Damn… Jason Taylor is going to Washington????

By HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Sports Writer

ASHBURN, Va. (AP)—Jason Taylor is leaving the only NFL team he’s known, going from the Miami Dolphins to the Washington Redskins in a trade Sunday.

The Redskins gave the Dolphins a second-round pick in 2009 and a sixth-round choice in 2010 for Taylor.

The six-time Pro Bowl defensive end—who was the 2006 NFL Defensive Player of the Year—fell out of favor in Miami after spending his offseason on the TV show “Dancing With the Stars” rather than working out with teammates.

The deal came about nine hours after starting defensive end Phillip Daniels was carted away from the practice field at Redskins Park with a season-ending left knee injury on Day 1 of training camp.

It also came only about 1 1/2 hours after Washington executive vice president Vinny Cerrato told reporters: “We haven’t talked to anybody about anything.”

Cerrato said Taylor is expected to report to training camp on Monday.

“We’re fortunate there was a guy that caliber on the market when somebody got hurt,” Cerrato said. “Normally, in most years, there’s not a guy of that caliber on the market.”

This shit is crazy…

by FOXSports.com

Concerned that some of its players are flashing signals related to street gangs, the National Football League has hired experts to examine game tapes and identify the hand gestures, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
“There have been some suspected things we’ve seen,” NFL vice president of security Milt Ahlerich told the Los Angeles Times. “When we see it, we quietly jump on it immediately, directly with the team and the player or employee involved to cease and desist. Period.”

Ahlerich says the NFL has long warned its players about the influence of gangs. Concern intensified after Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was gunned down following an altercation involving known gang members in 2007.

The concern was raised with first-year players at the recent rookie symposium, and a video on the dangers of gangs was shown to every player in the league last year.

“Guys come from all over the country, and who knows what they’re really doing?” Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Dennis Northcutt told the paper

By Dan Rafael

When Wales’ Joe Calzaghe defeated Bernard Hopkins for the light heavyweight championship April 19 in Las Vegas in his first fight in the United States, there was one spectator perhaps more interested than anyone else inside the Thomas & Mack Center.

Roy Jones Jr., the former undisputed light heavyweight champion and pound-for-pound king, was ringside working as an analyst for the British radio broadcast of the bout.

At the post-fight news conference, Calzaghe said he might fight only one more time before retiring and wanted it to be against Jones. Joe Calzaghe’s 175-pound championship is on the line in September’s bout at Madison Square Garden.

Jones, who was present and was coming off a career-resuscitating Jan. 19 victory against Felix Trinidad, said he also wanted the fight.

Now, after the past several months of talking about the fight, it’s a done deal, John Wirt, CEO of Jones’ promotional company, Square Ring, told ESPN.com on Tuesday.

Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KOs) and Jones (52-4, 38 KOs) will meet for Calzaghe’s 175-pound championship on Sept. 20 (HBO PPV). The site will be New York’s Madison Square Garden, where Jones dominated Trinidad en route to a unanimous decision.

BULLSHIT DECISION!!!! BULLSHIT DECISION BULLSHIT DECISION!!!

I had the fight scored: Round 1 Rampage, Round 2 Forest (could even give him a 10-8 round), Round 3 RAMPAGE (he slammed his ass!), Round 4 RAMPAGE, Round 5 Forest (Rampage didn’t do shit).. so in my books it was either 3-2 for RAMPAGE or at worst a DRAW… Don’t start F*CKING up the decisions in MMA like Boxing.. this smelled like a FIX!

LAS VEGAS, July 6 – In the days leading up to the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship bout between Forrest Griffin and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, fans and pundits almost unanimously agreed that, on paper, the champion, Jackson, should win. Yet those comments were always followed by the word ‘but’ and some way of describing how you could never count Griffin out. Last night, at the sold out Mandalay Bay Events Center, Griffin took all the ‘buts’ out of the equation, overturning the odds and pounding out a thrilling unanimous five round decision win over Jackson to win the 205-pound world championship and etch his name in the history books.

I was one of the people who actually woke up at 9:00 a.m. to watch the sisters do battle (yet again) for the Wimbledon crown… and I wasn’t disappointed. I guess I was rooting more-so for Serena to win, but Venus showed us what it was yesterday. Congrats to her for her “Flawless Victory”. It is fairly obvious that Serena is the Power puncher, and Venus is the Finesse player.. and yesterday, finesse overcame power. Oh.. by the way, they also won the Doubles Championship game yesterday as well!

WIMBLEDON, England — Finally, five years removed from the gut-wrenching emotions of the Serena Slam era, the Williams sisters let it fly in a Grand Slam final.
It was like a palate-cleansing sorbet, a blast of fresh air at the All England Club that swept away all the memories of awkward tennis and charges of fixed matches.

There were grunts and shrieks, fist pumps, ripped backhands aimed with malice at the midsection, a Wimbledon-record 129 mph serve — and a fabulous seven-deuce, 21-point game that consumed 14 minutes. There might have been more drama squeezed into this 1-hour, 51-minute ladies’ final than in the 15 previous meetings between Venus and Serena Williams combined.

Whoa… this is one of JD’s players (you still gonna use Golden State on 2K8???)

Baron Davis shocked the Warriors by opting out of his contract on Monday. Imagine their surprise now. NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com’s Marc Stein that the guard reached a verbal agreement with the Clippers on Tuesday night and will sign a new multiyear contract with Los Angeles after the leaguewide moratorium on signings and trades is lifted July 9.

Davis was in line to make $17.8 million in the last year of his deal with the Warriors, but after telling the team that he wanted to stay, opted out at the last minute. Sources told ESPN.com that Davis, 29, will receive a five-year deal worth an estimated $65 million.

Forward Elton Brand also opted out of his contract with the Clippers on Monday, and speculation quickly began that the team would try to keep Brand and sign Davis. This scenario is only possible if the Clippers renounce the rights of Corey Maggette and Brand takes a slight pay cut.

Sources say the Clippers are expected to do just that and quickly reach a verbal agreement to bring back Brand.

LAS VEGAS — Oakland Raiders wide receiver Javon Walker was found unconscious on a Las Vegas street Monday after apparently being the victim of a robbery.

Police spokesman Bill Cassell said in a statement that Walker was taken to a hospital with “significant injuries” after being found early Monday on a street off the Las Vegas Strip. Cassell said Walker remained in fair condition at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. A Raiders spokesman said the team was “in the process of gathering information” and had no further comment.

Walker signed a six-year, $55 million deal with the Raiders after being released by the Denver Broncos in February. Walker injured his right knee for the second time in his career last season and was limited to eight games and 26 catches in 2007.

Walker was a first-round draft pick by the Green Bay Packers in 2001 and had a breakout season in 2004 with 89 catches for 1,382 yards and 12 touchdowns. He tore a ligament in his right knee the next season and played only one game. He was traded to Denver in 2006 and bounced back with 69 catches for 1,084 yards and eight touchdowns.

I am stunned! Maybe not so much that the Lakers lost, but HOW THEY LOST!!!! 131 - 92 was the final score… Not a good look Kobe! Anyway.. Congrats to the Celtics

Shout out to Kevin Garnett… funny ass interview