Belmont's In Jeopardy, and Some Very Sportsmanlike Conduct
Today in sports: Sandusky's day in court approaches, a labor fight threatens the Triple Crown, and Chris Bosh may return for the Heat's stand against the Celtics.
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A familiar set of questions is being asked after a 72-foot catamaran belonging to Artemis Racing capsized in the San Francisco Bay, trapping a British sailor underwater for ten minutes on Thursday afternoon.
Today in sports: Sandusky's day in court approaches, a labor fight threatens the Triple Crown, and Chris Bosh may return for the Heat's stand against the Celtics.
Today in sports: Bill Maher buys his favorite team, a NFL rookie is already in trouble, and the future of baseball is on display.
Today in sports: The trouble with a lacrosse career,he Stanley Cup participants are both for sale, and Kentucky Derby and Prekness winner I'll Have Another is safe after a track scare.
The European football championships begin in Poland and Ukraine in just over a week, but a BBC documentary is warning English fans to stay away and one Italian player has threatened to kill anyone who dares to taunt him about his race.
The Celtics lost and Doc Rivers picked up the least deserved technical foul in NBA history, the Miami Marlins are facing another delicate PR situation, and Tokyo's governor is disappointed in Tokyo's citizens.
RG3 makes uniform history, Atlantic City wants to legalize sports betting by the end of the year, and the French Open starts this weekend.
Today in Sports: A new NFL lawsuit, Golden State is building a new home, and NBC is all-in on the Olympics.
The NFL gets tough on its knee injury problem, Babe Ruth's jersey sells for $4.4 million, and Phil Jackson won't be coaching the Knicks next year.
Suspended New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis finds something to occupy himself with while he's suspended, Tebowing will invade the latest installment of Madden, and the Detroit Lions can't stop fighting.
Today in sports: The Heat are falling apart, SEC football plays rough, and a Saints takes a big shot at the Commish.
Today in sports: Some rare memorabilia, the NHL readies for its next labor fight, and Wenlock is watching you!
Today in sports: St. Louis and the Rams settle in for vicious stadium sniping, Democrats may have lost the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world over gay marriage, and assessing the hypothetical market for Josh Hamilton.
David Brooks argues that President Obama is doing better than you'd expect in polls given the state of the economy because he possesses a very specific type of manliness: "ESPN masculinity."
People are still talking about Manchester City's improbably EPL title, Donovan McNabb has lost weight, corrected his form, and wants one more shot, and David Stern acknowledges flopping is marring the NBA playoffs
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Today in sports: Mariano Rivera's visit to a surgeon to set a date to repair his torn ACL did not go well, Deadspin charts the emergence of Jose Canseco as punchline, and Joe Maddon is now baseball's most profilable manager.
Today in sports: Washington Nationals rookie Bryce Harper is unbeanable, the Bountygate appeals are in, and the Manning brothers stick with Reebok.
Money destroys another beloved college sports tradition, Minnesota is finally going to vote on that Vikings stadium business, and Albert Pujols is still homerless and no-hitter-less.
Following the Hall of Fame linebacker's apparent suicide, football fans are wrestling with the ethics of being a football fan.
San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau is dead at 43 after an apparent suicide, Floyd Mayweather Jr. did not win $1.5 million betting on the Clippers, and Amar'e Stoudemire explains he did not intend to slice his hand open in a fit of rage after losing to Miami on Monday.
The tension between the NFL and NFL Players' Association over the league's investigation into illegal bounties supplied by New Orleans Saints players and coaches from 2009-2011 could soon be reach Def-Con status.
Jay-Z gives the Brooklyn Nets a black and white makeover, Pat Riley is still quietly making the Miami Heat less likable, and Jeremy Lin sends his regrets to Stuyvesant High.
The threat of cartel violence reportedly cost El Paso a chance to host boxing's middleweight title fight in June, the San Francisco Giants think they've developed the biggest thing since Moneyball, and the second night of the NFL Draft now has a lovable underdog.
We have seen the last of the Pro Bowl, NHL Game 7s are better than other Game 7s, and a handy guide to avoid watching the first 30 minutes of the NFL draft
Larry Brown wants to give SMU basketball hope, because why not, dressing a defensive lineman for the NFL Draft can be tough, if you forget the "peacockerry," and the Packers would prefer it their shareholders came to Lambeau Field alone in July.
Today in books: Buzz Bissinger returns to Odessa, how to fix the Pulitzer voting process, and the 'S--- Girls Say' meme is declared book-deal worthy.
Pat Summitt calls it a career, Larry Brown prepares to unretire once more, and the NHL playoffs are getting chippier by the night.
The kickoff may be going to the way of leather helmets, hockey players are making up lost fighting time this postseason, and Bobby Valentine is working his divisive magic in Boston.
Today in sports: Tim Tebow gets booed at a Yankee game, a yacht race turns deadly in San Francisco, New Orleans gets the NBA All-Star Game, Boston's too hot for a good marathon, and Derrick Rose is still complaining.
Want another sign that this winter was more like a spring and this spring is more like a summer? Just look at the Boston Marathon, a usually great sporting tradition in the great sports town, made slightly less great this year when only 22,426 of the 26,716 registered runners showed up for the sweltering race today.
The NBA in Sacramento looks unlikely, Rick Santorum talks up his fantasy baseball team, and Londoners worry long airport lines will ruin the Olympics.
The NFL still has a quarterback problem, Dwayne Wade no longer wants to be paid for lending America his prestige, and the New York Jets might not open their doors to everyone and anyone this season.
Today in sports: Bill Parcells is staying retired for the rest of the day, Vin Scully is going to miss the Los Angeles Dodgers home opener, and Peyton Manning's arm gets a boost.
Today in sports: Fox Saturdays are going to be sports heavy, Ozzie Guillen wisely has decided to apologize for saying he's a big, big Castro fan, and Bill Parcells is negotiating through the media again.
Today in sports: Opening Day across America, a smoking gun in the Saints bounty investigation, and the president weigh in on the Masters.
The world of golf is placid. Calm. Manicured. Largely white and male, and apparently happy to be so. But every once in a while someone stops and says, Wait a minute, is this really how it should be?
Today in sports: Kentucky's basketball coach swears he's not interested in a jump to the NBA, Sacramento's NBA future looks murky, and Jack the Georgetown bulldog gets an heir.
Today in sports: New NFL uniforms, game-fixing scandals overseas, an ode to Augusta's black caddies, one Kentucky fan's wild night, and Nissan designs a real-life Batmobile to win Le Mans.
One man was shot and fires were set all across Lexington, but Kentucky fans mostly behaved themselves while celebrating their eighth national championship in basketball.
Today in sports: Did the Knicks trick fans with Jeremy Lin, bountygate shifts focus from coaches to players, looking forward to the NCAA final, and a fish tale turns out to be an April Fool's gag nobody knew was a joke.
Today in sports: Sean Payton is appealing his Bountygate suspension, the IOC declares London fit to host the Olympics, and another snag in the NFL's plan to return to Los Angeles.
Today in sports: Reebok can't sell those Tim Tebow Jets jerseys, Bill Parcells is increasingly intrigued by the prospect of coaching the New Orleans Saints, and a French-speaking head rolls in Montreal.
Also: Nike is suing Reebok for selling "unauthorized" Tim Tebow Jets gear.
A group of investors that includes NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson have agreed to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.15 billion, the highest price ever paid for a professional sports franchise.
The United States won't be fielding a team in the men's soccer tournament at the 2012 Olympics after surrendering a goal in the final seconds of a qualifying match against El Salvador.
Also in sports: Good news on the Joba Chamberlain ankle injury front.
A nasty hockey brawl at Madison Square Garden won't do much to ease concerns about fighting in hockey, fed-up fans of the Golden State Warriors turn a celebration into an evening of lusty boos, and dissecting Peyton Manning's new contract.
The big sports news today is supposed be that Peyton Manning has signed with the Denver Broncos. But the only thing people seem to care about is how it'll affect Tim Tebow, the Broncos current polarizing quarterback.
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