NFL
NBCSports.com: ProFootballTalk (Mike Florio) —
Though he wisely declined an invitation to parlay his propensity for the salsa into an appearance on Dancing With The Stars, Giants receiver Victor Cruz isn’t inclined to defer indefinitely the generation of income from off-field endeavors. Cruz reportedly has hired IMG Worldwide to negotiate marketing and endorsement agreements. “They have a great reputation around…
Yahoo.com: Shutdown Corner (Nick Bromberg) —
Let's be honest, there's a fair amount of overlap between the demographics of NASCAR and the WWE. So it can't be all that surprising that WWE wrestler John Cena is the honorary starter for the Daytona 500, right? Cena, who has already appeared in a Gillette commercial back in the days of the Gillette Young Guns, received his official "invitation" to be the starter when friend Carl Edwards...
Yahoo.com: Shutdown Corner (Jeff Eisenberg) —
Since the NCAA tournament expanded to a field of 64 in 1985, only four teams have ever failed to earn a bid the year after winning the national title. UConn is now in danger of becoming the fifth. Despite fielding a team more talented than the one that won five Big East tourney games in five days and stifled Butler in the national title game last spring, these Huskies hardly bear any...
NBCSports.com: ProFootballTalk (Mike Florio) —
We usually open up our Monday night in-season editions of NBC SportsTalk with a rundown of the 10 things to know about the NFL. Since there’s nothing to really know now that the NFL season is finally over, Peter King, Russ Thaler, and I reviewed 10 takeaways from Sunday night’s game. Here they are, if…
NBCSports.com: ProFootballTalk (Mike Florio) —
With a month’s worth of NFL intrigue packed into three hours of real time and with a marathon of TV and travel finally over, I can settle in and say whatever I want to say about whatever happened in Super Bowl XLVI that requires something to be said. Here’s the first thing to say: The…
NBCSports.com: ProFootballTalk (Mike Florio) —
If it’s good enough for the NFL to play the Super Bowl under the threat of a blizzard and/or the reality of an ice storm, it should be good enough to stage it in a place where it almost always rains. Q13 FOX in Seattle reports that the Seahawks have expressed interest in hosting the…
NBCSports.com: ProFootballTalk (Mike Florio) —
Tonight’s 90-minute, sleep-deprivation edition of NBC SportsTalk, which got rolling only nine hours after Peter King and I wrapped up a two-hour show live from the floor of Lucas Oil Stadium, included several spirited debates. And here’s one of them. The key misfire late in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLVI, which came with…
Yahoo.com: Jeff Passan (Eric Freeman) —
Picture, if you can, an NBA player with the following stats: 31.8 minutes per game, 17.2 ppg, 45.5 percent shooting from the field, 21.6 percent shooting from three-point range, and 6.0 rpg for a 14-11 team. Is that player an All-Star? The easy answer is an obvious "no." Unfortunately, the case is not so easy, because the player in question just happens to be Dirk Nowitzki, the reigning...
Yahoo.com: Jeff Passan (Michael Krumboltz) —
Betting on the Super Bowl is almost as popular as the game itself. Most folks are content to pick a winner and cross their fingers, but others like their bets to be a little more, well, obscure. These wagers, known as prop bets, can cover everything from how long a singer will take to finish the national anthem to who will score the game's first points. Jeff DeLuca of the Yahoo! Contributor...
NBCSports.com: ProFootballTalk (Michael David Smith) —
Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno was arrested last week for driving under the influence. FOX 31 in Denver reports that Moreno was pulled over by Denver Police on February 1 for driving 70 miles an hour in a construction zone where the limit was 45 miles an hour. The officer smelled alcohol and Moreno failed…
Yahoo.com: Jeff Passan (Scott Pianowski) —
We don't have an exact date on the photo above, but we know it wasn't taken in September of last year. The 2011 Braves put together a monumental choke down the stretch, but the story was partially obscured by the rumbling in the AL East (mmm, that's tasty chicken). Here's the math of it all: Atlanta had an 8.5-game lead in the NL Wild Card standings into the final month, sitting pretty at...
NBCSports.com: ProFootballTalk (Michael David Smith) —
Today is the first day of the NFL offseason, and it just wouldn’t be the NFL offseason without stories about Brett Favre. So we’ll pass along some comments Favre made in a radio interview today, about how he came to realize he really is done playing football. (We think.) Favre told 1340 The Fan in…
NBCSports.com: ProFootballTalk (Gregg Rosenthal) —
We noted before last night’s game that Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes was rather fired up to play in his first Super Bowl. It’s no surprise, then, that he wasn’t as thrilled about allowing the game’s go-ahead touchdown go right by him late in the fourth quarter. “It killed me,” said Spikes of the decision to…
Yahoo.com: Ball Don't Lie (Eric Freeman) —
When Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov bought the Nets, the expectation was that his money would both turn the franchise into a viable contender and lead to a fair amount of bizarre events given his eccentric foreign ways. Neither of those things has come come to pass, unfortunately, with Prokhorov generally taking a hands-off approach. The Nets look like most NBA franchises, hiring a retread...
Yahoo.com: Puck Daddy (Sean Leahy) —
Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished. • The Bruins made 550 Stanley Cup rings. Of course Blades would get one. Preview: Edmonton Oilers at Toronto Maple Leafs, 7 p.m. ET. Two of the NHL's 3 Stars of the Week faceoff as James...