Having the All-Star game decide home-team advantage is great … for AAA. That’s right. The AAA All-Star game decides which league gets to be the home team in the Bricktown... Read More

Not surprisingly, tonight the All-Star game festivities began with the great Home Run Derby hitting contest. A chance for some baseball's best to show their best at the plate, a friendly game of "anythi... Read More

This is something that just hit me, and I have to fume about it. The 2008 All-Star Game is tomorrow, and the fans have seemed to pick a pretty decent roster fo... Read More

Remember who won the All-Star game last year? No? Yeah, me niether. I'm guessing it was the West, but well, oh, who cares. I always turn the dang thing off after the f... Read More

The NBA All-star rosters were just announced and it is shaping up once again to be a great game in which all the big name stars will get to play together and against the best the league has to offer. I offer this warning to the NBA however, you better bring it strong this year. Last season's Ve... Read More

I think you should have played in the Home-Run Derby.  I am a Life-Long Reds fan and wanted to see you put everyone to shame. The fans voted you ... Read More

A week-and-a-half after the final buzzer at the NBA All-Star game, the league is still -- rightly or wrongly -- feeling the heat over a few bad apples who were in Las Vegas for the festivities. NBA Players Association president Derek Fisher argues you can't blame the players for what went ... Read More

I'm really getting tired of hearing about it...several East NBA All-Stars said that Kobe was "gunning" for a second MVP trophy.  T... Read More

After watching Nate Robinson deliver a stake to the heart of the dunk contest for the second straight year, the NBA has announced that it will be replacing one of the centerpieces of All-Star weekend with an annual race between Hall of Fame player/poster boy for Gamblers Anonymous Charles Barkley and aging referee Richard (our automatic blog censor won't let me use the name he more commonly goes by) Bavetta. OK, so we made that up. But the 25.7-second dash (can you really use that word to describe wh... Read More

Yesterday: 7.9 - 10Overall: 44.7 - 39College Basketball (25.7 - 28) Duquesne (+280) at Fordham: Although Duquesne... Read More

Special Contribution from Middlefngz Dwight Howard / Magic (5-1) Standing in at 6' 11"and weighing 268 lbs., Howard could become the largest player to ever win the contest. While he leads the league in dunks... Read More

by Erin Rynning, team handicapper at www.sportsmemo.com Las Vegas is a buzz this weekend, while hosting the NBA All-Star weeken... Read More

by Teddy Covers, senior handicapper at www.sportsmemo.com With All Star weekend in Las Vegas, I made plans to meet some friends for dinner ... Read More

Gambling and sports. Fans love it. But it tends to make league commissioners a little bit nervous. That's probably wh... Read More

I recall Thomas & Mack Center in spring, when Wayne did his thing, and I don't mean sing. A ring-a-ding-ding. Yes, we realize it's not quite springtime yet, but you try coming up with a ... Read More

The NBA announced its All-Star reserves today, and as we do every year here at the BLIP, it is time to unveil the Blip's All-Star teams. eastern conference G Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat G Gilbert Arenas, Washington Wizards F L... Read More

NHL All Star Game ratings plunge 76 percent - Link Now, I am not going to sit here and pretend that the All-Star game is the 7th game of the Stanley Cup Finals.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  I've also heard those say among sports All-Sta... Read More

The Phoenix Coyotes continued their hot streak by closing out their six-game road trip with another win, as they downed the Dallas Stars, 5-2, on Tuesday night January the 9th at American Airlines Center.  It was the seventh win in a row for Phoenix.  Dallas was a step slow for much of the gam... Read More

Okay already TNT is hyping the NBA All-Star Weekend-but does anybody really care? I mean it has been the same old thing for what seems a lifetime. If you have seen one slam dunk contest you have almost seen them all. Besides the best dunkers in t... Read More

Ambassadors of goodwill? Meet the Bad Boys. Organizers have announced that the Harlem Globetrotters will play an exhibition against Dennis R... Read More