February 2012
2 posts
pitchers, catchers and the hope of spring →
Superb Owl →
January 2012
2 posts
Honor Roll Tide →
Kemp On Keepin' On →
December 2011
1 post
Making the Call →
November 2011
10 posts
Our Long, National Nightmare of Not Being Able to... →
Football, Fútbol, Tomayto, Tomahto →
When the home team isn't the home team →
Kershaw Chowder →
How to enjoy hockey when you really don't... →
Dear Joe Paterno's Statue →
The unknowable human. (All of us.) →
Joe Paterno and the Culture of Sports and Silence →
Thank you, Christopher Columbus! Your pals, the... →
Exit the Villain? →
October 2011
22 posts
Lex Luthor retires as Cardinals manager →
Dodgers Blame the Victim →
Let It Go, Guys →
Now Is The Time, Because It's a Commercial -- Be... →
When in Spain →
Team Unity, Red Sox Style →
NBA cancels first two weeks of season →
NBA cancels first two weeks of season →
In Which I Do Not Wish Tim McCarver Ill →
In Which I Do Not Wish Tim McCarver Ill →
Hockey Fight! →
My kind of baseball →
Al Davis, 1929-2011 →
Another first! →
Welcome to Hockey Season →
Welcome to Hockey Season →
Worst thing ever. →
@yankeeslose →
Damned Fireball →
Damned Fireball →
Now with comments →
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The Official Philadelphia Sports Power Hour
John James Gallagher has put together an amazing collection of Philadelphia’s Greatest sports moments. The above is just a trailer. The real thing is an hour long. And involves drinking. Of course.
Really great stuff.
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Live Simulcast of Tonight’s Rangers/Rays game:
Sorry. We couldn’t get the sound to work.
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Careful On the road tonight, Boston.
The angry guy driving behind you may be Terry Francona, who got fired by the Red Sox today. Full story.
September 2011
43 posts
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MLB Division Series Picks!
Andrew Anker
Tigers over Yankees in 4 This is Verlander’s year. His 2-hitter in game 1 will shake the Yankees up and they won’t recover.
Rays over Rangers in 4 The Rangers pretty much coasted this year and I like the underdog. The Rays got their wild card the right way and have mo.
Phillies over Cardinals in 3 The Cardinals aren’t that good and I’d...
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Yellow-Bellied →
Friend of American McCarver Paul Kafasis details the astounding cowardice of the Mets’ Jose Reyes, who, competing for the regular season batting title, asked to be taken out of the last game of the season after leading off in the 1st inning with a bunt single.
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A Night of Twists and Collapses
Tyler Kepner reporting for the New York Times
Two championships in the last decade had seemed, at last, to wring the fatalism out of Boston’s fans. Instead of expecting epic failure, they had come to demand championships. The events of Wednesday may have restored the natural order.
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Anti-Moneyball
Bryan Hoch, reporting for MLB.com:
Jorge Posada came through with the big hit to clinch the
American League East for the Yankees, and they’ll look to the
veteran for more contributions as the designated hitter in the
AL Division Series.
Manager Joe Girardi has confirmed that he plans to use Posada, 40,
as the team’s DH for all five potential games against the Detroit
...
A Night You Won't Forget →
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‘Best Team Ever!’
Eric Ortiz, in January: “2011 Red Sox Will Challenge 1927 Yankees for Title of Greatest Team in Major League History”:
The 2011 Red Sox possess all the pieces to have a season for the
ages. If everything falls into place and the breaks go their way,
they could do more than set records and become champions. They
could do more than take their place on Immortality Peak and...
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A Night You Won't Forget
Three minutes later, just after the result from Baltimore had been posted on the scoreboard at Tropicana Field, in the bottom of the 12th inning, Evan Longoria hit a low, screaming liner into the left-field corner that cleared the fences by a few inches. Maybe the most stunning few inches baseball fans have witnessed in a long, long time. The Rays had won. Comeback complete. We spent the past...
Sean Avery, Intolerance and the NHL →
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Sean Avery, intolerance and the NHL
There are circumstances in sports in which you find yourself doing something you said you would never do. Maybe you’re a Red Sox fan rooting for the Yankees to beat the Rays. Or maybe you’re me, defending Sean Avery.
A couple of nights ago Philadelphia Flyer Wayne Simmonds got into a heated exchange with Avery on the ice and called him - ok, allegedly called him - a fucking...
Playing out the String →
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Top 25 Rickey Henderson Stories of All Time →
If you’re not pissing yourself at some of these, there’s no help for you. I mean come on:
In the early 1980s, the Oakland A’s accounting department was
freaking out. The books were off $1 million. After an
investigation, it was determined Rickey was the reason why. The
GM asked him about a $1 million bonus he had received and Rickey
said instead of cashing it, he framed it...