Sean Avery was suspended indefinitely for crude off-the-ice comments about his ex. But when it comes to words and thoughts and morality in pro sports, whose rules apply? Who are we protecting, exactly?
Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville, who won 85 games and one SEC championship in 10 seasons, won't return as the Tigers' coach in 2009, multiple sources close to the situation confirmed on Wednesday.
The Giants are still gathering information on linebacker Antonio Pierce's involvement in a shooting incident that led to the season-ending suspension of star receiver Plaxico Burress.
Dustin Pedroia has signed a $40.5 million extension with Boston through 2014 with a club option for the 2015 season, sources told ESPN's Peter Gammons.
Texas Tech is in contract talks with coach Mike Leach amid reports he has met with Washington officials about the Huskies' soon-to-be vacant head-coaching position. However, Leach's agent told ESPN's Joe Schad that no talks are currently under way.
Greg Oden is starting slowly. Have patience! Derrick Rose is playing like a star.
Have mercy! Ken Berger says the past two No. 1 picks are eliciting different
reactions as rookies.
Sean Avery wasn't doing any good for the underachieving Stars before
his latest outrage, so Wes Goldstein says they should take the dressing
room irritant's league suspension as a sign and cut him loose, no matter the cost.
In yet another attempt to keep himself in the spotlight,
Sean Avery directs a crude comment at his former flames and their current beaus. But
he loses his only platform by getting suspended -- and he proves that there are
things even the NHL won't tolerate, Ray Ratto says.
Remember the champions in 2003? That's right, there were two because the AP No. 1 differed from the BCS. Dennis Dodd says that is Texas' best hope to stay in the national title conversation.
Peter Laviolette won more games than any American-born coach in NHL history. But he didn't win enough of them lately to keep his job with the Carolina Hurricanes, so they replaced him with their winningest coach -- the same one Laviolette himself replaced five years earlier.
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