The Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals will meet August 13th in an exhibition rematch of their Super Bowl clash.
Scheduled to perform on the halftime show are John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band.

Gary Bettman is adamantly opposed to NHL player participation in any Winter Olympics after Vancouver, beginning with Sochi, Russia in 2014.
No doubt Bettman would change his tune if Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas or Puerto Rico were awarded a future games.

The date for the 2010 Oscars is moving forward two weeks to avoid clashing with the closing ceremony of Vancouver's Winter Olympics.
Prime time television can only handle one cheesy, melodramatic extravaganza per night.

20-year-old Pittsburgh Pirates OF prospect Jose Tabata's 43-year-old wife has been charged with abducting a 2-month-old baby from a Florida couple.
Does that make her a cradle-robber?

In the Women's NCAA Tournament, #9 seed Michigan State beat #1 seed Duke in East Lansing, MI in the Berkeley regional.
Is it any wonder American college students have a weak grasp of geography?

The new Women's Professional Soccer league launching Sunday announced it will allow select players to send out Twitter updates during games.
It's expected some of these accounts will have tens of "followers".

Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis announced he plans to stay on the field for games this fall.
The impact on press box caterers will deal another harsh blow to the northern Indiana economy.

The Washington Capitals Alex Ovechkin celebrated his 50th goal by putting his stick on the ice and then mimed warming his hands over it.
Some observers called it hot-dogging; when Alex was a toddler in the Soviet Union it was called central heating.

President Barack Obama, for some reason guesting on Jay Leno Thursday night (what - was Octomom unavailable?), referred to his recent bowling score of 129 as "like Special Olympics or something".
Can't we finally stop referencing the Bush administration?

Lazy headline editors across the country were devastated by Butler's opening-round NCAA loss.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, reacting to being left out of President Obama's Final Four picks, said "the economy is something he should focus on".
Uh, Coach K, it's the day before the tournament starts; shouldn't you be focused on something other than whining about celebrity bracket picks?

How long is the World Baseball Classic going on for?
This thing makes Wagner's Ring Cycle feel like a 3-minute music video.

The NHL announced it's moving its 2009 Awards show from Toronto to Las Vegas.
The featured performers will be Siegfried & Patrick Roy.

A Cuban has defected to the U.S. at the World Baseball Classic.
Instead of a player, it was a TV technician.
He said he needed to fulfill his dream of working in color.

A big Arsenal fan friend of mine explained how Osama bin Laden could attend matches in the '90s without being attacked or arrested: "People were too busy beating up Spurs fans to worry about turning on one of their own".

Iran announced it will send its first female skier to compete in Vancouver at the Winter Olympics, stating she will compete wearing "full Islamic dress".
That didn't work out very well in Beijing for their women's swim team.

Isiah Thomas says he is doing OK and helping the New York Knicks prepare for the draft.
This is like Dick Cheney helping with gun control.

Team U.S.A. was embarrassed at the World Baseball Classic when their game against Puerto Rico was stopped with the Americans down 10 runs in the 7th inning, invoking the Little League-style "mercy rule".
The Puerto Ricans then celebrated by having their manager take them out for pizza and ice cream at Chuck E. Cheese's.

The Oakland Raiders sent a scathing letter to Tennessee about their ex-coach Lane Kiffin, alleging he may at some point have actively supplied information about the team to its opponents.
Do the Raiders know that preseason loss last year was to the Titans and not the Volunteers?

The general manager of Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympic games has announced he is retiring this spring.
Hey - whatever happened to the captain going down with his ship?

The Toronto Maple Leafs have inked a deal to have their playoff games broadcast on the new Obituary Channel.

Jacksonville Jaguars WR Matt Jones is off to jail after violating terms of the plea deal in his drug case by drinking a couple of beers while playing golf with his buddies last week.
Of course, a recovering drug user should never be golfing in the first place: the windmill is bound to remind him of Amsterdam.

A-Rod's out til May? Oh, no - he's gonna miss his best month of the year.

Terrell Owens should fit in in Buffalo like Jimmy Fallon has slid into the Late Nite chair.

Terrell Owens' agent says to expect a deal within a week.
It's unclear if he means signing with an NFL team or an endorsement agreement with Sharpie pens.

Bad Timing Award: Just what the global economy didn't need: everyone on the planet taking two and a half weeks off to watch the World Baseball Classic.

Miami beat Phoenix 135-129.
The Big Ten wants to know if this was over 2 games or 3?

The Dallas Cowboys have released Terrell Owens less than 9 months after he signed a lucrative 4-year contract.
Can't wait to see he and Jerry Jones' pre-nups.

The Dakar Rally announced it will again hold its race in Chile and Argentina in January, 2010, despite the economy and the death of a driver in this year's event.
Organizers will now require all drivers to have raced in a World Rally competition, one Dakar Rally in the past three years, and have a 100% completion rate in Gran Turismo.

Who will return to Hawaii first: the Pro Bowl or Notre Dame?

The U.S. won its first world bobsled title in 50 years.
Sliding downhill on a wild ride would be a good metaphor for the economy, except the sledders found a bottom and there was gold there.

The Kansas City Royals set a record by signing the most generic-sounding baseball player ever - Juan Cruz - to a 2-year contract.
This after they passed on going after Drew Anderson, Matt Smith or Brandon Jones.