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...

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. ...

Alessia Andrade Ran across a news item about a Hispanic sports awards ceremony last Thursday, which I reported on over at Baseball Digest.  By all accounts it was a great event and helped benefit The Ganley Foundation, a worthy cause. My favorite part was not that U.S. Open tennis champ Juan Martín...

Of all the entertainment innovations of the past decade, I think Netflix is the most fascinating to me.  While I would probably not go out and buy the DVD collections of every television series I enjoyed in my youth (except “Hawaii Five-o“, all seven available seasons of which I have ordered...

Three games on Thursday. Four more on Sunday. One on Monday.  Fully half of the NFL schedule was available to the television viewing public this week (ok, the segment thereof that lives in greater N.Y. or greater Denver or has access to the NFL Network had eight, everyone else had seven, but you get...