Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Two from the Road

After almost a week long absence I'm back.

Baseball: Congratulations to Albert Pujols on winning the NL MVP. I would have gone with Ryan Howard, but what can you do...We've got our first free agent signing. The Giants have picked up reliever Jeremy Affeldt for 2 years and $8 million...It's official, the Yankees will host the Cubs for two exibition games on April 3rd and 4th...Speaking of the Yankees, according to Brewers GM Doug Melvin, they are over bidding for CC Sabathia...Are willing to give A.J. Burnett a five year, $80 million contract...And just picked up Nick Swisher from the White Sox...The Hall of Fame Classic will pit old timer's against each other in the successor to the popular Hall of Fame game...The Rays and Phillies will raise ticket prices for 2009...Finally, a 16 year old girl named Eri Yoshida was drafted by the Kobe 9 Cruise, a Japanese team in a new independent league.


Basketball: Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been accused of insider trading by the SEC...The Houston Rockets saw three major players, Tracy McGrady, You Ming and Ron Artest leave with injuries, but still held on to beat the Thunder, 100-89...Kevin Garnett was suspended one game for hitting Andrew Bogut in the face during Saturday's game...While Shaq was fined $25,000 for verbally abusing an official after being ejected during the Sun's Sunday game...The Warriors have extended Stephen Jackson's contract by three years.
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College Basketball: Hall of Fame coach Pete Newell has passed away at the age of 93...UNC remains No.1...And without Tyler Hansbrough...Stephen Curry continues to impress with his 33 pints and nine assists as Davidson crushed James Madison, 99-64...With the help of Craig Austrie, Connecticut rolled past Hartford, 99-56.

College Football: ESPN is closing in a deal to broadcast BSC games...Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez has some issues with tact.

Football: The Browns survived at late field goal attempt by the Bills that went wide right for a 29-27 win...Click here for the rest of the week's scores...The betting world is still stunned with the Steelers game...Donovan McNabb learned about ties on Sunday...Vikings DL Jared Allen, Pat Williams and Kevin Williams will meet with NFL officials to talk about testing positive for weight loss diuretic.

Hockey: Shoot outs galour for two of New York's teams as the Islanders topped the Canucks, 2-1 (SO) and the Rangers rallied past the Senators, 2-1 (SO)...It's been a busy few days for Red Wings back up goalie Ty Conklin. And with Monday's 4-0 over the Oilers, it now includes a shut-out...The Sharks swallowed the Predators, 4-1...Plus the Predators captain Jason Arnott was taken off the ice via stretcher...In other injury news: Blues Center Andy McDonald will miss eight weeks with a broken leg...Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin will be out six months with a torn ACL...And Penguins goalie Marc Andre Fleury will miss Tuesday's game with an undisclosed injury.

Nascar: Congratulations to Jimmie Johnson on winning his third consecutive Sprint Cup Championship. Click here for the final standings...Congrats to Clint Bowyer on taking the Nationwide Crown and Johnny Benson for taking the Trucks Series Title...Carl Edwards may have come in second in the points, but he finished first at Homestead...Click here for the results from the Ford 400...Ryan Newman's new crew chief for 2009 is Tony Gibson...In other crew chief news Todd Parrott has parted ways with Robert Yates Racing, while Ryan Pemberton has left Michael Waltrip Racing...Ganassi will switch to Chevy as they combine with DEI...As a cost cutting messure, Nascar has cancelled all testing.

Best of the Rest: Lance Armstrong fears for his personal safety if he were to compete in the Tour de France. I'm so bored with this story, aren't you?...Tiger Woods is hoping to return to the linx by February.

Check this out: Justin Timberlake has released his newest single. Click here to listen to it.

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