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Currently with his eighth team in a MLB career spanning ten years, it is definitely safe to say that Milton Bradley is a journeyman. With his above average talent he certainly is not you archetypical journeyman, it is more to do with his people skills as to why he flits from club to club. And...

His NFL stock value was never going to reach the heights of two NCAA National Championships and a Heisman Trophy but Tim Tebow, picked #25 in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos, is at least leading one NFL category as he enters his debut professional season with the #1...

Soccer is a game which, with more than a little help from the British Empire, was exported all over the world and an exported externality of that was soccer hooliganism. Most notorious in the game through the 1970s and 1980s, it is still far from being eradicated and it has a habit of rearing...

The art of diving in soccer, called simulation by FIFA and cheating by everyone else, is where a player tries to gain an unfair advantage by falling to the ground in the manner by which it seems that a foul has been committed but in reality has not. It's a definite blight on the game, has been...

The Adriatic League, more commonly referred to as the NLB League, is an East European regional basketball league consisting of teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. Although it's certainly no NBA, in fact no players have made the transition to there from...

In baseball the hidden ball trick, a play where the baserunner is fooled into an incorrect location of the ball and tagged out, is something of a lost art. Over the last six years there have been a total of two successful hidden ball tricks in the big leagues, both coincidentally by Mike Lowell...

The goal poacher is a term used in soccer to denote a striker known for the ability beat defenders and to score goals from close range. Although their goals generally aren't the most beautiful in the world and they are not usually remembered as elites in their field, they do their job as they...

When you think about bad baseball contracts, any number of recent deals spring to mind and they generally fall into two categories. There are the times that a club overpays for a player either in annual salary, length of contract or both and the player's performance never lives up to the...

LaShawn Merritt, the American who rose to fame after taking gold in the 400m at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, faced a two year competitive ban on Thursday as it was revealed that he tested positive for the banned steroid Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). Merritt, who at 23 is fifth in the all time...

Heading into Tuesday's game with the Texas Rangers, Boston had a 4-9 record after a four game sweep by Tampa Bay which represented their worst start to a season since 1996. Although we are not yet 10% into the 2010 season maybe it's not time to panic and in most divisions this would be the case...

Edinson Volquez was today banned from baseball for 50 games following a violation of MLB's performance-enhancing drug policy. The Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher made a brief statement that he tested positive when he reported for spring training and cited that the cause of the positive test was...

The Derby d'Italia is the bi-annual meeting between Inter Milan and Juventus in Italy's Serie A, first named in 1967 for the meeting of the teams who had the highest number of international honors and national honors respectively. And this derby is one of the more unusual ones since it isn't...

With Barry Zito set to get the start on Sunday against the Los Angeles Dodgers, we might just be seeing the Zito of old. After winning his first two starts of the 2010 season, Zito stands at 2-0 for only the second time in his career. The two wins, alongside an ERA of 2.25 ERA look pretty but...

George Gillett and Tom Hicks - who between them have had also had involvement with the Montreal Canadiens, Richard Petty Motorsports, Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars ended countless months of speculation as they confirmed their intention on Friday to sell Liverpool Football Club of the English...

When you are in your mid 30s and in the last year of your contract, I'm sure that most baseball players would be a bit uncertain of the future come the end of the year. They might even start to get a bit edgy when they are struggling to keep their head above the Mendoza Line over a week in the...