Roy Jones Jr. just might be the next to boxer endorse the Counter-Punch technology as a training tool. Leading up to his fight with Jones, Joe Calzaghe remained tight lipped about his training techniques. But as fight night drew near, Calzaghe discussed for the first time his use of a novel punching bag capable of quantifying the speed, power and sequence of punches. All factors with which Jones became familiar while losing to the still undefeated, and recently retired, Calzaghe.

Looks like Lance Armstrong might have a new pair of sunglasses for his comeback tour. The blogs lit up in the past few weeks with attention surrounding a pair of Nike sunglasses that increase a rider's peripheral vision from the standard 180 degrees to up to 240. Given Lance's pension for wearing yellow, the new specs could come in handy. Only problem is that Nike isn't actually making the glasses. Confused? We dug into the mystery.

College sports is all about winning, and so is alumni donations. An analysis of gifts to Middlebury College published last month in the Journal of Sports Economics shows that a winning season in high-profile sports leads to more donations for the school.

The study also showed that former athletes are 22 percent more likely to give than their couch-potato counterparts, and that hockey players are more generous than football alums, but that there's no difference in generosity between men and women.

A study of young and middle-aged Italian women showed that 20 percent of those surveyed had adjusted the way they practiced and competed in sport due to urinary incontinence. Even Title IX can't help address this. The study, published last month in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed that 10 percent of women literally abandoned a sport because of episodes of leakage. The abandonment rate increased significantly for women who had borne children, and an increase in body mass index also correlated with problems.

[Via the British Journal of Sports Medicine]

Does the "N" in NASCAR stand for nepotism? Research published earlier this year in the Journal of Sports Economics investigates the last 30 years of racing to determine whether a family name has provided a free ride. The data shows that sons of NASCAR drivers do not have significantly longer careers than competitors without a family link, given the same level of performance (so Dale Jr. haters, pipe down).

So the answer is that there's no nepotism? Not so fast. Second brothers do have a significantly longer career than their performance warrants. Fathers also perform better than sons (Dale Jr. haters, we hear you). While first brothers perform better than second brothers. But don't think having a son doesn't affect the father. Fathers with a son competing have a significantly shorter career than their performance would warrant. Tell that to Richard Petty.

How much was ending decades of futility worth to the Red Sox nation? At least a 9.3-percent increase in ticket prices, apparently. After winning the 2004 World Championships, the Sox increased their average ticket price to a league high of $44.56. The cost of victory trickling down to Joe the Fan isn't novel or surprising, but a study last month in the Atlantic Economic Journal showed that teams who win it all jack up ticket costs disproportionately.

We're betting that recently fired head football coach Tommy Bowden would not have been a fan of Clemson's new iTiger technology. When your team is expected to compete for the national title and starts the year 3-3, allowing fans to send emails to the coach's show during the game isn't going to help morale. iTiger is a website accessible from wireless devices within Clemson's stadium that will allow fans to watch video, order food and, yes, submit questions to the coach. Lucky for Bowden, the "submit a question" feature was not enabled during his 20-17 loss to Maryland.

Not many men can convince their wives to sacrifice the coffee table in their shoebox-sized apartment and replace it with a foosball table. But what if the coffee table was the foosball table?

When Kenny George, a seven-foot center on the University of North Carolina-Asheville basketball team, recently contracted a staph infection, requiring part of his foot to be amputated, only his teammates and family blinked an eye. But when reports surfaced that Peyton Manning required knee surgery due to a similar problem, fantasy owners and the sports world took notice.

Any space in your golf bag next to the nine-iron? Here are two clubs that can offer a truly unique dynamic to your next 18 holes -- and they neatly complement each other! Introducing the Kooler Klub and the UroClub. Fill up your frosty beverage from one, and, a few holes later, relieve yourself into the other. We couldn't make this stuff up.