Braves 2, Cardinals 1
No matter how hard he tried, Matt Diaz couldn’t get hit by ball three in his helmet, so he made certain the next pitch from Kyle McClellan hit his bat.
Diaz drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single off McClellan in the eighth inning, rallying the Atlanta Braves to a 2-1 win [...]

Joakim Noah’s swag is phenomenal. His swag is crazy. His swag is super funky.
These are his words, his truths, because if there’s one thing Noah loves to talk about, it’s his varieties of swag.
Swag, of course, is Noah’s shorthand for swagger, Noah-speak for cool. It could be anything from his seersucker suit on draft night [...]

The game plan hasn’t changed: bigger and better. Harrah’s announced that the 2009 World Series of Poker will feature a record-setting 57 events and will run from May 26 to July 15. The revamped schedule will feature many new events and include something for every poker player aspiring to accomplish the dream of winning a [...]

ROUND #1

Detroit Matthew Stafford (QB) Georgia
St. Louis Jason Smith (OT) Baylor
Kansas City Tyson Jackson (DE) LSU
Seattle Aaron Curry (OLB) W Forest

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The Detroit Lions hope Matthew Stafford ends their decades-long search for a star quarterback.
Stafford will be the Lions’ No. 1 overall draft pick after agreeing Friday night to a six-year deal that NFL.com’s Steve Wyche reports will pay the quarterback $41.7 million in guarantees and could be worth as much as $78 million.
Tom Condon and [...]

As the title says, just curious as to who you guys think will make it to the finals.  I know most of you will pick 2 main teams.  But lets be creative with this now.  I mean of course, if you think they will win then by all means pick them.  But I’m sure these [...]

For the first time in its storied — some say cursed — history, the cover of EA Sports’ “Madden NFL” video game will feature two cover athletes: Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald.
“Being on the cover of ‘Madden’ is a real honor,” Fitzgerald said Friday after Electronic Arts made [...]

Former Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Jimmy Smith said Friday he was “ashamed and humiliated” by an arrest on drug charges and that he will fight to overcome his addiction.
Smith was pulled over on a traffic stop and a Florida Highway Patrol officer said he smelled marijuana in the car. The officer searched the car and [...]

The Pittsburgh Steelers cleared out enough cap room to reach an agreement with Colts cornerback Keiwan Ratliff on a one-year contract Friday, according to a source.
The 27-year-old Ratliff visited the Steelers in the past week and was interested in signing, but James Harrison’s deal ate up most of Pittsburgh’s remaining cap room. With the departure [...]

The New York Yankees placed right-hander Chien-Ming Wang on the 15-day disabled list after Friday night’s 5-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox and recalled David Robertson from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
A spokesman for the Yankees said Wang has weakness in the abductor muscles in his hips that could be related to the right foot injury that [...]