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Nine victorious girls, a coach and her husband and the headmaster sat in the main office of tiny Dallas Academy on Friday, cramming into small couches and chairs and spilling out onto the floor. They teased Jeremy Civello, the husband and last year’s coach, for leaving the game early. They recounted how half the boys team met them at Schlotzsky’s afterwards and dogpiled them as soon as they got off the bus. They repeated the word amazing, with major emphasis on the “UH,” often between long bouts of laughter. If you want a concrete image to describe satisfaction, it was...

Model Jaime Jungers 'Took Photos of Tiger Woods Naked And Said She Would Sell Them If They Ever Broke Up' MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 18th December 2009 Tiger Woods' mistress Jamie Jungers has claimed that she took naked pictures of the star when he was drunk in a hotel room, according to her aunt. Susan Minor today told website RadarOnline that the 26-year-old model had told her all about her 'affair' with the star. 'She told me that she had taken pictures of Tiger Woods naked while he was passed out drunk on her cell phone,' Mrs Minor said. Model Jaime...

The soul of the city is coming off the practice field and headed toward the showers. They are a motley group, undrafted guys and late-round fliers, players cast off from other teams. Brees landed in town after an injury convinced the Chargers that his best days were behind him. "When we came here," he has said, "I was in the process of rebuilding, as well." Quarterback Drew Brees and the Saints' potent offense have produced a 13-0 record heading into their home game Saturday night against Dallas. Running back Mike Bell was out of football. So was cornerback Mike McKenzie,...

Villanova coach Andy Talley sometimes wears his national championship ring while on recruiting trips - his basketball national championship ring, that is. The ring was a gift from the school's basketball team when he was hired in 1985 to rebuild the football program. Twenty-five seasons later, Talley and the Wildcats finally have their first shot at winning the school's first Football Championship Subdivision title when they face Montana on Friday night in Chattanooga. The second-ranked Wildcats (13-1) couldn't have picked a more dominant opponent.

Has the Athlete of the Decade betrayed us? Does he owe us an apology? Well, no, not unless you have trouble distinguishing reality from a Nike commercial. The Tiger Woods who is a spectacular golfer is a real person. The one who was supposed to inspire our children to found a multicultural utopia atop the pillars of unfettered achievement and social justice is a fake. That one was a life-sized cardboard cutout, a store-window display created to sell Buicks and basketball shoes. At this stage of Tiger's stupendously rapid decline, he has wrecked his family and alienated his sponsors. He...

We have now reached college football's very own exhibition post season known as the bowl season. Already, I can hear some grumblings from a few of you about why I should watch the St. Petersburg Bowl or the Papajohns.com Bowl when there's plenty of Christmas parties to attend and plenty of women to underwhelm. Well, can't argue with that, see you guys next year! (Just kidding). Okay, so as is custom with the bowl games thread, each day a bowl game is being played, I will ping the list and do my usual mildly sarcastic preview of each bowl game....

Late interception by Colts seals the win: 35 - 31.

Does the University of Miami offer a degree in cluelessness? Because most of the former players interviewed in ESPN's documentary The U seem to have majored in it. For two solid hours they brag about their arrogance, their dirty play and even their outright criminality, smiling proudly during every moment. --snip-- The U is a brilliant and horrifying history of the good-old-bad-old-days of the 1980s and early 1990s when UM -- so the joke of the day went -- topped all three football polls: AP, UPI and FBI. Filmmakers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman, a pair of UM graduates who...

Tiger Woods's Mistress Theresa Rogers 'Demands £2M Pay-Off Amid Claims Of A Love Child' Mail Foreign Service 17th December 2009 A woman who is said to have claimed she had a love child with Tiger Woods is demanding £2 million for her silence, it was claimed today. Theresa Rogers, who is the oldest of at least 11 women named as having affairs with the love cheat golfer, is believed to have hired celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred to negotiate the deal. Ms Allred is thought to have already negotiated a £3 million pay-out for another of Woods's alleged mistresses, 34-year-old New...

Danica Patrick announced Thursday that she plans to make her first NASCAR Nationwide appearance in the Stater Bros. 300 at Fontana California's Auto Club Speedway on Feb. 20, 2010. Patrick appeared at a press conference at JR Motorsports in Mooresville, NC. She will participate in a December 18-20 ARCA series test at Daytona and will enter the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards on Saturday, Feb. 6. There was speculation that she would debut there in the Nationwide Series but the delay will give her more time to transition into the new car....

Here is video of the Cincinnati Bengals' Owner, Mike Brown, and Coach Marvin Lewis discussing the news that 26 year-old Wide Receiver Chris Henry died today after reportedly falling out of the back of a pickup being driven by his fiance after they had a dispute. The video also shows Bengals' QB Carson Palmer reacting to the news. . . . (VIDEO)

MIAMI (Reuters) - PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem gave his full backing to scandal-hit Tiger Woods on Thursday and said the public would now root for him as an underdog. Finchem, who said he had not spoken to Woods since the series of scandals over extra-marital affairs began, said in a television interview with CNBC that he did not know when Woods, who has taken an "indefinite break," would return to golf. "It could be weeks, it could be months, it could be an extended period of time," said the commissioner. "I have not spoken to him since all this...

December 13, 2009 Tiger Blackened By His All-White Trophy Cupboard India Knight. At some point you notice that all the women Tiger Woods has slept with since marrying his Swedish wife in 2004 have been white. And why shouldn’t they be? If Woods fancies white women more than not-white women — well, that’s his thing, in the way that Rod Stewart’s is leggy blondes. And all my boyfriends have been Chinese — 20 boyfriends, two husbands. No, not really (only one). But what did you think when you read that sentence? Because if I read it, I’d think, “Chinese boyfriends...

HUNTINGTON W Va.- West Virginia University assistant coach John "Doc" Holliday has signed a 5-year deal to become Marshall University's new head football coach. The announcement came during a press conference Thursday afternoon in Huntington. Holliday, who was a linebacker for the Mountaineers from 1976 to 1979, started his coaching career at West Virginia under former coach Don Nehlen, serving as assistant coach from 1979 to 1999. He then served stints as assistant coach at Florida from 2005 to 2007 and N.C. State from 2000 to 2004, before returning to WVU to serve as associate head coach, tight end coach,...

Elin Nordegren has reportedly been in contact with a high-profile California divorce lawyer and plans to start a legal battle with her husband, Tiger Woods, in that state. Nordegren and Woods share a home in California, which has a "no-fault" divorce law that may allow her to circumvent a prenuptial agreement. That might allow her to take half of the roughly $500 million (U.S.) Woods has earned since the pair were married in 2004. According to various U.S. outlets, Nordegren has contacted Sorrell Trope, an 82-year-old, L.A-based attorney. Trope has represented Nicole Kidman, Britney Spears and Clark Gable in divorce...

A porn flick of Tiger Wood’s X-rated escapades will be released in January, heaping yet more embarrassment on the golf superstar. An adult film company made the tongue-in-cheek film – called Tiger’s Wood – with roles for jilted wife Elin Nordegren, celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred and alleged mistresses Rachel Uchitel and Jaimee Grubbs. Self-proclaimed “A-list porn star” Tyler Knight plays Tiger .............

Washington Redskins executive vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato has resigned, a team source tells ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter. It was not immediately clear when the team would make an official announcement. The resignation was first reported by ESPN 980 in Washington. D.C.

TIGER Woods is close to "cracking up" after spending days alone watching CARTOONS and eating cereal. Close friends fear the golf superstar, 33, can't cope in the wake of his sex scandal. He changed his mobile phone number the day after his late-night car crash which sparked a stream of revelations - so friends can no longer contact him.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry is "battling for his life" after falling out of the back of a pickup truck Wednesday during what police described as a domestic dispute with his fiancee. Henry was found in the road about eight miles north of downtown Charlotte "apparently suffering life-threatening injuries," according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. Police spokesman Robert Fey said officers were stationed near the 26-year-old Henry's hospital room. He had no information on Henry's condition, but said he was alive. "We ask everyone to pray for Chris," agent Andy Simms of PlayersRep Sports said in a statement. "We...

NFL video clip exploring the question of who's the better 13-0 team.

Tiger Woods' wife Elin Nordegren is taking her two children and moving to Sweden after weeks of shocking revelations about her husband's infidelity, Fox411.com has learned exclusively. Tiger is not accompanying Nordegren and their kids, daughter Sam, 2, and son Charlie, 10 months, a source close to her family tells Fox411.com A second source confirms to Fox411.com that Nordegren will move out of the couple's Windemere, Florida mansion before Christmas. That is the same house where Woods crashed his SUV in the early morning hours following Thanksgiving. The revelations come as People magazine reports that Nordegren is meeting with divorce...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry has been seriously injured in a car accident in North Carolina. The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department says the accident happened just before noon Wednesday in the 1100 block of Oakdale Road. When officers arrived, they found Henry, 26, laying in the road, apparently suffering from life-threatening injuries. Medics transported him to the Carolinas Medical Center. His condition has not been released. Based on information gathered by police at the scene, a domestic situation began at a residence on Peachtree Road. According to police, his fiance got into a pickup truck and...

No, but for a long time they seemed to. The best kept secret of the past 20 years has been this: When the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA championship, the market would almost always fall that year. When the Lakers lost, the market would usually rise. An investor who put down $1,000 into the Nasdaq at the start of 1987 and stayed fully invested through 2007 would have ended up with $7,604. But an investor who bought the Nasdaq in years the Lakers lost and stayed in cash when the Lakers won would have finished with $21,189.

It isn't just a trade. It's a foray into the history books. How often in life do you ever see a trade like this -- two Cy Youngs in their prime changing teams in, essentially, the same deal? When you get right down to it, it's Roy Halladay for Cliff Lee, with a supporting cast that looks like the roster for the Futures Game. You just don't see trades like this one, ladies and gentlemen. It isn't exactly Wes Littleton for Beau Vaughan, now is it? "I can remember a lot of blockbuster trades, and this is definitely a blockbuster,"...

Jamie Jungers is spilling more never-before-heard details about her alleged 18-month affair with Tiger Woods. In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, Jungers, 26, says that during her tryst with the golfer, she often partied with Tiger and his "billionaire boys club" at Mansion at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas -- which, among other A-list athletes, included top NBA player Charles Barkley. "I gambled with him and Charles Barkley one night for hours," Jamie told RadarOnline.com exclusively. "He played blackjack and I sat there with him [Tiger] while he played. He played $25,000 a hand or more and Charles played...

Elin Nordegren may soon be getting something from her husband's scandal. Tiger Woods' wife is reportedly "very close" to signing a deal of her own with athletics shoes and sportswear company Puma, the competitor of the golfer's sponsor Nike.

Tiger Woods: Elin Nordegren 'Hires Top Celebrity Divorce Lawyer Over Star's £337Million Fortune' 16th December 2009 Tiger Woods's estranged wife could get up to £169 million of his fortune after calling in California's top divorce lawyer, it was claimed today. Elin Nordegren is believed to be meeting celebrity attorney Sorrell Trope - who has represented Nicole Kidman and Britney Spears - in the hope of obtaining half of what the golf star has earned in the five years they have been married. The 29-year-old former model is also likely to file for divorce in California where the couple have a...

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, it seems – Tiger Woods's own dad, Earl, also cheated in his marriage to the golfer's mother, according to Woods's high-school girlfriend. The irony? It tore Tiger apart. "He would just call crying and say, 'My dad is with another woman,' and that would be all he could say," Dina Parr tells E!. "He would be so upset, so I just tried to be there for him and listen to him." Parr says she dated Woods, 33, in high school and during his freshman year in college, and kept in frequent contact...

The Big Ten announced Tuesday that it will again explore the possibility of expanding. It looks certain, though, that the conference's 12th member won't be Notre Dame, which the Big Ten flirted with a decade ago. "Maintaining our independence is a real priority for us," says athletic director Jack Swarbrick. "That's our plan going forward." Other possibilities include Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Missouri.

The golf great's credibility, already eroded by marital infidelity, could evaporate entirely if there's fire to go along with the smoke generated by his reported link to a doctor who promotes HGH.

Even Saban knows who will win.

Tiger Woods’ devastated wife has called in California’s top celebrity divorce lawyer, say her friends. And Elin Nordegren – rocked by her husband’s string of alleged affairs – could get half the £337.5million he has earned in the five years they have been married. The 29-year-old Swedish model, seen out in Florida yesterday minus her wedding ring, is believed to be meeting celebrity lawyer Sorrell Trope next week. Trope, 82, a partner in Californian law firm Trope and Trope, has represented big-name stars including Cary Grant, Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage and Britney Spears in a 60-year career. And in another...

We thought the worst for Tiger was behind him, or, at the very least, that no closet was big enough to hold any more skeletons. Looks like we were wrong—remember, Tiger owns more than a few houses, and more than a few closets. Behind door number—which one are we on now?—is the revelation that the doctor who treated Woods after his knee injury has been indicted in a doping scandal by the FBI, and is accused of treating athletes with steroids.

Tiger Woods’ agent is distancing himself from his client, following a report that a doctor who treated the golfer is under investigation for trafficking in performance enhancing drugs. The Tiger Woods saga took a new turn today when The New York Times reported FBI and Canadian authorities were investigating Dr. Anthony Galea, a sports medicine specialist who has treated hundreds of top pro athletes in many sports—including Woods—for possible trafficking in human growth hormone and other banned substances. Galea was arrested in Canada in October, and the Times says that he treated Tiger Woods in 2008 to use a platelet-rich...

Some University of Texas faculty question whether football coach Mack Brown is worth $5 million annually when the school faces tough budget choices. University system regents last week decided Brown deserved more money, raising his annual pay from $3 million. The Longhorns will face fellow unbeaten Alabama in the Citi BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 7.

A moving truck, along with two utility vehicles just showed up to Tiger Woods' house in Windermere, Florida and the mover is carting off some art. The art, we're told, is wrapped up. Elin Nordegren and the kids just arrived home in her red Buick from their lunch (see video below). And this is interesting. Two utility vehicles just showed up and the workers brought ladders inside the house. Elin talked to the workers for about 10 minutes, and then left with the kids. TMZ first reported there was damage in the vestibule of the house ... a result of...

Turns out Tiger has a cougar. A busty South Florida blond who's on the north side of 40 was outed Monday as yet another Tiger Woods mistress. The woman, identified as Theresa Rogers, of Wellington, Fla., is one of the disgraced golf great's longest-serving gal pals, RadarOnline.com reported - and apparently his oldest. The report could not be independently confirmed, but Radar says Rogers has hired high-powered L.A. lawyer Gloria Allred, who is representing another of Woods' reported mistresses - New York party girl Rachel Uchitel. Allred, contacted by the Daily News, declined to comment.

The Canadian doctor who performed a controversial medical procedure on Tiger Woods is under criminal investigation for drug violations on both sides of the border, bringing scrutiny to his colleagues, including one who worked closely with BALCO athletes and Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez. Dr. Tony Galea was arrested in October and his Toronto clinic was raided by Canadian authorities after his assistant was detained at the U.S.-Canadian border and reportedly found to be in possession of illegal drugs, including human growth hormone (hGH) and Actovegin - a drug extracted from calf's blood that has been banned by the World Anti-Doping...

New Orleans Saints 13 0 0 - 1.000 Minnesota Vikings 11 2 0 - 0.846 Philadelphia Eagles 9 4 0 - 0.692 Arizona Cardinals 8 5 0 - 0.615 Green Bay Packers 9 4 0 - 0.692 Dallas Cowboys 8 5 0 - 0.615 Still Alive New York Giants 7 6 0 - 0.538 Atlanta Falcons 6 7 0 - 0.462 San Francisco 49ers 6 7 0 - 0.462 Carolina Panthers 5 8 0 - 0.385 Seattle Seahawks 5 8 0 - 0.385 Eliminated Chicago Bears 5 8 0 - 0.385 Washington Redskins 4 9 0 - 0.308 Detroit...

Despite claims that Tiger Woods was cheap when it came to spending money on the women with whom he had relationships, some did benefit financially and continue to do so

Despite weather, 49ers are storming the Cards tonight. Too much AZ turnovers. Gore just scored a touchdown. SF 24, AZ 9

New York Yankees have quite a catch in Curtis Granderson, who's a leader on and off field Curtis Granderson laughs at the memory now, but when he saw that the letter had come from the baseball commissioner's office, his first thought was, "Did I do something wrong?" What Granderson found when he opened the envelope, however, "was amazing," he says, and the letter sits in one of his parents' scrapbooks to this day. The Yankees' newest star had gotten a letter from commissioner Bud Selig earlier this year praising Granderson's work as a baseball ambassador during offseason clinics in places...

Amanda Hanneman and Jessra Johnson, the leading scorers on Missouri’s women’s basketball team, have been suspended indefinitely after both players were arrested for third-degree assault. According to police, Hanneman, from Blue Springs South, and Johnson were attending a party at the home of Justin Short, a MU cheerleader, following the Tigers’ women’s game Thursday night. Stewart told the players he wanted to go to sleep and told Hanneman and Johnson to leave, according to police. Stewart said that Johnson then shoved him and that Hanneman allegedly punched Stewart three times. Police said Stewart claimed he might have a broken nose....

Nike: Tiger Woods Affairs Are A 'Minor Blip' Tiger Woods's multiple infidelities have been dismissed as a "minor blip" by the chairman of Nike, the golfer's biggest commercial sponsor. By Tom Leonard in New York 14 Dec 2009 The chairman of Nike has dismissed Tiger Woods affairs as a 'minor blip' Phil Knight, the co-founder of the sports footwear and clothing giant, said the scandal surrounding Woods's private life was "part of the game" in endorsement deals. But he acknowledged that his company's checks on the sports star's suitability had failed to uncover evidence of serial philandering. Mr Knight, whose...

World Series MVP Hideki Matsui and the Los Angeles Angels agreed to a one-year contract on Monday, The New York Times reported in its online edition, quoting an official involved in the negotiations.

Just hours before Tiger Woods' beloved father, Earl, succumbed to prostate cancer, the golfer allegedly cheated with Las Vegas cocktail waitress Jamie Jungers -- in the same bed he shares with wife Elin Nordegren.

Rachel Uchitel -- the woman whose alleged affair ignited the Tiger Woods scandal -- has been getting cell phone calls from people threatening to kill her. A number of people got her cell phone number by looking at a 2001 photo making the rounds with an old cell phone number displayed -- a number that referred callers to her current cell phone.

Blonde Elin Nordegren ventured out to take the couple's two children to a Christmas party in Florida on Saturday. As she stopped for petrol it was clear she had taken off the gold band and diamond engagement ring she has worn throughout their five-year marriage. The outing came amid reports the family were visited by the Florida Department of Children and Families earlier in the day. The agency workers - said to have been flanked by cops - normally call on families to ensure the well-being of children following domestic violence incidents. A massive row at the couple's mansion is...

I Know Pro Golfers ALL Play Around - They've Tried To Score With Me By LAUREN ST JOHN 14th December 2009 Another day, another mistress. Tiger Woods's career has certainly attracted birdies in both senses of the word. But the question is how did he find the time to play golf, let alone win 14 majors and become world No1, while accumulating at least nine lovers? The answer is simple. He learned from the masters. Professional golf has a purer-than-driven-snow image - on which multi-million pound sponsors trade heavily. That reputation is deserved on course, but it's a totally different...

Global consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture is ending its sponsorship of Tiger Woods, saying the golfer is "no longer the right representative" after the "circumstances of the last two weeks."