Alonso to Maranello: Ferrari have annouced that two-time World Champion Fernando Alonso has signed a three year contract with the Italian team and will replace Kimi Raikkonen for the 2010 season.

posted by Mr Bismarck to auto racing at 11:26 AM - 9 comments

Renault's Big Two Out: Managing Director Flavio Briatore and Director of Engineering Pat Symonds have stepped down from their positions with Renault F1 after the French team announced that they would not contest the FIA's assertion that the team ordered driver Nelson Piquet to crash at last season's Singapore Grand Prix.

posted by Mr Bismarck to auto racing at 11:09 AM - 7 comments

UEFA and The FA Propose Tighter Belts: UEFA has agreed to move forward with plans prepared by President Michel Platini to force clubs to live within their means that could see irresponsible clubs suspended from Champions or Europa leagues. Meanwhile The FA usher in new financial rules for the Premier League which will require clubs have at least one foot in the real world providing annual, independently-audited accounts.

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 06:23 PM - 3 comments

Ferrari Go Back To The Future: Ferrari have confirmed that they will replace injured driver Felipe Massa at the upcoming European Grand Prix with Ralph Schumacher's brother.

posted by Mr Bismarck to auto racing at 01:11 PM - 8 comments

Ferrari's Felipe Massa undergoes emergency surgery: Ferrari's Brazilian driver Felipe Massa was airlifted to hospital during qualifying for tomorrow's Hungarian Grand Prix after a spring fell from fellow countryman Ruben Barrichello's car and struck Massa in the helmet.

posted by Mr Bismarck to auto racing at 02:45 PM - 7 comments

No Balls, No Strikes, One Win: Rockies left-hander Alan Embree was credited with the win over Washington last night without throwing a pitch.

posted by Mr Bismarck to baseball at 12:18 PM - 8 comments

Operation Tango: : with the Scottish title down to the final day fans of leaders Glasgow Rangers decided to prank fans of nemesis Glasgow Celtic, with results visible on Setanta. [YOUTUBE]

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 08:31 AM - 9 comments

Best Fan Day Ever: When Philly fan Lionel Rodia suffered some bad fortune, he decided to push what luck he had left.

posted by Mr Bismarck to baseball at 11:41 PM - 19 comments

Down for the Count: Less than three weeks after its marquee fighter Kimbo Slice was knocked out in 14 seconds by a journeyman replacement, MMA company Elite XC has closed its doors for good.

posted by Mr Bismarck to other at 10:02 AM - 9 comments

Substitute:  England won't be at Euro 2008, but neither will Frenchman Vikash Dhorasoo. Despite playing in every qualification match for the 2006 World Cup, Dhorasoo got just 16 minutes on the field during the tournament and retired from international football following France's defeat in the final. A year later he was gone from the game altogether.

Tomorrow the film Dhorasoo shot at the 06 World Cup, "Substitute" [Youtube] (warning: contains French), is released in the UK allowing you to watch a man fall out of love with football.

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 12:02 PM - 4 comments

Chris Bosh: really wants to be an All Star.

posted by Mr Bismarck to basketball at 09:47 AM - 19 comments

Five Arrested in Football Corruption Investigation.: Portsmouth FC Manager Harry Redknapp and Chief Executive Peter Storrie are among five men arrested by UK police as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption within football.

The arrests follow a raid by police on Newcastle, Portsmouth and Glasgow Rangers football clubs earlier this year.

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 03:06 PM - 7 comments

Mourinho Departs from Chelsea: The celebrated manager Jose Mourinho has left his position at Chelsea with immediate effect. Mourinho joined Chelsea in the summer of 2004 and led them to the Premiership title in each of his first two seasons.

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 08:01 PM - 30 comments

First it was sad, then suspiscious, then murder.: Now, almost three months to the day after Pakistani Cricket team Coach Bob Woolmer was found unconscious in his hotel room, the Jamaican police confirm his death was from natural causes.
[previous SpoFi : 1, 2 and more inside]

posted by Mr Bismarck to other at 01:17 PM - 7 comments

Bluebirds and Vikings: A product of English football's centre of excellence, Rhys Weston made his debut for Arsenal on the same day as Ashley Cole, has been capped multiple times for his country and has played more than 200 professional games. But now, along with hundreds of other footballers each off-season, he's out of a job, thinking about mortgage payments and waiting for the phone to ring.

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 05:47 PM - 9 comments

First of all, I don't like you.:   Former pro Tight End and Player Personnel Director Ken Herock prepares NFL draft prospects for the Combine without sprints, weights or even a ball.

Herock calls Giants Wide Receiver Tim Carter a success and Maurice Clarett "that little punk."

posted by Mr Bismarck to football at 09:08 AM - 10 comments

From Silly Point to Night Watchman : everything you wanted to know about cricket, but were too afraid to ask, on one page.

posted by Mr Bismarck to other at 05:36 PM - 5 comments

World Champions: - The world may not have held its collective breath as Uruguay puffed to a 2-0 win, (youtube highlights), over Egypt in August, but to those in the know, the victory confirmed Uruguay's place as unnoficial World Champions, a title they've held since May.

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 03:51 AM - 12 comments

Rick Mirer: is the worst quarterback of all time*.

Steve Young is the best.

posted by Mr Bismarck to football at 01:57 PM - 55 comments

End of the Road: After closing the gap on rival Fernando Alonso during a controversial weekend, seven times world champion Michael Schumacher announces he will retire at the end of the season.

posted by Mr Bismarck to auto racing at 09:09 AM - 15 comments

Landis Likely to Lose Tour Title: Floyd Landis is dismissed by his Phonak team as his B sample returns positive for "excessive amounts of the male sex hormone testosterone." The UCI issue a brief statement and it will be their decision to hand Landis' title to Spaniard Oscar Pereiro.

posted by Mr Bismarck to other at 07:17 AM - 63 comments

Run Around the Block: The world's longest foot race is on in Queens, New York, as successful athletes complete a 3,100 mile course around just one city block.

The race lasts for 51 days and requires competitors, most of whom follow the meditation teachings of Master Sri Chinmoy, to run for just over sixty miles a day, before its end, on August 2nd.

The current course record is 42 days, 13 hours, 24 minutes and 3 seconds, set in 2002.

The winners receive a small plastic trophy and a tshirt.

posted by Mr Bismarck to extreme at 07:36 AM - 31 comments

Match Fixing Result Already Known?: Suitably, it seems that Italian newspaper Gazetta dello Sport already know the outcome of the match fixing trials affecting four of Italy's largest club teams; Juventus, Lazio, Fiorentina and Milan.

The official result is expected tonight, after the Italian stock exchange closes.

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 08:28 AM - 17 comments

Tears of a Clown: A after being roundly booed every time he touched the ball in the World Cup semi-final, Ronaldo may find himself second best again, this time in FIFA's Young Player of the Tournament award, thanks to an email from England fans bitter at their team's Quarter-final exit.

The ten finalists for the Golden Ball, Player of the Tournament award have also been announced.

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 07:43 AM - 13 comments

Exit Poll: English referee Graham Poll seems likely to be sent home after a terrible performance in the game between Australia and Croatia, in which the experienced EPL official made a series of bad calls, including giving three yellow cards to Croatian Josip Simunic.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the failure of the four officials to communicate was like a black out.

posted by Mr Bismarck to soccer at 07:58 AM - 17 comments