I would like to extend a big thank you to the Minnesota Twins for a) not dealing one of the best pitchers in the MLB to the Yankees or Red Sox (especially Boston — could you imagine a Santana-Beckett front end?) and b) getting said pitcher out of the AL entirely.
With Johan headed to Shea, [...]
I’m taking a stand right now to not get riled up about reading anything that begins with “report:” any more. After reading a report stating that Orioles ace Eric Bedard had been dealt to the Seattle Mariners, the newsroom where I work went aflutter, trying to find out if it was true and trying to [...]
With the NHL’s all-star weekend passing by, I had to write a few notes that came up explaining why hockey is dying in North America, more specifically, the states:
The slam dunk competition in hockey form. Are you serious? How dumb is it that they’re holding a competition where scoring doesn’t matter, people — like Dominique [...]
Really? We’re all supposed to care and focus intently for two weeks on Thomas Brady’s right foot? Just because he was seen with a walking boot on it the other day? it makes no sense and it’s not even worth thinking about. He was obviously well enough to continue playing throughout the AFC championship game [...]
So the Toronto Maple Leafs, one of the cornerstone franchises of the weak NHL and seen as a running joke by those around the league, have finally fired their atrocious GM John Ferguson and have hired their former GM Cliff Fletcher. Firstly, after all of the horrible personnel moves and shaky decisions that Ferguson made [...]
Sitting out the rest of the season to rest ‘is a prime option for me.’ Spoken like a true winner. So the Jermaine O’Neal chronicles continue. Must be nice to be the seventh highest paid player in the NBA at $19 million per season and elect to ‘rest’ your bruised knee for the remainder of [...]
Criticize Philip Rivers all you want for his play against the Patriots on Sunday but when you’re doing so, keep in mind that he was playing with a torn ACL for the entire game. That’s right; many people would be screaming in pain with an injury like that but Rivers gutted out an entire game [...]
For the third week in a row, Elisha Manning and the New York Giants faced a tough adversary on the road in the playoffs and won. I don’t know if I’m more shocked or disappointed or both at the same time. It wasn’t even as much as his effort as it was the effort of [...]
With the Super Bowl around the corner, I don’t think I’ve ever been looking past the conference championships more. Unless something happens and there is an upset, this week is a forgone conclusion with the favourites easily defeating the feisty underdogs. PATRIOTS (-14) over Chargers There is way too much going against the Chargers in this one. [...]
This has been a very black-is-white, up-is-down kind of week in the NBA. You have the Knicks on a three-game winning streak; the Celtics drop three of their last five games and a case of a testicular tumour. I don’t know how but the Knicks of scraped together a three-game streak which started with [...]
