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Kelly Pavlik faces Jermain Taylor in a Non-Title Bout in Las Vegas Saturday February 16th on Pay Per View in a rematch of their 2007 fight in which Pavlik won Taylor's Middleweight Title. The two fighters weighed in Friday at 164, 4 pounds over the Middleweight limit, a stipulation the two fighters agreed upon. This fight should be as exciting as their previous bout and could be a classic. It's unfortunate that Pavlik's belt won't be on the line. Just as these 2 fighters are getting ready to... Read Full Story

Puerto Rican Carlos Quintana won the WBO Welterweight title by unanimous decision over Defending Champion Paul Williams in Temecula, California, and broadcast on HBO Saturday Night. Quintana won 115-113, 116-112, and 116-112 on the judges score cards. The judges score cards were even after 8 rounds with Quintana winning the first 4 rounds and Williams winning 5th-8th. Quintana was able to open up cuts over Williams' eyes in the eighth and ninth rounds. Quintana was able to use that to his... Read Full Story

Dale Earnhardt Jr. in his first race with Hendrick Motor Sports won the Budweiser Shootout Saturday Night at the Daytona Motor Speedway. Junior took the lead early on in the first segment of the race before yielding to Tony Stewart. He then took the lead back with a few laps left and held on to win. Earnhardt Jr. was heard saying over his radio that he loved the race car. This has got to be very satisfying in his first race since leaving DEI. You could hear the crowd roar as he took the... Read Full Story

Two weeks after being named as the Offensive Coordinator for the Washington Redskins, the Redskins have hired Jim Zorn as their next Head Coach replacing Joe Gibbs. Zorn has coached for the Seattle Seahawks for the past 7 years following a career as their quarterback, throwing a majority of his passes to Steve Largent. For more info on Zorn, check out his Wikipedia entry HERE Zorn will be announced at a 3pm news conference on Sunday. Read Full Story

NASCAR is back with their Pre-Daytona 500 Budweiser Shootout at 8pm on Fox Saturday. The buzz for the new season was kicked into high gear with the actions of Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch during practice on Friday. After Stewart got into the back of Busch, Busch came along-side Stewart and rammed him. Then as he left to enter the garage area, Busch nearly hit one of Stewart's crew members as they were coming to Tony's aid and to give some attitude to Busch. Mud Free Sports is a big fan of Tony... Read Full Story

Yankees Pitcher Carl Pavano is back in pinstripes and ready for a glorious season...hack...cough...The 4 year $39.95Million bust was in Tampa at the Yankees spring training complex throwing and trying to add to his horrible 5-6 record over the previous 3 years with the Bronx Bombers. Pavano has been a bomb and a bust and is looking to come back after another injury that shortened his season. In the MLB, unlike the NFL, the players have guaranteed contracts and if Pavano can have a great... Read Full Story

Apparently, Patriots DB Willie Andrews decided the pain from the Super Bowl XLII loss to the Giants was too much to deal with, so he rolled a dubbie! Andrews was caught with pot, some of which was "hidden in his groin area". Let that sink in for a minute...just say no to groin flavored pot! Friends don't let friends smoke pot from the loin! I could go on all day! Andrews appeared in a Lowell, Mass. courtroom to answer to the charges on Tuesday and was released. The Patriots released the... Read Full Story

HBO Sports presents a WBO Welterweight Title bout between Paul Williams and Carlos Quintana live from Temecula, Calif. at 9:45pm ET on HBO. In the main event, undefeated welterweight champ Paul Williams (33-0, 24 KOs), from Augusta, Ga., takes on Carlos Quintana (24-1, 19 KOs), from Moca, Puerto Rico, in a scheduled 12-round contest. Williams is making his first title defense after winning the belt in a hard-fought contest against Antonio Margarito in July 2007. Quintana's only defeat came at... Read Full Story

A spokesman for Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers says men's basketball coach Bob Knight has resigned, effective immediately. Knight's son, Pat Knight will take over as Head Basketball Coach as per his contractual agreement. Bob Knight resigns with 902 career wins. More details to come...check back! Read Full Story

The Top 25 for the Men's NCAA Basketball Week of February 4, 2008 is out and not surprisingly, the Kansas Jayhawks dropped down after their loss to Kansas State. The Big Game this week in Duke at North Carolina on Wednesday Night in Chapel Hill on ESPN. In the Big East, the surging UCONN Huskies travel to Syracuse to take on the Orange in the Carrier Dome. No. 1 Memphis has an easy schedule this week taking on SMU and UCF who are a combined 18-22. Lots of highlights should be coming out of... Read Full Story