lockout

Everybody knows about Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. But if we could hypothetically build a Mount Rushmore that is dedicated to the four commissioners in Major League Baseball. National Football League, National Hockey League, and National Basketball Associations. Would anybody go see it?

The 2012 NHL lockout is only about a week underway, but singer/songwriter Vicki Shae of Winnipeg-based radio station QX 104 already has a song ready to mend the broken hearts of fans everywhere. And it's a nifty parody of Taylor Swift's 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' to boot. Nothing lessens the sting of a painful labor dispute more than a heartfelt breakup tune, right?

Are NBA players planning to launch their own league? Amare Stoudemire says that they’re giving it “serious” consideration if the NBA decides to cancel the season. League officials have already nixed the first two weeks of the season over the labor dispute.

In a new Funny or Die spoof of the classic baseball film 'Field of Dreams,' Taylor Lautner plays an Iowa corn farmer who hears a voice telling him to build a football field. So he does, and soon enough locked out NFL stars such as Tony Gonzalez , Ray Lewis and DeSean Jackson are playing ball in his front yard, and engaging in horse play inside of his house.

David Bruton knows more than just football. While the NFL lockout labors on, the Denver Broncos safety kept busy by taking a job as a substitute teacher in his hometown of Miamisburg, Ohio.