Magglio Ordonez - Miguel Cabrera - Gary “Shef” Sheffield - Dontrelle Willis - Justin Verlander - Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez - Jaque Jones - Carlos Guillen - Kenny Rogers - Curtis Granderson - Placido Polanco - In names alone, the new Detroit Tigers lineup looks promising.

The best of the old and the greatest of the new have teamed up under the tutelage of coach Jim Leyland to make it one place they didn’t make it last year…the playoffs. Sure, the race was tight and injuries plagued some of the team’s best players. Personal goals were met and legends were made (see Magglio Ordonez). That just didn’t seem to be good enough against a young, powerful, Cleveland Indians team.

We’ll get to see just how impressive the Tigers’ new team is when Spring Training begins on Wednesday in Lakeland, Florida. Long has Lakeland been home to the Tigers, one of the oldest teams in MLB. The Tigers may not have the greatest baseball legacy, an honor bestowed to the New York Yankees of yesteryear, but the current lineup shows amazing promise and a team that suffered many disappointing loses throughout the 80s and 90s is bound to do great things.

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For Leo Fiyalko, it started out as just another game of golf at the Cave Cay Country Club. The 92-year-old man is modest, if nothing else, about his accomplishment that has made him a local celebrity. Fiyalko brushed off the amazing feat as nothing special and his fellow golfers even had to convince him to tell his wife about his first hole-in-one. It’s something he’s only done once in the 60 years since he first started golfing.

Every Thursday, the Clearwater, Florida native tees up and golfs with a group between the ages of 70-90+. The avid golfer suffers from muscular degeneration, which has caused his blindness. Nevertheless, he still never misses the opportunity to play a sport he has loved for years. Using his five iron, Fiyalko shot his ball 110-yards and though the other golfers in his group knew he hit the green at the fifth hole on the course, they didn’t know it was a hole-in-one until they moved to the green and his ball was already in the hole.

“I was just trying to put the ball on the green,” Fiyalko said for an article displayed on MSNBC.

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Texas Tech’s Bobby Knight announced his resignation on Monday from Texas Tech. His son, Pat, will take over. As of right now, there is not much information available as to Knight’s abrupt departure.

Knight recorded his 900th win this season in front of a sell-out crowd and is the winningest men’s coach in Division I history. The fiery coach has been a fan favorite and has a way of making his teams win. But the coach has been trouble in the past because of that temper.

Speculation has led some to think he had a bet that if the Giants won the Super Bowl, he would step down. Him and a lot of other lost that bet.

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This Saturday, the UFC is showing off the depth of their heavyweight talent with two heavyweight bouts involving four former heavyweight champions. Yep, four. Granted, one is a former WWE champion, but that’s not the point.

Tim Sylvia - and all the awkward, crowd-despised 265lbs of him - is coming off a big win over the highly regarded Brandon Vera and has his eyes on the title he lost last year to Randy Couture. At 6′8″ and with limbs like tree trunks, to say he has “KO power” would be a soon regretted understatement. Any given strike can end the night early if the strikee isn’t prepared.

And he’s hungry. Tim’s almost uncomfortably obsessive love for the UFC title was well documented (mainly on YouTube) in his previous two reigns as the UFC champion. He has made it very clear that he wants the belt back and will do anything short of kicking a puppy to get it.

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