Wayne Rooney wants transfer from Manchester United

Outgoing Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed that star Wayne Rooney has handed in a transfer request due to frustration at being substituted in recent matches. The 27-year-old forward has been with United since 2004 and now wants out, but Ferguson insists the club has no plans to let him go.

Rooney didn’t dress for Man U’s 2-1 win over Swansea on Sunday, which happened to be Ferguson’s final home game as manager. The star player watched from an executive box with his family.

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Maloof brothers will only sell Sacramento Kings to Seattle group

News broke on Saturday that the Maloof brothers (Joe and Gavin) will only agree to sell the Sacramento Kings to the Seattle-based group headed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chris Hansen. If the NBA doesn’t approve a move to Seattle, the Maloofs apparently have a backup plan.

The crash-strapped brothers have made a backup agreement with the Hansen-Ballmer group to sell it 20 percent of the team for $125 million, if the NBA doesn’t approve a full sale. That would allow the Maloofs to continue running the team. Also on Friday, Hansen announced that he had increased his offer to buy out the Maloofs to $409 million (up from $358 million). That would put the total valuation of the franchise at $625 million, since the Maloofs own 65 percent of the team.

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Dennis Rodman rips President Obama over North Korea

In one of the most bizarre sports stories in decades, eccentric NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman has become close friends with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un over the past few months. Now Rodman has reportedly lashed out at American President Barack Obama for not engaging North Korea diplomatically.

Rodman has been trying to reach out to Kim Jong Un to release Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American who was sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea last week. Apparently Rodman believes he’s just picking up the slack for Obama.

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Luol Deng has lost 15 pounds and was “really scared” by illness

Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng is unlikely to play in Game 3 of his team’s second-round playoff series against the Miami Heat, but at the very least he seems to finally be getting healthy.

Deng has been suffering through a bout with the flu that got so bad he was given a spinal tap to detect spinal meningitis (it came back negative). He has missed the last four games, mostly as a result of complications from the spinal tap.

Perhaps more worrisome is the fact that Deng has lost a whopping 15 pounds since the start of his illness and he claims he was “really scared” by how his body reacted. The 28-year-old is reportedly still very weak and hasn’t been able to do much on the court.

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Video: Slava Voynov scores OT goal to give Los Angeles Kings win

On Wednesday night the Los Angeles Kings and St. Louis Blues had another epic slugfest of a game in their incredible first-round playoff series.

In Game 5 Wednesday night the Blues scored to tie the game 2-2 with 44 seconds to go in regulation. The Kings then bounced back with a gorgeous goal from second-year defenseman Slava Voynov in overtime to win the game 3-2.

A description and video of the goal are after the jump.

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Philadelphia Phillies: Roy Halladay to have shoulder surgery

Philadelphia Phillies ace Roy Halladay will have arthroscopic surgery to repair a bone spur in his right shoulder.

Halladay was put on the disabled list this week with inflammation in his shoulder, but met with specialist Dr. Lewis Yocum in Los Angeles on Tuesday. After that meeting, Halladay decided to undergo surgery immediately, to give him a chance to return this year.

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Video: Carmelo Anthony posterizes Jeff Pendergraph, Patrick Ewing approves

The New York Knicks blew out the Indiana Pacers 105-79 on Tuesday night, evening their second round NBA playoff series at 1-1. Both teams looked wildly different than they did in Game 1, and no one played better than Knicks star Carmelo Anthony.

The 28-year-old Anthony scored 32 points, grabbed nine rebounds, dished out three assists and snagged two steals while adding one sick dunk.

With just more than two minutes remaining in the third quarter and the game tied at 64, Anthony got the ball on the left side of the floor. He promptly drove by Pacers forward David West, rose up and posterized Jeff Pendergraph, who was also charged with a foul. Anthony also made the subsequent free throw.

Enjoy the video after the jump.

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