Don King Stopped For Ammo In Luggage

by FanHouse Newswire

Filed under: Boxing Rumors, Sports Business and Media

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Boxing promoter Don King was stopped by security at Cleveland's Hopkins International Airport for having ammunition in his carry-on luggage.

Hopkins Airport spokeswoman Jacqueline Mayo says the 79-year-old King was stopped by members of the Transportation Safety Administration on Sunday night. She says King had ammunition for .38-caliber and .357-caliber firearms in his bag.

Mayo says the ammunition was taken and that King was released to continue his trip, she believes to Florida. She said she didn't know if King received a citation.

 

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Source: http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2010/12/13/don-king/

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Alan Anderson, D-League's No. 3 Scorer, Going Back to Play in Europe

Filed under: Euroleague, New Mexico Thunderbirds

Alan Anderson was the second overall pick in this year's D-League Draft and one of the league's top scorers, but a FanHouse source has confirmed that the former Charlotte Bobcat is taking his talents back to Europe.

A 6-foot-6 forward in his sixth year out of Michigan State, Anderson returned stateside this year in hopes of a call-up to the NBA after spending the previous three seasons in Europe. However, after just 10 games with the New Mexico Thunderbirds, he's now in the process of buying out of his D-League contract to sign with Regal FC Barcelona in Spain.

Anderson, the D-League's third-leading scorer, will join former first-round NBA Draft picks Ricky Rubio and Fran Vazquez as well as former Memphis Grizzlies point guard Juan Carlos Navarro on the reigning Euroleague champion's squad.

An extremely gifted scorer, Anderson had been averaging a solid 21.1 points, 5.8 rebounds and 5.0 assists while leading the Thunderbirds to a Western Conference-leading 7-3 record before sitting out Friday night's game in anticipation of going overseas.

 

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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/12/18/alan-anderson-d-leagues-no-3-scorer-going-back-to-play-in-eu/

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Lisa Leslie: Media, ESPN Has Failed to Cover WNBA to Its Fullest

by Tom Lorenzo

Filed under: WNBA, NBA Media Watch, FanHouse Exclusive, Sports Business and Media

NEW YORK -- Lisa Leslie may be the most recognizable name in the history of the WNBA.

Her credentials are impressive: two-time WNBA champion, three-time league MVP, eight-time All-Star, and, of course, she was the first player ever to dunk in a WNBA game.

Leslie's name recognition, however, goes beyond the avid basketball fan. She is a mainstream figure, not simply because of her on-court resume, but also because of her off-the-court fame and celebrity, which includes guest spots on popular TV shows as well as a reputable modeling career.

But that begs the question. What about the rest of her colleagues? How mainstream are they? According to Leslie, not mainstream enough.

The WNBA fan base, while it continues to grow, is only a small fraction of those who consider themselves to be basketball fans. When FanHouse had a chance to sit down with Leslie at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, we asked the league's unsanctioned ambassador if she believes that David Stern and the National Basketball Association have failed to push the WNBA to a more national level.

 

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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/12/08/lisa-leslie-media-espn-has-failed-to-cover-wnba-to-its-fullest/

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Donald Fehr Reportedly Will Be Named New NHLPA Boss

Filed under: NHL Fans, NHL Economics, Sports Business and Media

Former Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Donald Fehr is on the verge of being named the new executive director of the NHL Players Association, according to TSN. The report says the official announcement could happen as soon as this weekend.

Fehr ran the baseball union for 26 years, and he will replace Paul Kelly, who was abruptly fired in 2009 and now runs College Hockey, Inc., an organization designed to promote and expand U.S. college hockey.

The appointment doesn't require a full vote of the union membership, but the process was a bit slower than expected because Fehr wanted to get every NHL player's input.

The league and players extended the already-existing collective bargaining agreement through the 2012-13 season, giving Fehr and his staff more time to get settled in before what could be another in a long series of contentious battles between NHL owners and players.

TSN notes that Fehr is considered a popular choice among NHL players.

 

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Source: http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/17/donald-fehr-reportedly-will-be-named-new-nhlpa-boss/

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Speeding Penalty Derails Kevin Harvick's NASCAR Title Run

Filed under: Kevin Harvick, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Richard Childress Racing, NASCAR

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Kevin Harvick and his team owner, Richard Childress, were diplomatic in the moments following Sunday's Ford 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Diplomatic, but not satisfied. Harvick was not happy.

Harvick, who entered the final race in third place in the championship -- 46 points behind Denny Hamlin -- had positioned himself to make a heroic, if unlikely run at his first title, dethroning four-time champ Jimmie Johnson and capitalizing on Hamlin's Sunday afternoon of misfortune.

After racing near the front all day, Harvick exited the pits in first place for a restart on lap 188 of the 267-lap race -- only to be penalized for speeding on pit road (right).

NASCAR said his No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet was too fast entering the pits and he was sent to rear of the lead-lap cars, dropping him back to 29th place. Harvick was understandably livid on the team radio when he received the news and still maintained after the race that he was directly behind a car -- on its bumper -- and therefore couldn't have been speeding.

"I don't think that penalty will ever settle in my stomach,'' Harvick said in a post-race press conference. "When you read me off of my pit road times of 49.6, 49.4 50.8 and then 49.6; and there's only a handful people that get to see them, I won't ever settle for that.

"I don't know how you can be speeding when you're on the bumper in front of you and if the other guy is not speeding. So that's about it. ''

 

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/11/21/speeding-penalty-derails-kevin-harvicks-nascar-title-run/

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Bo Scaife Benching Not Related to Comments About Divided Locker Room

Filed under: Titans, AFC South

Jeff Fisher said Bo Scaife's not being punished.

At the same time, Fisher - the Tennessee Titans' head coach - said he's not sure when the veteran tight end who said last week the team's locker room may be divided might return to the lineup.

Scaife, a six-year veteran who had started 11 consecutive games, also had played in 27 consecutive games before being made inactive this past Sunday against Houston, a game the Titans won, 31-17, to snap a six-game losing streak.

Scaife caught two touchdown passes the week before against Indianapolis.

 

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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/20/bo-scaife-benching-not-related-to-comments-about-divided-locker/

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Brett Favre Upgraded to 'Questionable' for Monday Night Game

Filed under: Vikings, NFC North, NFL Rumors, NFL Quarterbacks

Brett Favre might still have a prime-time performance left in him.

Favre, who had previously been ruled out of Monday night's game against the Chicago Bears by the Vikings, is now feeling well enough that he's going to test out his injured shoulder on Monday afternoon. If he feels OK, he'll start at quarterback, a week after the shoulder injury ended his NFL-record streak of 297 consecutive games started.

Officially, the Vikings are listing Favre as questionable.

Favre is perhaps the most durable player in NFL history, so it's no surprise that he's going to try to take the field just two weeks after a significant injury to his throwing shoulder. However, it is a surprise that the Vikings would rule him out if there was a chance he could play -- that could get the team in trouble with the league office, which takes the accuracy of injury reports seriously.

Favre is also a player with a flair for the dramatic -- and a man who loves to be the center of attention -- so it's fitting he wants to get back on the field for a prime-time game against the Bears. Favre says he will retire after the season (and he says this time he really means it), and he surely doesn't want the play when he was injured against the Bills two weeks ago to be the last of his career.

Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/20/brett-favre-might-play-monday-night-despite-being-ruled-out/

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Aztecs in Top 10? Even They Don't Want to Believe It

SAN DIEGO -- As the San Diego State basketball story continues to grow, I have visions of pixie dust descending on the Aztecs. Their burgeoning success feels a bit unreal because there is no framework for it. San Diego State just does not matter in men's basketball. At least, it never did matter to the sport's poll-makers. Until a month ago, in fact, San Diego State had never been ranked in its 90 years of basketball. San Diego State was like Greenland -- large but largely inconspicuous. Here is a big public university in heavily populated Southern California. Yet: 89 years, never ranked.

Now, as if a higher force bestowed powers to make up for those decades, San Diego State is 12-0 and rising in the polls every week. Recent bursts of helium into the SDSU balloon likely will have the Aztecs among the Top 10 when the next polls come out (update: the Aztecs are No. 7 in the latest AP poll). How strange the sight will be: San Diego State with a single digit in front of it. San Diego State near some of the bluest of basketball's blue bloods; Duke, Kansas, Connecticut. Syracuse ... San Diego State.

I wrote three weeks ago that San Diego State is the best team in the West; nonetheless, the idea of SDSU as a national presence remains more concept than reality. It's only December, basketball's version of spring training. That's part of why it doesn't all feel real. It's only December.

"We lose a couple of games, and all of this goes away," said senior point guard D.J. Gay on Saturday.

Source: http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/19/aztecs-top-ten-even-they-dont-want-to-believe-it/

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Jonathan Babineaux Bests Brother Jordan

Filed under: Atlanta Falcons, Seahawks, NFC South, NFC West

SEATTLE -- Jonathan Babineaux spent no small amount of time talking with his brother, Jordan Babineaux, this week.

Jonathan is a defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons. Justin is a safety for the Seattle Seahawks. With the two teams playing each other in Week 16 of the NFL season, there was no small amount of trash talk.

For a while, it seemed as if Jordan would walk away with the family prize. His Seahawks jumped out to an early 7-0 lead and he personally intercepted a pass from Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan to blunt a Falcon drive in the second quarter.

But in the third period, the pendulum swung to Jonathan's side. Atlanta defensive end Jamaal Anderson stripped the ball from Seattle quarterback Matt Hasselbeck in the end zone and Jonathan fell on it for a score that broke the back of the Seahawks as the now 12-2 Falcons went on to a 34-18 win.

 

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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/19/jonathan-babineaux-bests-brother-jordan/

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UConn Women Deserve Same Respect as UCLA Men

Filed under: Connecticut, UCLA, Women's Basketball

The Connecticut women's basketball team is on the verge of history. On Sunday at Madison Square Garden, the Huskies will take the court against Ohio State trying to win their 88th straight game. That would match UCLA's record, the men's basketball team winning 88 in a row between 1971 and 1974. Should they win, they will play to break the record Tuesday in Hartford against Florida State.

Connecticut hasn't lost since the 2008 Final Four. They've won two national titles at the end of two unbeaten seasons.

But so many conversations about the Huskies' accomplishment begin with a preface, a hedge, a "yeah, but ..." Something that makes it clear that what the Huskies are doing shouldn't be compared with what UCLA did, that it's less worthy.

The Huskies are about to win more games in a row than anyone in the history of NCAA college basketball. And we've come to the part where the "merit" of the achievement has to become part of the discussion.

Source: http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/18/uconn-women-deserve-same-respect-as-ucla-men/

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Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon Part of Hendrick Crew Chief Swap

Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Crew Chiefs, Sprint Cup, Hendrick Motorsports, NASCAR

Hendrick Motorsports may have won its fifth-straight championship just last Sunday, but it took only a matter of days for the organization to make some of its biggest changes in years.

"This will improve us as an organization, across the board," team owner Rick Hendrick (right) said Tuesday.

Save for champion Jimmie Johnson, each of the three other drivers in the Hendrick stable will have new crew chiefs for the 2011 season.

Steve Letarte, the crew chief on Jeff Gordon's No. 24 since the end of the 2005 season, will now oversee Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s No. 88 team. Meanwhile, Gordon will now have Alan Gustafson managing his team in Daytona.

Gustafson leaves the No. 5 team and driver Mark Martin, who will now have Lance McGrew in his ear for the 2011 season. McGrew has spent part of 2009 and all of 2010 as Earnhardt Jr.'s crew chief.

 

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/11/23/earnhardt-gordon-part-of-major-hendrick-crew-chief-swap/

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Western Conference Race Off to Crazy Start

Filed under: Blackhawks, Sharks, Red Wings, Western

Things are starting to sort out a tiny bit in the Western Conference, but the left side of the country is still largely clumped. No one is entirely out of it. No one is ready to start unloading major parts.

"This conference is notoriously tight every year," said longtime Dallas and now Chicago goaltender Marty Turco. "This year, it's gone crazy. No one in is having a bad year, because there's no separation."

In the East, there is a division -- the Atlantic -- where the top team is 32 points ahead of the bottom. In the West, one division going into Thursday had a top-to-bottom difference of four points, the ultra-tight Pacific. The biggest cushion is in the Northwest division, where Vancouver enjoys an 11-point spread over last-place Edmonton. Considering that Vancouver is tied with Colorado at 38 points, the edge over the fifth-place team might not be quite so significant.

 

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Source: http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/16/western-conference-race-off-to-crazy-start/

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NBA Players Association Advises Members of Looming Lockout

by Sam Amick

Filed under: NBA Rumors, Sports Business and Media, NBA CBA, NBA Business

The NBA Players Association newsletter sent out last month to all 450 NBA players has eight subheads in all, but it's the first one on the back page that jumped out at this reporter the most.

"2011-12 Lockout."

No question mark at the end of that sentence. No qualifiers such as "Possible 2011-12 Lockout" or even "Likely 2011-12 Lockout." The headline was written with absolute and total certainty that this topic was more reality than mere possibility because, well, it's still looking that way now just as it was back in July.

"As nothing has fundamentally changed in the owners' bargaining position since their initial proposal, we continue to advise that you prepare for a lockout to commence on July 1," the in-house report obtained by FanHouse reads. "More meetings are forthcoming, but we think it is unlikely that any real progress will be made in the coming months. In short, a lockout is just as likely now as it was six months ago."

 

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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/12/08/nba-players-association-advises-members-of-likely-lockout/

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NFL Two-a-Days: Packers vs. Patriots

Filed under: Packers, Patriots, NFL Video, NFL Analysis

The Packers put the knife in their own back by losing last week. Their reward: A trip to face the league's hottest team. LeCharles Bentley thinks Green Bay's defense may be able to cause problems for Tom Brady, but he does not think the Pack can overcome the lack of a running game.

 

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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/18/nfl-two-a-days-packers-vs-patriots/

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Billy Mayfair Back to Future at Q School

Filed under: PGA, Nationwide Tour

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. -- PGA Tour Qualifying School cares little about history.

Last year does not exist. At Q School it's here and now -- or not at all.

Otherwise, there's no way to explain 22-year veteran Billy Mayfair -- five career wins and more than $18 million in earnings -- showing up this week at Orange Country National for the final stage of the annual qualifying process.

Again.

Yeah, Mayfair has gone through the six-round marathon before. Once -- 22 years ago immediately after coming out of Arizona State.

Since then the 1988 U.S. Amateur winner has been one of the PGA Tour's Steady Eddies. After advancing in his only previous trip through qualifying, Mayfair has played 673 PGA Tour events, been in the money 423 times and recorded 69 top 10s.

Mayfair won his first professional tournament in 1993 by beating Mark Calcavecchia and Ted Schulz in a playoff in Milwaukee. He became the only tour player to beat Tiger Woods in a playoff when he took him down in extra holes at the 1998 Nissan Open in Valencia, Calif. He won the 1995 Tour Championship.

And in 2006 he beat testicular cancer.

 

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Source: http://golf.fanhouse.com/2010/12/03/billy-mayfair-back-to-future-at-q-school/

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Browns vs. Bengals Preview, Score and More

Filed under: Bengals, Browns, AFC North

In September, the Browns (5-8) were expected to play the spoiler role for the month of December against the AFC North, starting with the Bengals (2-11) who were expected to make a serious race to the playoffs. Super Bowl hopes weren't totally out of the question after the acquisition of wide receiver Terrell Owens, the two rookie pass catchers in Jordan Shipley and Jermaine Gresham and a solid defense.

Thanks to Cincy's many poor outings this season, the Browns will have to wait for next week to spoil some playoffs plans.

Other than stats and bonuses, the month of December simply serves as the preseason for both teams. The Bengals have nothing to play for, while the Browns are looking to finish their 2010 campaign with a winning record at 8-8.

Cincinnati leads the all-time series against Cleveland at 38-36 and when they last met on Oct. 3, Browns running back Peyton Hillis pounded the Bengals on the ground as he finished with 102 yards off 27 carries and touchdown in a 23-20 victory -- despite Owens' Bengals coming out party and record-setting day with 10 catches for 222 yards (which moved him into second-place on the NFL's all-time receiving yards list behind Hall of Fame receiver Jerry Rice).

Who: Cleveland Browns at Cincinnati Bengals

Where: Paul Brown Stadium; Cincinnati, Ohio

When: Sunday, Dec. 19, 1 p.m., ET

TV Coverage: CBS

 

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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/17/browns-vs-bengals-preview-score-and-more/

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Heat Can Thank Wizards' Collapse for 12th Straight Win

Filed under: Heat, Wizards

WASHINGTON -- Zydrunas Ilgauskas sat at his locker, explaining how the Miami Heat managed to win a game it had all but lost. As it turns out, it was quite simple.

"Eighty-two games, that's a long season," he said. "Good teams find a way to win somehow."

But do bad teams sometimes find a way to give games away?

"I didn't say that, you did," he replied.

Ilgauskas was too polite to say it, but how else do you explain the events that turned a would-be feel-good win for the Wizards into another loss -- this one a 95-94 defeat in Washington -- in a now 6-19 campaign. The Wizards coughed up a four-point lead with 17 seconds left, and the way it happened was brutal.

The scene: the Wizards led the entire fourth quarter after Andray Blatche put them up by two with a turnaround fadeaway that beat the third quarter buzzer. The Verizon Center was full (to compare, only 16,500 were on hand with the Lakers in town on Tuesday, most wearing gold and purple) and fans are on their team at least as much as they are booing the Heat.

 

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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/12/19/miami-heat-can-thank-wizards-collapse-for-12th-straight-win/

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Rudy Gay Suspended One Game; George Karl, Andre Miller Fined $25K Each

Filed under: Grizzlies, Nuggets, Trail Blazers, NBA Referees

DENVER -- Saturday is a day off for some, but not for NBA discipline czar Stu Jackson.

In separate rulings Saturday, the NBA suspended Memphis forward Rudy Gay for that evening's game at San Antonio due to his flagrant foul twp against Houston's Luis Scola on Friday, and fined Nuggets coach George Karl and Portland guard Andre Miller $25,000 each. Karl was fined for criticizing officiating after Thursday's game against the Spurs and Miller for throwing the ball into the stands Wednesday against Dallas.

Gay will lose $123,670 in salary for his suspension. The incident occurred when Gay made contact with his right shoulder and forearm to the back of Scola midway through the fourth quarter of a 103-87 loss. He was ejected from the game (photo above).

Karl was fined after a 113-112 loss to the Spurs, a game in which a runner by Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony was waved off with four-tenths of a second remaining when Anthony was called for charging into Manu Ginoboli. Karl wasn't that critical of the call, which he said could have gone "either way.'' But Karl did say officials "like to hit us with tough calls,'' and later further alleged a conspiracy regarding how officials treat the Nuggets, specifically center Nene.

 

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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/12/18/rudy-gay-suspended-one-game-george-karl-andre-miller-fined-25/

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Tiger Woods' Chevron World Challenge Offers Final Chance for 2010 Win

Filed under: PGA

The top two golf tours have officially moved into the off-season. So how do you get 18 of the world's best golfers to spend their time off taking part in another tournament? Put together a prize pool of $5 million and guarantee a minimum take home of $150,000. That's exactly what's on the line this week at the Chevron World Challenge in California.

Tiger Woods created this tournament in 1999 to benefit his Tiger Woods Foundation, and this will be the first time in three years that he has taken part. Knee surgery kept him out in 2008 and injuries from his car accident sidelined him a year ago. Although it won't count as an official tour victory, a win this week would keep Tiger from being shutout in 2010. Sherwood Country Club gives him as good a chance as any course. He is a four-time winner and three-time runner up in the 11-year history of this event.

Tiger enters the week as the highest ranked player in the field with Lee Westwood not participating. World No. 3 Martin Kaymer also decided to stay home following his European Tour championship last week in Dubai -- but five of his tour competitors have made the long trek from Europe, including a couple of his Ryder Cup teammates. Graeme McDowell and Ian Poulter caught a 16.5-hour direct flight to Los Angeles shortly after the Dubai World Championship ended.

Jet lag might be the only thing that can slow down Poulter right now, although his busy travel schedule doesn't seem to be having any negative effects. The Englishman was a playoff away at Dubai from entering this tournament coming off back-to-back wins. He said last week that he has felt very comfortable on the course and it's showing.

 

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Source: http://golf.fanhouse.com/2010/12/01/tiger-woods-chevron-world-challenge-offers-final-chance-for-201/

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Villanova, Rowan Football Players Get in the Game, Save Lives

A 2-year-old girl and a 59-year-old man, and their families, will have a happy holiday season because of the sacrifice made by a pair of young men who, as of Wednesday, neither had met.

That the two young men responsible happen to both be star football players at small colleges located less than an hour apart (across the Schuylkill River separating Pennsylvania and New Jersey), who grew up about two hours apart in south Jersey, is almost a complete coincidence.

The odds against it happening are hard to calculate, and incredibly long.

Yet, it is not a complete coincidence that the infant girl and the older man -- both of whom suffer from a form of leukemia and received bone-marrow transplants within a recent six-month span -- were given new leases on life from the two players: Villanova senior wide receiver Matt Szczur and Rowan senior defensive end Matt Hoffman, respectively.

Szczur and Hoffman became donors either directly or indirectly through the efforts of Villanova coach Andy Talley, who has spent nearly two decades spearheading bone-marrow donation campaigns in the Philadelphia area, and who started a program for college football teams, called "Get in the Game, Save a Life,'' two years ago.

"He's done a wonderful job promoting that, not just at our school, but at other schools,'' Szczur (pronounced SEE-zur) said this week, as the defending FCS champion Wildcats prepared for Friday's national semifinal at Eastern Washington.

 

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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/15/villanova-rowan-football-players-get-in-the-game-save-lives/

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Former Razorback Carlton Salters Now Chasing Baseball Dream

Filed under: Arkansas

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Carlton Salters was thankful for the opportunities and memories, but he had come to the realization that a career in football probably wasn't in his future. Salters appeared in 27 games primarily in a reserve role over three seasons at Arkansas and had grown tired of the sport.

It was late July when Salters, who was preparing for his senior season with the Razorbacks, saw the announcement in the local newspaper: The Kansas City Royals were holding an open tryout camp in Springdale, Ark., home to the organization's Double-A minor league team and a 20-minute drive from Fayetteville.

Salters played baseball in high school, was an outfielder during his redshirt season for the Razorbacks in 2007 and often thought of returning to the diamond. But that's as far as Salters had taken it until he saw the Royals announcement.

It was a Tuesday and the Royals' tryout was that upcoming Friday, three days away. And, by the way, Salters hadn't picked up a baseball or a bat in three years, let alone three days, and who knows where he had placed his cleats.

No problem, sort of.

"I was nervous because I hadn't hit live pitching in three years but I told myself, 'You know what?' Natural ability was going to have to take over for me," Salters told FanHouse. "And it did, it really did. I went to the tryout and things took off from there."

That they did.

 

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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/15/former-razorback-carlton-salters-now-chasing-baseball-dream/

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Bob Feller's Brainstorm Helped Pave Way for Baseball Integration

Filed under: MLB

Just before the 1946 World Series between the Red Sox and Cardinals started early that October, what would prove to be a historically more significant baseball tournament opened in Pittsburgh. It featured competing teams of all-stars. One was from the all-white major leagues. The other was from the Negro Leagues, where white baseball men forced the relegation of black players after instituting an unwritten racist policy over half a century earlier.

The black vs. white all-star tournament was the idea of star major league pitcher Bob Feller.

In the immediate wake of his death Wednesday at 92, Feller was remembered for a lot of things, most notably being the hardest-throwing pitcher anyone had ever seen and for being the first major leaguer to volunteer for the armed services after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He missed four seasons as a gun captain aboard the Alabama, where he earned eight medals.

But what I thought was most remarkable about him was his brainstorm to provide an opportunity to a generation of athletes who hadn't been allowed to prove themselves simply because of the color of their skin.

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More: Bob Feller, Hall of Fame Pitcher, Dies at 92
Pat McManamon: Bob Feller's Delivery Fierce to the Finish
More: Reactions Around Baseball to Feller's Death

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"It [Feller's all-star tournament] kind of helped convince people that the Negro Leagues' players were as good as the major league players, but that they needed to be given a fair shot," the baseball historian John Sickels -- who six years ago wrote the most-recent biography of Feller, Bob Feller: Ace of The Greatest Generation -- told me Thursday evening.

Indeed, Sickels noted that the first contest on Sept. 30, 1946, between Feller's side and one comprised by legendary black pitcher Satchel Paige ended with the white team on the short end of a 3-1 score.

How many more games were played between the white all-stars and black all-stars, and which side won, was not well documented. It was a barnstorming tour. They played doubleheaders. They may have played more than 20 games or as few as 11. The white all-stars by one account won 17 games and by another count won just seven games against six victories by the black all-stars.

Source: http://kevin-blackistone.fanhouse.com/2010/12/17/bob-fellers-brainstorm-helped-pave-way-for-baseball-integration/

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McMurphy's Picks: No Joke, Bowl Selections O' Plenty

Filed under: Boise State, Brigham Young, Fresno State, Louisville, Navy, Northern Illinois, Ohio, San Diego State, Southern Miss, Troy, Utah, UTEP, Gambling

There was some troubling news from San Francisco last week when Macy's fired a veteran Santa Claus after an older couple complained he told them a joke that was "inappropriate."

The San Francisco Chronicle reported John Toomey, 68, who had been Santa the past 20 years at the Macy's in Union Square, was terminated because of objections from an older woman and her husband.

"When I ask the older people who sit on my lap if they've been good and they say, 'Yes,' I say, 'Gee, that's too bad,' " Toomey told the Chronicle. "Then, if they ask why Santa is so jolly, I joke that it's because I know where all the naughty boys and girls live."

That's it? Firing Santa Claus for telling a bad joke? Thankfully, McMurphy's Picks don't have those same standards or I would have been gone a long time ago.

But since I'm still around, I'll do my best to spread some holiday cheer with the first of four consecutive weeks of bowl selections each Thursday.

 

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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/16/mcmurphys-picks-no-joke-bowl-selections-o-plenty/

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Former Razorback Carlton Salters Now Chasing Baseball Dream

Filed under: Arkansas

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Carlton Salters was thankful for the opportunities and memories, but he had come to the realization that a career in football probably wasn't in his future. Salters appeared in 27 games primarily in a reserve role over three seasons at Arkansas and had grown tired of the sport.

It was late July when Salters, who was preparing for his senior season with the Razorbacks, saw the announcement in the local newspaper: The Kansas City Royals were holding an open tryout camp in Springdale, Ark., home to the organization's Double-A minor league team and a 20-minute drive from Fayetteville.

Salters played baseball in high school, was an outfielder during his redshirt season for the Razorbacks in 2007 and often thought of returning to the diamond. But that's as far as Salters had taken it until he saw the Royals announcement.

It was a Tuesday and the Royals' tryout was that upcoming Friday, three days away. And, by the way, Salters hadn't picked up a baseball or a bat in three years, let alone three days, and who knows where he had placed his cleats.

No problem, sort of.

"I was nervous because I hadn't hit live pitching in three years but I told myself, 'You know what?' Natural ability was going to have to take over for me," Salters told FanHouse. "And it did, it really did. I went to the tryout and things took off from there."

That they did.

 

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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/15/former-razorback-carlton-salters-now-chasing-baseball-dream/

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NFL Confirms Bears-Vikings Game Will Be Held at TCF Bank Stadium

Filed under: Chicago Bears, Vikings, NFC North

It's official: The Minnesota Vikings will play an outdoor home game for the first time in 29 years on Monday night.

The NFL issued a press release Friday announcing that the Vikings' game versus the Bears Monday will be played at TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota. The venue changed because of damage to the Metrodome roof, but the time is the same: Monday night at 8:30 p.m. ET. If you're going, expect to freeze -- temperatures are not expected to climb out of the 20s in the Minneapolis area Monday, and snow showers are possible.

 

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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/17/vikings-announce-theyll-play-outdoors-at-university-of-minnesot/

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It's All Relative, but Oakland's Offense Much-Improved Heading Into 2011

Filed under: Athletics, AL West, MLB Hot Stove, MLB Free Agency

The names in the A's new lineup don't inspire much awe. Their three big acquisitions so far this winter have combined for a total of two All-Star appearances, and none since 2004. It's hard to look at their lineup in a vacuum and think they are going to be even a "good" offensive team.

Good, however, is a relative term. They are absolutely going to be better than they were last year.

Now that they've put Josh Willingham into their lineup as the left fielder, along with Hideki Matsui at DH and David DeJesus in right, the A's have made an eye-opening improvement at one-third of their lineup spots.

 

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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/16/its-all-relative-but-oaklands-offense-much-improved-heading-i/

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Mike Haywood Will Be Named New Football Coach at Pitt

Filed under: Miami (OH), Pittsburgh, Big East, Coaching

Mike Haywood, currently the coach at Miami (OH), will be the next football coach at Pittsburgh. Haywood confirmed the move to Graham Watson of FanHouse on Thursday night.

Haywood's move was first reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Haywood was brought to the Pitt campus for a second interview and met with the chancellor and several other high-ranking University officials, the report stated. He is expected to be named the new coach as early as Thursday.

Haywood took over the Miami program in 2009 following a 2-10 campaign for the RedHawks. Haywood went 1-11 in his first season, which was his first as a head coach.

In 2010, however, Haywood led one of the biggest turnarounds in the nation. Miami is 9-4 and won the MAC championship over favored Northern Illinois. The RedHawks are headed to the GoDaddy.com Bowl to square off against Middle Tennessee Jan. 6.

Before taking the Miami job, Haywood was one of the offensive assistants under Charlie Weis at Notre Dame, where he was once a wide receiver.

The 46-year-old will be taking over at Pitt for Dave Wannstedt, who resigned from the position Dec. 7.

 

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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/15/michael-haywood-reportedly-to-be-named-new-pitt-football-coach/

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Speeding Penalty Derails Kevin Harvick's NASCAR Title Run

Filed under: Kevin Harvick, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Richard Childress Racing, NASCAR

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Kevin Harvick and his team owner, Richard Childress, were diplomatic in the moments following Sunday's Ford 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Diplomatic, but not satisfied. Harvick was not happy.

Harvick, who entered the final race in third place in the championship -- 46 points behind Denny Hamlin -- had positioned himself to make a heroic, if unlikely run at his first title, dethroning four-time champ Jimmie Johnson and capitalizing on Hamlin's Sunday afternoon of misfortune.

After racing near the front all day, Harvick exited the pits in first place for a restart on lap 188 of the 267-lap race -- only to be penalized for speeding on pit road (right).

NASCAR said his No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet was too fast entering the pits and he was sent to rear of the lead-lap cars, dropping him back to 29th place. Harvick was understandably livid on the team radio when he received the news and still maintained after the race that he was directly behind a car -- on its bumper -- and therefore couldn't have been speeding.

"I don't think that penalty will ever settle in my stomach,'' Harvick said in a post-race press conference. "When you read me off of my pit road times of 49.6, 49.4 50.8 and then 49.6; and there's only a handful people that get to see them, I won't ever settle for that.

"I don't know how you can be speeding when you're on the bumper in front of you and if the other guy is not speeding. So that's about it. ''

 

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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/11/21/speeding-penalty-derails-kevin-harvicks-nascar-title-run/

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Jesse Crain, White Sox Have 3-Year Deal

Filed under: White Sox, MLB Rumors, MLB Hot Stove, MLB Free Agency

The Chicago White Sox and reliever Jesse Crain have agreed to terms on a three-year deal, according to MLB.com's Peter Gammons.

The total value of Crain's deal is approximately $13 million, reported FOXSports.com Wednesday night.

Crain, a right-hander, has spent the past seven seasons with the division rival Minnesota Twins, almost all of them in middle relief. He has just three career saves.

He went 1-1 over 64 innings last season with a 3.04 ERA. The latter mark was his lowest in the ERA department over a full season since 2005, his first in the big leagues.

 

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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/16/jesse-crain-white-sox-have-3-year-deal/

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Pedro Feliciano, Yankees Reportedly Closing In on Agreement

Filed under: Yankees, MLB Rumors, MLB Hot Stove, MLB Free Agency

The New York Yankees are getting close to signing left-handed relief pitcher Pedro Feliciano, according to the Bergen Record.

Feliciano declined an arbitration offer from the New York Mets in November and has garnered interest from the Red Sox and the Phillies, not to mention the Yankees now that he's entered free agency.

The Yankees may have decided to push harder to obtain the services of the 34-year-old Feliciano since divisional rival Boston has five potential left-handed bats in their lineup and since they have officially missed out on Cliff Lee.

Feliciano appeared in 92 games last season, throwing 62 2/3 innings and striking out 56 batters. He posted a 3.30 ERA and has been a workhorse for the Mets, making more appearances than any pitcher in baseball over the last three seasons.

 

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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/16/pedro-feliciano-yankees-reportedly-closing-in-on-agreement/

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Bob Feller, Hall of Fame Pitcher, Dies at 92

Filed under: Indians, MLB Hall of Fame

Bob Feller, the longest tenured living Baseball Hall of Famer, died Wednesday night following a bout with leukemia. He was 92.

Feller had struggled in recent years with his health and had been undergoing treatment for his leukemia since August 2010. He was recently moved into hospice care.

Feller, known by the nicknames "Rapid Robert" and "Bullet Bob," made his major league debut as a 17-year-old in 1936, after scout Cy Slapnicka signed him for $1 and an autographed baseball off his family's farm in Van Meter, Iowa.

Feller never threw one pitch in the minor leagues and spent his entire career, which spanned 18 seasons, with the Cleveland Indians.

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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/15/bob-feller-hall-of-fame-pitcher-dies-at-92/

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Andrew Bynum Returns From Injury, Effective in 'Relief' Role

Filed under: Lakers, NBA Injuries

WASHINGTON -- Andrew Bynum did not set the world on fire in his return on Tuesday, which is OK. He didn't start and he didn't play a ton, but he looked good in limited minutes and he helped the Lakers. It was an encouraging start.

Bynum finished with seven points, four rebounds and two blocks in 17 minutes. But more important was that he moved relatively well, got to the free-throw line four times and made an impact on defense.

It'll be a while before he comes close to matching the career-high 30 minutes a game he averaged last season -- Bynum estimates four weeks until he's back to normal -- but he's filling a much-needed role for the Lakers' front-court rotation.

"Short minutes, relief minutes," is what Lakers coach Phil Jackson said to expect from the center.

With his size and talent, even a rusty Bynum immediately shores up the Lakers' front-court rotation and provides a respite for Pau Gasol, who is averaging a career high 39:17 minutes per game.

 

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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/12/15/andrew-bynum-returns-from-injury-effective-in-relief-role/

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