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The Big Ten Conference said Thursday that it will delve into a further background check on referee Stephen Pamon.

Guillermo del Toro, who directed and co-wrote the upcoming SF sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, told SCI FI Wire that he and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola fashioned the follow-up so that it lays the groundwork for a possible sequel.

Guillermo del Toro told SCI FI Wire that his long-planned movie adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness tops the list of projects he hopes to direct once he’s done with Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

Filmmaker Edward Burns told SCI FI Wire that he always envisioned his upcoming Virgin Comics series The Dock Walloper as a film, but hit upon the idea of writing it first as a comic book after seeing feature adaptations of comics such as Sin City and 300.

Spider-Man director Sam Raimi will return to his genre roots to helm Drag Me to Hell, a supernatural thriller he wrote with his brother, Ivan Raimi, Variety reported.

Golden Globe nominee Jon Hamm (AMC’s Mad Men) will star opposite Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly in the SF remake The Day the Earth Stood Still for Fox, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning tore the patellar tendon in his right knee in a collision with Atlanta’s Mario West in the first quarter on Wednesday night.

Roger Simon: When is retail politics not retail politics? When candidates refuse to get off their big buses and go do it. Fred Thompson rolled into this small town on the Cedar River in north-central Iowa on a giant brown bus Tuesday. He also had a van, an entourage of guys with earpieces and a press aide.

New York Knicks fans angry over the team’s losing streak rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, holding aloft a giant pink slip and calling on management to fire coach Isiah Thomas.

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Curt Schilling thinks Roger Clemens should return his Cy Youngs if he can’t refute drug charges.