Wariner bids for 400m repeat at Beijing Games (AFP via Yahoo! News)Reigning Olympic and two-time world champion Jeremy Wariner defends his 400m title against top rival LaShawn Merritt Thursday as US athletes bid to get a largely lackluster Beijing Games performance on track.
Steve Aschburner: Games worth playing: Are MLB stars willing to go to Olympics? (Sports Illustrated)MINNEAPOLIS -- If the quality of play in Olympic baseball competition was consistently more suited to a beer league than to Beijing, if the value of an entire sport depended solely on the names in that day's lineup, if someone was trying to pass off the worst-of-the-worst as the best-of-the-best, then dropping baseball beginning with the 2012 London Games might make some sense.
Lohse suspended five games (Sports Illustrated)ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Cardinals pitcher Kyle Lohse was suspended five games Wednesday for throwing a fastball past the head of Cincinnati pitcher Edinson Volquez last weekend.
Reliance targets U.S. mobiles with Jump Games (Reuters via Yahoo! News)Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group's media and entertainment division is launching Jump Games U.S.A., a publisher and developer of mobile video games, in its latest effort to expand into the United States.
