Thursday, January 29, 2009

24 Hour Bug

Baseball: The Cubs have acquired reliever Aaron Heilman from the Mariners for Ronny Cedeno and Garrett Olson...The Angels and Maicer Izturis came to an agreement on a one year, $1.6 million contract...The D'Backs have reportedly signed Jon Garland...The Rockies gave Ubaldo Jimenez a four year deal...Rangers reliever Joaquin Benoit will miss part of the 2009 season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn right rotator cuff...The Mets completed their finance of CitiField on Wednesday by selling $82.28 million in tax-free bonds....The New York Times really really really wants to get rid of their share in the Red Sox...And Derek Jeter is taking a wait and see approach to Joe Torre's new book.



Basketball: The Celtics continue to dominate, taking out the Kings, 119-100...Rasheed Wallace's 25 points and 10 rebounds helped push the Pistons past the Timberwolves, 98-89...Charlotte Bobcats forward Gerald Wallace suffered a partially collapsed left lung and fractured rib during Charlotte's double-overtime victory over the Lakers...A report revealed that Eddie Curry was not just the father of 3 year old Noah, but also Nova Henry's 9 month old daughter. Both Henry and the baby girl were murdered in Chicago last week.
(Photo:AP)

College Basketball: Duke went on a run that tied the game at 68, but a last second lay-up handed Wake Forest the 70-68 win. PS it is so not a good thing to be #1 this season...Meanwhile UNC surived a Florida State push, 80-77...#21 Villanova surprised #3 Pittsburgh with the 67-57 win...North Carolina State held a tribute to their women's basketball coach Kay Yow who passed away over the weekend.

Football: The NFLPA has been ordered to pay $28.1 million to retired players...The Raiders have selected Tom Cable as their new head coach...Jon Gruden is sure he'll land on his feet somewhere else...Santonio Holmes revealed he sold drugs as a youngster living in South Florida. Now Holmes is a WR on the Super Bowl playing Steelers. What a difference a few years can make!...The Giants are going to need to pick up two new WR this offseason because according to Amani Toomer, he's not coming back.

Hockey: A five goal period by the Penguins broke up a stale mate between Pittsburgh and the Rangers, ultimately giving the Pens the 6-2 win. Kris Letang had his first ever multigoal game... Jonathan Toews scored the game winner in the blackhawks, 3-2 win over the Ducks...Michael Cammalleri's hat trick was the difference in the Flames 5-2 victory over the Sabres...The Lightning's back up goalie Olaf Kolzig will be out the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to repair a ruptured tendon in his left arm...Henrik Zetterberg just signed the longest deal in Red Wings history, a 12 year, $73 million contract. Is it just me or is 12 years a bit excessive?

Best of the Rest: Serena Williams advanced to the Aussie Final, click here to see who she's facing and what the Men's final looks like...It's official, A.J. Allemdinger will drive the #44 for Richard Petty Motorsports...Former welterweight titleholder Antonio Margarito had his license suspended in the wake of a hand wrap incident.

Check this out: I know I shouldn't get my hopes up for this, but Jeffry Tambor is saying that Michael Cera will be in the Arrested Development Movie.

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