Every single lead that you’ll read regarding last night’s home run derby will probably include something about the mass of kayakers that get screwed by the lack of home run balls hit into McCovey Cove. That was my clever way of doing it and not sounding like the rest of the pack.
With four right handed [...]
It may be a day late on here, but my favourite player while growing up, Jeremy Roenick, called it quits on Wednesday. He even did it in comical fashion; text messaging a Philadelphia newspaper with the message “I’m retiring, is that still news?” Well, at least I got a good laugh out of it.
Starting his [...]
Hideki Okajima of the Red Sox and Chris Young of the Padres have won a trip to the all-star game thanks to internet voting. Okajima beat out Pat Neshek, Roy Halladay, Jeremy Bonderman and Kelvim Escobar while Young won the vote over defending Cy Young winner Brandon Webb, Carlos Zambrano and Tom Gorzelanny. Roy Oswalt [...]
After six seasons in Orlando where he was frequently injured, Grant Hill has accepted a low paying contract, by his standards, to play in Phoenix. While he’s not the player that we all came to love in Detroit, he can still be a serviceable veteran influence and contribute for limited minutes. That is, if he [...]
The Olympic committee announced yesterday that Sochi, a Black Sea ski resort in Russia, will host the 2014 Winter Olympics. Sochi beat out Pyeongchang, South Korea in the final vote while Salzburg, Austria lost out in the first round between the final three competitors.
This marks the first time that the games have been awarded to [...]
Forget anything about Barry Bonds and his chase for 755 (he sat yesterday due to sore legs; what a wimp). A hallowed mark was shattered yesterday in New York City. At the Nathan’s hot dog eating championship in Coney Island, Joey Chestnut and second place finisher Takeru Kobayashi both beat out Chestnut’s record of 59 [...]
Only this time it’s the NBA we’re talking about. While deals can’t be officially announced or finalized until July 11, plenty of action is still taking place on the front lines with GMs scrambling to find the missing pieces to championship hopes, or even just stop-gap replacements for the departed.
The Raptors kicked everything off by [...]
The NHL’s free agent feeding frenzy opened up on the first with tons of names, including some big ones, flying across the board. Several small market teams were forced to absorb big personnel hits, especially Buffalo and Long Island. Who said the salary cap makes every team equal?
Daniel Briere is going to be lacing them [...]
