Baby, baby, I need to know, I need to know…why we drafted an undersized nose tackle with the 16th pick in the draft. Those might be new lyrics for Marc Anthony cause the singer/actor/guy-who-carries-J. Lo’s-shopping-bags recently bought a minority ownership stake in the Miami Dolphins football organization. Read More

If you like boxing then you must have a big smile on your face right now. Yesterday, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum announced a get-ready-to-see-some-dudes-whoop-up-on-each-other Nov. 14th match between welterweight titleholder Miguel Cotto and the current pound-for-pound best fighter in the world Manny “The Mexi-cutioner” Pacquiao. Read More

Shaq is back and…swimming against Michael Phelps? Yup, thanks to his new reality show Shaq Vs., the Diesel plans to “take on other top athletes in their own sports” for “bragging rights.” Some of the competitions booked include facing off against Ben Roethlisberger on the gridiron, smashing balls with Serena Williams (that didn’t sound good), and taking down Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh in beach volleyball. Read More

Do we really have to talk about Manny Ramirez again? Man-Ram played at Dodger Stadium for the first time since his 50-game suspension, and the L.A. faithful greeted the Dread-Locked One like the genetically engineered love child of Sandy Koufax and Kirk Gibson. Everyone expected Los Angeles to forgive Manny, and they did. So do we really need to talk about Ramirez today? No, instead let’s turn our attention to another buzz-worthy topic in sports: mixed martial arts. Read More

Just like with the NL, the American League now starts to get interesting with the coming-and-going of the All-Star Game. Moving into the second half of the season, the storylines in the AL range from “Which Talented Team From the AL East Will Be on the Outside Looking in Come Playoff Time” to the super-super-close race on the Left Coast for the AL West crown (OK, not too much going on with the AL Central right now, but with Ozzie Guillen in the mix…ya never know). Read More

The All-Star Game officially marks the point between the first and second half of the Major League Baseball season, otherwise known as, “when baseball goes from boring to interesting.” Sorry, but with a 162-game year, the opening couple months usually mean very little in the grand scheme of things (kind of like the first three quarters of most basketball games). Following the All-Star break though, the storylines in the MLB hit Lost-level intrigue as the true contenders start to emerge and teams vie for playoff spots. Read More

OK, so Pujols fell short of pulling off the Home Run Derby victory in front of the St. Louis crowd. Read More