Rivera Retires, Big East's Big Name Change

Rivera to retire after season

• Sources report, the unquestioned greatest relief pitcher, Mariano Rivera will officially retire after this season. Taking his indomitable cutter and going home.
• Mariano Rivera, who is 43 years old, has the most saves ever and more than double any active pitcher, missed last season after tearing his ACL shagging fly balls in the outfield.
• He will return this season for one final run, and what he hopes will be fifth World Series ring in his 18th season (19 if you include 2012) all with the Yankees. He may have problems however, as Alex Rodriguez is out for possibly the whole season, Derek Jeter is returning from injury, Curtis Granderson will be out for a couple months, and Mark Texiera out for the first two months, and the Yankees have let a good amount of their remaining offense leave after last season in money saving moves.
• Rivera's return is a key part to the Yankees' plan for this season, as the team (that is old) tries to get healthy.

Big East -> America 12?

• After 7 of the current 12 Big East Schools decided to leave the conference to form their own, religious based, athletic conference, the remaining Big East Schools will form a new conference and  the conference's lawyers have registered a number of websites using the moniker "America 12."
• Between the defection of the 7 Catholic schools, and a few other schools leaving for other conferences, the new Big East, er.. America 12, only has one member (UConn) that was in the Big East as of 2005.
• In 2013-14, the conference will only have 10 teams, with the hopes to expand to the nominal 12 by the 2014-15 season.