Regan Smith gets new 2-year deal (AP)
Regan Smith gets new 2-year deal (AP)
Regan Smith has signed a contract extension with Furniture Row Racing through the 2012 season to drive the team’s No. 78 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
Lightning re-sign Downie to 2-year deal (AP)
The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed 20-goal scorer Steve Downie to a two-year contract. The NHL team announced the deal Wednesday. Downie appeared in 79 games last season, finishing with 22 goals and 46 points. The 23-year-old right wing set career highs for games played, goals, assists, points and penalty minutes.
Kings, D Mitchell agree to 2-year deal (AP)
The Los Angeles Kings have agreed to terms on a two-year contract with unrestricted free agent defenseman Willie Mitchell. The team announced the deal Wednesday. Mitchell had four goals, eight assists and 48 penalty minutes in 48 games with Vancouver last season. The 32-year-old was sidelined for 34 games after sustaining a concussion on Jan.
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Two grown-up Laker fans fight about a Facebook comment
Two grown-up Laker fans fight about a Facebook comment
In these all-too-short lives that we lead there are certain things worth fighting for. You know what I’m talking about — love, freedom, the right to party, getting zinged by a television host — the real big-ticket items. Coming to fisticuffs over such issues is totally understandable and often justified.To that inscrutable list of fightable offenses we must add another important concern that lives deep in all of our hearts — taking on people who disagree with you on the Internet. This, truly, is the final frontier. As Beatriz Valenzuela of the Victorville Daily Press reports, two adults in California are doing some important work to ensure these disputes do not go unpunished.A disparaging remark on Facebook about the Los Angeles Lakers sparked Wednesday’s brawl involving some 20 adults at a local kindergarten graduation, according to one participant.”This all started because of a Facebook comment between this other woman and my grandmother about the Lakers,” said Queiona Burt, 31, one of the women arrested following a brawl that broke out at a recent Puesta del Sol Elementary School kindergarten graduation. “But I want to apologize to the school and the community and say this is not what I’m about. I was trying to defend myself.”Thank you, kind souls. As a human who spends the majority of his days making basketball chatter on the World Wide Internet Superhighway, I appreciate the effort to ensure that hater-stomping becomes widely accepted around the globe. Thank you. Thank you so much.On the other hand, this is a grown-up fighting a grandma about something that happened on Facebook. This is not a Jay and Silent Bob movie that we are talking about, but real life. A real life that has flesh-and-blood fights about the Lakers because of Facebook. Five years ago, if I had come back from the future and told you this story, you wouldn’t even understand it, mostly because your mind would be blown by all the advances made in time traveling technology in just half of a decade. Nonetheless, I think this is a really good approach to solving disagreements online. In fact, starting this weekend I will begin a three-week tour to confront anyone who doesn’t think Brad Miller(notes) is the best goateed backup center in the NBA. Watch your back. (h/t Ted Williams’ Head)
Japan’s Sato wins first gold in Youth Olympics (AP)
Japan’s Yuka Sato won the first gold medal in the inaugural Youth Olympics, racing to a comfortable victory in the women’s triathlon on Sunday. Sato finished the race in 1 hour, 49 seconds. Australian Ellie Salthouse was second in 1:01:04 and American Kelly Whitley placed third in 1:01:48 seconds.
No timetable for return of Iowa’s Wegher (AP)
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz says there’s no timetable for the return of sophomore running back Brandon Wegher, who has left the team for undisclosed personal issues. Ferentz did say he’s cautiously optimistic Wegher will rejoin the Hawkeyes this season. Wegher, who rushed for 641 yards and eight touchdowns last season.
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TBJ Ep. 484: Throwin’ Bows
Monday to Friday, The Basketball Jones look at the big games and story lines from the night before with a mix of in-depth analysis and irreverent humor. As always, questions and comments are appreciated.On today’s show Skeets and Tas tell you who thrived and who barely survived this weekend. Have the Jazz fully recovered from their early season woes? Is David Stern embracing gambling? Will Trevor Ariza’s(notes) flying elbow get him suspended? All that, plus Corey Brewer(notes) demolishes Derek Fisher(notes), the Heat fall back to Earth and the best and worst off-season trades.TBJ t-shirts make great stocking stuffers! Embrace ‘em at The Jones store!Subscribe to the video show on iTunes | Download the .m4v directlySubscribe to the audio show on iTunes | Download the .mp3 directly
For 250k All-Star votes, Brian Scalabrine will get a spray tan
Forget kids; sports radio hosts say (and do) the darndest things.According to BDL reader Matt B., a Boston sports radio show is attempting to garner up some 250,000 All-Star Game votes for Celtics forward Brian Scalabrine(notes) in exchange for the pasty white ginger getting a spray tan over the All-Star break.Why? No idea. Maybe it’s because Scal looks great with a tan. Maybe it’s because they want him on season two of “Jersey Shore,” brah. Maybe it’s because they’re bored with the C’s 11-game winning streak and have nothing else to talk about. I don’t know, but Scal has agreed to the deal.Of course, as is the case with every All-Star ballot-stuffin’ story, there’s some controversy. Apparently, Scal’s write-in votes may not be getting counted! (Does that warrant an exclamation mark? Probably not.) 98.5 hosts Toucher and Rich have had their listeners voting for some time now and many people have been reporting that their votes do not show up after they’ve voted. They get a confirmation without Scal’s name.But don’t worry, NBA media relations are looking into the “lost orange votes.” (Yeah, right.)In the meantime, stop voting for Tracy McGrady, China, and start writing in Scalabrine’s name.
