Weekend news and notes while you relax this Sunday afternoon…

4.21.07
Barbaro’s second full brother is born (AP/SI.com) Unnamed colt is second sibling to Derby champ.  Oh the excitement!

Adrian Peterson runs through anger to the NFL (USA Today) Peterson grew up amid family horrors.

Marleau’s marker helps Sharks get past Predators, win series (AP/Yahoo! Sports)  Needing a deep playoff run to make money, the watch for the Predators moving to another market should fire up.

Buffalo down the Isle in five games (AP/Yahoo! Sports) Ryan Miller comes up big again.

Sid the Kid played last three weeks with broken foot (AP/Yahoo! Sports) That explains quite a bit.

Ravens ink defensive whiz Ryan to extension (ESPN.com) A bump in salary and a bit of job security keeps Ryan in Baltimore.

Would the Chiefs move running back Larry Johnson for extra picks? (KC Star) Adam Teicher writes that the Kansas City Chiefs are exploring ways to net extra draft picks for the upcoming NFL Draft and Johnson’s name has popped up.

Pirates ownership takes in cash, doesn’t invest much (BizofBaseball.com) Looks like Pittsburgh owner Bob Nutting has been taking notes from Kansas City’s David Glass.  Exhibit number one why MLB needs a salary floor.

Mets fan arrested for shining flashlight during game against Braves (AP/SI.com) Charged with reckless endangerment after shining industrial flash light to distract pitcher, shortstop.

4.22.07

ND’s Weis tight-lipped on next Irish quarterback (SI.com)  After Blue-Gold game, Charlie Weis still won’t reveal which of his four QBs ( Jimmy Clausen, Zach Frazer, Demetrius Jones or Even Sharpley) will be handed the starting job in South Bend.

92,000 show up for spring game in Alabama (AP/SI.com)  Even Bear Bryant was there.

Goodell’s standards for conduct come from a familiar place — himself (Westchester (NJ) Journal/USA Today) Signed pledge in high school represents NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s stance on personal conduct.

Forsberg says his hockey future is up in the air (Reuters/ESPN) Hockey great hasn’t decided his pro hockey future, but won’t be playing in World Championships.

Source: Mickelson to switch golf coaches, tab Butch Harmon as new swing guru (Golf Magazine/ESPN) Mickelson will part ways with long-time swing coach Rick Smith.

Saint Louis meets with Rick Majerus about vacant job (ESPN.com) ESPN.com’s Andy Katz reports that Saint Louis met with network analyst Majerus about their head coaching position.  The university didn’t offer him the job, but he will take 24 to 48 hours to decide if he wants to jump back into coaching.

There’s a correction to be made reagarding those cool Air McFly shoes that we blogged about earlier this week — they don’t exist.  According to a reader of the site, those shoes were nothing more than the ingenuity of some youngster who decided to post the story on digg.com.

The stuff on Digg (which was re-posted on metafilter and other sites) was not fact checked at all.

The shoes are not being released.

That’s why there’s an official website of the McFLY 2015 project.

www.mcfly2015.com

So yeah, we got duped on the whole thing and we apologize for the error.  Just goes to show you that one can’t believe everything they read on the Internets.

Back to your regularly scheduled blog post, already in progress.