The Miami Marlins are selling tickets to their season-ending game, which was Henderson Alvarez's no-hitter versus the Tigers.
This may be the first major league baseball game to sell more tickets after it was finished than before.

The Toronto Raptors are set to host the 2016 NBA All-Star Game.
At the pace things are going, will there be any non-Canadian players on the rosters?

Houston fans burned Matt Schaub jerseys after the loss to Seattle.
Enron thinks that team is a fraud.

Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger finished his degree at Miami of Ohio last year.
He planned to get it sooner, but said Pittsburgh's deep playoff runs prevented him from registering in time for the winter terms.
This might be a good year to get started on a Master's.

Lane Kiffin and Breaking Bad exit on the same day. One is the tale of a wicked man hungry with power, and the other is Breaking Bad.

OJ Simpson got caught stealing cookies in prison.
At least he's after food you don't need a knife to eat.

EA will not release a version of its college football game next year.
Instead, they will debut a new video game franchise: Sim Court, with Ed O' Bannon as the first cover star.

Lots of baseball players celebrating division clinching wins.
Most of them are wearing safety goggles and masks.
Is that really necessary?
You're having fizzy water and sparkling wine sprayed on you, not going scuba diving in nuclear reactor coolant.

Michigan and Michigan State play every fall for the Paul Bunyan Trophy.
To promote the NHL Winter Classic at The Big House, this year they are going to call it The Phil Kessel Trophy.

I'm worried about the drug-testing for the America's Cup.
It's San Francisco: home of BALCO and the Grateful Dead.
You can pick up a false positive just walking up Haight Street.

Detroit Lions WR Nate Burleson broke his arm in a car accident when he was "distracted by falling pizza".

"Falling pizza"?!? 

Is this a marketing stunt tied into that Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs movie opening this weekend?

Apparently, no alcohol was involved.

But he did test positive for mozzarella and tomato sauce.

New NHL arena-naming deal: San Jose's HP Pavilion is now The SAP Center.
Are they sponsored by Aunt Jemima?

The Vikings and Steelers are a combined 0-6 and set to play at London's Wembley Stadium Sunday.
These teams have already surrendered - shouldn't this game be in Paris?

The 49ers are struggling.
For the 2nd straight game, Colin Kaepernick posted a passer rating lower than Aldon Smith's IQ.

Wild brawl between the Leafs and Sabres.
The battle of Lake Ontario.
Winner gets a season's supply of antifreeze.

The Bengals beat the Packers in Cincinnati, which means Katy Perry's "Roar" will never be heard again in a football stadium.

Saskatchewan Roughriders fans wear watermelons on their heads.
What if Carrot Top went to a game at Taylor Field?
That's your daily dose of Vitamin A right there.

I know why NFL QB's are doing those ads for McDonald's - so current high school and college players won't be fit enough to take away their jobs when they're older.

Tommy Rees is like a Palestinian rocket launcher - just randomly sailing it into enemy territory.

Arsenal is playing Jeff Spicoli's favorite soccer team this weekend: Stoke City.

Iran's President said to the U.S.: "let's end our rivalry".
Maybe Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick could help broker that.

Jacksonville has less of a chance of appearing in this year's Super Bowl than M.I.A.

X-rays on Browns' QB Brandon Weeden's sprained right thumb were negative and he could be back as early as week 4.
Or as the Browns' AFC North rivals call it: "positive".

The LA Dodgers clinched the NL West title and celebrated in the Chase Field bleachers pool.
A pool party with all guys and no beer, and the Diamondbacks were upset they weren't invited?

The rock group Kiss has been promoting their eponymously-named new Arena Football League team.
Let's hope they don't become a cold sore on the L.A. sporting scene.

Condo neighbours say banging thud noises coming from the Steve Nash Sports Club on Granville Street are unbearable.
At least we know they aren't Nash free throws clanging off the rim.
Imagine living above the Dwight Howard Fitness Gym.

A woman claiming to be Miss Uzbekistan is competing in the Miss World pageant, despite the Muslim country officially stating it doesn't hold a national beauty pageant and has never heard of her.
Found: Manti Te'o's new girlfriend.

Tim Murray, assistant GM of the Ottawa Senators, has a good '90s look going on.
Like a cross between a X-Files character and a founding member of Barenaked Ladies.

Ugly uniform matchup for Bama-Texas A&M.
The only place that color combo ever looked good was a White Stripes concert.

Another Oregon fashion disaster: they look like urine popsicles.

If you go to the Manning Passing Academy, can you ask for a refund if Cooper is your instructor?

The Illinois-Washington game offers the rare possibility of a Soldier Field football game without any Jay Cutler interceptions.

Nebraska is planning a "Blackout" against UCLA Saturday.
Watch for widespread looting of the Cornhusker defense.

The Voyager I spacecraft became the second man-made object to ever leave the solar system, trailing only a Mickey Mantle home run.

Undercover Seattle Police officers will be dressed in 49ers jerseys at CenturyLink for Sunday's game.
Kind of like the Jets had Lavonte David dressed as a Buccaneer last week.

The NHL held its Young Stars tournament in Penticton.
Or as the Edmonton Oilers call it: hockey.
Not very sporting, but the Oilers sent the top six forwards from their roster.

"The Tools of Ignorance": a catcher's equipment, or Vladimir Putin's computer keyboard?

Dennis Rodman will train a North Korean basketball team for a pair of exhibitions in January.
If they lose, I hope he's wearing a bulletproof dress.

The BC Lions have reacquired QB Buck Pierce.
Can Roy Dewalt be far behind?

Eminem did a halftime interview with Herbstreit and Musberger at the Michigan-Notre Dame game.
He had a look on his face that said: "My street cred's evaporating by the second".

Target should sponsor the college football ejections for targeting.

Will it be sixth time lucky for Istanbul bidding for the 2024 Olympics?
They've been at it so long they earlier bid as Constantinople.
And before that, Byzantium.

Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympics, which should keep the tradition of incomprehensible mascots alive.
Great potential there for some asexual, Hello Kitty Pokemon creatures.

Madonna said the U.S. should stay out of Syria.
Of course she did: they have a terrible basketball team.

Freshman orientation week went well in the SEC.
New players familiarizing themselves with the local network of banks, car dealerships and tattoo parlours.

A new Canada Post hockey stamp appears to depict Todd Bertuzzi.
It can only be used to mail court summonses.

Cary Williams and Riley Cooper with the biggest Eagles in-fighting since Don Henley and Glenn Frey.

Brian Burke didn't look thrilled to be introduced as President of Hockey Operations for the Calgary Flames.
Was that a press conference or a hostage video?

Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly also said Boston isn't a big college town.

Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly went from saying he didn't consider Michigan a "traditional" or "historical" rival on Sunday, to calling the rivalry "great and historical" on Tuesday.
How was the two-day trip in the DeLorean, coach?

Can you imagine working in the Jets team store?
From Tebow jerseys last year to this.
They're laying off garment workers in China.

Four QBs on that Jets roster now. That's more than the number of Brady Quinn jerseys they'll sell.

The New York Jets signed QB Brady Quinn.
They're off to a great start as Super Bowl hosts, by ensuring they don't take up one of the two spots.

Two men got inside Wrigley Field at 3:45 am by squeezing through metal security bars.
The method of entry led police to rule out Cubs fans as suspects.

Two Phillies fans slipped into Wrigley Field in the middle of the night and tried to steal ivy but were caught by security cameras and arrested.
They were charged with misdemeanour trespassing and disturbing Andre Dawson's sleep.

Luckily, last week I sold all my stock in shark cage companies. I thought this Diana Nyad swim had the potential to pop the shark cage bubble.

The crew on Diana Nyad's escort boat was the starting pitching rotation of Cuba's national team.

The Knicks' J. R. Smith says he's "100% sure" New York will win the NBA title this coming season.
His math is even worse than the execs that structure the Knicks' player contracts.