Briggs traded to magical team that showers aging linebackers with cash and unicorns
Less than a week after demanding a trade because the Bears won’t restructure his contract, Lance Briggs has been shipped off to the California Dreamers, a magical team run by sports agents that grants players with existing contracts all their wishes.
Highlights of the wild and the wacky NCAA football week 1
College football is back baby! With approximately 250 games played between Thursday and Monday evening, we're here to boil it all down for you in just 215 words.
Fantasy Report: How does Peyton Manning’s potentially crippling neck injury impact your league?
"While we all wish Manning a speedy recovery from what must be a very painful neck injury, fantasy owners who have Manning on their team need to know how to deal with their own pain in the neck," said Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football Reporter Cody Findlay.
Sox pregame video montage replaced with choir boys singing funeral hymn ‘On Eagles’ Wings’
“We’re treating September's home games as a wake/funeral for the 2011 season,” said Sox VP of marketing Brooks Boyer. “The last few seasons have ended in disappointment, and we don’t want our fans to go into the winter without having said their last goodbyes until spring."
Great American pastime rocked by foreign player named ‘Benoit’
The sport of baseball, heralded as an American pastime invented by and for Americans, was knocked on its rear end today when a Major League pitcher named “Benoit” representing the great American city of Detroit relieved Justin Verlander.
Red Sox recruit Mothra to attack Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes
Controversy is swirling over Terry Francona’s decision to unleash Mothra against Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes in the sixth inning of Wednesday’s game at Fenway Park. While the Red Sox maintain the move was perfectly legal, Yankees officials are in an uproar.
Winner of Sept. 17 Ohio State-Miami game will be awarded immunity from NCAA sanctions
When the Ohio State Buckeyes meet the Miami Hurricanes on Sept. 17 there will be much more at stake than just a football game. In an out-of-character move, the NCAA announced the winner of this match-up of corrupt programs will be awarded immunity from any pending sanctions for off-field impropriety. The loser will become the first school since SMU in 1987 to receive the “death penalty.”
