and a man capable of competing in the Pac 12. Mike Leach needed an athletic director to take a chance on him, his quirky persona and his legal baggage. Leach verbally agreed this afternoon [...]
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As the NBA prepares for a Christmas start to the season, free agency and the fallout from the new collective bargaining agreement is already stealing headlines. That’s why the lockout, thankfully over, was so ill timed. The NBA benefited via ratings and revenues because of last summer’s creation of the Miami Heat and the [...]
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