Ricky Rubio’s sensational rookie season has come to a devastatingly abrupt end. The Minnesota Timberwolves point guard will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL in his left knee, the team announced on Saturday. Now the upstart Wolves will have to keep chasing a playoff berth without the flashy, fiery leader of [...]
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Timberwolves’ Rubio out for season with torn ACL (Yahoo! Sports)
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on March 10th, 2012
Jets extend QB Sanchez’s contract by 3 years (Yahoo! Sports)
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on March 9th, 2012
The New York Jets have extended quarterback Mark Sanchez’s contract by three years and dropped out of pursuing free agent Peyton Manning. The team announced the extension for Sanchez in a conference call Friday night, and general manager Mike Tannenbaum says the Jets “looked at” going after Manning before deciding to stick with Sanchez. Yahoo! [...]
ABC5 WOI-DT News, Weather, Sports in Des Moines, IABritish, Italian hostages …
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on March 8th, 2012
ABC5 WOI-DT News, Weather, Sports in Des Moines, IABritish, Italian hostages … However, they say the sect has splintered, with one wing now willing to use extreme violence. The sect also has begun targeting schools and Christians in Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people. A senior British government … Read more [...]
Saints GM: Randy Moss works out with New Orleans (Yahoo! Sports)
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on March 6th, 2012
The New Orleans Saints held a workout on Tuesday with veteran receiver Randy Moss, who is trying to make a comeback after spending a year out of pro football. General Manager Mickey Loomis confirmed the workout took place, but the club did not provide any details on how the 35-year-old Moss performed. Yahoo! Sports – [...]
AP source: Saints owner backing GM, head coach (Yahoo! Sports)
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on March 5th, 2012
New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson isn’t backing off his support of his general manager and coach, even as his team is accused by the NFL of maintaining a bounty program to injure opponents. While Benson cooperates with NFL officials in their investigation of the bounty program that spanned the last three seasons, he is [...]
Former barrel jumper skates his way into Northbrook Sports Hall of Fame
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on March 5th, 2012
Former barrel jumper skates his way into Northbrook Sports Hall of Fame Richard Widmark could be considered one of the earliest extreme sports athletes. Before the days of the X Games and multimillion-dollar sponsorships, Northbrook resident Widmark was strapping on ice skates and jumping over barrels for cheering fans. Read more on Chicago Tribune
NFL: Saints violated ‘Bounty Rule’ (Yahoo! Sports)
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on March 2nd, 2012
New Orleans Saints players and at least one assistant coach maintained a bounty pool of up to $ 50,000 the last three seasons to reward game-ending injuries inflicted on opposing players, including Brett Favre and Kurt Warner, the NFL said Friday. “Knockouts” were worth $ 1,500 and “cart-offs” $ 1,000, with payments doubled or tripled [...]
Cardinals, Molina reach $75M deal through 2017 (Yahoo! Sports)
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on March 1st, 2012
The St. Louis Cardinals made certain another big star did not get away. Four-time Gold Glove catcher Yadier Molina agreed to a five-year, $ 75 million contract Thursday that kicks in next season and will keep him in St. Louis through the 2017 season. The deal makes Molina, long known for his premier defense and [...]
Kobe Bryant cleared to play after concussion (Yahoo! Sports)
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on February 29th, 2012
Three days after Kobe Bryant broke his nose and got a concussion in the All-Star game, he strapped on a mask and went back to work. Bryant received clearance to play for the Lakers on Wednesday night, not missing a game after a nasty injury resulting from a hard foul from Dwyane Wade. Bryant was [...]
WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI – News, Weather and Sports |Report: Cockpit fogging …
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on February 22nd, 2012
WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI – News, Weather and Sports |Report: Cockpit fogging … (AP) – US Air Force investigators say extreme fogging in the cockpit caused a fighter plane to leave the runway at a Wisconsin airport after it landed. The F-16C Falcon came to a stop about 300 feet away in a [...]
Latest Extreme Sports News
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on February 3rd, 2012
Extreme sports stars get their own channels on YouTube The latest group of channels comes from the action sports vertical, which will finally give skateboarding, surfing, urban mountain biking (?!?!) and other extreme sports fans a place to catch up on the all the latest moves in the industry. Read more on GigaOm
Latest Extreme Sports News
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on January 30th, 2012
EA Sports: SSX will bring extreme sports “back to the forefront of gaming … SSX creative director Todd Batty has said the release of SSX will see the return of the extreme sports genre, speaking in a blog post on the US PS Blog. Batty said that the genre being dead was “something that I [...]
Extreme sports film reveals some big issues for today's youth
Posted by Sports Fun Fan on January 28th, 2012
Extreme sports film reveals some big issues for today's youth That's The Last Paradise, a film about extreme sports and extreme science. Pioneering filmmaker Clive Neeson has put together a multi-layered film. It works as a documentary over time, as a film of beautiful images and extreme sporting action and as a … Read more [...]
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