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The opinion from this corner remains that Tiger Woods will win a major championship in 2012.

Howard Brody is candid about his career as an independent pro-wrestling promoter.

"I wrote the definitive book on it," said Brody, referring to his fascinating 2009 autobiography. "I did some things good, some bad and there were some things I royally messed up on."

BOSTON - The 86-year-old rivalry between the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers may not be as intense as it was in its 1970s heyday, but that's nothing that a playoff series this spring wouldn't fix.

A consensus seems to be building, finally, in college football that more is needed.

I'd like to think that after nearly a generation of determining the national championship with a Bowl Championship Series formula of pitting No. 1 against No. 2 that the powerful people who run the sport just felt it was time for a change.

No.

If it has been said once, it has been said hundreds of times. The Pittsburgh Steelers owe Hines Ward. They owe him a job. They owe him an immediate answer about his future. They owe him respect, as if they always haven't given it to him.

I can't say this strongly enough.

The Steelers owe Ward nothing.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The teenager hears the advice from his father, and ... well, you know how most teenagers are. What could HE possibly know about this?

Usually, it eventually sinks in that Dad does, indeed, know what he's talking about.

Injuries are a way of life in athletics. Players sprain ankles, wrench knees, twist and strain and sometimes break parts of their bodies, forcing them out of action.

Before his last fight, Jake Ellenberger's resume in the Ultimate Fighting Championship was marked by a split-decision loss to current UFC interim welterweight champion Carlos Condit in his debut and four victories over mid-carders.

"Samoa" Joe Seanoa is no longer a man on an island.

A singles performer throughout his six-plus years in Impact Wrestling, Seanoa has branched into the tag-team ranks. He and new partner Nick "Magnus" Aldis are challenging Matt Morgan and Tommy "Crimson" Mercer for Impact's tag-team title Sunday on the "Against All Odds" pay-per-view show emanating from Orlando, Fla.

It is time for the mainstream media to stand up and say: "We are not TMZ or Deadspin. We stink these days, but we're going to start stinking less. We will not broadcast cellphone video of an athlete's spouse.