Trade

The Washington Wizards rough season continues to get worse as they now will be without recently acquired forward Josh Howard for the remainder of the season after he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

Wizards’ president Ernie Grunfeld made the announcement in a statement Tuesday.

The injury to Howard came on Monday night against the Chicago Bulls. Howard collided with Bulls guard Flip Murray late in the first quarter. After staying down for a minute after the collision, Howard was helped off the court by trainers.

The Washington Wizards’ president, Ernie Grunfield stated on Friday that the team plans to stick by Gilbert Arenas despite his pending legal situation.

Arenas will miss the remainder of the NBA season after being suspended by NBA commissioner David Stern. Arenas pleaded guilty last month to a felony gun charge and is scheduled to be sentenced March 26.

According to Yahoo! Sports, the Portland Trail Blazers have agreed in principle with the the Los Angeles Clippers to acquire center Marcus Camby. For the deal to be complete, both teams will require a league office approval which both teams will wait on.

According to Yahoo! sports, Camby was in Portland when he was informed by his agent Rick Kaplan that he would be traded to the Blazers. The trade proposal according to Yahoo! would send Camby to the Blazers for guard Steve Black, forward Travis Outlaw and $3 million as well.

NFL players have gone after the aid of congress to prevent the NFL owners from inflicting a lockout after next season. The players are hoping lawmakers in Washington D.C. can help overturn a possible victory in the Supreme Court antitrust case which would affect free agency amongst other things like ticket prices.

“We want Congress to know that management is pushing us toward a lockout,” said Tennessee Titans center Kevin Mawae who is also the union president and part of the 30 current and former players who were on Capitol Hill to discuss the issue.

Boston Celtics will be glad once their forward Kevin Garnett returns to the court on Friday as planned. Garnett who returned to practice is optimistic about his return and his familiar voice could be heard around the practice facility Tuesday as the team scrimmage after their 99-90 home loss Monday night to the Dallas Mavericks.

“When it comes to intensity, I don’t have to try,” Garnett said. “That’s just something that’s instilled in me and that I do naturally.”

The FIFA World Cup draws in South Africa has come and gone, the world focused on the city of Cape Town as world class athletes from all over, celebrities and top government officials were anticipating all the different teams they would face and what group they would be placed in for the FIFA World Cup.

An event such as the World Cup only comes once every four years and due to it's magnitude, any event for what might be considered minute thing surrounding it is always huge.

According to Yahoo! Sports, the Golden State Warriors have traded their forward and former captain Stephen Jackson to the Charlotte Bobcats for former Phoenix Suns swingman Raja Bell and Vladimir Radmanovic. Warriors guard Acie Law also heads the other way to Charlotte with Jackson.

As NFL Network kicks off their coverage of NFL games on Thursday night, two teams will be on display that desperately need to get back to winning.

The Chicago Bears started this season with high hopes after adding quarterback Jay Cutler to the team via trade, but so far, a 4-4 record wasn’t exactly what the Bears were expecting. For a long time, the talk in Chicago had been that the team was only a franchise quarterback away from getting back to the Super Bowl and winning, but that has not proven to be true.

The Cleveland Browns, especially head coach Eric Mangini, has been contemplating his starter since training camp. First he went with Brady Quinn to start the season, then went to his backup Derek Anderson and now Mangini has made the change back to Quinn ahead of the Browns Monday Night Football game against the Baltimore Ravens.

A huge divisional game for the Browns as Quinn gets a second opportunity to prove to the team that he is the better option for Cleveland at the quarterback position.

Though the Commercial Appeal reported on Monday that Memphis Grizzlies guard Allen Iverson is contemplating retiring from the NBA, the Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley has mentioned that he is not sure of what Iverson’s future plans are; it might not include retirement.

For Iverson to retire from basketball when he can still play for some teams in the league would be an injustice to arguably the toughest smallest man to single-handedly carry a team to an NBA Finals in the history of the league.

“I’m not in Allen’s head. I don’t know what he’s thinking,” Heisley mentioned to AP.