Why is my sidebar bleeding into my main content?

1. Check the validation report:
https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.thesportsnote.com/
2. Never ever copy text into the wysiwyg editor from MS Word.

On Point 2: is that really whats causing it? If I stop copying and pasting will that solve it? No CSS problems? and since there’s no spell check in the post writing screen is there a plugin for that?

Well, until the more than 60 errors are not corrected I cannot tell what is causing the mess. When they are gone/corrected and the problem still persist – post back and we will gladly try to help you.

..and as a side note, the majority of those errors *are* from MSWord generating your content. Not only is MSWord just an icky thing to use for creating websites (extremely heavy filesize, tons of stuff in tehre that is completely unnecessary and makes it difficult to maneuver through to find stuff), the text it chooses to use usually ends up in some weird characters showing up on your site – like you’ll have “?” where a comma or apostrophe should be…

Ditch the MSWord and fix those errors and a lot of stuff will probably clear itself up. If it doesn’t, like moshu said – post back and we have a better chance of helping out.