That’ll be this Thursday. And yes, one of the three Supermen we have in the NBA these days won’t be playing.

In case you are wondering, we have three Supermen in the NBA. Unfortunately, only one qualified for the 2009 NBA Playoffs. The first one who called himself the Man of Steel was Shaquille O’Neal, his Suns did not qualify for the postseason. We heard about Rudy Gay calling himself Superman in Memphis as well, his Grizzlies are still far from being a playoff team.

And FINALLY, we have Dwight Howard. And thanks to the elbow he unleashed on Samuel Dalembert in Game 5, he got his ass suspended and won’t be playing in Philly where his Orlando Magic try to close things out against the Philadelphia 76ers.

You read it, the Orlando Magic won’t be having Superman after the self proclaimed Man of Steel elbowed 76ers center Samuel Dalembert to the head. Heck, Howard was so hell-bent in throwing all those elbows that he even got his teammate Courtney Lee to catch one of ‘em, taking him out of the game as a result.

Initially, I thought the NBA was about to give Dwight Howard the free pass since he was only given a technical foul when he got Samuel Dalembert. The referees could’ve ejected Howard in Game 5 and we would’ve had a different result. Can you imagine the Philadelphia 76ers having the 3-2 series lead heading back to the Wachovia Center?

Instead, the refs let Dwight Howard stay on the floor…

Probable, because we still don’t know if Oprah will give it a go this year.

In just a couple of days, 20 of the top three-year-old thoroughbreds in the world will enter the starting gate of the 135th Kentucky Derby.

Victory in the legendary race, ran in the first Saturday of May, has eluded some of the top names in the sport. For the past two years, trainer Larry Jones has saddled the runner-up in the ”Run for the Roses.”

Last year, it was the amazingly talented filly Eight Belles who gave Jones and owner Rick Porter the thrill of a lifetime. She fearlessly powered past 18 male rivals to finish second to the highly touted Big Brown.

As jockey Gabriel Saez was pulling up the filly, she took a bad step and fell to the racetrack. The tragedy that ensued made international headlines and spurred an unprecedented outcry for safety in horse racing. It was also a heartbreaking moment for Jones.

Good things happen to good people, though, and Jones, 52, is an underrated horsemen who has two major contenders for the 2009 Derby. One of his colts, Old Fashioned, was back in action when he competed in the $1 million Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.

Old Fashioned was undefeated as a two-year-old…

Blame Michael Jordan.

Game 6 of the best of seven series between the Bulls and the Celtics in the 2009 NBA Playoffs is set in Chicago and as far as basketball fans from Chicago are concerned, they’re blaming Michael Jordan for the Bulls’ loss back in Game 5.

In case you missed it, the Boston Celtics took control of their first round series with the Chicago Bulls when they took the 3-2 lead after winning Game 5, 106-104, AGAIN in overtime.

For the third time in this series, the Boston Celtics and the Chicago Bulls needed overtime to settle the score, making this one the first postseason series in NBA history to have three overtime games.

It looked like the Chicago Bulls will once again shock the world by beating the Celtics right in front of their fans at the TD Banknorth Garden. It was all set-up for a Bulls win too, with Kevin Garnett still on street clothes and Ray Allen out of the game after committing his sixth foul.

With less than ten seconds remaining in overtime and the Bulls down by two, it looked like the Bulls will have a chance to tie the game and win it at the buzzer when Rajon Rondo clearly committed a Flagrant 2 on Bulls center Brad Miller.

Unfortunately, Brad Miller is not Michael Jordan and therefore, Rondo’s hard foul do not merit to be a flagrant one since he applied it on a guy deemed by the league…

Um… NO.

In case you have no idea how close we are to this huge Manny Pacquiao – Ricky Hatton fight, the event dubbed as ”The Battle of East and West” is on this Saturday and if you haven’t made your bets yet, I suggest you make some now.

Yep, Ricky ”The Hitman” Hatton will be at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada where he tries to finally save boxing from Manny Pacquiao and third world retardation. Hatton, unlike the other fighters Pacquiao faced before, is someone who is still in his prime. He is a technical fighter who can also brawl with Pacquiao if the fight suggests it.

Hatton is, by no means, a dehydrated Oscar De La Hoya and it will take Pacquiao more than an aborted duck fetus to keep up with this guy. Third world retardation has gone long enough in the sport of boxing and it’s about time that somebody puts an end to it.

Yes, boxing, thanks to Manny ”The Pacman” Pacquiao, has become retarded since he took the sport from its scientific and technical roots and turned it into a circus. You see, during the days of a young Mike Tyson or even an older Lennox Lewis, boxing was all about finding out who truly is the best in the business. Unfortunately for the sport, Pacquiao and his people are turning it into a fuck-fest where they just look for past world champions, wait for them to turn 40 and pit ‘em up against the Pacman just so the third world moron can mug the guy without resembling any semblance of scientific boxing.

It’s irritating. And what’s even worse is the fact that…

This series has been one of the most exciting ones to watch in the first round.

Game 5 of the best of seven series between the Celtics and the Bulls is on this Tuesday as both try to take the 3-2 series lead in the first round of the 2009 NBA Playoffs.

We’re back to square one. After the Boston Celtics took the homecourt advantage back from Chicago after annihilating the Bulls in Game 3, 107-86, at the United Center, the Bulls bounced back, coming up with a double overtime 121-118 win in Game 4.

It looked like the Boston Celtics would take the commanding 3-1 series lead heading back to the TD Banknorth Garden. Luckily for the Chicago Bulls, Ben Gordon just wouldn’t let that happen.

Ben Gordon continued his stellar postseason play in Game 4, scoring 22 points to help the Bulls overcome the Celtics, 121-118, after two extra periods. ”This is the biggest game of the year for us, the biggest game of our careers right now,” Ben Gordon said.

”It was a big win for us. It was exciting.”

The Bulls backcourt has been a thorn to the Celtics’ side after the first four games of their postseason campaign. And in Game 4…

Yes, the new NFL season is still four months away and yet, SPORTSBETTING.COM is already taking this opportunity to milk on shit.

NFL football still looms large even though the calendar tells us that the new 2009 NFL football season is more than four months away. Between now and opening kick-off, we still have training camp and all the preseason games but since SPORTSBETTING.COM figured that it doesn’t hurt to be four months early, they have already posted odds for opening week.

As has been the tradition since the year following 9/11, the regular season will kickoff on a Thursday, September 10 to be exact, with the defending champions Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Tennessee Titans. The Steelers are listed as 5-point favorites in early betting.

While the Steelers are a profitable 13-7 ATS against the Tennessee Titans at home, Pittsburgh hasn’t fared as well since the team relocated going 4-3 ATS in seven home games against the Titans. Known as a strong defensive team, Pittsburgh has actually been involved in some high-scoring affairs vs. the Titans, as far as the Total goes.

In the same seven meetings since the moving from Houston to Tennessee, the Titans and the Steelers have an O/U record of 6-1.

While recent NFL tradition dictates that the regular season starts on a Thursday, that same…

The pesky Bulls.

That’s what the Chicago Bulls are turning out to be at least during the first two games of their best of seven playoff series with the Boston Celtics in the 2009 NBA Playoffs.

The Chicago Bulls literally SHOCKED the entire league when they went toe to toe with the defending champions Celtics from start to finish in Game 1. And while many thought the Celtics won’t have problems with the young Bulls, many were surprised to see the young Bulls playing with the swagger of a seasoned veteran. Hell, they even had leads of seven and eight at one point of the game.

The shocking developments of Game 1 concluded with the Chicago Bulls beating the Boston Celtics in overtime, 105-103, giving the young Bulls the improbable 1-0 series lead over the defending champs from Boston.

In Game 2, it was more of the same as the Bulls looked poised to give the Celtics another tough outing on their own floor. After Derrick Rose exploded for 36 points, another one of the Bulls guards took it to Boston. This time it was Ben Gordon, exploding for 42.

Yep, after the Celtics let Derrick Rose score 36, they let Ben Gordon score 42 the very next game. How come these Bulls guards can score on the Celtics defense…

No, we’re not insinuating that BetUS.com is literally on top of Lindsay Lohan in the missionary position.

What we mean is our friends from BetUS.com has started to milk on the Hollywood celebrity’s life. Apparently, Lindsay Lohan has been having quite a colorful one and BetUS.com has posted odds on what they think will happen to the celebrity next.

You read it, thanks to the online betting site BetUS.com, you can now bet on what you think will happen to Lindsay Lohan next. BetUS.com is on top of everything about Lindsay, from Lohan recording an album to what color will she use to dye her hair with.

Silly, yes. But since it might prove to be profitable for you, why care. But why all the sudden interest for the troubled star?

Apparently, Lindsey Lohan’s well publicized break-up with DJ girlfriend Samantha Rosnon culminated with the cover of US Weekly and a quote from the troubled star alluding to the fact that she feels ‘’so alone.”

The star has seen her share of controversy over the course of her once promising career, and it seems that she may have truly hit bottom.

Speculation in the gossip rags and on the entertainment beats as well as amongst…

Well, that’s at least what new Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels is claiming.

Josh McDaniels believes that there are plenty of quarterbacks that can win in the NFL and he will be under a lot of immediate pressure to prove that in the coming 2009 NFL football season.

Is this his way of saying that the Denver Broncos can still win without Cutler? Probably. Is this his way of saving his own ass after instigating the change? Definitely.

Denver traded quarterback Jay Cutler, a 25-year-old quarterback coming off a Pro Bowl season, to Chicago. Making such a trade is unthinkable and McDaniels got his ass in trouble with some football fans in Denver as a result.

McDaniels claims he had not spoken to Cutler in weeks and couldn’t get him to return messages, so the Broncos felt they were forced to take the drastic and unusual step of trading a franchise quarterback entering his prime.

McDaniels guided Tom Brady, a sixth-round pick, and Matt Cassel, a seventh-round pick, to big seasons when he was offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots. He…

Oh yes, the clay courts of Paris beckons near.

Billed as the most challenging of all the grand slams, the 2009 French Open tennis tournament is coming and it’s sure to bring in the best of the world’s top tennis superstars.

Hosted by one of the most romantic cities in the world, Paris, the 2009 French Open will run from May 24th to June 7th at Roland Garros, sure to unleash some of the most riveting grand slam tennis action.

The clay courts of Roland Garros have broken the hearts of many players wishing to complete a grand slam sweep, with a slow demanding surface testing not only the physical but also the mental resolve of the competitors.

Rafael Nadal won his fourth straight title in 2008 with his victim, Roger Federer, easily defeated in straight sets.

Nadal, ranked world no.1, produced an absolutely sublime display of tennis brilliance in 2008. Picking up 6 ATP Titles, making the semi-finals at the Australian Open and the US Open, and winning Wimbledon and the French Open. Nadal smashed numerous records in the process and overtook Roger Federer as the world’s premiere male tennis player.

Ana Ivanovic will be defending the women’s title…