Monday, December 21, 2009

snow! snoW! snOW! sNOW! SNOW!

Baseball: The Cubs have sent Milton Bradley to the Mariners for -- who cares? They've gotten rid of a big problem, if they got an Ichiroll back in the deal they would come out ahead...In other Seattle news, they signed outfielder and former Baby Brave Ryan Langerhans to a one year, $525,000 contract. Yeah Ryan!...The Yankees brought back Nick Johnson. Johnny Damon, it's now time for you to look elsewhere...The Reds have restructured Scott Rolen's contract, giving him two extra years...The A's are close to signing outfielder Coco Crisp...While the Rangers are close to bringing back reliever Darren Oliver...The Orioles signed former Braves closer Mike Gonzalez to a two year, $12 million contract. Well at least the Braves have Billy Wanger. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth!...Surprise, surprise, the Phillies picked up Jimmy Rollins $8.5 million contract for 2011...Mike Lowell's wonky thumb will undergo surgery. Note he's still with the Red Sox.

Basketball: The Mavs rolled over the Cavs, 102-95 without the help of Dirk Nowitzki...The Mavericks have officially filed an appeal of their Friday overtime loss to the Rockets...The Lakers cruised to a 93-81 victory over the Pistons...Carmelo Anthony's 41 points were not enough as the Nuggets edged out the Grizzles, 102-96...The Knicks held off the Bobcats, 98-94...Is Nate Robinson heading out of New York? Not Kryptonate!

College Basketball: Florida State ended Georgia Tech's 17 game win streak, 66-59...Meanwhile UCONN narrowly escaped an upset bid by UCF, 60-51...Connecticut and Jim Calhoun are working on an extension...Iowa's Anthony Tucker, 20 has been suspended for one game after being arrested for public intoxication. Shouldn't he also get hit up with some sort of underage drinking charge as well? Watch out Anthony, because the popo are on your tail!...Duke's backup forward Olek Czyz is planning on transferring...Kentucky is sitting one win away from 2,000. I hope the pressure doesn't get to you!

College Football: This seems a bit fishy, an SUV being driven by USC running back Joe McKnight was reportedly purchased for his girlfriend as a favor. Johana Michelle Beltran does make the payments for the Land Rover. What junior in college needs a Land Rover?...Cincinnati's interim head coach Jeff Quinn has been hired as the new head coach of Buffalo. He will coach the Bearcats in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Good idea, because at this rate they'll have to use a super Senior to coach...Dwight Dasher rushed for 201 yards, the most by a quarterback in a Bowl game, as Middle Tennessee topped Southern Miss, 42-32.


Football: With heavy hearts, the Bengals took the field only to fall to the Chargers, 27-24. San Diego clinched a playoff spot with the win...Chad Ochocinco stuck with #85 even though there was some thought that he would wear #15 to honor the late Chris Henry...Despite being spanked by the Panthers, 26-7, the Vikings still wrapped up the Division after the Packers fell to the Steelers, 37-36...Although the loss did put a bit of a strain on Brett Favre and Brad Childress' relationship...Also clinching their division were the Cardinals who stunned the Lions, 31-24. Who am I kidding, it's the Lions, they'd probably be more stunned if they didn't lose a game in the closing two minutes...The Eagles are heading back to the playoffs after stomping over the 49ers, 27-13...The Bears stumbled to a 31-7 loss to the Ravens, making Lovie Smith's stay in Chicago very questionable...For more of Sunday's scores click here.
(Photo: Reuters)

Hockey: The hits just keep coming for the Red Wings, if it's not losing Henrik Zetterberg for two weeks, it's being blanked by the Hawks, 3-0...David Backes scored two goals in the Blues 3-1 win over the Canucks...The Rangers doubled up the Flyers, 2-1. What does this mean they've actually won two in a row?...The Montreal Canadiens got to discover the beauty of Long Island for one extra day thanks to that crappy winter storm over the weekend. This of course came after they shut out the Isles, 3-0. So not all was lost...The NHL wants to expand to two Winter Classics next season.

Best of the Rest: Danica Patrick turned her first laps in a stock car at Daytona...CJM Racing has suspended operation...While the Milwaukee Mile has announced it will not host any racing events in 2010.

Check this Out: EW looks at the Best and worst of TV for 2009.

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