Though golf has for years been a favorite pastime of baseball players during the off-season, I’m not sure about Callaway’s attempt to tie the two sports together in a new campaign it launched today celebrating the long ball. The idea is that, with MLB Opening Day less than a week away, the...

Duane Ludwig via TheFightNerd.com Sometimes a tightly contested mixed martial arts matchup can resemble art — beneath the outward brutal, raw nature of the sport is a ballet of sorts.  Renzo Gracie describes it best when he talks of Jiu Jitsu and MMA in those terms. But MMA has also inspired other...

Yesterday being the 35th anniversary of his historic bout with Muhammad Ali that inspired the Rocky movie franchise, “The Bayonne Bleeder” Chuck Wepner found himself fielding a few calls from media over the past few days.  So by the time I got to him the other day, I expected he’d...

College basketball may be down to the Sweet 16 (from 11 conferences, now that is quite a bit of news in itself), but there is also a “Sweet 16″ of coaches that have joined Jim Boeheim and Mike Krzyzewski in providing signed shoes, basketballs and other memorabilia that will go to benefit...

Jelena Jankovic Everyone knows who the big winners were over the weekend… Northern Iowa, Cornell, Butler, even Duke and Ohio State, who had their most highly-ranked competition vanquished from the NCAA Brackets.  But there were two other winners, Ivan Ljubicic and Jelena Jankovic, that because...

Babe Ruth-signed baseballs, while treasured, are not that uncommon.  Ruth happily autographed thousands of them while he played and in the few years after he retired.  Some surely ended up being used in sandlot games, being thrown out by overzealous mothers or meeting some other calamity, but many...

One of the best things about MMA is the sport’s connection to the fans.  The big events like UFC 111 in Newark involve more than just the standout card on Saturday, March 27 at the Prudential Center.  Tickets to the fights have been sold out for weeks, but there are a variety of activities that...

As I write this, I’m watching Robert Morris (six lifetime NCAA Tournament trips entering the game) vs. Quinnipiac (zero) in the Northeast Conference championship, another competitive battle in what has been an exciting Championship week.  Though none of my teams were involved (my three favorites...

Here’s some great news for MMA fans.  Mike Straka, who as host of “FOX Fight Game” was one of the first “mainstream” reporters to embrace the sport, has joined HDNet and will preside over “Fighting Words with Mike Straka,” a 30-minute interview-format program. ...

I know, I know… it’s just a robe that you wear backwards.  But the Snuggie(TM) has hit the pop culture scene as much as any infomercial product ever has.  It’s as ubiquitous as The Clapper, the ShamWow, or anything the late, great Billy Mays ever hawked. Before Billy’s untimely...