{"id":32800,"date":"2011-01-26T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=32800"},"modified":"2023-02-07T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:53:20","slug":"january-26th-2011-gossip-headlines-gambling-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/sports\/january-26th-2011-gossip-headlines-gambling-news\/","title":{"rendered":"January 26th 2011: Daily Sports News \u2014 Gossip \u2014 Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Water Cooler \u2013 January 26th, 2011<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Here we go with today\u2019s sports water cooler talk. Here, you won\u2019t just find the straight news; you\u2019ll find the stuff everyone is talking about \u2013 the ice breakers, the\u00a0Twitter Sports Picks<\/a> and topics\u2026well, basically all the stuff you discuss at the water cooler. <\/p>\n

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Today’s Sports News – MLB news: Jays flip Napoli to Rangers for Francisco; Astros extend Wandy Rodriguez with three-year deal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jays flip Napoli to Rangers for Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, that was fast. Less than a week after arriving in Toronto as part of the Vernon Wells trade, catcher Mike Napoli has a new home again. The Blue Jays flipped him to the Texas Rangers reliever for Frank Francisco yesterday.<\/p>\n

Napoli clubbed 26 homers last season but the Jays deemed him expendable with young gun J.P. Arencibia on the rise behind the plate. General manager Alex Anthopoulos instead opted to bolster his pen with Francisco, who was redundant in Texas after Neftali Feliz stole his closing job.<\/p>\n

The Houston Astros won\u2019t let Wandy Rodriguez take the Roy Oswalt route out of town just yet. They signed Wandy to a three-year, $34-million extension yesterday. The lefty was 11-12 with a 3.60 ERA and 178 strikeouts last year.<\/p>\n

Rocco Baldelli\u2019s career is no more. The former clue-chip prospect tired of battling illness and injuries and is expected to announce his retirement today at age 29. He\u2019ll likely take a job with the Tampa Bay Rays\u2019 front office.<\/p>\n

NFL news: Dolphins pursuing DeAngelo Williams? Carson Palmer could net a first-rounder? Chad Ochocinco to become Chad Johnson again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to sources out of southern Florida, the Miami Dolphins have decided to aggressively pursue DeAngelo Williams. The free agent is probably looking for a new home, as the Carolina Panthers likely want to hand their starting running back reins to Jonathan Stewart.<\/p>\n

Will the Cincinnati Bengals rethink their refusal to accommodate Carson Palmer\u2019s trade request? An unnamed GM said this week that he believes Palmer\u2019s skills haven\u2019t declined and that he\u2019d \u201cnet a first round pick.\u201d Hmm. Perhaps this GM slipped into a coma in 2006.<\/p>\n

Is the Chad Ochocinco era over? The (soon-to-be-ex?) Bengals wideout suggested in an interview yesterday that he\u2019s \u201cdone with the Ocho thing\u201d and may change his name back to Chad Johnson.<\/p>\n

Maurice Jones-Drew\u2019s MoJo will take a hit for the next four months. Turns out his meniscus was \u201cbone on bone\u201d by the end of the 2010 season and he\u2019ll need four months to recover from surgery.<\/p>\n

NBA news: Eric Gordon out three to four weeks with bone chip<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Clippers\u2019 resurgence may have hit the skids. Blake Griffin\u2019s elbow injury is just a contusion, so he shouldn\u2019t miss more than a game if any, but Eric Gordon isn\u2019t so lucky. The NBA\u2019s eighth-leading scorer\u2019s wrist injury is now being called a small bone chip fracture. He\u2019s expected to miss three or four weeks.<\/p>\n

MMA news: Herschel Walker to fight Saturday \u2013 but wants back in NFL?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As much as we want to laugh at Herschel Walker playing pro sports at age 48 \u2013 have you seen the guy lately? He\u2019s built like Adrian Peterson. He\u2019s a freak of nature. On Saturday night, he\u2019ll attempt to go 2-0 in his mixed martial arts career against Scott Carson.<\/p>\n

But will he stick with MMA? Walker recently spoke of a return to the NFL. He reportedly ran a 4.38 in the 40-yard dash last year at age 47 and says \u201cthere is a 100 per cent guarantee that I could help a football team out.\u201d He says it\u2019s only a matter of fitting the NFL into his schedule at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sports water cooler headlines and sports gossip for Wednesday January 26th 2011. Shea Matthews weighs in with his analysis and opinions on today\u2019s sports action\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":22383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[29373,28750,41876,158,1653,3457,23472,2144,43392,19957,43394,23301,11207,43393,3091,659,43267,22116,23300,748,839,43395,31329,43396,22115,1157,22112,37896,1825,1890,3535,11218,22678,10860,10922],"class_list":["post-32800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-2010-11","tag-28750","tag-adrian-peterson","tag-bet-on-sports","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carson-palmer","tag-chad-ochocinco","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-deangelo-williams","tag-eric-gordon","tag-frank-francisco","tag-herschel-walker","tag-houston-astros","tag-jonathon-stewart","tag-la-clippers","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-mike-napoli","tag-mlb-news","tag-mma-news","tag-nba-news","tag-nfl-news","tag-rocco-baldelli","tag-roy-oswalt","tag-scott-carson","tag-sports-gossip","tag-sports-handicapping","tag-sports-headlines","tag-sports-news","tag-sportsbook-com","tag-to","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-texas-rangers","tag-todays-sports-headlines","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32800"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104789,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32800\/revisions\/104789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}