Comcast sent out this recent press release regarding carrying ESPN 3D.

Comcast Corporation one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services, and ESPN today announced an agreement to provide ESPN 3D to Comcast’s Digital Cable customers, to bring top sports events to consumers in next-generation 3D.

Comcast is the first cable affiliate to sign on to distribute ESPN’s new network that will launch on June 11 and will include nearly 100 events in its first year.

“As a leader in the distribution of innovative content, it’s fitting that Comcast is the first cable distributor for ESPN 3D,” said George Bodenheimer, co-chairman, Disney Media Networks, and president, ESPN and ABC Sports. “This agreement demonstrates ESPN’s and Comcast’s shared commitment to bring the latest viewing experience to sports fans.”

“ESPN was a pioneer in HD, and continues to move the industry forward with the first 3D sports network,” said Brian L. Roberts, chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation.

“We delivered the first live national 3D sports event to consumers homes earlier this year with the Masters Tournament and believe that 3D sports will drive the adoption of this technology and continue to revolutionize how we deliver entertainment.”

In addition, Comcast and ESPN will provide customers access to select ESPN 3D events on VOD.

ESPN 3D will sign on the air June 11 with the first 2010 FIFA World Cup match featuring South Africa versus Mexico. ESPN 3D will feature up to 25 matches throughout the World Cup. Along with college football and NBA games, schedule highlights for the new network include:

• X Games 16, July 28-Aug. 1

• College basketball’s Old Spice Classic, Nov. 25-28

• College football’s ACC Championship on Dec. 4

• Jimmy V Classic on Dec. 7

• 2011 BCS National Championship game Jan. 10, 2011

• X Games 15, Jan. 27-30, 2011

• College basketball’s Big East Tournament, March 8-12, 2011

After being swept off the court in historical fashion by Superman Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic, the Atlanta Hawks are our slam-dunk pick for Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week.

After losing by a record 101 total number of points over the 4-game series that began with a 114-71 thrashing, they would also be assured of the bitch-slap of the month, if that title existed.

101 point spread for a 4-game series–think about that number. Okay now everyone grab your megaphones and yell in unison, “The Hawks SUCK!”

The Hawks have so much blame to spread around for this debacle, they may just want to consider throwing in the towel and rebuilding from a core of maybe 3-4 players, but only after axing coach Mike Woodson and not giving free-agent Joe Johnson even an insulting contract offer to turn down.

J.J. was as cold as a Siberian night the whole series, shooting just .387 from the floor and .220 from the arch, but at least when stuck in Siberia, you can always try farting to stay warm. And it actually gets worse.

After his team’s 30-point blowout loss in Game Johnson had the audacity to say this in response to his fans showing their displeasure in the form of booing :

“That doesn’t bother me, and I hope it doesn’t bother anyone in this locker room. It’s about us in this locker room. We could care less if [fans] showed up.”

Whattup widdat!? SLAP! That deserves an additional backhander Mr. Johnson.

The Hawks tripped and sputtered to an opening round win over a much less talented Milwaukee Bucks team who ran around like a pack of Mini-Skiles before waving the white flag without a fight against the Magic.

Most reasonable fans ask one thing of their team and players . . . show up. That’s something the Hawks neglected to do for the entire series so they earn our, SLAP!! . . . Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week.

CLEVELAND, OH. – LeBron James’ lack of performance coupled with his Cavaliers getting blown out on their home  court Tuesday night by the Boston Celtics is creating the biggest buzz of the week.

With a crucial Game 5 in front of their home crowd, most expected an adrenaline-packed contest but instead were forced to sit through a 120-88 one-sided game where LeBron played like anything but this year’s NBA MVP.

‘King’ James was held without a field goal in the entire first half–that’s not a typo–and finished the game just 3-of-14 from the floor.

The sluggish performance prompted Joe Posnanski of SI.com to write in his Inside the NBA column that James “stunk up the joint” and that is actually one of the nicer descriptions you may find browsing around the internet today.

James clunked shots off the rim all night and nearly invisible on offense, he contributed little on his end of the floor as well, playing sluggish defense while the Celts outscored the Cavs 70-44 in the 2nd half. See Hawks fans, there are other underachievers in the NBA.

The only positive light to come from this 32-point debacle was the fact Shaq was able to contributed 21 points.

Cavs fans booed and decided they needed to “Make it stop!” and piled out of the exits early, prompting this post-game response from the King himself:

“I spoil people with my play; when you have a bad game here or there, you’ve had three bad games in a seven-year career, then it’s easy to point that out.”

Anything short of an NBA Championship this year would be considered a huge fail for James and Cleveland but James still believes he can lead his team back to take this series and he might.

But even if the Cavs battle back and takes Game 6 in Boston and wins Game 7 this weekend back on their home court, they still need to face a rested Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic, the team that eliminated them last year.

Howard has dominated these playoffs, leading his team to sweeps over Charlotte and the Atlanta Hawks, holding a dunk-clinic in the second series while beating the Hawks by a record total 101 points over the four games.

If it comes down to a rematch with the Magic, somebody may need to even out the playing field, maybe stacking the Cavs locker room with pallets of Red Bull and spiking the Magic bench with a chunk of Kryptonite.

Erica Blasberg, the 25-year-old LPGA golfer was found dead at her home in Henderson, Nevada and police are still investigating her death.According to police, it was not immediately clear whether foul play was involved and Blasberg’s agent, Chase Callahan, refused to provide details because of the investigation.

Blasberg had promise after becoming a two-time All-American and the 2003 Pacific-10 Player of the Year for The University of Arizona. After winning 6 tourneys in two years at the college level, she hit the pro circuit in 2004.

In the LPGA, Blasberg struggled with her highest finish on the money list at 94th. Two weeks ago was her only start this season where she tied for 44th at the Tres Marias Championship in Morelia, Mexico.

Blasberg was Golfweek Magazine’s 2003 Player of the Year after finishing the season No. 1 in the rankings.

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In case you missed it, a group of our politicians on Capitol Hill led by Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) presented the Atlanta Braves manager a cake that had these words inscribed:

“Thanks for 50 Great Years Bobby Cocks”

Cox handled the gaffe well and accepted the reception as a nice gesture and thanked the group for recognizing him for his long tenure in the sport, a majority of which he spent in the Braves’ organization.

Senator Isakson’s spokesperson, Sheridan Watson, said that she ordered the cake from the vendor that handles cafeteria services in the Capitol and that Cox’s name was spelled correctly in the e-mail that was sent to the company.

However when the cake arrived, the goof was immediately noticed and the organizers smeared the top of it to hide the screw-up, but not before a few of our fellow quick-drawing media photogs snagged a shot like the one here.

So, ‘My Dear Watson’ how do you suppose this may have occurred?

“”Whether the mistake was accidental or intentional, I don’t know,” said Watson. “The only people who saw it were me, the scheduler and unfortunately some media members who had arrived early and took pictures.”

After this screw-up you have to wonder what these rocket scientists would have delivered to a reception for former players Rusty Kuntz or Dick Butkus.

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DETROIT, Mich. – The buzz in Detroit’s sport’s scene that is picking up steam is surrounded around Red Wings rookie goaltender Jimmy Howard.Expect to hear chants of Ozzie, Ozzie! if Howard has a game even remotely close to the one he had on his home ice last night in a 4-3 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks.

A candidate for NHL rookie of the year, 26-year-old Howard has looked anything but during this second-round NHL Playoff series against the San Jose Sharks.

After a rough start in the first-round playoff series against the Coyotes, Howard buckled down and posted a shutout and a few one-goal games and his heavily-favored team took the series in seven games. Since then, Howard’s journey has been a roller-coaster ride, one that starts at the top of the track and spirals down at a high rate of speed.

Now trailing the Sharks 0-3, Red Wings coach Mike Babcock is starting to look like a rookie himself.

Why would a coach with a Stanley Cup winning goalie on the roster, come into these playoffs having prepared only to play his rookie while disregarding his playoff-experienced goalie.

Chris Osgood was between the pipes and led the Red Wings to their last Holy Grail in 2008 with an outstanding 1.55 GAA and last year took the team to a Finals Game 7 against the Pittsburgh Penguins with another impressive GAA of 2.01. Yet Ozzie has started just one game since January 27th.

Babcock now finds himself with his hands tied by handing the torch to a rookie who appears to be choking in these playoffs.

Howard has let in a few goals that his hometown media is referring to as “soft goals” but the explanation regarding those goals should include the words “Pee-Wee mistake”.

One in particular is the game-tying goal last night that all but eliminated the Red Wings in these playoffs.

Sharks rookie Logan Couture had the puck near the goal line at a near impossible angle and managed to flip the puck past the shocked and dumbfounded Howard.

If Howard was hugging the post as goalies are taught in Pee Wee hockey, it would have been impossible for that puck to go in the net and the Wings may have suddenly found themselves back in this series with the next game on home ice and a chance to tie it up at 2-2.

Detroit has a history of pulling goalies as quick as Sparky Anderson would yank his pitchers when they hovered around the 100-pitch mark. This year however is a different story with Babcock going into the playoffs prepared to play only Howard.

The timing of Osgood’s benching and absurdness of this whole ordeal has to make you wonder if there is a lot more involved with this; what is going on in the locker room?

Osgood has seen the ice for just one start since the Olympic Games in Vancouver, you know the Olympic Games where Babcock coached the Canadian Team, the one where Osgood wasn’t even given an opportunity to tryout for the team.

Since the Olympics ended and the NHL returned to play, Osgood has been implanted on the end of the bench, except for the one lone start April 4th and another game on March 3rd when Howard was yanked after letting in 4 goals on 21 shots.

At this point it would be criminal for Babcock to ask Ozzie to put on the pads and try to bail out the Red Wings like he did in the 2008 Stanley Cup winning year.

That season, Babcock yanked Dominic Hasek in favor of Osgood and weeks later, Ozzie was hoisting another cup.

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A 22-year-old student at the University of Virginia is behind bars and booked for first-degree murder after admitting getting into a physical confrontation with a female student who was later found dead.

George Huguely, a UVA lacrosse player, is accused of killing UVA female lacrosse player, 22-year-old Yeardley Love, a senior from Cockeysville, Maryland.

Both of these students were preparing to graduate in a few weeks then this tragedy struck.

According to police, Ms. Love’s roommate called authorities Monday at 2:15 a.m. ET voicing concern that Love may have had an alcohol overdose. After responding to the call, police and medical personnel discovered the more serious results.

Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said:

“It was quickly apparent to them that this young lady was the victim of something far worse,”

He went on to say the two were in a relationship at some point but refused to describe in detail, the extent of Love’s injuries.

Huguely, mugshot shown above, is from Chevy Chase, Maryland. He opted to not place a plea at Tuesday’s bond hearing so will be held without bond until his next court appearance.

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Where else but Philly would a 17-year-old fan get tasered for hopping onto the field for a short jog in front of the cameras? Here’s the video.

That incident occurred during last night’s Philadelphia Phillies game when the youngster hopped the rail and jogged around the outfield waving a white towel or shirt to the delight of the crowd. As seen in the video above, after easily eluding and out-running the out-of-shape looking police and stadium security, one cop (pictured here) pulled out a taser and zapped his ass, dropping him like he were hit with a Mike Tyson hook.

According to reports, the Police Department is conducting an investigation to determine if the officer misused his weapon.

Yeah, normally security and police are in shape enough to catch up to these kind of pranksters and gang-tackle them to the ground but by the looks of the involved officer’s waistline,  he may never have learned the meaning of the word sit-up and resorted to using his taser gun.

This is the second embarrassing incident for the same stadium. A few weeks ago a New Jersey man was arrested for intentionally barfing on a young girl in these same stands. Ironically, that girl’s father is a cop. That puke was arrested and booked.

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While Milwaukee Bucks fans were tuning in to an NBA Playoff game against Atlanta, two deer, yes actual wild bucks, busted through the glass doors of the Stout Ale House restaurant. Here’s the actual surveillance video:

If I were there, I may have at first thought Charles Barkley was in town and decided to throw another Hispanic through a glass window like he did in Orlando during one night of partying-but that wasn’t the case, this was an all-out deer attack.

The surveillance video of the restaurant showed a man walking outside with the doors closing behind him. All of a sudden the two bucks slammed into the doors, knocking them off their hinges and spraying a shower of glass.

According to Jay Ouellette, general manager of the establishment, the first deer breaking through injured itself and ended up with a bloody snout while the other deer fled into an adjoining private room.

The AP reported that a “restaurant worker managed to wrestle the animal down.”

The nearby golf course is said to attract the deer but until now they have never crossed the parking lot let alone slam through the glass doors and come inside.

It’s a good thing Memphis didn’t make the playoffs…Can you imagine the huge can a’ whoop-ass a couple of Grizzlies would have thrown on a hightop full of drunkin’ Tennesseans in that same sort of scenario.

This whole time the Milwaukee Bucks’ fans have been warning the rest of the NBA to “Fear the Deer” it turns out it’s the fans in Wisconsin who should have been doing the fearing.

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ATLANTA, GA. – As hard as it was to imagine after the Atlanta Hawks had the meltdown of the decade and blew a sure win in Game 5, losing that game may be a blessing in disguise.

Adjustments had to be made after that debacle and the Hawks were forced to come out and play defense to win the next two games against the Milwaukee Bucks, one on the road, to take the best-of-seven series 4 games to 3.

With their backs to the wall after the Game 5 loss, the Hawks clamped down defensively and held the Bucks to a franchise low 69 points for an 83-69 win in Game 6 and came out playing defense again on Sunday, coasting to 95-74 win at the Highlight Factory.

With the win, the Hawks move on to face No. 2 seed Orlando and should take that defensive mindset with them when they face the Magic on Tuesday.

Playing in the first NBA playoffs of his career, NBA sixth man award winner Jamal Crawford led the Hawks with 22 points on Sunday, just two days after he netted a game-high 24 on the road in Milwaukee in Game 6.

Crawford has spent his career on struggling teams and is enjoying the atmosphere of the playoffs.

“It’s just so much fun,” said Crawford. “It’s like walking on air.”

Crawford nailed 8 out of 16 shots, including two outside the arch while Al Horford added 16 points and 15 rebounds. The Hawks simply outplayed the Bucks, maintaining a double digit lead throughout much of the game while dominating the boards on both ends of the court.

Of the other starters, Mike Bibby scored 15 points, Josh Smith added 15 and Joe Johnson continued to struggle from the field hitting just 4-of-14 for 8 points.

“We let [the fans] down in Game 5,” Josh Smith said. “We enjoyed every minute of this.”

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