Ivan Basso has extended his contract with Team Liquigas for another two years, after allegedly getting an offer from his former Team Saxo Bank.
According to the Gazzetta dello Sport, Basso has extended with Liquigas through 2012, with an option for a third year. The Italian team signed him after he returned from his two-year suspension.
Basso [...]
This is a new Reebok commercial for “Speedwick Performance Tees” featuring Sid, Talbot and the INFAMOUS dryer (although I think I read in the USA Today article that it was a recreated set, so I’m not too sure the dryer is ‘legit’). It will makes it’s debut on Friday during the Winter Classic.THANKS to all [...]
December 31, 1988Mario Lemieux becomes the first player in NHL history to score a goal five different ways in one game (even strength, power play, short-handed, penalty shot, empty net) in an 8-6 win over New Jersey.
Lance Armstrong continued his campaign of criticism against Albert Contador, saying the two-time Tour de France winner “is surrounded by yes-men” and saying that he acts like “the king of Spain.”
In an interview which appeared in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and the Belgian Nieuwsblad, Armstrong reiterated that Contador’s success had gone to his head. [...]
Olympic Penguins: Sidney Crosby and Marc-Andre Fleury will don the Team Canada sweaters at the 2010, as informed today by Steve Yzerman, the team’s executive director. Both young men will be making their Olympic debuts, although they have seen action in international play for Canada several times already.
Crosby and Fleury join Penguin teammates Evgeni Malkin [...]
Cristiano Ronaldo
(Madrid, AFP) .- The Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo, signed by a record amount of 94 million, is the most profitable player in the history of Real Madrid, since it resulted in up to 80 million euros per year in advertising revenue according to sports daily As on Wednesday.
Christian, 24, dethroned England captain David Beckham, [...]
Jason Bay
The free agent outfielder Jason Bay reached an agreement yesterday in a multiyear contract with the Mets in New York, according to a source confirmed to ESPN.com.
The deal would be official once pass a physical examination Bay, the source said. The New York Post reported that the contractor guarantees about $ 66 million for [...]
Thank you to the timeless Richard Dawson for the introduction, but a bigger thanks go out to the literally hundreds of readers that took the time to answer the recent Mondesi’s House survey. Your feedback was invaluable.
First off, let me belatedly announce the prize winners randomly selected from the readers who submitted a response:
Michael V. [...]
Former Pirate OF Jason Bay has reached agreement on a four-year, guaranteed $66 million contract with the New York Mets, with a vesting option year that could increase Bay’s overall payout to slightly more than $80 million over five years, says ESPN. Not bad for a 22nd-round draft pick.
The most Bay ever earned in a [...]
The passionate classic confrontation between the sport’s best Ironman runner and the its best long course biker came down to the last 20 meters. At the end of a high adrenaline, deeply emotional race, both competitors collapsed in a heap just past the line, piled one against the other in a brotherhood of ultimate exertion.
Boise [...]
