Newser - Sportshttp://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorWed, 03 Dec 2008 21:02:23 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44222/nhl-suspends-avery-over-crude-joke.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe NHL's Sean Avery is in hot water with the league for making crude comments regarding his famous ex-girlfriends, the New York Post reports. Avery, who plays for Dallas, summoned reporters before a game against Calgary and jokingly complained about other players going after his "sloppy seconds." He used to date 24 actress Elisha Cuthbert, who's now dating Calgary defenseman Dion Phaneuf. Avery's been suspended indefinitely.http://www.newser.com/story/44222/nhl-suspends-avery-over-crude-joke.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 02 Dec 2008 19:05:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44217/giants-suspend-burress-for-season-playoffs.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSuper Bowl hero Plaxico Burress is done for the year. The New York Giants fined and suspended Burress today for four games—the rest of the regular season—after he accidentally shot himself in the right thigh over the weekend at a Manhattan nightclub. The team also placed him on the reserve non-football injury list, which means the wide receiver couldn't come back for playoffs, either.http://www.newser.com/story/44217/giants-suspend-burress-for-season-playoffs.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 02 Dec 2008 17:40:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44209/ballesteros-has-more-surgery.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSeve Ballesteros is back in the hospital recovering from a fourth brain surgery, the BBC reports. The golf legend underwent a procedure in Madrid to drain fluid from his brain following the removal of a malignant tumor in October. The operation is an apparent medical setback for Ballesteros, 51, who had been allowed to return home last month.http://www.newser.com/story/44209/ballesteros-has-more-surgery.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 02 Dec 2008 16:13:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44185/reasons-baseballs-hot-stove-is-so-chilly.html?refid=rss_all_defaultDecember is usually prime time in baseball's hot-stove league, but with the market seemingly frozen, Tony Massarotti lists reasons why for the Boston Globe : The economy. With the possibility of dipping revenue over the next year (or years), teams are reluctant to jump into long-term, expensive player contracts. CC Sabathia. “Pitching still wins,” writes Massarotti, meaning that a big prize like left-hander Sabathia has huge sway over the free-agent market. Teams are waiting to see where he goes before pursuing the next-best thing.http://www.newser.com/story/44185/reasons-baseballs-hot-stove-is-so-chilly.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 02 Dec 2008 15:00:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44199/plax-call-diddy-and-other-tips.html?refid=rss_all_defaultPlaxico Burress has a lot to answer for, but he can take some cues from the current economy and hip-hop history, writes Chloe Hilliard in the Village Voice . Almost every aspect of his gun infraction has precedent. Her suggestions: Contact Diddy: The rap impresario has had experience with shooting crimes, and got himself and then-girlfriend JLo off scot-free following a 1999 nightclub incidenthttp://www.newser.com/story/44199/plax-call-diddy-and-other-tips.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 02 Dec 2008 13:47:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44183/secret-uk-report-says-olympics-benefits-overrated.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe UK made its grab for the 2012 Olympic Games in defiance of a secret, 205-page strategy report concluding that, apart from being a nice party, the games were essentially useless, the Times reports. Representing almost a year of research by experts, the 2002 document was signed off on by Tony Blair, but then quietly shunted aside when it debunked the main justifications for hosting the games.http://www.newser.com/story/44183/secret-uk-report-says-olympics-benefits-overrated.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 02 Dec 2008 12:54:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44163/irate-bloomberg-throw-the-book-at-plax.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMayor Michael Bloomberg is furious at the Plaxico Burress cover-up, the New York Post reports. Bloomberg demanded the Giants receiver get no special treatment for allegedly carrying an illegal handgun, and said anything less than the 3½-year minimum sentence would be “a sham, a mockery.” He recommended the district attorney investigate New York-Cornell Hospital for failing to report the gunshot wound.http://www.newser.com/story/44163/irate-bloomberg-throw-the-book-at-plax.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 02 Dec 2008 11:11:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44131/hospital-failed-to-report-plaxico-gunshot-to-cops.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe New York City hospital where Giants star Plaxico Burress was treated after accidentally shooting himself in the leg failed to notify authorities about the gunshot wound, reports the New York Times. S tate law requires officials to report gunshot wounds to the police. An employee at the hospital, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, has been suspended pending an investigation.http://www.newser.com/story/44131/hospital-failed-to-report-plaxico-gunshot-to-cops.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 02 Dec 2008 2:11:23 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44083/fans-get-prime-seats-for-eternal-extra-innings.html?refid=rss_all_defaultDie-hard baseball fans can now continue showing their team pride even in the afterlife. A Boston-area funeral home is offering its first-ever Red Sox casket, emblazoned with the team’s logo and accented with baseball-bat-type wood. “It's really a beautiful thing,” the funeral-home director, a Sox fan himself, tells the Globe .http://www.newser.com/story/44083/fans-get-prime-seats-for-eternal-extra-innings.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 01 Dec 2008 12:35:01 CST