9:00 PM: New Minnesota Wild player Matt Cooke will wear #24, the number of former Wild player Derek Boogaard, after receiving the blessing from Boogaard's parents. Boogaard died in 2011 at the age of 28 from an accidental drug & alcohol overdose.
8:45 PM: Brian Read, a pitcher for the Seacoast Mavericks summer collegiate baseball team, had to undergo surgery to remove a hot dog that got stuck in his esophagus while he was competing in an eating contest during a game.
8:30 PM: Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino said that Kevin Ware, who suffered a gruesome leg injury in last season's Elite Eight game against Duke, could be back on the court by October. Pitino added player Russ Smith wasn't injured when he recently fell off his moped.
8:15 PM: Dallas Mavericks player Dirk Nowitzki tweeted on Tuesday: "We worked all summer to get DH to Dallas. Welcome back to the Mavs, Devin Harris."
8:00 PM: Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel writes how O.J. Simpson, who turns 66 years old today, had once helped save the Central Florida football program by taking part in a fundraiser in 1984. Simpson appeared as a favor to Knights coach Lou Saban, who was O.J.'s coach with the Buffalo Bills.
7:45 PM: The Associated Press reports Denver Broncos director of pro personnel Tom Heckert was arrested on DUI charges on June 11. Broncos director of player personnel Matt Russell was arrested last Saturday also on DUI charges.
7:30 PM: Utah athletic director Chris Hill announced Tuesday the Utes will face BYU in a home & home football series in 2017 & 2018, pending approval from the Pac-12 Conference.
7:15 PM: North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams said Tuesday he will not make any statements on the status of arrested player P.J. Hairston "until the facts are in and until everything is done."
7:00 PM: The Houston Rockets were fined $150,000 by the NBA for "unauthorized public comments" about Dwight Howard before the team signed him.
6:45 PM: New Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Chris Chelios said he was home alone when he got the call Tuesday and had no one to share the good news with.
6:30 PM: Appearing on 710 ESPN LA radio Tuesday, Lakers player Steve Nash said that he believes Dwight Howard wasn't comfortable in L.A. and "didn't want to be here".
6:15 PM: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced they will be wearing their orange & white throwback uniforms for their Sept. 29 home game against the Arizona Cardinals.
6:00 PM: Former Penn State officials Graham Spanier, Tim Curley & Gary Schultz will have a preliminary court hearing on July 29 to face charges related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
5:45 PM: Former Mississippi State basketball player Leland Mitchell, who played in the Bulldogs' 1963 "Game of Change" against Loyola-Chicago, died Saturday at the age of 72. The MSU team defied state law in order to play against the integrated Ramblers in the NCAA tournament.
5:30 PM: Former Alabama & Baltimore Ravens linebacker Rolando McClain has pleaded not guilty to charges of disorderly conduct & resisting arrest stemming from an April 21 incident in his hometown of Decatur, Alabama. McClain has been assigned a Dec. 12 court date.
Source: http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/sbblive?eid=53744
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