The Portland Winterhawks fought back from a difficult season to defeat the Edmonton Oil Kings, winning the WHL championship in game six of the series with a 5 to 1 victory. The victorious team defeated the Edmonton team on their home court at Rexall Place. Earlier this year the team was hit with a $200,000 [...]
12th season NBA star Jason Collins has come out as a Gay. He is currently a center for the Washington Wizards but was also a Boston Celtic as well. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED will be running a story on this as well with an interview with the basketball star in their May 6 issue. The NBA star [...]
TV NFL football announcer Pat Summerall has died at the age of 82. The iconic TV personality was considered by his longtime co-host, John Madden, to be “the voice of football”. Pat Summerall became so ill with liver problems that in 2004 he required a liver transplant. But, he actually died of cardiac arrest in [...]
Paul Bearer, the creepy pasty-faced professional wrestling figure long associated with the WWE has died at the age of 58 after suffering a blood clot. His real name was William “Bill” Moody, and he was part of the act for The Undertaker, helping to support this popular wrestler by putting on a spooky supporting role. [...]
Thanks, but no thanks seems to be the official word from the White House that rejected Dennis Rodman’s appeal on THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS to make a phone call to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un from President Obama. A terse White House statement referred to serious human rights problems and at least 200,000 [...]
Dennis Rodman may not be the person that you’d be most likely to call to soothe tense international relations between North Korea and the United States, but the colorful former NBA star is having a huge measure of success winning over the heart of the new leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. The two [...]
After a painfully long-winded 1 hour and 45 minute long explanation of the history of the South African bail system along with explanations of the critical evidence in the murder case involving “Blade Runner” Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair finally made his decision to grant bail to Pistorius. The judge’s explanation was [...]
The murder case against Oscar Pistorius only strengthened after South African police took in a bloody cricket bat as evidence that they believe that 26 year old amputee Olympic runner may have used to crush the skull of his 30 year old model girlfriend, then fired four 9mm gun shots into her face and body. [...]
First, Nike had an image problem for the company only a few days ago when cyclist Lance Armstrong confessed that he did indeed cheat and use illegal blood doping to help to win his bicycle races. Now, the company has a far worse scandal when the story of inspirational double amputee runner Oscar Pistorius turned [...]
Fresh from her lip-syncing controversy at the inaugural ceremony, singer Beyonce will have to pay up to a reported $3 million dollars to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show today. It appears that the NFL only budgets just $600,000 to performers, and if they wish to exceed this amount to put on a grand [...]
A Twitter posting seems to suggest that because a deal was abandoned to build a new arena in Sacramento to replace the aging one, it led to the owners of the Sacramento Kings, the Maloof family, looking to either move the team or else sell the franchise. There was some work on a possible deal [...]
The Denver Nuggets might have had a loss of 101 to 93 to the Portland Trailblazers in their away game loss in the “Rose City” of Portland, but you can’t fault these guys for not being cheerful givers to Salvation Army workers outside of a Macy’s Department store in downtown Portland near where their tour [...]
Mike Ditka, the legendary coach for the highly successful Chicage Bears NFL dynasty has suffered a mild stroke, but appears to be doing well and recovering. While playing cards with some friends, the revered 73 year old former coach had some difficulty speaking. He will miss any NFL game shows this wekend as he recovers, [...]
Renowned Roman Catholic DeMatha High School from Hyattsville, Maryland has been rocked by a prostitution scandal where five football players under the age of 18 hired three prostitutes from Internet escort ads to come into their hotel room for sexual activity with the women during a football trip. Somehow, despite 18 coaches or school staff [...]
Chantal Sutherland is the hottest thing to hit horse racing since, well, ever. She recently did a nude photo shoot recently so we are sharing that with you here. Its her Lady Godiva moment. Check out more at Vanity Fair and here. See the behind the scenes video of Bo Derek and Chantal Sutherland. Did [...]
