In this recent era of contentious contract negotiations, there occasionally are simple ones between two sides eager to get a deal done in order to concentrate on the real task at hand: winning football games. Kyle Williams’ new deal with the Buffalo Bills was a prime example: a deal done without fanfare and theatrics. The [...]
Turkish Airlines Euroleague hopeful PAOK BC added more size just weeks before the start of the Qualifying Round by inking center Martynas Andriuskevicius to a one-year contract, the club announced Thursday, the Euroleague reports. 25-year-old Andriuskevicius arrives from Meridiano Alicante, where he played for the last four years. He averaged 7.8 points and 5.6 rebounds [...]
The Columbus Blue Jackets aren’t usually a team that players tend to gravitate toward. It’s not a major media market, and there is not a lot of history or winning tradition in the city either. Still, Columbus is trying to change that mindset under general manager Scott Howson. He has signed Rick Nash to an [...]
Maybe the Cincinnati Bengals’ Cedric Benson has some elusiveness after all. Less than 24 hours after saying that he would surrender and serve the 20 days he was sentenced to during the Bengals bye week, he turned around and changed his mind. Benson was booked into the Travis County Jail late Tuesday evening to [...]
After nearly three weeks of the preseason, a disgruntled running back has put aside his whining and complaining, coming to his senses that he plays in the National Football League and makes more money in a week than most people do in a year, and signed a contract. Sorry Titans fans, I’m not talking [...]
Lille, France – The British midfielder has joined the last year’s French champion, Lille OSC, under a loan contract valid for one season. His objective is to play well in the Champions League and thus, to regain his place into the England’s national team. “Lille, Liverpool and Joe Cole have reached an agreement on regarding [...]
Buenos Aires, Argentina – Barcelona’s star will be for the first time the captain of Argentina’s national team at the friendly match played against Venezuela, scheduled for Friday in Calcutta. The decision was taken by coach Alejandro Sabella, who considers it’s normal that the best footballer in the world to be officially the team’s leader [...]
Flushing Meadows, NY – Triple winner at the U.S. Open, Serena Williams has easily got through the first round at Flushing Meadows, ending after less than one hour the match against Bojana Jovanovski (6-1, 6-1). The return to Flushing Meadows of the American Serena Williams did not look at all with how she left the [...]
Flushing Meadows, NY–World no. 2 Rafael Nadal from Spain won a hard fough battle against Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan, 6-3 7-6 (7/1) 7-5. Gobulev who is just ranked no. 27 in the world shows the people that he got game when he gave Nadal a very hard time to make his special shots. It was [...]
HBO’s television program Ortiz-Mayweather 24/7 that features Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Victor Ortiz got a lot of criticism in one of it’s episodes. We can clearly see violence, hatred, disobedience and disrespect in that episode. The children who admire the boxer featured on this show would clearly see the bad side of their idol. When [...]
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – Wayne Rooney says his hat-trick that he hit in the weekends 8-2 thrashing of Arsenal proves that he his back to his devastating best. The England striker was criticised for his lack lustre performance at last years World Cup in South Africa and struggled throughout the whole of last season because of a lack [...]
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – Former Manchester Utd and England midfielder Owen Hargreaves has shocked the football world by joining the revolution down the road at Manchester City. It was thought that Hargreaves, who has played just 11 minutes in the last two years due to injury, would sign with former Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson at West [...]
