Opening day is a hectic time for the entire league of baseball. Each team wants to win their home opener, but not everyone finds success in trying. However, the Tigers did win their home opener this week. On opening day, the Detroit Tigers successfully triumphed over the Cleveland Indians 5-2. This comes after beating the Kansas City Royals in the opening series of the 2010 MLB season.

The game took place at Comerica Park in front of more than 45,000 fans. Magglio Ordonez and Rick Porcello teamed up to give the Tigers fans something to really cheer about. Ordonez started off by hitting one run and two hits. Continue Reading…

It has been officially announced that a multi-year contract extension between guard Manu Ginolbi and the San Antonio Spurs has been signed, but no details or information has been released regarding the signed extension agreement. The details were not released as per club policy terms that are within the contract.

The 32-year-old Argentina Native has been with the Spurs for eight seasons. He was first picked in 1999 by the Spurs as number 57. In 2008, he was named NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year and has helped the Spurs make their way to the victories of three NBA titles. He was also named All-Star in both 2005 and then three years later, he was the Sixth Man but the very first South American to earn All-NBA honors when being selected for the Third Team. Continue Reading…

Unlike the NBA or the MLB, the NFL doesn’t really see many trades between teams as things in football don’t really work the same way, well, at least until now.

This past weekend the Philadelphia Eagles made an extremely risky gamble by trading their Pro Bowl quarterback and face of the franchise in Donovan McNabb to the division rivals Washington Redskins. Not only was this move risky as McNabb has been very successful for them, but the trade sends one of the best quarterbacks in the league to a team in their division in the NFC East. Continue Reading…

One of the most successful NBA franchises over the past 15 years or so has been without a doubt the San Antonio Spurs. No matter what changes this NBA franchise goes through they always put a great basketball team on the floor every single night and have a legitimate shot at contending for an NBA title in any given season.

This season has been somewhat of a wakeup call for the San Antonio Spurs as they have seen good teams in the Western Conference become great teams with young talent and superb coaching. Continue Reading…

Over his entire career in the NBA, superstar guard Tracy McGrady has been labeled as injury prone and a player with a huge upside, but extremely undependable.

No matter the expectations coming into the season for the Houston Rockets, Tracy McGrady always seems to end up on the bench with some kind of injury that keeps him on the sidelines more than on the floor.

This season the Houston Rockets decided that enough is enough and agreed to parts ways with their former face of the franchise as he isn’t getting any younger and the team has some promising talent in Aaron Brooks and Trevor Ariza. Continue Reading…

No matter how bitter a rivalry or hatred for another team can be in professional sports, money definitely talks and seems to lure in big name players to very unlikely places.

This NFL offseason has really started to get shaken up as of late after we saw two teams in the NFC East division, arguably the best division in football with the most heated rivalries, make a trade that has completely changed the look and feel of both these NFL franchises. Continue Reading…

This morning at 7 a.m., Jason Taylor, linebacker of the Miami Dolphins boarded a flight that will take him to New York to meet with the Jets. According to Taylor’s agent, Gary Wichard he is currently a free agent under no restrictions. He is also the only remaining Miami Dolphins free agent.

His agent apparently talked Taylor into heading up to New York and meeting with the Jets. He says that Taylor loves the Miami fans, but he himself is just not sure what’s going to be available when the NFL Draft comes around. Continue Reading…

In tonight’s game against the Seattle Mariners, Oakland A’s, Justin Duchscherer is set to be the starting pitcher on the mound. This will be his very first true season and majors appearance since August of 2008. Since then, he has fought off an elbow injury as well as depression. Continue Reading…

There has been a lot of speculation about what the future holds for the Philadelphia Eagles as they had three Pro Bowl caliber quarterbacks on their squad. Not only are these three quarterbacks amongst the best in the league, but they had very high trade value coming into the NFL offseason after the Eagles lost to their arch rivals in the Dallas Cowboys.

With that being said the Eagle were thought to make a deal this offseason, but the question of which one of these quarterbacks would be leaving town still remained a mystery. Continue Reading…

Sunday night, Josh Beckett was in Fenway Park to play the first opening game of this year’s 2010 MLB season. However, on Monday, he was in Fenway Park for another reason – to sign a $68 million four-year extension with his current team, the Boston Red Sox. Josh Beckett has agreed to and signed a deal with the Boston Red Sox that will keep him as a pitcher with the Red Sox through 2014.

Beckett, 29 years old and number one start for the Red Sox, will see a $5 million signing bonus as well as more than $15 million as an annual salary for the rest of his contract extension. Continue Reading…