The Washington Wizards didn't really need another guard, but they'll probably end up with one anyway.

ESPN's Jemele Hill <a href="http://twitter.com/jemelehill/statuses/11107266178">is reporting</a> that Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards (for now, anyway) has been sentenced to 30 days in a halfway house and two years of probation.

Simply put, the Dallas Mavericks were flailing before All-Star break.

Five weeks ago, Gilbert Arenas <a href="http://withleather.uproxx.com/2010/01/gilbert-arenas-suspended">welshed on a $25,000 debt</a> from a Wizards' team poker game, an act that led to him and another player, Jarvaris Crittendon, brandishing guns in front of each other.

The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011403502.html">Washington Post</a> has reported that Gilbert Arenas has been charged with "carrying a pistol without a license outside home or business, a felony.

Washington Wizards guard [as opposed to bodyguard.

After the NBA placed Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas on indefinite suspension, the team is doing everything conceivable to essentially erase his image.

Gilbert Arenas got a little glib with the pending Guns In The Locker Room investigation and has now been indefinitely suspended from the NBA.

Washington Wizard Gilbert Arenas may have just cost himself a good chunk of $111Mil.

UPDATE: <a href="http://www.nba.com/wizards/news/obamarelease_090227.html">NBA.com</a> reports that Obama was a guest of team owner Abe Pollin.

Recent revelations in the life of Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas are that he would undergo his third knee surgery in a year and half (costing him the first half of the coming season) and that he got engaged to his on-again, off-again girlfriend of six years.

MLB - The Angels already clinched something that matters - the division crown - now they get to bask in the glow of individual achievements.

MLB - The Angels shocked the world by rallying from a double-digit lead in the division to clinch the AL West crown for the fourth time in five years.

NL - Jim Edmonds, left for baseball dead after being dumped by San Diego earlier this year, continues to validate the Cubs' faith in him despite being in the neighborhood of 300 years old.

AL - The Angels, owners of the league's best record, had a busy evening, acquiring Braves slugger (and, ugh, Baltimore native) Mark Teixeira for Casey Kotchman.

NL - The Mets were doing this thing where they had a decent bullpen for a few weeks and then last night they decided to drop the ruse in a somewhat pivotal game and blow a three-run lead in the 9th.

AL - With all the talk of the Rays stumbling going into the All-Star break, it's the Red Sox who falter out of the gate in the second half, <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=280720103&action=playvideo&hcmp=motion" target="_blank">getting swept by the Angels</a>, a team that has beaten them in five out of six meetings this year.

Hey, we finally made to to the MLB All-Star Break, meaning we're but a month away from the games actually meaning something.

AL - In the battle of first and second place teams that isn't the Rays and the Red Sox, the Angels got a three-run rally in the 8th capped by a two-run Garret Anderson homer to get a <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=280701103&action=playvideo&hcmp=motion" target="_blank">5-3 win</a> over the A's and push their AL West lead to 4 1/2 games.

The American League likes to make things exciting, don't they.