Yao Ming is the ultimate will he or won’t he of the NBA.  Meant to be the bedrock of the Rockets’ playoff team, he’s instead faced the same injury so many big men do: bad feet.  They’re just not meant to hold quite that amount of person on them, no matter how big they are.
His [...]

We don’t even feel the need to snark on this, so for once we’re just going to play it straight:
Tedy Bruschi, one of our fave players of all time, announced his retirement this morning.  Bruschi worked his way up from practicesquad member to special-teams-only type guy to a starting linebacker who even made a Pro [...]

Over the weekend, news of Michigan’s alleged NCAA violations, stemming from their usually-storied football program, emerged.  The NCAA says that mandatory workouts during the offseason should be no more than eight hours a week…but these kids were putting in full days.  Off days after games should have no more than a small number of hours [...]

This is the most completely researched article on a totally tiny part of sports that we’ve read in a long time.
It’s about hats. The hats that ball players wear, the hats that gang members wear, the hats the fashionistas wear that kind of look like those other two types.
New Era is the official maker of [...]

We love figureskating, like LOVE.  It’s hands down our favorite Olympic sport, and we love that the women get at least as much attention as the men, if not more.
Figure skating has had some recent successes, and in fact today NBC signed a deal to increase it’s coverage of figure skating over the next four [...]

One of our fave blogs–even though it’s written by a Yankees fan–proclaimed the end of an era…
The New York Post reports that Derek Jeter’s getting married.  Jeter, for those who don’t breathlessly follow his exploits (or just follow him for the view from behind), is the George Clooney of baseball: gorgeous, charming, perennially dating someone [...]

NBA free agent Allen Iverson tweets that his agent is fielding an offer from Memphis.  The veteran Iverson found himself without a job, and we were surprised no team snapped him up for his presence if nothing else. We’re a big proponent, in case you haven’t noticed, of veteran building blocks on teams full of [...]

Top of the morning to you, readers.
While we were gone, planning lessons for 90 fifth graders (The Sports Chick’s a teacher, in case you didn’t know….if only blogging paid bills!), Jacoby Ellsbury did something quick.
In fact, by stealing his fifty fifth base of the season, he set a single season record for the storied Boston [...]

Every Tuesday, we’ll run down our favorite things that have appeared on our Twitter feed recently.  All quotes are direct and attributed.  Follow us, and you could see yourself up here! We’re findable @unpinkhats
Ron Artest of the Lakers on what he looks for in life….
Statement:I want to have good sex with a working nerd [...]

Michael Beasley played one season at Kansas State, and then entered the NBA draft.  Drafted by the Miami Heat, he ran into problems right away. Not basketball problems, since his talent is undeniable.  First, he got kicked out of the rookie orientation program due to an unfortunate marijuana in hotel room incident, but still managed [...]

The other day, Jim Rice was not his customary class act.  Speaking to a group of players before the start of the Little League World Series, he told them not to use today’s MLB players as rolemodels.  He talked about respect for the game, and he talked about attitude, and going out there every day [...]

It’s like a wasteland.
We love baseball-like, a lot.  Baseball is the reason we got into sports in the first place.  But right now, baseball is the only thing we have to watch.  There’s no football. There’s very little soccer.  The Olympics haven’t started.  We tried to go to a college women’s soccer game the other [...]