On the outskirts of Houston in The Woodlands at The Club at Carlton Woods, Tony Romo, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys was qualifying to compete in the U.S. Open. Romo was playing in the accompany of both Dustin Wigington and Thomas Hagler and will be playing a total of 36 holes.

Romo was attempting to get a one of two sports that 35 other individuals are trying to acquire. This morning at 10:30 a.m., the air horns sounded which halted play after five holds with Romo two over par. The sky cleared up by noon and within 30 minutes, the players were recommencing their play. Continue Reading…

Jeff Suppan has finally been released by the Milwaukee Brewers. This has been something that has been long awaited by many baseball fans due to Suppan’s poor pitching quality and strategy.

The 35-year-old right-handed pitcher got over than $10 million for being released on Monday, though, so it was a final paycheck for him. The pitcher was in the fourth year, which was the final year, of his four-year deal with the Brewers. The total contract equaled $42 million, which he first signed in 2006 as a free agent. Continue Reading…

Throughout the past two years in the NBA, there has been a lot of speculation surrounding the upcoming 2010 NBA free agent market as none of the big-name players like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Amare Stoudemire, Joe Johnson or Chris Bosh were willing to sign a contract extension with their current teams.

With all these big-name free agents officially becoming available come July 1^st, the NBA has been buzzing with rumors about where some of these players might be landing when teams around the league can start making offers this summer. Continue Reading…

Heading into game one of the NBA Finals this past Thursday night, the one key matchup that everyone wanted to see was Los Angeles Lakers lockdown defender Ron Artest on the Boston Celtics leading scorer Paul Pierce.

Coming into this series, both these players were playing extremely well in the conference finals and looked ready to help their team win an NBA title.

Obviously, Pierce had already tasted what it was like to be a champion two years ago after beating the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals in convincing fashion, but Ron Artest still hasn’t been able to put a championship ring on his finger and that was his only goal coming into this season with the Lakers.

Despite Paul Pierce being one of the best scorers in this league with the ability to dominate great defenders around the league, Ron Artest got into Pierce’s head early as both players were charged with technicals just 27 seconds into game one after getting tangled up underneath the basket.

Immediately everyone thought this would be an extremely physical series and Ron Artest’s sole purpose in this series was to wear out Pierce with some tough physical approach.

Ultimately, the Lakers went onto victory in game one of the NBA Finals (102-89) with a dominating performance on both sides of the basketball floor and if the Boston Celtics want to compete with the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers there going to have to figure out a way to get Paul Pierce going.

Even though Ron Artest’s defense limited Pierce’s production all night long at the Staples Center on Thursday night, The Truth, as he calls himself, still finished with 24 points and nine rebounds, but he got most his points at the free throw line going 12 of 13 from the charity stripe.

So far, the defending champs look to be by far the better team in this series, but it is way too early to tell how things will turn out. In my opinion though, the Lakers are on their way to winning their second straight NBA title and avenging their NBA Finals loss to the Celtics back in 2008.

Veteran forward Tomas Holmstrom and the Detroit Red Wings will be together for two more years as the Wings agreed to a two-year deal with the forward today. As per NHL Fanhouse, the two-year contract deal will pay him nearly $1.9 million per season, which is a deal he is expected to sign sometime today or Monday.

In 1994, Holmstrom was drafted by the Wings in the 10th round of the NHL draft and was about to become a free agent. Since his drafting in 1994, he has remained with the Detroit Red Wings for all 13 seasons of his NHL career and will now come back next year for his 14th season with the Detroit. Continue Reading…

We just had a scare earlier this week for US World Cup team member Jozy Altidore. Now, it seems that there is another scare in the works for an England team member and captain Rio Ferdinand.

England was participating in a training session on Thursday, which was their first session. Just a few minutes before the end of the session, Rio Ferdinand injured his left knee and was taken to the hospital immediately to have a scan of his knee completed. Apparently, the injury occurred with the England captain going into a tackle, which resulted in a bad fall. Continue Reading…

New York Mets’ Daniel Murphy has incurred an injury to his right knee in the Minor Leagues. This injury is said to keep him out the rest of this season. Murphy has already been out this year due to a right knee sprain that he finally recovered from prior to this new injury.

The 25-year-old was at AAA Buffalo playing second base this past Wednesday attempting to turn a double play and a runner slid right into him. After examining Murphy, it seems that although his injured knew ill not require surgery, the injury will take anywhere from four to six months (not weeks! Yikes!) to heal. Continue Reading…

The United States World Cup team made it to South Africa just a few days ago and already they have an injured player – just nine days prior to the commencement the team’s opening game. Starting forward for the U.S. team and one of the youngest players for the U.S. team, Jozy Altidore from Villareal suffered a mild sprain injury to his ankle during practice this past Wednesday.

20-year-old Altidore did not participate in Thursday’s practice with the team and his status is considered to be on a day-to-day basis right now. However, Altidore was taken to the hospital and admitted for X-Rays. The X-Rays turned out to be negative, though. Since the X-Rays were negative, it seems that Altidore just has a mild sprain to his ankle. Continue Reading…

Activated from the 15-day disabled list on Wednesday for the San Diego Padres was outfielder Scott Hairston. Hairston was first placed on the 15-day DL on May 16 due to a left hamstring strain. This activation comes just prior to the commencement of the final game of the series against the New York Mets.

The outfielder’s injury initially came the day before being placed on the DL when he was attempting to catch a line drive in the games against Dodgers, which the Padres loss. Before his placement on the disabled list, Hairston had participated in a total of 32 games, was hitting .247, and had posted two home runs as well as 14 RBI’s. Continue Reading…

Coach Bob Bradley for the United States World Cup team made the final cuts to the 30-man roster last week and narrowed it down to the final 23-man roster.

Edson Buddle is one of the players that made the final cut and was in complete disbelief. If you would have asked him a couple months ago if he thought he would even be a candidate for the World Cup, he would have said no. Now, that the truth is right in front of him, it’s still hard for him to believe. Continue Reading…