Your Busy Weekend At LA Live

That's what they call the entertainment complex that has, among other things, the Staples Center...

With 6 events in four days, the installation crews had their hands full...
Here's what it was like to change out hockey for hoops over and over again...
((HT: Sportsnet))


Not to be outdone... the Amgen Tour of California was finishing up there...
((HT: KABC-TV))

I'll Have Another Takes Another Part Of The Triple Crown

((HT: ABC2 Baltimore))

In what looked like a re-run of the Kentucky Derby, I'll Have Another beat Bodemeister down the stretch to win the Preakness and only need to win the Belmont on June 9th for a Triple Crown season- the first since Affirmed in 1978.

The horse covered the mile and 3/16ths in 1:55.94 and paid off at $8.40, $3.80, and $2.80. Trainer Doug O'Neill won his first Kentucky Derby two weeks ago, and this win was his first in the Preakness.

Here's the recap from Bal-muhr...
((HT: ABC2News))

He Who Hesitates Hits The Post... Chelsea Wins Champions League

((HT: FoxSports/UEFA))

Just don't ask Bastian Schweinsteger if he'll ever double-clutch on purpose ever again in a penalty kick situation...

In what a lot of people were calling the last game Didier Drogba was going to play for Chelsea's blues, he added to his legend with a header in regulation for the tie of Bayern Munich and the kick in the bottom of the fifth frame for the winner to give Chelsea its first-ever Champions League title.

It means that Chelsea bumps Tottenham out of the competition next year, and the Spurs can't be happy about it...

Here's the highlights...


And the analysis from Rob, Eric, and Brad is hyah...

Bayern manager Jupp Heynckes removal of both goal-scorer Muller and Arjen Robben in regulation turned out to be a mistake as the game went to PK's.

Think that'll happen again, either...???

Calvin Johnson Shows Off His Baseball Skills, Crushes Home Run During Batting Practice

Those of us at the OSG HQ have been aware of Calvin Johnson's athletic ability over the years. We knew he was more than just a football player and a pretty fair baseball player at Sandy Creek high school.

Friday during batting practice before the Detroit Tigers game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Megatron displayed his batting skills.



Johnson has some power to left and center field. His shot to center travelled over 400 feet. It's 420 feet to center field at Comerica Park.

Kerry Wood Goes Out With A K

((HT: WGN-TV))

As well he should...
The Chicago Cubs Kerry Wood has been through a rough time recovering through shoulder stiffness, soreness, and rehabilitation...

He's not the strikeout guy he once was, and he wanted to go out the way he came in- striking people out...

And he did...


Thanks for your power and precision...

DEVELOPING: Coyotes Sale Soon...??? (UPDATED With Denial)

((HT: Sportsnet Radio/FAN 590))

Sportsnet 590 The FAN's Bob McCown is reporting on his afternoon radio show, "Prime Time Sports," that Boston Pizza owner/founder Jim Treliving will purchase the Phoenix Coyotes for around C$165 million, paid over the course of 10 years, with the flexibility to move the team without restriction after four years.

Treliving has denied anything up to this point when it comes to picking up the Coyotes- or any other NHL team for that matter. That's the smart play for any owner that wants a piece of the league (see what Jim Balsillie DIDN'T do where the Coyotes were concerned and what True North did do to secure the Winnipeg Jets).

As we told you back in March with OSG Sports original tracking of the idea, Treliving owns and operates the Central Hockey League as part of T&M Holdings.

If he is involved again, it means that what Bobcat is saying flies in the face of the Jamison-Bettman presser last week.

And that can't be good pee-ahr for the league...
More when we know more...

1720 UPDATE: Treliving took to his Twitter feed, @JTreliving, to refute the activity at present...

There is a Rumor I am buying the Phoenix Coyotes. I am not as it has been purchased by Greg Jamison I am not buying the team. End of story

The SEC/Big 12 Bowl: Galactic Realignments Trump Card?

The Image/From secsports.com

Before you read this story, you should breeze through the story below it on the OSG Sports website.

You know, the one that talks about only what could...or couldn't be the biggest move thus far in the history of College Football's "Galactic Realignment".

It's the story of 2 of the 4 so-called "Power Conferences", the SEC and the Big 12 agreeing to put on a bowl game that may...or may not feature their conference champs. The name "The Champions Bowl" and it will be offered to a rotation of cities with "The Highest Bid".

But College Sports are about competition...not profit.

Ha!

It may put the champs of each conference against each other in a bowl game at a "To-Be-Determined" location...if they aren't in the soon to be agreed upon playoff. Or it may put the conference runner-ups there.

Your press release from the SEC RIGHT HERE

As we all know, there is zero chance the champ of either the SEC or Big 12 isn't in the upcoming 4-game College Football playoff, but it is theoretically possible.

What we like the most about this is the collective call out by SEC Commish Mike Slive and outgoing Big 12 commish Chuck Neinas, of Big 10 commissioner Jim Delany, the man most responsible for the current mess that is the BCS. And really, we sort of get that he's protecting the Rose Bowl by trying to center any playoff around it. But to those of us on the East Coast and in the South, that bowl game isn't as big as Delany thinks.

The other potential bonus here is it may render some of the other trivial minor bowls irrelevant or hopefully end them. Sorry folks, the "Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl" or the "Champs Sports Bowl", they benefit nobody...other than the people that put the game on.

Don't for a MINUTE, believe the whole line of crap given by bowl officials: "It's a chance for the players to be rewarded for a great season". BULLSHIT (sorry for the language). Going to a bowl game for a 6-6 record is not a reward. It is not for the fans. Most fans don't want to buy a $1500 ticket package to see their mediocre team in a bowl game. They don't.

It's for the people who put on said bowl game to make money. For those who don't know, bowl games make tons of money off sponsorships and the unused team tickets.

Yes, that's right, unused team tickets. Ask the University of Connecticut about the $1.6 million it owed the Fiesta Bowl a couple of years ago about that.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand.

What this means is fairly simple.

There is going to be a College Football playoff in 2014. And it is going to involve the "Top 4" teams in the country. (They are still trying to determine how to determine that)

The rest will sort out to bowl games.

We don't know which bowl games will survive this. But honestly a little "Survival of the Fittest" there won't be such a bad thing.

The other big thing is "Realignment". While we too laughed at the "FSU interested in Big 12" stories, suddenly, that takes on a different tone". Look for the Big 12 to be back at 12 teams...or more...very soon. Your prime candidates...anybody in the ACC and Louisville in the Big East.

What it is going to mean to anyone outside the Big 10, Big 12, SEC and Pac 12 is...well, enjoy your bowl game, you won't be playing for the title. Unless you are one of the 4....which you won't be.

And so the trump card is played. The stars will realign. The game will change. And it will never be the same.

Thanks for indulging me by reading this. Think about what I'm saying. It's true....oh...it's true, you know its true.