Times wires
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Rule of the day
FIFA, world soccer's governing body, banned players from wearing neck warmers. Neck warmers, or "snoods," became popular in English Premier League games this winter, with players such as Carlos Tevez at Manchester City and Samir Nasri at Arsenal wearing them. But FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Saturday that they are dangerous, "they can be like to hang somebody."
Feud of the day
Rapper Jay-Z and Red Sox slugger David Ortiz are not getting along. Jay-Z owns a nightclub in New York called 40/40, and Ortiz owns a club called Forty Forty in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Each wants the other to change the name of his club.
They wrote it
“Alex Ovechkin competes, there's no doubt of that, but he seems to have lost some of the ferocity with which he had played prior to this year even as he appears more collegial with the enemy on the ice. Odd, that." Larry Brooks, New York Post