The NFL will not – repeat, will NOT – tolerate players flashing gang signs this season. The league has hired experts to scrutinize video replays of on-field hand gestures.

This ought to be fun, as the Los Angeles Times noted.…

CC Sabathia wasn’t the only star making noise at Miller Park over the weekend.

Uno, the beagle that won “Best in Show” at the Westminster Kennel Club competition, made quite an impression as well. The pooch posed for photographs with kids,…

ESPN.com columnist Jayson Stark offered a note on looming free agent Mark Teixeira, who doesn’t seem long for Atlanta:

“The sad part is Teixeira is a guy they’d love to keep, and Teixeira never acts like a player who wants to…

The Cubs certainly got better by acquiring Rich Harden from the A’s. If healthy, Harden is one of the most overpowering pitchers in the game.

Of course, that is the big if. That is why A’s general manager Billy Beane had…

Is Brett Favre getting the itch to play again? The show “NFL Live!” had a report to that effect, but Favre shot it down.

Still, Packers fans aren’t giving up on him. His replacement in Green Bay, perennial back-up Aaron Rodgers,…

Somebody named Nelson Figueroa, a fill-in pitcher for the Mets, aggravated the Washington Nationals by mocking them through the media.

That’s not a big deal. The Nationals are accustomed to such abuse.

In the process, though, he also ticked off…

Is it over for Jimmy Ballgame?

San Diego Union Tribune columnist Tim Sullivan believes so. Here is his take:

“Should you happen to run across John Moores around mealtime, be sure to pass him some Pepto-Bismol. If the Padres’ owner is about to eat…

The NFL Draft is one of the weirdest spectacles in sports. It’s not exactly a made-for-TV event — guys in suits yammering away and waving their arms — but ESPN and the NFL Network try hard to make it seem…

Let’s hope Memphis guard Derrick Rose ate healthy at the breakfast buffet today. Let’s hope he ate a nice lunch, too, and left the hotel candy machine alone.

The Tigers are counting on him in the title game. And as Chicago…

Brett Favre is gone now – and the NFL is much less interesting as a result. Tipsheet is sad today and so are sportswriters from coast to coast.

Many scribes are lamenting his retirement. Here is a small sampling of the…