By the way, don't you think Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, be granted early sainthood and have a national holiday named after him? Jeepers, the past few days around here have been real nail-biters,

After the wildest night in baseball in a long time, turns out Tampa manager Joe Maddon has a couple glasses of brown stuff to thank for a season turnaround.

For baseball fans who believe in momentum, it's probably time to crown the Tampa Bay Rays 2011 World Series champions right now. It's hard to resist calling a team that makes the playoffs despite nearly 300-million-to-one odds anything but a team of

For baseball fans who believe in momentum, it's probably time to crown the Tampa Bay Rays 2011 World Series champions right now. It's hard to resist calling a team that makes the playoffs despite nearly 300-million-to-one odds anything but a team of

For baseball fans who believe in momentum, it's probably time to crown the Tampa Bay Rays 2011 World Series champions right now. It's hard to resist calling a team that makes the playoffs despite nearly 300-million-to-one odds anything but a team of

Ellenberger finishes Shields for biggest career win (Yahoo! Sports). by Yahoo! Sports – Mixed Martial Arts News | posted: September 18, 2011 0 comment · Tweet · A big knee to the jaw was the turning point in Jake Ellenberger's win over Jake

Yahoo has announced the acquisition of sports network Citizen Sports. Kara Swisher predicted as such earlier this week. Here's how she described it: Citizen Sports started off in 2005 as ProTrade,

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 KOs), 12 rounds, for Ortiz's title • Junior middleweights: Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KOs) vs. Alfonso Gomez (23-4-2, 12 KOs), 12 rounds, for Alvarez's title (from Los Angeles) • Junior welterweights: Erik Morales

Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0), one of the best pound-for-pound boxers of his generation, returns from a 16-month absence to fight for Victor Ortiz's (29-2-1) WBC welterweight title on September 17th, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Check out the 4th episode of 24/7 about Floyd Mayweather vs Victor Ortiz.

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Anthony Wilson recaps the final installment of Mayweather vs Ortiz 24/7 for Bad Left Hook.

s new touch-centric operating system, Windows® 8. The mXT1386 controller is used in the Samsung® Windows Developer Preview PC. Leveraging Atmel's proven maXTouch technology, the mXT1386 is the first device in Atmel's maXTouch family that will support

Curious what the minimum specifications for Windows 8 will be? As are we. Microsoft's remaining mum on specifics, but the outfit's Steven Sinofsky.

By Hayley Tsukayama, Microsoft kicks off its BUILD conference in Anaheim, Calif., on Tuesday, where it will give an extended preview of its next operating system, which is being referred to as Windows 8. The company is talking to its developers about

By Mark Hachman Advanced Micro Devices said this week that all of its DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 graphics products will support Windows 8 when Microsoft rolls out the operating system. AMD will support DirectX 11, the C++ AMP language and the

Windows Division prexy Steven Sinofsky led Build 2011 attendees through a walkthrough of the various tweaks Microsoft's made to Windows 8. Staying.

Live from Microsoft BUILD. By Joe Wilcox; Published 3 hours ago These are Windows 7 systems that I'd love to run v8 developer build on right now. Sinofsky just announced what was rumored earlier — "the Samsung

The final Gold Masters build is expected to drop a week later, on Sept. 23. Developers, are you ready with your final preparations for the newest version of the iPhone? In conversations with developers, iOS 5 beta is just about ready to go.

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The final Gold Masters build is expected to drop a week later, on Sept. 23. Developers, are you ready with your final preparations for the newest version of the iPhone? In conversations with developers, iOS 5 beta is just about ready to go.

Intel may be celebrating all things x86 at its annual developer forum in San Francisco, but that didn't stop Microsoft from talking up ARM in all of its RISC-based glory at the BUILD conference in Anaheim. Although the two industry heavyweights

Miss USA Alyssa Campanella is fine, she said in a statement late Monday in Brazil. “For the record,” she said, “I am 100% healthy. “I see doctors and I.

Miss USA 2011 Alyssa Campanella poses with fellow Miss Universe competitors Miss Mexico and Miss Puerto Rico during a photo session in Sao Paulo. The Miss Universe competition will air on September 12, 2011. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to

This year's crop of contestants is particularly competitive – and gorgeous. But even with stiff competition, many feel that Miss USA Alyssa Campanella has a shot at the titlebut we will have to wait to find out if the judges agree.

Alyssa Campanella, otherwise known as Miss USA 2011, will be competing tonight for the ultimate title of Miss Universe 2011 – and it seems she's one of th.

Shanna has been a MAJOR factor behind the scenes with the Miss California pageant — and was credited with helping Miss California USA Alyssa Campanella take the Miss USA title in 2011. But sources tell us she's looking for a new challenge and feels

Two of the most talked-about teams in the NFL going into the 2011 season are the Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions, but for different reasons. The Eagles made a series of splashy free agency moves in their quest to be Super Bowl contenders in 2011.

The one exception to this rule has been the Lions. Lions fans are perpetually pessimistic. Sure, there are reasons to think that this franchise is cursed. But everyone thought that the Rams were cursed too before they won it all.

If you're in the Tampa Bay market and will be affected by the blackout, don't worry, we're going to be blogging live for the Tampa Bay Bucs and Detroit Lions contest that starts at 1 p.m. today. I got ya. It will be an emotional day

BY DAVE BIRKETT Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz said today he plans to limit defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch's practice time throughout the season in order to keep the 32-year-old fresh for gamedays. “I think just where he is and age and different

The first injury report of the season is out for the game between the Lions and Buccaneers.

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Serena Williams was in peak form Monday, beating Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2011 U.S. Open. Williams dispatched Ivanovic on the strength of nine aces in a short one hour and 14 minute

16 Ana Ivanovic of Serbia. Stephens, daughter of the late New England Patriots running back John Stephens, entered her first US Open this week ranked 106th on the WTA Tour and beat Israeli Shahar Peer, the No. 23 seed, in the second round.

OK, let's not pretend that Ana Ivanovic isn't facing an uphill battle against Serena Williams. Do I expect Ana to win? No. Would I love to be surprised? You betcha! I would love for Ana to shock the world and beat Serena.

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Off the field issues have overshadowed what should be a great game on it. Both LSU and Oregon appear to have paid for Willie Lyles' personal touch.

"Kelsi Phillips passed the ball pretty well for us today and Jennah DeVries set the ball well, but you have to give credit to LSU because they are such a tough and physical team to play against," head coach Mike Jordan said.

Local fishwrap (which is Lord Loves Me Some Ducks! central) is of course devoting massive column inches to the LSU/UofO game, especially all those green and yellow clad fans who have traveled to the Big D to see the

The fifth-year senior gets another chance to make his mark.

4 LSU do? Go out and beat the No. 3 and reigning BcS runners-up Oregon 40-27, that's what they did. It was far from pretty, with the Tigers the beneficiaries of four UO turnovers and 12 penalties while producing a meager 273 yards of offense.

All of these developments have left Brazilian MMA at an historic crossroads. With UFC Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Ferttita talking of the possibility of multiple events in the country next year there is now the possibility of Brazilian fighters regularly

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The long awaited MMA debut of Reagan Penn, the younger brother of multiple time UFC champion, BJ Penn is taking place this evening live at the ProElite 1 event at the Blaisdale arena in Honolulu, Hawaii. The action will

Coenen was rather evasive of questions regarding Strikeforce and Zuffa, but did explain what lead to her decision to sign on with a brand new promotion, such as Black Eye. Check out her interview with Inside MMA's Kenny

Fast forward to August 2011 and we are about to witness the return of the UFC to where the essence of MMA was born only this time there are twelve action packed bouts with eight of the best local talent available including