There was a hangup Thursday night in the ratification of the owners' proposal.
It appears the Florida teams may have voted more than once.

The Orioles are so desperate for pitching, they just went out and signed Jonnie Marbles.

Japan won the Women's World Cup, despite at times looking like they had less game than a Tamagotchi.

One bad aspect of South Sudan achieving independence: Canada's world soccer ranking dropped another notch.

Chad Ochocinco said if the NFL lockout goes any longer, he hopes to play in the NBA this fall instead.

Charlie Sheen says he took drugs to improve his pitching for the filming of Major League.
We're expecting a similar revelation from Bill Lee regarding his Spaceman documentary.

The NBA lockout could potentially result in a 50-game season starting in January, where every game means something and all the teams are competing in a sprint for the playoffs.
There's a downside, too.

The Pittsburgh Penguins have reportedly reached an agreement with Jaromir Jagr: he will receive $2 million over 1 year to never grow that mullet again.

The hacker group LulzSec says it is disbanding and they will retire the number 01.

It was Mexican Police Bobblehead Night for the first 10,000 fans through the gate at the Rose Bowl Saturday night for the Gold Cup final.
The head is detachable.

After the NHL Awards show, the players whooped it up in Vegas.
Jeff Skinner was spotted at Chuck E. Cheese.

Are they overdoing it at the NHL Awards?
Gary Bettman won the Gary Bettman Trophy as top commissioner.

The Jazz can't decide what to do with their first-round pick Thursday.
They draft 3rd overall, after the Cavaliers and the Kardashians.

Rutgers University is taking the naming rights to its football stadium very literally.
The Scarlet Knights - who finished dead last in the Big East last year, scoring a mere 20 points per game - will now be playing in HighPoints Solution Stadium.

The Yankees Eduardo Nunez hit a double into a flock of seagulls at Wrigley Field.
It was the first time a hit had been anywhere near the '80s hair band in decades.

Let's hope Bethesda, Maryland gets through the weekend without any U.S. Open riots.

I hope Dallas does a better job of putting on a motorcade this time.

LeBron James has been outscored by Dirk Nowitzki 52-11 down the stretch during the finals.
This is the worst 4th-quarter performance since Enron.

Terrelle Pryor reportedly spent his Ohio State income on shoes, hats and belts. After he flunks out of the NFL, expect to see him in Sex and the City 3.

The SEC voted to limit football signings at 25 per year.
To $0 lease cars at local dealerships.

Derek Jeter is now just 16 hits shy of #3000.
It should be an exciting couple of months ahead.

U2 singer Bono was picked up hitchhiking in West Vancouver by Edmonton Oiler Gilbert Brule.
Bono almost got picked up a few minutes earlier by Gary Bettman, but he wouldn't get in the car after Bettman insisted on charging him a relocation fee.

If Ohio State football receives a TV ban, will it include Pawn Stars and Hardcore Pawn?

A roof overhanging Dodger Stadium caught fire during the L.A.-Florida game Saturday night.
Firefighters got it under control after declining an offer from Jonathan Broxton to help put it out.

The Boston Bruins won Game 7 of their conference final against the Tampa Bay Lightning by avoiding their Achilles' heel: going on the power play.

Roger Goodell says fans want an 18-game season.
What he fails to realize is, that's for the NBA.

They held a Save The Thrashers rally in the parking lot of Philips Arena.
Did you hear who showed up?
The Atlanta Hawks mascot and 200 fans...
of the Atlanta Hawks mascot.

Quite a week for last shows in Chicago: first Oprah, then the Bulls.
Where's the Blackhawks John Scott going to get his summer book recommendations?

The San Jose Mercury News ranked the Canucks-Sharks Game 5 as one of the top 10 toughest defeats in Bay Area history.
I'm surprised Prop 8 didn't make the list.

Chinese driver crashes in Indy 500 qualifying, ruins historic bid to end stereotype.

The NHL wants $170 million for the Atlanta Thrashers?
I think potential new franchise owners should wait for a Groupon.

Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL will contribute to the cost of the Vikings new stadium.
Yeah, they'll pay for the locks.

The San Jose Sharks play in HP Pavilion.
If it's anything like my laptop of the same name, look for a power outage in the middle of a game.

The UFC is now rewarding its fighters with bonuses for using Twitter.
Leave it to MMA to reward its athletes for managing to string together 140 characters.

The NFLPA wants a share of the league's work stoppage TV money.
No one's received that much money for doing nothing on TV since the cast of Jersey Shore.

Gary Bettman made a public appearance the other day.
He saw his shadow, so the Coyotes will stay in Phoenix for another year.

Ohio State and Miami will meet in primetime on September 17.
In what, auto racing?
Safe to say it won't be the Jeopardy! College Championship.

Rights groups say Syrian forces are using soccer stadiums as makeshift prisons.
Sort of like being a West Ham United fan.

The FBI released documents showing George Steinbrenner assisted them in a terror probe.
Apparently, the Yankees owner believed the terrorists were in a compound behind a 36-foot green left field wall.

A lot of empty seats for Canada-Norway.
Are the World Championships being co-hosted by Slovakia and Arizona?

The SEC has donated $500,000 to Alabama tornado victims.
Who are teenagers who can run sub-4.5 40s.

President Obama says he won't "spike the football" by releasing Osama bin Laden death photos.
Good thing his press secretary isn't Chad Ochocinco.

People in Michigan are sick and tired of spring snowstorms.
Especially those originating from Joe Pavelski's skates.

Federal election Monday: rare this past week to see a ballot without a Vancouver Canuck on it.

NHL playoff ratings are up all over the continent, except in Arizona where they lagged behind The Paul Reiser Show.

Some NFL players picked up side gigs during the work stoppage.
Ben Roethlisberger got an acting role.
He's starring in the upcoming movie Hobo In The Shotgun.

The NFL players are technically allowed back into team facilities Tuesday morning.
Sebastian Janikowski is camping out in line so he's the first one into the Raiders' fitness center.

A NFLPA spokesman said if the players could have written a first legal response to the lockout, that's exactly the one they would have done, though "it might not have been 89 pages".
Yeah, most of them didn't read 89 pages total in college.

U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered an end to the NFL lockout.
Of course she did; women across the country are horrified by the idea of their husbands wanting to spend time together on Sundays.

BYU forward Brandon Davies expects to rejoin the basketball team this fall after missing his team's NCAA tourney run by breaking the school's honor code through premarital sex.
Davies issued a statement saying he is looking forward to continuing his BYU education, playing basketball, and having more premarital sex.

The Cubs were angry after the Dodgers A.J. Ellis missed a sign and tried to steal a base up 8-1 in the top of the 5th.
Wow - I didn't realize no MLB team has ever come back from 7 runs down in the 5th inning.

Brandon Marshall's 1st wedding anniversary is coming up.
Gift suggestion: Nerf cutlery.

A robot failed at throwing out the first pitch of an MLB game, one-bouncing it to the plate.
The Mets signed him to a multi-year contract.

The NHL announced a new 10 year deal.
It will continue to be wildly inconsistent on its suspension rulings through 2021.

The Chicago Blackhawks top players are logging more ice time than Walt Disney.

Joe Paterno says he won't name a starting QB until the fall.
Won't or can't?

The Bruins Zdeno Charo missed game 2 against the Canadiens after he was hospitalized with dehydration.
Apparently, he needs to keep drinking his Haterade.

Word is Mike Tyson almost fought Brad Pitt in '89 when Pitt was dating Tyson's ex-wife Robin Givens.
How did this story even get out - doesn't it break the first rule of Fight Club?

Boston Pizza has temporarily changed the name of its 26 Montreal-area restaurants to "Montreal Pizza".
The company has an unusual guarantee.
If you don't get your order within 30 minutes, Zdeno Chara tries to decapitate the delivery guy.

The NBA fined Kobe Bryant $100,000 for "offensive and inexcusable" comments he made during Tuesday's game.
He said Luke Walton was a good player.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban wants to ban people not serving "company interests" from the locker room after games.
Is Caron Butler back hanging around?

Canada moved its leaders debate a day to avoid conflicting with the Bruins-Canadiens series.
The Green Party's Elizabeth May will spend the debate in the quiet room.

New Jersey Nets co-owner Jay-Z was fined $50,000 for visiting the Kentucky Wildcats locker room after their big NCAA tourney win over North Carolina.
That may sound like a lot, but we still don't know how much John Calipari's cover charge to get into the room was.

Manny Ramirez retired rather than face a 100-game suspension after his drug test came back labeled "Cheech & Chong".

During a traffic stop, Allen Iverson asked police: "Do you know who I am?"
Yeah, you're that guy who averaged 9 points a game for Besiktas Cola Turka.

Man United's Wayne Rooney was suspended for two matches when he swore into a Sky TV camera after scoring a goal.
The good news is Quentin Tarantino has cast him in his next film.

South Carolina suspended QB Stephen Garcia for the fifth time.
Apparently, they are using the SEC's "Six Strikes" policy.

LeBron James bought a co-ownership stake in Liverpool FC and has scheduled a TV special to announce which southern European beach city he will move them to.

Donald Trump will drive the pace car at next month's Indianapolis 500.
His hair will be tested for asbestos.

Butler's plane home to Indy missed the runway but everyone's okay.

Apollo 13 and Butler on long-range trajectories: "Houston, we've had a problem."

Worse job Monday: Charlie Sheen's PR manager or "One Shining Moment" editor?

The only thing proving tougher to move than the Phoenix Coyotes are Charlie Sheen tickets.

Wildlife biologists say the Victoria Azarenka-Maria Sharapova shriekfest in the Sony Ericsson Open final disrupted Key Biscayne bird habitats.

Bigger early April bomb in Detroit: the Tigers starting pitching or Charlie Sheen's live show?

Alabama will unveil a statue of Nick Saban.
Emil Faber wants to know what the plaque inscription will say: "Knowledge Is Bad"?

After hearing about a draft evaluation that said he has a "fake smile...enormous ego with a sense of entitlement...comes off as very scripted...(and) always knows where the cameras are and plays to them", Cam Newton has decided to launch a political career.

The Ohio State Buckeyes will be wearing camouflage helmets for their Spring Game.
I guess that's so NCAA investigators can't find them.

Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May is a little perturbed.
She can't get on TV yet broadcasters continue to air Edmonton Oilers games.

The NFLPA will begin paying players April 15.
Or as Auburn players entering the draft like to call it, "bridge financing".

4 elections in less than 7 years?
Canadian politics are starting to have as much year-to-year change as Kentucky's basketball roster.

A Dallas-area jeweler says Cowboys WR Dez Bryant owes him $246,000 in custom orders.
The NorthPark Center Mall hopes it's for a gem-studded belt.

The Horizon League...the Colonial Athletic Association...is this the Final Four or a bluegrass festival?

The city of Anaheim is trying to entice the Sacramento Kings to move and join their pro sports lineup of the Angels, the Ducks, and jousting at Medieval Times.

A coalition of Pacific Northwest pro sports teams have formed the Green Sports Alliance to promote practices such as recycling garbage.
The Seattle Mariners are leading the way by giving Milton Bradley another season.

The Knicks wore "Nueva York" jerseys Thursday as part of the NBA's Latin Night series.
How do you say "no team chemistry" en Espanol?

Headline: Barry Bonds' cab driver prefers jail to talking about Bonds' taxi rides

Anyone else surprised North America's first face transplant had nothing to do with Matt Cooke?

Barry Bonds' legal team outnumbers the government's 13-5, and has a payroll higher than the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Notre Dame's star WR Michael Floyd got a DUI after he failed three sobriety tests that consisted of standing on one leg, walking and turning around, and a finger count.
It was almost as bad as Maurice Clarett's combine performance.

CBS's NCAA tourney webcasts are a huge success.
The Kansas St.-Wisconsin matchup had the highest traffic for an online game in those states since Farmville.

LeBron James is helping lead a new stay-in-school initiative.
I hope it's more successful than Cavs owner Dan Gilbert's stay-in-Cleveland initiative.

Ohio State coach Jim Tressel requested he sit out the first 5 games of the 2011 season, and that no peas are in his mashed potatoes.

Roger Goodell e-mailed the NFL players Thursday, saying "each passing day puts our game at risk".
He also threatened to unfollow them on Twitter.

Glendale's mayor says they may seek a minor league hockey team if the NHL franchise leaves town.
Would they keep the Coyotes name and logo? That brand must be worth hundreds of dollars.

President Obama picked the #1 seeds to win each of the regions in his bracket.
Unfortunately for him, the Mideast region is not as predictable.

The Vancouver Whitecaps soccer team found itself in a controversy after it released a video of a nude model being body-painted with the team's colours.
It could have been worse: the video could have had a voice over by Gilbert Gottfried.

Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson is trying out with MLS squad Sporting Kansas City.
Maybe he will change his name to "Cero-cero".

Muhammad Ali asked Iran to release two American hikers held since 2009.
Evander Holyfield asked them if they had any old boxers interested in a match this summer.

Washington Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau, on injuries from hits to the head being part of hockey: "If you don't like it, don't come to the games."
Wow - who thought fans in Florida, Georgia and Arizona would lead a hockey protest?