Manny Ramirez is still without a team.

The Chicago Bulls had a set of tragedies yesterday, with two of their organizations main members passing away in one day.

Michael Vick is still in trouble. He is coming to the end of his dogfighting sentence and is expected to be released from the Kansas prison sometime towards the end of May.

If the silly season of rumors hadn’t officially started before Thursday afternoon, it has now.  The National Football Post, former GM Mike Lombardi’s site, has a whopper.  Now we’ll just have to see if they are right.  They say there is a 70% chance T.J. Houshmandzadeh returns to the Bengals, as the two sides are nearing a deal.  That would rob the market of our top-rated wide receiver.  I suspect Housh could get a bigger payday if he waits, but it just goes to show that all the disgruntled talk in the world doesn’t matter.  Houshmandzadeh seemed unhappy with the organziation before, during, and after the Bengals season.  He could certainly find a more successful organization elsewhere.  But as re-signing Raiders Nmandi Asomugha and Shane Lechler already proved: money talks.  Duh. 

It took forever to get to today, the spring training opener in which a handful of regulars will play for the first 30 minutes and then get swapped out for seven innings worth of “Name That Prospect” Sudoku, and I couldn’t be happier it’s here.

The Houston Rockets are now in the process of re-invigorating their team. This year, they have lost several of their players to injuries and trades. But Yao Ming and Luis Scola are taking the lead on the team.

Kurt Warner apparently wants to stay in Arizona into the future. Arizona apparently wants Warner to stay in Arizona

Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin don’t like each other.

So the Ottawa Senators just traded Dean McAmmond and a late first round pick for Mike Comrie and Chris Campoli. Mike Comrie is set to become an unrestricted free agent so for a team that won’t make the playoffs (though maybe Bryan Murray is dreaming otherwise), he presents very little value in return, let alone

There was a lot of talk up to the trade deadline yesterday about Amare Stoudemire . Many people expected that he would be traded to a team, so that the Suns could save some money and start building up their team again.