Yahoo! is reporting free agent Hedo Turkoglu has backed out of his commitment to the Portland Trail Blazers and plans to sign with the Toronto Raptors, a source close to the talks told Yahoo! Sports on Friday night.

Greg Couch of AOL Fanhouse piles on those who can't understand what NBC thinks when it comes to televising a live event. Couch blasts the Birdbrains, who didn't show the Dandy Andy semfinal today. The understatement of the column is this: This whole "internet" thing must really be a burden to NBC ... Burden wouldn't be the proper word. Shame is more like it. The network from Doesn't Know Dick Ebersol on down is embarrassing itself. Time after time.

A remarkable story of courage by a father who tried to save a son. A must read. The news story is here. So, so incredibly sad.

ESPN showed us the Roger Federer-Tommy Haas match live. No such chance with NBC for Andy Roddick and Andy Murray. Yep, everyone will have to wait for the joke that is NBC's plausibly live coverage once again. The match is underway and NBC has its collective head buried in the Today Show, once again. For those who want to follow along, here is a link. There is no way anyone could have expected the first semifinal to go until almost noon in the East. And ESPN isn't "allowed" to show the second semifinal. What a colossal joke they are at 30 Rock. Phil Mushnick slams the coverage here, joining the critcism leved by Richard Sandomir the other day.

Spoiler: For a story on the second semifinal match, click here. NBC execs will probably feign shock that the match is actually over if they look.

Former Army football player Caleb Campbell was a seventh-round pick of the Detroit Lions. His plans to try and make the NFL were short-circuited when the military called him to duty. AOL's Fanhouse caught up with Campbell as he trains with the U.S. bobsled team, trying to make the squad for the Vancouver Games next year.

Roger Federer is back in the Wimbledon final, having bounced Tommy Haas in straight sets. The match wasn't as easy as straight sets sounds as Haas forced a tiebreaker in the first set and was broken twice in the match. However, it is difficult to win when you never force a break point. Federer had 10 love games on his serve. Next up: either Andy, Roddick or Murray.

There are usually rain delays in baseball. On Thursday in San Diego, there was a 52-minute delay due to bees. A beekeeper had to obliterateda ball of bees that followed a queen bee under a ballgirl's jacket that was slung over the back of a chair down the left-field line. In the game, the Astros stung the Padres, 7-2.

So, all things being equal, would you have traded Trevor Ariza for Ron Artest? Because that is basically what the Lakers did. The Houston Rockets have signed Ariza only hours after Artest bolted the Southwest for the purple and gold. And if we go back to the beginning, how about the New York Knicks drafting a talent like Ariza and letting him go?