Kellogg's recent dumping of Michel Phelps as its spokesman had at least one unexpected consequence: The sudden appearance of about 3,800 pounds of cereal at the San Francisco Food Bank. Kellogg's, one of the many corporations to tell Phelps to get out and stay out as their spokesman after his love o...

Jeff Bernstein, the agent for Indian pitching prospects Rinku and Dinesh, reports that the controversy with the Topps representative has been cleared up. He is not a very, very bad man after all. On Tuesday, Rinku and Dinesh reported on their blog that they had been fleeced by a Topps baseball card ...

I could get behind Tom Brady appearing on an episode of Flight of the Conchords, or even Big Love (he'd fit right in). But this? Has Brady jumped the shark? Appearing on Entourage would have been very cool three years ago, but these days, what can be gained by hitting golf balls with Turtle and John...

Dude, it's not a foul ball ... if a tire rolls onto the infield during a NASCAR race, you don't run over there and retrieve it. Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway was thrown into disarray when Jimmy Watts, a member of Marcos Ambrose's No. 47 team, chased a tire into the infield grass...

Much head scratching over Italy's defeat of Canada in the World Baseball Classic on Monday. How could such a thing happen? Easy. It was pretty much just a glorified MLB spring training game. Amusingly, the Italian team is nicknamed The Azzurri, a name which is usually reserved for Italy's national s...

If the Warriors' Stephen Jackson is Bruce Leroy, the mystical martial artist who possesses "the glow," then who is the evil Sho'nuff, the Shogun of Harlem? The Warriors guard waxed philosophical about his game on Bob Fitzgerald's KNBR-680 San Francisco radio show on Sunday. And in trying to describe...

Florida coach Urban Meyer has a strict "no weapons" policy with his team, as you probably knew. But are you also aware that he insists that his players hold the door open for a lady? Meyer was the featured speaker at the Nike Coach of the Year Clinic at the Holiday Inn in Fogelsville, Pa., on Saturd...

At the sports stadium of tomorrow, you'll be able to order food from your seat, get on-demand video replays and relax in high-tech luxury suites. Juan Uribe will be hitting .227 as usual, however. Actually, some of this is already taking place. At the new Yankee Stadium, kiosks in the concourse area...

The Major League Baseball censors have struck again: Now you can't even buy a Yankees jersey with the name "A-Fraud" on the back. Will the assault on the Bill of Rights never cease? Darren Rovell reports in his CNBC Sports Biz column that MLB.com is banning the wry Alex Rodriguez nickname from repli...

It's time for Waxing Off, the Deadspin feature recommended by four out of five dentists who chew gum. This week: Alyssa Milano and her soon-to-be-released book, Safe at Home . Trouble: Reading excerpts from Alyssa Milano's upcoming girlie sports fan book, I was shocked, appalled and disgusted. Have ...