... includes an aside that reads, "Bio Parodies are fun for everyone." Some professional athletes and others connected to pro sports have embraced Twitter. Shaquille O'Neal posted a message on his Twitter.com site saying he was pulling for former ...

... fourth. Tomlin needed only two years after unexpectedly being hired for one of the best-known coaching jobs in American pro sports, yet those who know him aren't surprised in the least it happened so soon. If the Steelers win, Tomlin at age 36 ...

... York in late August and made it clear the league wanted one of the most successful, stable and well-run franchises in pro sports to remain in Rooney family control. "They've run a model franchise," Goodell said. "I think everyone in Pittsburgh ...

... and SportsBusiness Daily, included: Player salaries: Retired NBA player Alonzo Mourning signed the first contract in pro sports known to be guaranteed for more than $100 million when he got a $105 million, seven-year pact from the Miami Heat ...

... the price could be good. Cramer's not so sure, saying he believes as many as two-thirds of the nation's major pro sports teams are looking for the same thing, whereas investors are hoarding cash and not interested in spending on things they ...

... that means that at institutions where students do not receive scholarships to participate in athletics and rarely have pro sports ambitions, the relationships and the peripheral experiences are often more important than standings, statistics and ...

... that in the regular season." Notes: This marked the first time in more than 100 years that a team in the four major pro sports opened a season with 18 straight victories. The record for wins to start a season was set in 1884 by St. Louis in baseball ...

... Commissioner Bud Selig and union head Donald Fehr maintain baseball has the strongest drug-testing program in U.S. pro sports. However, the World Anti-Doping Agency, accustomed to Olympic events without unionized athletes, regularly harpoons ...

... Nicholls, Conque said he dreamed of being a No. 1 draft choice for the Green Bay Packers (one of the great franchises in pro sports at the time) but ended up as free agent for the Los Angeles Raiders team that featured Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen ...

... youngest teams to play for a championship in any major pro sport, goes for the Cup for the first time since 1992, when ... old goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. In any other major pro sport, most or all would likely be in college or the minors ...