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It was clear that Tiger Woods is now immune to any further flak after even further salacious accusations, that he bedded the college aged daughter of his next door neighbor, failed to put him off his game as he posted a 68 in the first round of the Masters at Augusta, Florida. His four under par...

With the exit of Manchester United from the Champions League at the hands of Bayern Munich on Wednesday following the dispatching of Arsenal by Barcelona on Tuesday it left the semi-final stage of the competition a multicultural affair. With one team from each of France, Germany, Italy and Spain...

Prior to Tiger Woods starting his return to professional golf at Thursday's Masters, where he is scheduled to tee off at 1:42PM EST, Nike release a TV commercial starring Woods along with the voice of his late father Earl Woods entitled "Earl And Tiger". Nike has been one of the few sponsors...

John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins are among five Kentucky underclassmen who have declared themselves for the 2010 NBA Draft which is scheduled for June 24, the University of Kentucky announced Wednesday. Despite falling short in April, UK enjoyed a 35-3 year which culminated in winning the...

While Mark Buerhle was wowing the south side of Chicago with his wonder play, Vanderbilt pitcher Corey Williams was spending Monday recovering from surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after an equally impressive play of his own over the weekend, although this one was certainly not as...

Fresh from winning his first Gold Glove which capped off a memorable year, following his perfect game against Tampa Bay last July, Mark Buerhle made a strong case for this year's award on Opening Day. Pitching in the top of the 5th inning with one out, Cleveland's Lou Marson hit a pitch back to...

After being the starting quarterback for the Rams in each of his eight NFL seasons, Marc Bulger was released by St Louis on Monday which removes any speculation that the Rams won't be taking Sam Bradford, the 2008 Heisman Trophy winner at Oklahoma, as the #1 pick in this month's 2010 NFL Draft...

Toronto Blue Jays The best outcome for the Toronto Blue Jays most years is 3rd in the AL East and in those most years they had Roy Halladay. Without him, they're going to be battling all they can to avoid finishing last. They aren't even such a bad team, they just happen to be in the division...

Washington Nationals When you are a generally a lock to finish bottom of your division and your offseason signings include Adam Kennedy, Jason Marquis and Ivan Rodriguez then history is probably going to repeat itself. Although they do have some good young players and an ownership willing to...

Kansas City Royals Billy Butler, David DeJesus and Zack Greinke that represents three positives for the Royals organization. Sadly, that's the only three positives in what must be the worst run franchise in baseball it's the club where mediocre players go to die. In the middle of last...

Pittsburgh Pirates Next to the Cubs' World Series drought, it has to be the most overused statistic in baseball but I'll just remind everyone that the Pirates haven't had a winning season since 1992. In 1992, the Arizona Diamondbacks didn't exist and they've already won a World Series...

Los Angeles Angels In the last six years the Angels have been AL West winners five times, the only other time they finished second. In four of those five seasons they won the division by at least six games and you have to go back to 2003 for the last time they won less than 89 games. But if...

With opening day getting ever closer, we are going to take a look at the six divisions, the PECOTA predictions for win totals and the Pinnacle odds for division winners, AL/NL Pennant winners and World Series winners. Going from left to right across the country we start with the NL West...

With the top four spots of the Washington Nationals rotation being filled by John Lannan, Jason Marquis, Craig Stammen and Livan Hernandez there is still an opportunity for #5 as opening day creeps closer. And Barrack Obama will have a chance to grab the last place in the starting rotation as he...

After the Philadelphia Eagles discreetly started to shop Donovan McNabb around the NFL last week, it seems that they have found someone willing to pay their price. McNabb is due to earn $11.2 million in 2010 plus a further $6.2 million roster bonus in May before he becomes a free agent in 2011...

After Sunday's Australian Grand Prix we are now two races into the 2010 Formula 1 season and even at this early stage, we can deduce a number of things. F1 currently both sucks and blows. Whether it's the new rules, whether it's the double diffusers or whether the planets are incorrectly...

As usual news has been thin on the ground during the baseball offseason and as usual anything involving anything to do with Yankees overrides everything else. Irregular bowel movements from CC Sabathia would take precedent over anything relating to the Dodgers opening day starter or the Mariners...

Over 50 people, ranging from managers to referees to a number of former professional players, were arrested in a series of police raids in Turkey on Wednesday in relation to a long standing investigation into the match fixing of soccer games. The Turkish Football Association announced the...

Alex Herrmann, an autistic 17 year old from Chicago, has what may be the only perfect bracket in America through the Bracket Manager at CBSSports as has been highly reported today. Herrmann's so far perfect bracket was not entered in a prize winning contest so there is no reward for his...

Monday's game between the New Jersey Nets and Miami Heat wasn't particularly memorable as the Nets lost their 14th straight home game and 8th overall game as Miami took the fixture 99-89. The most entertaining moment happened in the break at the end of the third quarter when the Nets CEO Brett...