The NBA season is about a month old, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been enough drama to go around. The biggest story to-date this year is probably player injuries, but there’s plenty more to catch-up on.
Pop-ping Mad Commissioner
Following yesterday’s controversy surrounding Spurs’ head coach Gregg Popovich sending Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili & a 4th player back to San Antonio, NBA commissioner David Stern has publicly denounced the move & suggested “significant sanctions” will be coming. Stern’s anger lies in the fact that the Spurs vs. Heat game …

At the Olympics we’re looking forward to watching the 100 metres sprint, the cycling and the live pigeon shooting. What? There’s no live pigeon shooting? What do you mean there’s no live pigeon shooting?! This was the highlight of the Games in 1900, how could you possibly not include it this year!
We imagine that is how a meeting at the scheduling committee of the 1904 games might have gone. Though to be honest the live pigeon shooting probably wasn’t actually exciting, I mean it did have to compete with things …

To celebrate one of the world’s most significant football tournaments starting June 8th, the Euro 2012 Infographic presents you with an array of the most interesting data visualizations for the event.
Find out how many stadiums are hosting this year’s matches, what their capacities are and where they’re located. Discover some facts in numbers for the Euro 2012 as well as facts about historical stadium attendances and host cities. The fastest goals scored in the history of the event are highlighted next to top goal scorers from Euro 2004 and Euro …

New Era – A rich and long history
Using his aunt’s founding in order to jump start the business, Ehrhardt Koch founded New Era in 1920. He made casual and uniform caps in New York with 14 employees and decided to call them the New Era Cap Company. The popularity of baseball in the 1930’s sparked Koch’s interest in baseball caps. Quickly, his company were servicing a multitude of minor league, local, college and Canadian baseball teams.

Their success between 1940 and 1970 depended on exclusive deals with various major league baseball …

Recent words of a potential point shaving scandal at Auburn University reveal an interesting component to athletes and academia.
Allegedly, Varez Ward, a transfer from Texas who lead the Tigers in assists until he was sentenced to forced leave on February 25, may have attempted to manipulate the point spread in it’s previous round with Alabama. Ward was left with only three points and committed six turnovers in a 68-50 loss to Alabama, a game the Crimson Tide were favored to win by only five points.
We haven’t heard from the accused …

After the 2010 NFL season, league officials decided that kick offs were too dangerous. Too many athletes were getting up to full speed and running headlong into each other. Football is the American sport that showcases some of the most elite athletes on the planet, and kickoffs are an opportunity for fans to see this prowess exercised to its full capacity.
The ball is kicked and the returner gets it deep near his own endzone, and he has to decide if he should run it out and risk not making it …

Tonight’s Monday Night Football game on ESPN was another showcase of just how strange the NFL can be at times.
Most sports betting sites had the Baltimore Ravens favored by at least 7 1/2 points (some 10 pts). The Ravens featured a high-profile offense – I think so at least – and a great defense that can (could?) hold it’s own against any team in the NFL. The Jacksonville Jaguars come in with a rookie quarterback in Blaine Gabbert at 0-5 on the season.
Picking Baltimore to win was a no-brainer.
Jacksonville Defense …

One of the most in demand football jerseys this year is the Aaron Rodgers jersey.  It shouldn’t surprise anyone, being that he won that little game known as the Super Bowl last season, leading his Green Bay Packers over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers is one of the top quarterbacks in the game of football, and by the time his career is over, barring injury, he could go down as one of the greatest.
Aaron Rodgers Quarterback Stats
The statistics don’t lie.  Rodgers threw for just under 4000 yards in 2010 in …