Although he didn’t rescind his trade request, Kobe Bryant softened his stance somewhat Thursday night, saying he had apologized to Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak in person for the way he handled his upset feelings five weeks ago.
Dominik Hasek and the Red Wings agreed to terms of a one-year contract that is worth more than $2 million in base salary and gives the 42-year-old goalie a chance to earn an additional $2 million in bonuses.
With news today of Microsoft’s admission of widespread defects acknowledgment of an “unacceptable number of repairs” for the Xbox 360, current 360 owners can finally rest assured knowing that if (when?) their 360 sees red, the problem will be rectified.
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The New York Islanders finally found a free agent to sign, inking All-Star forward Bill Guerin to a two-year contract on Thursday.
Thirteen-year veteran strong safety Rodney Harrison, still regarded as the heart of the New England secondary but a defender whose productivity has diminished the past two seasons because of injuries, has restructured his contract.
Padres right-hander Chris Young dropped the appeal of his five-game suspension for his part in a bench-clearing brawl at Chicago on June 16, and began serving the penalty on Thursday.
Red Sox reliever Hideki Okajima was added to the American League All-Star roster Thursday night as the winner of the 32nd man Internet vote, giving Boston a leading six players in the game.
· There was a time when a pompadoured Harrison Ford would’ve been steering that bike instead of hanging on to the waist of some punk kid for dear life and looking scared shitless….
A 6-year-old girl has been hospitalized after a horrifying accident at a swimming pool, when she sat on an open drain and a powerful suction pump tore out part of her intestinal tract.
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The console wars just got a whole lot hotter. No, not in that way. Sony’s perennially overpriced PS3 is about to get a welcome pricebreak to the tune of $100, at least according to a scan of an upcoming Circuit City advertisement leaked onto the interwebs. That puts the console at $499, and with the 5 free Blu-ray movies Sony is tossing in with every purchase, there’s never been a better time to buy. The promotion runs from July 15th to the 21st, and there’s no word if that price drop will stick, if it has Sony’s blessing, or if will get expanded to other retailers, but we’ll all hope for the best.
[Via Joystiq; thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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