Admin | August 10, 2011
Luquillo Youngsters at the Lomas housing project in this eastern Puerto Rican city, starting Monday, can enjoy playing on the new basketball court inaugurated by New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony. This is the second time the Carmelo Anthony Foundation has helped reconstruct a sports center on the Caribbean island. The first time was in [...]
Admin | July 4, 2011
Posted by Will Brinson There have been many signs that point to positive momentum from the NFL and the players for new football over the past week or so. But this may be the best part yet: The NFL is reportedly shopping a new eight-game, Thursday night package to the television networks. Sources said the [...]
Admin | July 4, 2011
The showdown has been brewing for months now Frank McCourt and Major League Baseball will finally square off in a court of law with the future of the Dodgers at stake. The battle lines were drawn when the team filed for bankruptcy Monday and the beleaguered owner faces long odds, legal and sports business experts [...]
Admin | July 3, 2011
By Zach Berman and Jenny Vrentas/The Star-Ledger One football season after New Meadowlands Stadium opened its concourses and less than three years before it will host Super Bowl XLVIII serious negotiations are under way for the $1.6 billion shared home of the Giants and Jets to land a naming-rights sponsor, a person familiar with the [...]
Admin | July 3, 2011
To get work on TV sports, it helps to have a big name. And Jim Riggleman got lots more famous lately by quitting his job as manager of the Washington Nationals. And this didnt take long: Riggleman, who has also managed the Cubs, will join Comcast SportsNet this weekend for pregame and postgame analysis of [...]
Admin | July 2, 2011
An ACL injury is common in many high-impact, fast-moving sports. Here are five facts about the ACL as it pertains to sports and human anatomy. What does ACL stand for? ACL stands for anterior cruciate ligament and its located in your knee. Anterior means the ligament is located on the front of the knee. Cruciate [...]
Admin | June 30, 2011
To some questions there are no easy answers. Like, for instance, How should womens sports be covered by television and other media? Right now, theres a story going around that the German team in the Womens World Cup posed for Playboy magazine to help promote the tournament now unfolding in Germany. It isnt quite true. [...]
Admin | June 30, 2011
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Admin | June 29, 2011
Nick Charles, a former taxi driver who became CNN’s first sports anchor and served in that role for nearly two decades, died Saturday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 64. Enlarge This Image CNN Nick Charles He had been suffering from bladder cancer for two years, the network reported. Nicholas Charles Nickeas [...]
Admin | June 23, 2011
And 39 more: Free Realms: PC, client. This open-ended social game gives you so many things to do that itll be hard to concentrate on just one. The cash shop is one of the best out there. Eden Eternal: PC, client. I just discovered this Anime gem, and its in open beta. Mabinogi: PC, client. [...]