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According to reports, ESPN basketball analyst and former NBA player Jalen Rose was sentenced yesterday to 20 days in jail for driving drunk and crashing his SVU back in March. Just hours after receiving his sentence Rose was ticketed again, this time for speeding, by suburban Detroit-area police.

Rose was cited for going 46mph in a 25mph…

After just over five years as the manager of the United States men’s national soccer team, the United States soccer federation has announced that Bob Bradley has been fired and will no longer be the manager of the USMNT. Bradley took over the job from Bruce Arena in January of 2007 and lead the [...]

Reception has been split amongst Vikings in the aftermath of Sidney Rice’s departure from Minnesota to join Tarvaris Jackson with the Seattle Seahawks.

The five-year deal worth over 40 million dollars–18 million of that guaranteed– was too much for the Vikings to match.

One person who is furious with the Sidney Rice departure is his now former[...]

Believe it or not, as much scrutiny as the New York Mets get, they are having a very productive 2011 season. They are playing really hard, they are a likable bunch, they are two games over .500 when most people thought they would 20 games under .500 at this point in the season, and they have been able to ship off some of their veterans for some much needed young talent. [...]

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s “The Stack” with me, Nathan Stacken. NFL free agency continues to be crazy and we’ll look at some of the bigger moves made by teams as well as other news in the sports world so let’s get right to it.

1. Big names moving as free agency continues…

Congratulations to Ervin Santana on pitching his first career no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians Wednesday for a 3-1 Halos victory.

It wasn’t pretty, but he struck out 10 and allowed only two base runners all day. Erick Aybar committed an error on the very first batter, totally screwing up the perfecto, but Santana walked Lonnie Chisenhall…

Chicago Blackhawks team Captain Jonathan Toews has a new woman in his life- Gabrielle Velasquez, as you can see from the pics she has some nice set of fake cans and some fake blonde hair flowing in the summer breeze. She also apparently works at Fletcher Jones Imports (local car dealership).

You can friend her on Facebook…

During the Mountain West media days, Boise State got welcomed into their new conference by not being able to wear their all blue uniform during conference games this season. Head coach Chris Peterson wasn’t thrilled about the news.

“I thought it was ridiculous,” Petersen said of his reaction. “… That’s our colors.…

The Minnesota Vikings will trade a 2012 6th round pick, and a conditional 2013 6th round pick to the Washington Redskins for quarterback Donovan McNabb, Jay Glazer of FOXSports reports.For the deal to go through, McNabb must agree to sign a new contract with the Vikings.

Glazer added that the Vikings were hoping to get Tyler Thigpen, but he went to the Bills…

Twelve-and-a-half years ago, the Los Angeles Clippers hired Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to aid in their development of then-rookie Michael Olowokandi. ‘Kandi had gone from relative unknown to the top pick in the 1998 draft in just a few months, but because the NBA locked out its players right after that draft he lost crucial development time and fell out of shape…