The Rams have discussed signing Tim Tebow.
If he goes to St. Louis while the World Series is on, he'll be rooting against the team that looks like Jesus.

Nice Alex Edler centre ice shot Marc-Andre Fleury let in to open the Canucks-Penguins scoring Saturday.
He looked like Prince Fielder playing first base.

Oregon wore pink helmets against Washington State, and rose awareness about breast cancer and deficiencies in Mike Leach's defense.

LeBron James wants to play a NFL game.
How about Madden 25?

LeBron James says he wants to play one NFL game.
Maybe the Browns can offer him a contract but he can sign with the Dolphins instead.

Celtics great Bill Russell was arrested at Sea-Tac after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on bag.
I guess that finally settles the debate over whether Russell would fit in in today's NBA.

Toughest job in sports right now: Grambling State recruiting coordinator.

Colts owner Jim Irsay said Peyton Manning was into putting up "Star Wars numbers".
Look for the Broncos to be up by two touchdowns Sunday in less than 12 parsecs.

Who sponsors the Tigers bullpen calls - Kingsford?

Torii Hunter is upset the policeman in the Red Sox bullpen didn't do anything to help.
That's okay; at least he wasn't as bad as the firemen in the Tigers bullpen.

Why does the home-plate umpire wear a black dinner jacket?
Do their passes to get into the ballpark say "semiformal wear suggested"?

Baseball players - Red Sox, A's, Brian Wilson - stop with the beards!
You look like a mountain goat at an Arcade Fire concert.

A Vancouver art gallery is prepared to spend big bucks for some Andy Warhol prints of Wayne Gretzky coming up for auction.
You'd think they would know better after the locals' experience overpaying for a facsimile of Mark Messier.

For Halloween, my niece is going to be an Oregon cheerleader possessed by marketing demons.

In NHL disciplinary news, the Canucks Alex Edler was suspended 3 games for Jason Botchford publishing Joe Thornton's comments.

Chicago Bears WR Brandon Marshall wore green shoes on Thursday Night Football to support Mental Illness Awareness Week.
Oregon Ducks cheerleaders will wear green contact lenses Saturday to make us more aware of mental illness in the Oregon athletic department.

Virginia Tech and Tennessee will play a college football game before up to 160,000 on the infield of the Bristol Motor Speedway in 2016.
Will there be a NASCAR race on the track at the same time?

A new book claims Sheryl Crow witnessed her then-boyfriend Lance Armstrong blood doping in 2004.
I knew that morning beer buzz was just a gateway drug.

New York City is looking to regulate costumed characters who wander around Times Square posing for pictures with tourists.
Next up for the committee: investigating 53 men who have been impersonating the New York Giants.

Virginia Tech will play Tennessee at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2016.
The game is expected to draw a record 150-160,000 fans.
Also, the world's biggest DUI checkpoint.

Dennis Rodman sort of got his wish: he's been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Pierce Prize.

The Vancouver Canucks are looking good at 3-1.
Damn; there go all the Club 500 jokes I was crafting.

The Rays walk-off home run Monday night landed in the pool filled with actual rays.
That may be the key to the Diamondbacks avoiding future visiting team pool parties: put a couple sharks in there, or closer to their name, some rattlesnakes.

Controversy over whether Condoleezza Rice should be on the College Football Playoff committee.
C'mon - she has plenty of experience sending young men into physically hazardous situations.

That 9-year-old boy who flew to Vegas unattended put his entire piggy bank on the Broncos at -28.

Authorities are investigating after a 9-year-old boy without a ticket boarded a plane for Las Vegas in Minnesota.
There are also 25 men from Tampa somehow getting into ALDS playoff games without a ticket.

San Diego at Oakland with the late NFL game Sunday night.
Ironically,  the Chargers played like there was a pitching mound in the middle of the field.

Exciting times for college football: we're just a year away from a four-team playoff, and subtitles for Lou Holtz.

The Lotto 6/49 jackpot is $31 million, or roughly what Floyd Mayweather bet on WWE Battleground Sunday night.

The Big Ten games today are so dull the Pacific Life game summary whale beached itself out of boredom.

Alex Rodriguez is suing everyone in baseball except the San Diego Chicken.

Congrats to whoever had Roy over Torts in their first meltdown pool.
That contest didn't last long.
Like a 100-meter dash.

By the looks of the Capitals' goaltending, this may be the only shutdown Washington sees this year.

How is The Presidents Cup going forward during the government shutdown?

Utah looks like they are America's Cup crewmen.

Canadian Supreme Court appointee Marc Nadon now says he didn't mean to imply that he was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings.
That would have been impossible, because he was spending that winter touring as the rhythm guitarist in The Guess Who.

Air Force and Navy will play their football game Saturday, despite the government shutdown.
This is great news for Notre Dame's hope of becoming bowl-eligible.

The Commander-In-Chief Trophy college football game between Air Force and Navy Saturday may be canceled due to the government shutdown.
Suddenly, Notre Dame may need the government to achieve bowl eligibility.

I want to hear Jim Cornelison sing "Black Hole Sun".

The NHL opening night pre-game ceremonies are reminiscent of the ending of The Return of the King.

In their pre-game opening ceremony, the Chicago Blackhawks introduced their massage therapist.
I guess he's hoping for a happy ending.

The U.S. government shutdown could not have come at a better time for President Barack Obama, who is intensifying his research for his upcoming NBA fantasy draft.

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.