Cleveland has long been a tortured sports city. The Drive, The Fumble, a lengthy streak of futility and bad luck for the Indians, and of course the beloved Browns leaving for Baltimore have agonized the city's sports fans. LeBron James departing for Miami may have been the final straw, but things picked up for the 'Mistake on the Lake' last night, when Cleveland won an ESPY Award as the Most Depressed Sports City in the country.

Thanks to the recently completed World Cup, Major League Soccer is reaping some huge benefits. Reports from the league office indicate sixteen people are now regularly following MLS.

Thanks to a dramatic goal by Landon Donovan in stoppage time, the United States World Cup team has locked up a mention on ESPN's Sportscenter for at least another few days or so. Had the U.S. lost to or tied Algeria, they almost certainly would have been left out of cable and satellite television's most prominent highlight and sports news program.

By coming up on the losing end of a friendly wager over the outcome of the Brazil-North Korea World Cup match, North Korea dictator Kim Jong-il was forced to wear some ridiculous glasses in his latest public appearance. Jong-il had made a bet with Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before the match.

That annoying guy at work, Steve in IT, probably thinks those vuvuzelas at the World Cup make 'a really cool sound' assumes everyone at your office. "I can totally see that guy bringing in a vuvuzela from home," said Betty in the next cubicle. "He'd pester everyone in the office with that thing, even more than he does on a normal day."

The Blackhawks victory celebration was supposed to be a joyous occasion for the city of Chicago. Instead, thousands upon thousands of bandwagon fans showed up, many wearing Blackhawks gear they had purchased just moments earlier, ruining the day's festivities for the true fans in attendance.

People all over the world are buzzing with excitement as the 2010 World Cup draws near. Television broadcasts and around the clock coverage of one of the world's most popular sporting events could heighten interest in soccer in the United States, a potential result dreaded by George Lenton of Moline, Illinois, particularly for his young son.

Dakota Snail, an relatively unknown thoroughbred and a 1000 to 1 underdog in the Belmont Stakes, performed even more poorly than anticipated when he paused to rest for several minutes just short of the 3/4 mile mark of the 1 1/2 mile race.

JP Smitty's, a popular bar and grill in Tulsa, Oklahoma, failed to change the channel on one of its thirty-seven TVs Monday after it aired a re-run of Two and a Half Men. The Stanley Cup Finals followed, and the NHL was fortunate enough to score the highest ratings ever for a Game 2 as a result of the bar staff inadvertently leaving a TV tuned to NBC.

Wishing Boston sports fans would forget about their 3-0 collapse in the NHL's Eastern Conference Finals, members of the Boston Bruins secretly hope the Celtics become the NBA's first team to drop four straight games after taking a 3-0 series lead.