Sports briefly (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
TENNIS ATP promises probe of big bet Underlining the importance of protecting tennis' "appeal and integrity," Etienne de Villiers, the head of the men's professional tour, promised Saturday to use "all means available" for an investigation into suspicious betting on a match involving No. 4-ranked Nikolay Davydenko. De Villiers, the ATP's executive chairman, told the Associated Press that ......more...Sunday Scrum: Is it likely corruption among refs is more wide-spread than Donaghy? No! (The Courier)
Referee Tim Donaghy is the subject of an FBI probe after allegedly influencing NBA games he worked and bet on. We're wondering, could there be more corrupt officials in basketball? Sports writers Kelly Beaton and Sean Hylton clash on the subject:...more... Wager on Tevez striking it big (The Electric New Paper)
IF you fancy Carlos Tevez winning the Golden Boot in the 2007/08 season, you can get a juicy 20/1 ($21) with almost all leading British bookmakers....more... Sports letters: Pieces of junk (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Aug. 5 (UNION-TRIBUNE): Back in the early '90s Padres ownership treated us all to the infamous ?fire sale,? off-loading really good players who made a lot of money for unknown players of questionable skills who made little money. Now Moores, Towers, et al., are treating us to what can only be described as a ?garage sale.?...more... All In A Day?s Sports (The Post-Journal)
Refreshing Moment ? It?s been quite a week or two for professional sports with an NFL quarterback accused of running a dogfighting operation at his home, an NBA referee accused of point shaving and the circus involving Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron?s home run record....more... Sports, and fantasy, gone mad (Lancaster Online)
This Space is a contrarian, evidently. Unlike America, I only like football. I am not in mad, obsessive, Kool-Aid-guzzling love with it. With this in mind, let's run a reality-check some of last week's news ...Item: Penn State announces its 2008 and 2009 schedu......more... Fighting death, he's living large (The Record)
The sports fan wrote up a contract in his hospital bed, and carefully placed it in his mother's hands. Nick Toulon had some things to do, some people to see, before he would be ready to die....more... Press Row: Scribes weigh in on No. 755 (MLB.com)
Press Row: Scribes weigh in on No. 755...more... LSU mustdeal with media hex (Mobile Press-Register)
Here's the lead-pipe cinch bet of the college football season: LSU will not win the SEC Championship Game. This isn't a slap at Les Miles or the fans on the Bayou who might be taking a break from hating Nick Saban long enough to read this column....more... |