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Now, Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer has provided an update on Lars Sullivan’s firing. Meltzer made it clear that the speculation running around about WWE not having anything for Sullivan isn’t true. He added that WWE Chairman Vince McMahon was keen on pushing Lars Sullivan, but the Superstar no-showed on TV. Lars Sullivan’s WWE career was certainly a controversial one This wasn’t the first time that Lars Sullivan reportedly no-showed....

An MRI Monday revealed Petty has two bone cracks in his back, according to a CBSSports.com report, but he’s day-to-day and expects to play this week against Northwestern State. “Right now, (I) can’t sit down right, can’t walk right,” Petty said, according to the report. “I’m bummed out because I just watched tape and everything is off. You never want to make any excuses. When you’re throwing and I can’t torque (it’s frustrating)....

It may be even bigger than most had anticipated. FREE AGENTS 2014: List of eligible players The seven-time All-Star could receive a deal in the neighborhood of $100 million for six years, an MLB GM told ESPNNew York.com. "The GM reasoned that McCann is a top-five catcher and could transition to first (base) and DH toward the end of the deal," the report says. McCann, who will turn 30 in Feburary, is a lifetime ....

FoxSports.com's Ken Rosenthal reports Votto did make the trip to Philadelphia, is getting a MRI on his left knee and a DL stint appears likely. Here's a look at the fantasy fallout: Votto owners: Votto was already frustrating fantasy owners on many levels, including a .257 average this season. Here’s hoping Votto’s slide in May (.209-2-9) was because of the knee. That’s entirely possible. Owners trying to find a replacement would get lucky to find Michael Morse, but Juan Francisco or C....

The 35-year-old reportedly was arrested around 2 a.m. on Monday and bail was set at $5,000. Stevens, who played five of his nine NFL seasons in Seattle before finishing in Tampa, has had his share of legal troubles. Stevens, who married soccer star Hope Solo in 2012, was arrested the day before his November wedding but the domestic violence charges were later dropped. He was arrested in 2000 for sexual assault following a fraternity party at the University of Washington....

After just one season as head coach of the Canucks, in which the team went 36-35-11, Tortorella will be fired on Thursday, according to TSN's Farhan Lalji. MORE: Playoff photos | Playoff times | Live blog Tortorella's brief tenure in Vancouver was not without controversy. Back in January, he was suspended 15 games for his locker-room meltdown between periods against the Calgary Flames. Tortorella actually tried to get into the Flames' locker room to accost head coach Bob Hartley, whom Tortorella felt was to blame for the massive line brawl between the two teams....

No decision has been made as of Friday afternoon. Friday’s report comes just a day after an MRI revealed the injury and two days after Bryant injured his shoulder on dunk against the Pelicans. Bryant showed visible pain after the play, grabbing his shoulder and playing the remainder of the game with his left hand. Lakers head coach Byron Scott took the blame for Bryant’s injury, even apologizing to the star guard....

It true, this would be Williams' first managerial job. He replaces Davey Johnson, who retired at season's end. Matt Williams (AP Photo) Williams, 47, was third base coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks last season. No announcement of the team's decision has been made, and the Washington Post noted Major League Baseball prohibits news of this nature being released during the World Series. The move would not without controversy. According to The Washington Post: Williams will become the first manager to have been named in the Mitchell Report, MLB’s first official documentation of performance-enhancing drug use in baseball....

By increasing his stake in the Charlotte Hornets from 80 percent to 89.5 percent, Jordan, who pulls in annual earnings of $90 million, increased his net worth from $750 million to a cool $1 billion, according to Forbes.com. MORE: Can Michael Jordan palm a frozen turkey? | Flu Game was 17 years ago Jordan became a part owner of the Hornets (then the Bobcats) back in 2006, then bought owner Bob Johnson out for $175 million....

It has been a fixture of our culture since as far back as 1983, when Elizabeth Taylor checked her aura of tragic, tawdry glamour into the Betty Ford Center, setting an example of courageous humility for future generations of troubled divas, wild-man comics and hard-partying rockers. Since that time, residential treatment programs for the middle and upper classes have proliferated across both the geographic and the therapeutic maps. Heated disputes have erupted between proponents of different treatment models....

Ever since he made his debut along with Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose as part of The Shield at Survivor Series 2012, Reigns was earmarked for greatness inside the squared circle. WWE’s constant positioning of Reigns as the top guy despite the constant fan backlash against it led to fans souring on the Big Dog. Despite winning the company’s top prize on multiple occasions, Reigns never had a lengthy title reign as the company realized that the fan backlash was too much to take....

Pradeep Singh Sihag, might not be a household name in India, but his exploits within the sport has seen him become a popular figure in Australia. Better known as the ‘Indian Warrior’, Sihag was rejected by the Indian junior national boxing team, which forced him to look for options abroad. He said, “I have represented India four times, both in the Commonwealth Youth Games and the YMCA Games. However, I left the country because there was too much politics in sports there....

Now, it seems that Disney wants to further ramp up this effort by churning out new Star Wars titles on a regular basis. This idea can be very exciting for fans who want to continuously explore one of their favorite sci-fi franchises, but it also has a very high chance of failing. It will lead to all sorts of new Star Wars experiences, but there will be so many titles that a new Star Wars game will no longer feel special....

David Neily was 69 years old when he was last seen by family members in the coastal town of Albion in March 2006, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Saturday. Neily went missing after he went to pick up his car from a horse farm owned by James DeNoyer. DeNoyer accused Neily of tipping off authorities about poor conditions. DeNoyer was charged with 36 counts of animal cruelty after 36 emaciated horses were removed from the farm, NBC News reported....

These are hard times for the CIA. On the face of it, the collapse of the Soviet military threat should be reason for self-congratulation at an agency whose primary mission, through more than 40 years of U.S.-Soviet confrontation, has been to warn American presidents whether the cold war was likely to turn hot. But World War III never happened-and the war that did, in the Persian Gulf, has given the agency’s critics one more reason to question its readiness for the “new world order....

The WWE star made his opposition to marriage and having children very clear to Bella on the reality show. A post shared by Sporting News (@sportingnews) on Apr 2, 2017 at 7:02pm PDT MORE: John Cena proposes to girlfriend Nikki Bella in the ring Cena says he lost his faith in marriage after divorcing Elizabeth Huberdeau in 2012. An extra-cautious Cena had Bella sign a 75-page agreement before moving in with him in 2013....

The scotch was flowing–Macallan, one of his favorites–and cigars were turning to ash. In about 15 minutes, Ken’s son Malcolm told me, the whole family planned to gather around the TV to watch “24,” the show where Kiefer Sutherland saves the world. Ken hated missing an episode, but he would’ve hated even more the idea of loved ones missing it on his behalf. After all, he’d insist, there was nothing wrong with them....

“There’s no people like show people, they smile when they are low …” Susannah sang. “… You’re broken hearted, but you go on. You go on! " Now Linda Dahl’s new biography of McCorkle, who committed suicide five years ago, makes clear that track was a sad anthem of self-definition, McCorkle’s very own “You Don’t Know the Half of It, Dearie, Blues.” Talented as a writer of short stories and profiles as well as an interpreter of “standard” songs from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s (“The Great American Songbook,” as some would have it), with a score of CDs to her credit and gigs at posh nightspots like the Oak Room at New York’s storied Algonquin Hotel (think Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and their writers’ roundtable), McCorkle seemed a singular success....