With all of the talk of Bud Selig’s $18.3 million salary, it’s interesting to look back at a time when the MLB commissioner made only $500,00 and the highest paid player was Rickey Henderson at $3 million per year.

It was on this day nineteen years ago that Major League Baseball had a lockout between the owners and players, lasting 32 days and taking away the majority of spring training, all due to rising player salaries and the owners’ desire to impose a salary cap on their stars.

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February 14th sucks for a lot of dudes, because it means you have to go out and smother your lady with flowers, chocolates, dinner and a hallmark card. But honestly, it isn’t really as bad as Mike Tyson’s valentines day of 1989 — the day his divorce to Robin Givens was finalized — and in retrospect, marked the turning point of Iron Mike’s career. He lost is wife, his trainer, and his title all within 12 months, and was shipped off to jail shortly thereafter. Tyson is supposedly working on an autobiography, but is there really anything left for him to tell us?

After the jump is the classic video of Tyson listening to Robin Givens tell the world about their abusive relationship… Continue Reading

Lance Armstrong woke up today ready for stage 1 of the Tour of California, only to find out that someone stole his time trial bike last night.

I had this same experience in 5th grade when I woke up for school only to find that my neighbor stole my bike.

If you see anyone riding this alien-like machine in your neighborhood, please contact Lance. He’s offering a handsome reward.

Iverson said farewell to his trademark braids today — and he has at least one fan of his new look. Shaq calls it cute. I think it’s very commander-in-chief looking.

You’re time is valuable, especially late on a Sunday night.  So, let’s study the facts and decide if its worth your trouble to tune into “Eastbound and Down,” the new baseball-themed comedy premiering on HBO tomorrow night.

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The Smoking Gun has the mugshots from Michael Phelps fellow party-goers. The dude on the right looks like he was smoking for two.

It feels like it happened 5 years ago, but it was actually just 1 year ago today that Roger Clemens stood in front of Congress and claimed that he never used steroids.

A lot has happened in a year. Now instead of lying about steroid use, the new trend is to simply admit you used “banned substances”. Athletes lying about steroids is so old school!

What do these pictures of Scarlett Johansson have to do with sports you ask? Absolutely nothing. But since she was once rumored to be canoodling with Derek Jeter I say this Dolce & Gabbana advertisement fits in.

Ryan Reynolds is one lucky man. Things really went uphill for him after Van Wilder.

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My favorite professional sports blogger Chris Cooley got played by Larry Fitzgerald at the Pro Bowl. Right before halftime #11 catches a hail mary touchdown from Drew Brees. This is where it gets good. Let Cooley describe it in his own words.

“In the meantime I’m pretty damn excited and as he caught the ball I had made my way down into the end zone. I just ran a seam route on the other side of the ball from Larry and as he came stumbling along the goal line I would be the first one to get to him. I’m not very big on celebrating, but he was coming right for me and I was pumped, so something was going to have to happen. For some reason I think I was a little awkward because I’m not really a big fan of the jumping side bump and that is what seems to be the common buddy celebration, but I headed nonchalantly toward him waiting for him to initiate some kind of celebration. As he got within five yards I started to raise my hand and even got ready for a little jumping action, right before I left my feet he actually made a sort of juke move and quickly moves around me leaving me hanging. I’m sure on TV it appeared as if he avoided me like some kind of crazy fan in the end zone, not even looking towards me as he passed. Then before I even get fully turned around he is soaring into full chest jumping, loving action with Anquan Boldin. He left me stranded and alone with nothing to do but put my head down and feel like a total ass. I mean what do I do at that point? Go find some lineman running down the field and share an Icky Shuffle with him, I don’t think so. At least it was in the end closest to the locker room and I was able to walk straight in.

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After letting the story sink in for an extra day, I have one final thought on the Robbie Alomar AIDS situation.

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