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Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

MLBChicago White Sox at Baltimore – WCIU/MASN, 6 p.m. (completion of scheduled game, then regularly scheduled game at 7 p.m.)Cleveland…

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Scoreboard watchin’

On today’s off-day, let’s see what’s being played tonight we should keep an eye on. Baltimore Orioles @ Chicago White…

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The BCS?

I was doing a little research and came across a few gems. These are quotes from players, coaches, administrators, and…

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The Herbie Awards have arrived

Former Buckeye quarterback (and current top-10 reason for sterility in college-age women) Kirk Herbstreit has released his annual list of…

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Screw Commentating, I’m Going to be a Star!

What’s up nerds? I hope you’ve been getting a nice tan from your computer screens. I’ve been out on the…

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Newfangled “Grocery store” introduced to Victoria

Victoria, population 4000 something, has rumbled through the 20th and beginning of the 21st century with no means of purchasing…

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The Day After the Olympics Links

Now that the Olympics are over, we can focus on other sports like the NFL, MLB, the US Open which…

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BREAKING NEWS: ESPN Signs with SEC for 15 Years

Michael Smith and John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal confirm what was reported by the Memphis Commercial Appeal yesterday,…

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Lowrie Talks About Yesterday’s Game and Playing Third

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I’m bored. Here’s some facts about the Tressel era

While I’m doing some finishing work on the new site (like that fancy new logo, do ya?), I’m taking a…

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Manning to practice tomorrow

I saw this on the Star page about two seconds before reader Justin emailed it to me. It’s no guarantee…

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TRIVIA: O Canada

The last trivia question asked who the last pitchers were that faced each other three straight times. The answer was…

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Hardy wins it in extras on his day

J.J Hardy fans in attendance Sunday were rewarded twice–first with a J.J. bobblehead, and then Hardy driving in Rickie Weeks…

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Get Bradshaw off specials and into the backfield

Unless your name is Brian Mitchell, you ARE going to get injured returning kickoffs/punts and subsequently have your career shortened….

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We could count the hours now, if you’d like

We have only 5 more days until college football returns! Here’s Chimdi Chekwa, preparing to make a lot of hits…

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Roydell Williams: An endangered WR?

A lingering ankle injury has prevented veteran WR Roydell Williams from making much of an impact this preseason. The bothersome…

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Raiders Preseason game 3: Ballers & Busters

This was the third game of the preseason which is supposed to be the most telling game for how a…

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Transcript of Bob Costas’ Interview with IOC President Jacque Rogge

Because this occurred at halftime of the US-Spain gold medal basketball game during the overnight early Sunday morning, many of…

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Bagpipe Monday… Ice Dancing

The results are in for last weeks poll… 39% think Joe Tiller is a great big piece of shit. 32%…

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The Last Stand at Yankee Stadium

The Sox leave Toronto with a series win and head to the Big Apple (rotten to the core) for their…

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Ch ch ch ch Changes… Two Generations of Longballs Check Out the New CUB

As I am sure you are all aware, Cougar football Saturdays will be getting a face lift over the coming…

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Jed Lowrie is Today’s Hero

Bottom of the 1st, it looked as if the Sox pitching staff was still working Toronto BP as Dice-K gave…

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Book Preview: ‘The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty’ by Buster Olney

I’m only up to page 58, but oooh! This is a good one so far! One thing is fo’ shua~…

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RedsArmy.com Team Photo

The thing about being a blogger… you tend to be anonymous.  Well.. Chuck and I just got our new team…

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Questions… Questions… Questions…

Welcome to the part of the off-season where we forget the Celtics are defending champions and those seeds of doubt…

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Why the David Ross signing matters more than you think

David Ross, a 31-year old catcher, was released by the Cincinnati Reds last week and promptly signed a minor league…

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BOS 6, TOR 5: Lowrie impacts win

Jed Lowrie jumped on Brandon League’s 1-1 offering and lined it out of the park to right field giving Boston…

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Some Final Sunday Links

I’ll give you some final links as I’ve been editing my awards for Olympics coverage throughout the evening. From Tripp…

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Team Preview: Cincinnati Bengals

2007 Record: 7-9 Earlier this year, Marvin Lewis said that Chris Henry would never be a part of the Cincinnati…

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