When word came out a few months ago that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was considering the idea of expanding the league’s regular-season schedule to 18 games — cutting two preseason games in the process — initial reaction among NFL fans seemed to be universally positive. Think about...

In case you missed any of his 4,000 appearances on the ESPN family of networks Monday, or his rambling report on ESPN.com, Ric Bucher really, really, really wants you to know that the Houston Rockets are really, really, really unhappy that Yao Ming’s doctor told the Houston Chronicle that the All-Star...

If you’re anything like us, chances are you have at least one acquiantance in your life who takes his love for NASCAR just a wee bit too seriously. Could be that co-worker who inexplicably totes around a Dale Earnhardt Jr. wallet. Or that neighbor with the back-window sticker of Calvin urinating...

Catching up on some weekend happenings while trying to figure out why an Andre Rison jersey has been crudely attached to the childhood home of Michael Jackson … (Northwest Indiana Times photo) - Speaking of Jacko, the death of The King of Pop (not to be confused with The Kings of Poop, ahem) apparently...

First things first, a tip of our Poopcaps this morning to The Bostonist’s Rick Sawyer and Sports on My Mind’s Modi. The blog columnists have offered forth the most provocative reviews we’ve read yet of Bob Ryan’s curmudgeonly diatribe against Major League Baseball’s cheatin’...

We admit it, we have no life. That’s why we took the time over the weekend to actually read (well, skim) Florida State’s appeal of NCAA sanctions against the school’s athletics department, as well as the NCAA’s official response to FSU’s appeal. And what did we learn? In...

By the time many of you read this, the U.S. Open’s final round will be in full swing. Either that, or it’ll be raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock at Bethpage yet again. Maybe that’s why our excitement has been a bit tempered for this major, and it’s a shame because the...

Alright, so we’ve got about eleventy billion games left before we get to the Major League Baseball playoffs this season. It’s funny, though, how each season seems to have a handful of days that just seem to be more meaningful than others. Take the last few days, for example. The Phillies,...

Cheese and biscuits, it’s a slow day in the world of sports. Seriously, when rain is your lead story on the daily roundup, you know it’s a bad day to be a sports fan. So we’d like to thank the United Football League for screwing up what could have been a wet dream of publicity for the...

In what can only be described as the most troubling sports story of 2009, rumors continue to swirl that the San Diego Chicken may well be on his last legs this year. Ted Giannoulas, who’s played Clark Kent to the Chicken’s Superpoultry for four decades, has openly discussed hanging up his...

We’re still trying to wrap our heads around this whole Sammy Sosa/steroid thing, and by wrap our heads around we mean why we’re supposed to give a frog’s fat patootie. At least the boys over at Deadspin seem to share the same annoyance that we have with the issue … namely the...

We’re starting to love MMA more every day. Cris “Cyborg” Santos was being interviewed by a reporter, with the help of an interpreter, and apparently something was lost in translation. The reporter went from interviewer to a pile of Jello in a matter of seconds. Read more here. Please,...

It’s been a rough stretch for the Poopers. First, Adam Lambert comes out of the closet. Then Chastity Bono says she’s going to have a sex change. And now, Sammy Sosa has reportedly been linked to the 2003 drug tests that the league withheld. Read all about it here. Seriously, we can’t...

Big doin’s on Monday over at ProFootballTalk.com, one of the Web’s busiest pro football sites. First came the news that the site has entered into an official partnership to provide content for NBC. There’s been some hand-wringing across the blogosphere as to whether this relationship...

There’s a festering pimple on the ass of sports media these days, and no, we’re not talking about Favrewatch 2.0, or Sid/LeBron handshake snubs. We’re talking about Mixed Martial Arts. Mind you, we have no problem with the sport itself. The problem lies in the 180-degree turn that...

Our favorite poster boy for the NFL Draft is back in the news. You know about the NFL Draft, right? That’s the time when ESPN devotes 24/7 coverage for the month prior to the two-day event. Mel Kiper Jr. gets more face time than Ryan Seacrest and every two-bit flunkie offers up a mock draft. Once...

We aren’t dialed into the sports scene in Swaziland, but this story caught our attention. It seems some footballers have torn up the turf at the main stadium because they’ve been burying magic charms, or “muti,” underneath. Thank goodness our boys of summer haven’t caught...

Praise be to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on this fine morning. Finally … FINALLY … someone has had the grapefruits (as well as the credibility to back it up) to call out Shaquille O’Neal and say what some of us have been thinking for awhile now: Shaquille, you’re a 37-year-old man. It’s...

You would have thought the Bill Lumbergs who run ESPN’s (*cough*) “news” division would have learned their lesson last summer after repeatedly bungling the 2008 version of the Brett Favre retirement saga. Not so fast, Berman-breath. Now comes word that Pat Kirwan, one of the NFL’s...

Hank Baskett hasn’t made many catches in his underwhelming career with the Philadelphia Eagles, but he certainly has made quite a catch in his personal life. For those who don’t know, Baskett is engaged to Kendra Wilkinson, who rose to fame on “The Girls Next Door” program on...