Vancouver Whitecaps striker Darren Mattocks was injured in Saturday night's match against the Seattle Sounders, falling victim to the EA SPORTS FIFA SOCCER downloadable custom cover jinx.

Michigan State filed a complaint with the Big Ten over film that Ohio State supplied them before their 1-point loss.
Apparently, the Buckeyes sent the Spartans a copy of Liam Neeson's Taken 2.

One of the PGA tour stops should be mini-golf.

Prop bet: I wonder what kind of odds one could have got from Vegas in the spring that there would be 7X as many MLB no-hitters as Vancouver Canadians rainouts?

How much does Yahoo! pay Brigham Young to have their Y logo on the 50-yard line at LaVell Edwards Stadium?

Paris has commemorated its 2006 World Cup defeat with a large, bronze statue of  France's Zinedine Zadine head-butting Italy's Marco Materazzi.
The artist is the same guy who did the sculpture of Bill Buckner outside Fenway Park.

The Bikini Basketball League will launch next summer with 7 teams.
I get the feeling their dunk contest will involve a dunk tank.

The crowd erupted into a standing ovation when the full-time officials took the field before the Browns-Ravens game.
It was the biggest outpouring of praise for anything in Baltimore since David Simon's The Wire.

2003 Cy Young winner Eric Gagne says 80% of his former LA Dodgers teammates were using PEDs.
Fortunately, there are none of those ugly clubhouse stories of needles in the butt.
Tommy Lasorda had them baked into the breadsticks at Olive Garden.

Police have caught another Stanley Cup rioter, this time hiding out in Saskatchewan.
It's unknown if he was continuing his rioting lifestyle there.
Perhaps he was hoping for a Roughriders Grey Cup appearance, or particularly heated extra ends in curling.

If the replacement refs are gone from the NFL a month from now, the Republican Party would like to get them to oversee the election.

Some fun glitches in EA Sports NHL 13.
One reviewer suggested they add smoke trails and small explosions next year.
Uh, I think Fox already tried that on TV around '97-'98.

Roger Goodell has set up a direct deposit account in Green Bay to expedite Packers fines.
Cheddar and Colby also accepted as payment.

So there's two officials in the Seahawks end zone on the Hail Mary.
One signals incomplete, one signals touchdown.
Aaron Rodgers...underpaid replacement refs...Discount Double Call!

2,000 workers at the Foxconn plant that makes iPhones in China returned to the job after a giant brawl closed the facility for a day.
Management, hoping for calm, organized a team-building event that involved gambling on and watching Monday Night Football.

Three former Olympus camera executives pleaded guilty to filing false accounting reports in a $1.7 billion scandal.
It's the most expensive fraud since the L.A. Dodgers sale.

Is the NFL officiating crew now just random fans pulled out of the stands before games?

NFL replacement refs just voted Justin Bieber into the Heavy Metal Hall Of Fame.

Another bad Sunday for the replacement refs.
It's starting to make me question the integrity of the Lingerie and semi-pro leagues.

The awkward moment when you try to high five someone and you both miss.
I believe that's called a Big Ten.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones thinks kneel-downs should be banned, but is for prayer in schools.

In the wake of the lockout, the NHL has cancelled September exhibition games.
Do the parties involved realize fans have alternatives for their sports dollars?
Enough with overpaid players and greedy, misguided owners: bring on the NBA!

Syrian rebels deny there is a bounty on the head of President Bashar al-Hassad.
However, the government claims to have a sworn affidavit from Gregg Williams that it's true.

A bomb threat at LSU caused the temporary evacuation of half the Tigers football team from an Introduction To Frisbee class.

Atlanta RB Michael Turner was charged with DUI early Tuesday morning after the Falcons Monday Night Football win.
He must have been really out of it, because he asked if a replacement official could administer the sobriety test.

A large statue of David Beckham is coming to Vancouver as part of an ad campaign by Swedish retailer H&M.
Beleaguered Whitecaps coach Martin Rennie is wondering if it could be stationed just in front and to the side of the opposition goal at BC Place.

The NHL's CBA talks have gotten so antagonistic, Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr are now only communicating through Yunel Escobar's eye black.

Alabama and LSU are now 1-2 in the AP poll.
This is like Groundhog Day, only the marmot is now a defensive end.

Is "casual college football fan" an oxymoron?

Is it time to let Louisiana-Monroe into the SEC?

The best thing about Tennessee Volunteers football is the life-size chess boards in the end zones.

Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips said Pirates reliever Jared Hughes called him "boy", considered one of the worst on-field slurs in pro sports.
I need to hear Washington Redskins WR Pierre Garcon's take on this.

When I hear "Atlantic Coast", I think South Bend, Indiana.
The only person who thinks Notre Dame is a good geographical fit in the ACC is Miss Teen South Carolina.

Michael Vick with 4 interceptions Sunday.
That's more turnovers than his coach had for breakfast.

Men's World Cup Soccer qualifying: Jamaica beat the U.S. for the first time ever, 2-1 in Kingston.
The Americans then got revenge 1-0 four nights later in Columbus, Ohio.
Home-and-home series in two Third World cesspools.

Andy Murray finally won his first major title, and has already picked up a new endorsement deal: Chia Pet.

Harvard basketball star Kyle Casey is set to sit out a year after his involvement in an academic fraud scandal.
I don't know. Getting in trouble for cheating in a class named "Introduction To Congress" sounds hypocritical.
I think the irony meter just broke.

Cleveland's Brandon Weeden was 12 of 35 for 118 yards and 4 interceptions in his NFL debut.
The only time all day the Eagles didn't know what he was up to was when he was under that giant flag.

Parking for a Detroit Lions game at Ford Field is $50 this season.
But they also throw in ownership of a Detroit townhouse.

John L. Smith: The accountants are working their tails off, and the coach keeps screwing it up.

Free advice for the Washington Nationals: you know how pitchers and catchers report to spring training in mid-February?
Next year, have Stephen Strasburg report in April.

Dancing was first permitted on Baylor's campus in 1996.
That was the year before the forward pass was allowed on Oklahoma's campus.

The Grey Cup 100 Train Tour leaves Vancouver on Sunday for a 10-week, 4100 km journey that will take it as far as Halifax.
Coincidentally, that's the same amount of time it takes Canada Post to deliver a package across the country.

Lance Armstrong was banned from the Chicago Marathon, which is a shame 'cause he'd already researched the route for subway shortcuts.

Is the Big East just a pyramid scheme?

Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine told a radio host over the phone if he was there in person he'd "punch him right in the mouth".
He went on to say he'd give him a knuckle sandwich, and knock his block off.
Confused Tigers manager Jim Leyland said he didn't understand all these new ways to threaten people.

Chris Pronger guaranteed the NHL season won't start as scheduled.
He's staying in game-shape during the work stoppage by competing in lumberjack festivals.

No Doubt performed the song "Settle Down" at the NFL Kickoff Concert.
The game crowd at MetLife Stadium certainly obeyed.

Austin Jackson and Delmon Young were missing in action Wednesday at Comerica Park when the Detroit Tigers took their annual team photo.
Jackson hinted he forgot; Young was just saving the Tigers' graphic designer 30 minutes of offseason Photoshop work.

Great speech by U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama at the DNC. Barack loved it.
He used the distraction to secretly conduct his NFL fantasy league draft.
Those reaction shots with his daughters?
Pre-taped.

The Washington Nationals would have shut down Harvey Haddix after the 10th inning.

Dwight Howard took out a full-page ad in the Orlando Sentinel thanking the city and expressing his love for it.
Once he retires he wants to be able to venture out beyond his gated community.

Bama fans love their football, but the games are really just down time between Honey Boo Boo episodes.

A Florida high schooler made history by becoming the first girl to play QB in a boys game, handing off the last two snaps of her team's victory.
She's got those eye black strips that Tebow wore.
The one under her right eye reads "Call Me" and under the left "Maybe".
Not sure if that's a message to the boys or college recruiters.