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A new poll conducted by AP/Knowledge Networks has listed the top problems with Major League Baseball according to its fans. The Poll was conducted from June 26th to July 5th of this year and asked 655 adult fans who said they had an interest in the MLB. By a wide margin the number one problem these fans identified was the steep cost of attending MLB games. 63% of fans answered the cost of attending MLB games is far too high, and that is the number one problem with the MLB. In 2008 the same poll was given and then 45% of those surveyed gave the same response.

We've written a lot over the past year about the battle being waged by 15 former and current women ski jumpers who have argued about their right to participate in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Manny Ramirez hit a pair of RBI singles to key an early outburst against struggling starter Livan Hernandez, and Randy Wolf pitched the Los Angeles Dodgers past the New York Mets 11-2 on Thursday night for his first win in eight outings.

An error by Miguel Tejada in the 11th inning made former Nationals reliever Joel Hanrahan a winner Thursday night as Washington beat the Houston Astros 11-10 in the completion of a suspended game.

Jealousy drove Steve McNair's 20-year-old girlfriend to shoot the former star NFL quarterback to death while he slept and then to kill herself, the Nashville police chief said on Wednesday.

The Indiana Pacers have signed their No. 1 draft pick, forward Tyler Hansbrough, to a multi-year contract.

Jealousy drove Steve McNair's 20-year-old girlfriend to shoot the former star NFL quarterback to death while he slept and then to kill herself, the Nashville police chief said on Wednesday.

In 1996, political scientist Samuel P. Huntington published the now-famous book "The Clash of Civilizations." Huntington argues that after the end of the Cold War, regional and cultural divisions would lead to a clash of civilizations - conflict most visible in wars such as the break up of Yugoslavia, in Chechnya, and between India and Pakistan. Well, this is boxing, a sport. But boxing is also war.

The saying is if one wants to make a little money in NASCAR racing they should start with a lot of money. In the ultra secretive world of NASCAR it is often extremely difficult to nail down what it cost to actually field a team in the premier Sprint Cup series. Of course once people get to suing each other a lot of things become public knowledge.

NASCAR fans have put Kyle Busch into a very weird predicament. On one hand they say over and over that NASCAR drivers are too vanilla, they don’t show enough emotion. On top of that many fans and NASCAR detractors say that the drivers of today don’t try hard enough to win, that they simply stay back at point’s race. On both of these points Kyle Busch never fails to deliver. Yet the fans and many in the media continue to talk bad about him, or boo him.

The UFL has been in the news a little bit lately. For those not in the know the UFL is the United Football League created by William Hambrecht a Wall Street Investor who was once a minority owner in the USFL’s Oakland Invaders football team, and Tim Armstrong a former executive at Google, and now the Chairman and CEO of AOL. These men have hired Michael Huyghue as the Commissioner of their League. Huyghue previously worked for the NFLPA, the NFL management council, served as Vice President of the Detroit Lions, and was the General Manager of the Birmingham Fire of the old World league of American Football. Hr was also a sports agent who clients included one Adam “Pac man” Jones.

The vast majority of Americans either keyboard patter away inside office cubicles or work as hourly laborers. In an article on MSNBC, fewer than half of Americans are satisfied with their jobs. With young workers under the age of 25, less than 39 percent are satisfied with their jobs. And in a survey by CareerBuilder.com, more than four out of five U.S. workers do not have their dream jobs.

No, not that Gossip Girl. While GG is on summer hiatus from TV, it has become clear that females have taken over as the stars in thoroughbred racing.

This has been a very odd year in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. We have seen once great teams refocus their energies and become great again, we have seen one super team win the first two races of they ear and then under achieve ever since, and we have seen the transformation of Haas racing into a Sprint Cup powerhouse. All in all these are all good things for this sport. Already this year 11 different drivers have won the 18 races, with three first time winners; Brad Keslowski, David Reutiman, and Joey Logano. Again these are encouraging facts for the health of this series.

Shot twice in the head and two more times in the chest, former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was the victim of a homicide, police declared Sunday.

The shooting death of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair raised questions Sunday about his relationship with the 20-year-old woman whose body was found alongside him in his downtown condominium.

July 5 - Former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair has been found dead at his home in the U.S. city of Nashville.

WIMBLEDON, England, July 4 -- It's rare to see Venus Williams telegraph defeat on Wimbledon's Centre Court, where she has triumphed so many times.

But masterful serving and ruthless groundstrokes from her younger sister, Serena, who competed without regard to family ties, had Venus doing just that in Saturday's all-Williams Wimbledon singles final.

This year, it was Serena who raised the prized Venus Rosewater Dish after reducing Venus, a five-time Wimbledon champion, to a tentative, error-prone also-ran.

Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and a woman were found shot to death Saturday afternoon inside a condominium in downtown Nashville, police said.

The nominees for the first class to get elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame has been announced, and as with most everything NASCAR it is too big, the process for election is too convoluted and as with everything NASCAR the fans are not adequately represented. It seems that most hard core, old school NASCA fans would simply elect three people as the first Hall class. Those three people of course would be Big Bill France, King Richard Petty, and Dale Earnhardt Sr. There is a lot of talk about electing the guys who made NASCAR what it is today, and it seems that these three men are the most responsible for the history of NASCAR. Sometimes smaller is better.