The New England Patriots traded an undisclosed draft pick to the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday for All-Pro WR Chad Ochocinco.
According to Local-12 WKRC in Cincinnati, the Patriots have acquired Chad Ochocinco from the Bengals for an undisclosed draft choice. ESPN’s John Clayton reports that the wide receiver has accepted a restructured three-year deal.
Ochocinco had to agree to restructure [...]
CNN is reporting that Hideki Irabu, one of the first Japanese pitchers to come over and find success in the Major Leagues, has been found dead.
Former Major League Baseball pitcher Hideki Irabu was found dead yesterday at his Los Angeles home, Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported.
The newspaper’s website quotes police investigators as saying the 42-year-old’s death [...]
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa, who had a strangled relationship with former outfielder stud-in-waiting Colby Rasmus, unloaded on the disgruntled player this afternoon once Colby’s trade to the Toronto Blue Jays went through.
Rasmus has been a clubhouse distraction since he came to the big leagues. His father, Tony Rasmus, has also head-butted with LaRussa [...]
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Ervin Santana threw a no-hitter today against the Cleveland Indians as the Angels won the game 3-1.
The Indians led 1-0 after Ezequiel Carrera reached on a throwing error by Angels’ shortstop Erick Aybar. Carrera then stole second. He moved over to third on a groundout. Santana then uncorked a wild pitch [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals traded diva Colby Rasmus to the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday in a package deal that involved a total of 8 players.
The Cardinals get SP Edwin Jackson, RP’s Marc Rzepczynski, Octavio Dotel, and OF Corey Patterson in the deal.
In exchange the Blue Jays get the once highly touted Rasmus, RP’s Brian [...]
The Tennessee Titans have signed former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck to a contract to be their starting quarterback for the 2011 season according to ESPN.
The Titans were a bit quarterback-less after releasing Vince Young and Kerry Collins retirement during the off-season.
Tennessee drafted Washington Huskies quarterback Jake Locker in the 1st round of this year’s NFL [...]
19 innings into a game and you know the umpires want it to be over because they are being paid the same as they make for a 9 inning game, but what happened on Monday night in Atlanta against the Pittsburgh Pirates was atrocious.
Home plate umpire Jerry Meals called Atlanta Braves short-stop Julio Lugo safe [...]
Christian Lopez was the lucky Yankees fan to catch Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit on Saturday at Yankee Stadium when Jeter homered in the third inning.
Lopez didn’t ask for anything in exchange for returning the historic ball, but the New York Yankees are going out of their way to reward the 23-year old kid from St. [...]
Pittsburgh Steelers WR Hines Ward, of DWTS fame, was arrested on Saturday morning in DeKalb County, Georgia for Driving Under the Influence (DUI).
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
According to DeKalb police, Ward was stopped about 2:30 a.m. on Buford Highway near Briarwood Road after an officer noticed his Aston Martin failing to maintain lane and [...]
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant had an experimental surgery done on his knee last month in Germany.
It appears that it was a success based on this highly athletic 360 degree dunk Kobe threw down off an alley-oop he threw to himself at his Kobe Bryant Skills Academy in China.
