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For what it’s worth, former home run guru Sammy Sosa’s name was on a list of 104 MLB players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs back in 2003.
Back in the day (as a passive fan of baseball) I was rooting for Mark McGwire over Sammy Sosa back when they were both chasing Roger Maris, then surpassing [...]
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It’s been 0-8 for the New York Yankees against the Boston Red Sox so far this season. Last night was a punishing exhibition of pain to the Yankee fan: up 3-1 by the bottom of the 8th in Boston and blowing it 4-3 by the end.
The Yankees will have time to think about this since the next game against their [...]
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Manny, Manny, Manny…
Fifty games out because you “saw a physician” who gave you a drug that contained a banned substance, hCG. No steroids, but MLB isn’t messing around – MLB wants the drug-laden Steroids Era to end as soon as possible. I like the zero tolerance stand that they have; it’ll be helpful for the rehabilitation of [...]
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Yesterday, the Dallas Cowboys’ practice facility collapsed due to high winds during a routine rookie mini-camp practice. Usually the facility is noisy during a rainstorm since the rain hits a tent-like canopy, but no expected it to actually collapse! Some have postulated that it was a “micro-burst” which during a normal storm can quickly push winds [...]
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Former NFL coach and renowned commentator John Madden is retiring from the booth. The last game he called was Super Bowl XLIII last February. He will be replaced on Sunday Night Football by Cris Collinsworth. If he follows the Favre model, we’ll see him in September, but most sources believe this retirement is legit, that [...]
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My two favorite sports to watch are football and the men’s college basketball tournaments. If the Celtics are doing well, then I’ll watch the NBA playoffs. I’m going to try once again to get into baseball this year — each season I get more into it so the trend line on the baseball-fan-in-me is good. [...]
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UNC won the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship last night over the Michigan State Spartans 89-72. It was a complete blowout. I figured UNC was apt to win decisively, but this wasn’t even entertaining! The coolest part was when Magic and Larry Bird came out to mark the 30th Anniversary of their incredible Championship game back in the [...]
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Yup, the moment I pushed for UConn was the moment that somewhere deep-down I knew they were going to lose! I haven’t been very good at my picks in general lately. So yesterday, in a pair of not-so-good games down the stretch, two dominant teams arose from the field of 65: Michigan State University and the [...]
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And I only picked one of them! AARGH!!!
I am completely doomed in my office pool as Louisville was supposed to defeat Pitt for the Championship. Alas, no. Both fell this weekend. The only one I picked in the Final Four was UNC… who was supposed to lose to Pitt next Saturday! It’s never going to happen [...]
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“Earth Hour” dweebs around the planet want to have a billion people worldwide turn their lights off between 8:30 and 9:30 this evening to protect us all against the horrors of “global warming.” Of course, they’ll claim a momentous victory even though after their friends, contributors to the ‘global warming” hysteria in Greece and other snotty privileged developed [...]
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College football’s method of determining a national champion has been the subject of debate for decades. One side argues that the current system represents a tradition that should be preserved and guarantees one of the most meaningful regular seasons in all of sports. Others argue that the current system is too subjective and excludes too [...]
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I laughed when I heard about this story from the AP this morning regarding what legendary Duke Blue Devils Mens Basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski said about Obama’s picks:
“Somebody said that we’re not in President Obama’s Final Four, and as much as I respect what he’s doing, really, the economy is something that he should focus on, [...]
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Alex Rodriguez had hip surgery today and is expected to miss 6-9 weeks. As a Yankee fan and fantasy baseball A-Rod owner, I hope he has a speedy recovery.
I won’t defend him if he resumes doing what he did back before he became a Yankee or the next time he dates the elderly though.
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A football coach from East Brunswick High School in New Jersey, Marcus Borden, was reprimanded for being involved in a student-led prayer a few years ago. The incident took place during a team dinner before a game in 2005. A cheerleader present at this dinner didn’t like how the coach was nodding his head during the student-led prayer. She [...]
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Unranked bubble team Providence College defeated #1 Ranked Pittsburgh in NCAA Men’s Basketball last night, 81-73. It was one bright shining moment before Emperor Zero took the stage to play Caesar for an hour (I was waiting for San Fran Nan to hover the laurels over Zero’s head and whisper “Remember thou art mortal”).
This was [...]
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Today is the day that pitchers and catchers report for spring training, the first real sign (to me) that spring will soon be here. As an avid baseball fan, the very sound of that news brings with it a whole host of memories, emotions, and nostalgia. It’s a time of year when all teams have [...]
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Where have I heard this before?
That’s right, every single NFL post-season since Noah was trying to tick off “two emus” from his list!
Though this time I think it’s for real. Maybe.
Thusly, I’m not getting all nostalgic. I’ve already done that at the end of last season and what did that get me — Favre ended up at [...]
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As I write this, the 2009 NFL Pro Bowl is at halftime. It’s 14-10 AFC, which I like since I’m an AFC fan generally.
The Pro Bowl is one of the only All-Star games which 1) has no consequences relating to the season, or 2) takes place at the very end of the season. Football is a unique sport [...]
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The upstart Cardinals ended up losing to the favored Steelers 27-23 in Super Bowl XLIII tonight. The game was looking like a blowout as the score was 20-7 going into the 4th Quarter. The Steelers were taking advantage of everything the Cardinals were doing. The Cards had some lucky breaks, but that last second 100-yards pick-six at [...]
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Long have there been calls to make Super Bowl Monday a holiday since absenteeism and productivity resulting from the Super Bowl “flu” can be costly: last year 4.4 million late-ins and an estimated 1.5 million extra absences were phoned in. Some have also estimated that $16 million per minute lost during the week preceding the Super Bowl on people running [...]
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Here’s the ad in question. I personally think it’s pretty awesome:
NBC stated that it does not intend to air political advocacy ads during the Super Bowl. That’s their prerogative. Yet, they told PETA that they might get their ad on if they edited it to coincide with NBC’s ethical standards a little bit more, but on the [...]
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Centcom Head and Iraq Redeemer David Petraeus will be part of the Super Bowl XLIII coin toss Sunday night. Here what Petraeus had to say about it:
“It is a privilege to represent our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen in the coin-toss ceremony…. And it is an honor to thank the NFL commissioner and the [...]
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My wife, MrsSal, has started her own blog, primarily focused on recipes, but also on other “Domestic Pursuits.” In celebration of Super Bowl XLIII, she has collected 10 appetizer recipes for the big game, calling it her “2009 Super Bowl Appetizer Extravaganza“ There is some great food here, so check it out, and enjoy the [...]
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Is this a sign of the apocalypse? Perhaps, but it is nonetheless true: the Arizona Cardinals (one of the perennial laughing-stocks of the NFL) are going to play the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII on February 1!
Both Conference Championship games were exciting in different ways. If you’re an offensive person, you liked the first [...]
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That’s no typo! As perennial losers for nearly all of my life, any success that the Arizona Cardinals are a part of comes as a huge shock. Last night they were on the road in the Eastern Time Zone (they were 0-5 this season in the EST) to meet the 12-4 Carolina Panthers. No one gave them [...]
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No, I’m not joking!
I just finished watching something I may tell my grandkids one day — I witnessed the Arizona Cardinals actually win a home playoff game 30-24! 1947 was the last time the Cardinals hosted a playoff game, so I’m not totally kidding about that.
I’m not a Cardinals fan by any stretch, but they’ve been [...]
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I’m kind of glad to see this year go. While fun was had, disappointments and external events put a particular funk on this year as I look back on it.
The biggest story of the year happened on my birthday when America chose to embrace our new status as an Obama Nation. We deserve what we [...]
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The football gods are still inflicting more karmic mayhem on the New England Patriots.
After the Spygate fiasco, the football gods waited until the last possible moment to exact their revenge against the Pats — waiting until the last three-minutes of the Super Bowl to take the possible undefeated season out of reach by losing to [...]
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File this one under “Huh?”
A day after being ruled ineligible to play in tomorrow’s game against division rival Washington Redskins due to a hamstring injury, New York Giants’ wide receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg and was rushed to the hospital. There aren’t too many details at this point.
OK…
Plaxico Burress. He caught [...]
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For the first time since 2002, an NFL game ended at the end of sudden-death overtime without a winner. The Philadelphia Eagles played the Cincinnati Bengals for 75 game minutes, ending in a 13-13 tie. In a way, as a big NFL fan, it is kind of neat because it’s so unusual.
However, I’m not a fan of [...]
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