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All good things have to come to an end and that’s what happened last night when Kansas State handed the Kansas Jayhawks their first loss of the season, winning 84-75.

Kansas’ loss now leaves Memphis alone on the undefeated list. But the win for Kansas State is much bigger than Kanas’ loss. It was the Wildcats’ first victory at Kansas in 24 years.

Now it looks like all eyes will be on Memphis to see if they can become the New England Patriots of college basketball and take their undefeated record to the final four.

Source: Sports Illustrated

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It looks like Johan Santana found his way to New York, but it wasn’t to join the Yankees.

The former Minnesota Twins ace was traded to the New York Mets in exchange for outfielder Carlos Gomez, pitchers Philip Humber, Deolis Guerra and Kevin Mulvey. The Twins get the Mets’ best farm players while New York gets arguably the best pitcher in the majors, pending a physical and contract extension.

Not a bad price for a two-time Cy Young award winner. Santana joins a staff that includes Pedro Martinez, John Maine, Oliver Perez and Orlando Hernandez, giving the Mets a strong starting rotation and a good replacement to the recently departed Tom Glavine.

This wasn’t the scenario I pictured Santana to be dealt to, but the Mets were the team to give the most up for him. I would have loved to have seen him go to the New York Yankees, but apparently they weren’t willing to give up their top prospects. The Boston Red Sox were also a top candidate for Santana, but their offer wasn’t up to par with what the Mets were willing to offer.

Source: CBS Sportsline

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You’d think that a man who was an All-Star, smacked 50 home runs in a season and raked in millions of dollars in the major leagues could find a chick the old fashioned way.

That doesn’t seem to be the case for former Baltimore Orioles outfielder Brady Anderson.

Apparently Anderson has been roaming the Internet for true love and his way of sweeping them off their feet is to text them pictures of his abs.

He’s just a modern day Casanova I tell ya.

Check out the video

Source: TMZ.com 

After watching this, you’ll never look at those bubbly, little cheerleaders the same.

I was waiting for some of those girl to show off some “spirit fingers.”

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That’s how much people are willing to pay for Super Bowl XLII tickets this year.

Asking prices from people on StubHub, a unit of eBay, Inc., range from $2,450 to $19,446.

Not a bad profit margin for tickets that were originally priced between $700 and $900 for the main event between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants.

Source: Fox Sports

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This week in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• Prank callers dial into the SEC women’s basketball coaches. - Lion in Oil
• Basketball Coach Ron Hunter goes barefoot - Sports by Brooks
• Awful Announcing thinks Reggie Miller makes no sense - Awful Announcing
• Who’s got the best hair in New York City: A-Rod or David Wright - The Sports Hernia
• New York Knicks were spying on Larry Brown - Larry Brown Sports
• Top 7 - Fan Based Man Crushes - Joe Sports Fan
• Worst player on Madden, Ethan Albright, is headed to the Pro Bowl - Deadspin
• Sports themed wedding garters - Deuce of Davenport

And in Smarter Sports we talked about:

• Looks Like it’s a Giants and Patriots Super Bowl
• Tom Brady Sporting a New Shoe?
• The Next Karate Kid? I Hope Not
• Jose Canseco Tried to Blackmail Magglio Ordonez
• If I Were the Defensemen, I’d be Embarrassed
  

This goal by Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets is ridiculous. I had to share if you didn’t see it already. You can’t teach those moves.

Though this goal by Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks is a close second.

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Source: College Humor

I wish Jose Canseco would just go away, but with all the steroid talk in baseball, how can Mr. Steroid himself avoid the press.

And with Canseco’s new book Vindicated due out March 31st, The New York Times has reported that Canseco had tried to blackmail Detroit Tigers outfielder Magglio Ordonez for cash to avoid being mentioned in his book.

Canseco has denied asking Ordonez for money and also failed to comment whether or not he mentions Ordonez in his new book. Ordonez notified Tigers president Dave Dombrowski that one of Canseco’s friends had tried to get in touch with him, but not sure why. The two were teammates for the 2001 season while with the Chicago White Sox.

Now this leaves me with a couple thoughts. Is Canseco really going around trying to blackmail players for money to keep them out of his book and are those players actually paying him to keep quiet?

Let’s just hope that this new report is false and players haven’t stooped to a new low.

Source: Sports Illustrated

Photo Source: Jose Canseco, Magglio Ordonez

This guy is so quick, you don’t even see him hit the bricks. I’m still waiting for the bricks to crumble.

Amazing.

Source: College Humor