Super Bowl XLVI
Silva: Each NFL team enters the offseason with a series of pressing needs. Sometimes a team can address them all, sometimes they ignore them all. But if a team's smart, they'll listen to us. These are the most crucial aspects for NFC teams.
DeMarco: Plug in a well-heeled ownership group and negotiate one of those mega-bucks TV deals that are going around, and the Dodgers could become the west coast version of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox.
T.J. Oshie scored the only goal in the shootout and relief goal Brian Elliott was perfect as the St. Louis Blues beat New Jersey 4-3 on Thursday night to end the Devils five-game winning streak.
PBT: On paper this was a battle of seven seeds. But once the Celtics and Lakers locked horns on Thursday night, it felt like a matchup from grander times.
Beyond the Arc: Racers no long sport an unbeaten record, but they're still capable of making an NCAA tournament run.
CFT: To address safety concerns, the NCAA is proposing that kickoffs be moved from the 30 to 35-yard line and touchbacks moved out to the 25-yard line next season.
By most standards, Tiger Woods’ 68 at the AT&T would be considered solid. But he’s not particularly pleased, which is trouble for the field.
Rafa Nadal rips a "general campaign" in France to discredit Spanish athletes by implying their success is due to the use of illegal drugs.
Manchester City will find at least three highly motivated players in its way Sunday when it tries to improve upon its flagging away form in the Premier League at Aston Villa.
All that stuff about the Olympic ideal, how it's all about taking part, not winning, can often seem like so much hot air, rendered hopelessly quaint and outdated by the ultra-competitive and mercenary world of modern sport. Until, that is, you speak to Kieran Behan.
Nick Diaz’s hopes for a UFC interim championship rematch have gone up in smoke after the welterweight star flunked a drug test on the weekend of UFC 143.
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NEW YORK - Marv Albert said Saturday he was never involved in an altercation with 50 Cent, denying Internet reports of a fight on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
According to the reports, punches were thrown after members of the rapper’s entourage didn’t recognize Albert, the longtime sports broadcaster who was appearing as a guest on the show on Wednesday night.
But Albert told The Associated Press he was not even close to the exchange, which he believed was caused when a member of 50 Cent’s party was prevented by show security from using a phone in the room that was supposed to belong to Albert.
“I couldn’t even tell you what the guy looked like or the security guard looked like,” Albert said.
Albert said he even read one account that he was punched by 50 Cent, who was the show’s musical guest, but insisted they never crossed paths.
“They embellish. It keeps getting embellished more than anything else,” Albert said. “What do you say, it’s just wrong.”
Albert appeared on the program the night before he called the Lakers’ home game against Chicago on TNT. The Los Angeles Times’ account of the event, by a writer who was there, describes a scuffle and “a fist or two flying,” but never mentions Albert being a part of it.
But the story has changed as it’s appeared on blogs in recent days, with Albert saying family and friends are reading accounts that are “completely made up.”
“I don’t know what tomorrow will bring,” Albert added. “It will be Jimmy Kimmel got punched.”
Albert said he was told the whole altercation lasted only a few seconds, but it’s created a few frustrating days.
“I’m sure this will be funny to me in a couple of days,” he said. “It’s not funny to me now, obviously.”
PBT: On paper this was a battle of seven seeds. But once the Celtics and Lakers locked horns on Thursday night, it felt like a matchup from grander times.
Pau Gasol blocked Ray Allen's putback attempt at the buzzer in overtime and the Los Angeles Lakers held on to beat the Boston Celtics 88-87 on Thursday night.
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Pau Gasol blocked Ray Allen's putback attempt at the buzzer in overtime and the Los Angeles Lakers held on to beat the Boston Celtics 88-87 on Thursday night.
Silva: Each NFL team enters the offseason with a series of pressing needs. Sometimes a team can address them all, sometimes they ignore them all. But if a team's smart, they'll listen to us. These are the most crucial aspects for NFC teams.