My Sports News Digest

Say “Penny” Hardaway and too many people now think of ‘lil Penny, the wise cracking puppet Penny. Nike marketing sticks with you like that. But lest we forget that Anfernee Hardaway could ball, we bring you his top 10 plays from the 1994-96 season. This is just a series of highlights that don’t show off what a pretty floater in the lane, how he was a guard that understood how to use his size to get off shots. Injuries robbed him of some great years, which is sad. Enjoy, and remember Hardaway was more than the guy with the puppet.

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Ain’t this a daisy: Joe Torre just announced that Game 1 has been suspended. You can’t predict baseball. But you can predict weather. Makes you wonder why they didn’t do that here. Because of the new postseason rules that were put into place after the soggy 2008 postseason, all playoff games are played to their completion, not started from scratch, even if it hadn’t reached the fifth inning. That means — per Torre — that Game 1 of the Tigers-Yankees will be resumed at the time Game 2 was to be played tomorrow, 8:37PM.  It will be picked up where [...]

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AP I’m back to break down the injury report after Florio pinch-hit for me last week during my daughter’s first night back from the hospital. Remember, the big injury stories go in the rumor mill.  This post is for all the other smaller fun stuff you may have missed. 1. The Falcons list Roddy White (thigh) as questionable, but they did that most of last year too. He’s expected to play. Backup running back Jason Snelling (concussion) is out, which means more work for rookie Jacquizz Rodgers. 2. Atlanta should be able to break out of their passing funk, especially [...]

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AP I’m back to break down the injury report after Florio pinch-hit for me last week during my daughter’s first night back from the hospital. Remember, the big injury stories go in the rumor mill.  This post is for all the other smaller fun stuff you may have missed. 1. The Falcons list Roddy White (thigh) as questionable, but they did that most of last year too. He’s expected to play. Backup running back Jason Snelling (concussion) is out, which means more work for rookie Jacquizz Rodgers. 2. Atlanta should be able to break out of their passing funk, especially [...]

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A little over 13 months after he turned pro, an English Tom is in the lead at the halfway mark of one of the European Tour’s biggest events. No, not Tom Lewis, who is in his second professional start this week. Rather, 20-year-old Tommy Fleetwood has a share of the 36-hole lead in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship with Ulsterman Michael Hoey on 12-under par. Fleetwood said he is happy just to be a part of the event – just his sixth of the year – much less lead it. “[J]ust to get the invite and everything, just the experience [...]

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Prior to the start of the season, South Carolina freshman wide receiver Damiere Byrd was slapped with a four-game suspension by the NCAA for accepting ,700 in benefits from the Student Athlete Mentoring (S.A.M) Foundation during his recruitment. Despite South Carolina’s attempt to have the NCAA’s ruling reduced, Byrd was required to sit all four games. Today, that suspension has been lifted as the school announced today that Byrd has been cleared to play tomorrow against Auburn. “I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am for Damiere,” said South Carolina AD Eric Hyman. “Our folks in the department worked [...]

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Earlier today, Steve Staios was rewarded for a strong training camp with the Islanders on a tryout and given a one-year contract with the team. In Los Angeles, former Islanders forward Trent Hunter has done just the same inking a one-year contract with the Kings and locking down a spot in starting lineup. ESPN.com’s Pierre LeBrun reports the deal is worth 0,000. Hunter spent eight seasons with the Islanders before being traded to the Devils this summer in the trade that sent Brian Rolston to Long Island. The Devils then bought Hunter out of his contract making him a free [...]

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After what was undeniably the most incredible night of baseball I’ve ever seen (are you over it yet? Are you believing it? I’m neither), I can confidently and aggressively say: Get me to the start of the college basketball season as soon as possible. That ridiculous torrent of unlikely events that gushed out of your TV from St. Petersburg, Atlanta and Baltimore freakishly resembled — in a metamorphosed way — the early rounds of the NCAA tournament. Wasn’t it great? So familiar it made you tingle? I’m so ready for a new season of college hoops that tingle irritated my [...]

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