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TOR 15, BOS 4: Beckett blasted in start

Josh Beckett could not get through 3 innings of work in his start against the Blue Jays giving up 10…

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Wolves Updates 8/18

From Sid Hartman: Starting today and continuing for two weeks, the Timberwolves will have nine of their top players —…

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Jays Take Red Sox Behind the Woodshed

Josh Beckett started to dig a massive hole for the Red Sox by giving up 8 runs in 2 1/3…

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Cowboys 13 Broncos 23 Thoughts

The game was blacked out for me, and attempting to watch the game online didn’t cut it for me. After…

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A few of the typically less memorable moments with Mike and the Dog

Well, Mushnick did not do a top 10 list of Mike and the Dog’s rudest and lowest moments, but we’ll…

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Team Preview: San Diego Chargers

2007 Record: 11-5 San Diego’s 11-5 record last season was less reflective of their success than their run to the…

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This bugs me

OK, so maybe a little pun there. But this post from Bugs and Cranks irritates me, partly because I respectfully…

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Irish Backs Go Marching By…

Irish running backs at practice.

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Beckett Gets Shelled

Josh Beckett did not get out of the third inning; he went 2 1/3 innings, his shortest outing of the…

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Today’s Lineup 8/17 vs. the Jays

Today is Dustin Pedroia’s 25th Birthday. Ellsbury CFPedroia 2BOrtiz DHYoukilis 1BDrew RFBay LFLowrie 3BCora SSVaritek C Beckett SP Fenway West-…

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This Day in Red Sox History

August 17 1904: In South Side Park, lefty Jesse Tannehill gets a no-hit shutout of his brother Lee and the…

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Links of the Day 8/17/08

Michael Phelps is a strong swimmer.Tom Bergeron will never think highly of the Twin Cities ever again. A great take…

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Miles Austin Injury Implications

I haven’t watched the game yet, so I’ll have to give my analysis of the game later today, but the…

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Giant Rush

Last Sunday, after finally getting a chance to review the tape, ultimatenyg noticed that the Lions were doing a lot…

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8/17: Let’s get back to winning

Prev. Gm: Toronto Blue Jays (63-60) @ Boston Red Sox (70-52) Shaun Marcum (7-5, 3.42) @ Josh Beckett (11-8, 3.92)…

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J.J. paces Crew to 4-3 win

J.J. Hardy won’t forget Saturday night’s game for awhile. First he hit a 2-run shot in the top of the…

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Brews lose first in LA, 5-3

The Brewers dropped the first game against the Dodgers Friday night, 5-3.  Manny Parra struggled, allowing 5 ER’s over 4…

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Byrd Delivers, Offense Doesn’t

The Red Sox acquired Paul Byrd to give them outings like he did tonight: 7 1/3 innings, 4 runs, no…

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Pictures from the Open House

View from Line Mueller and JokinenMueller Jokinen I didn’t get any shots of Doan. He was at one end and…

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This Guy’s Alright

So Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal tonight.  And he did it in front of Kobe Bryant, who was in the…

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Kobe Still Thinks He’s a GM

  Everyone knows the Lakers flat-out stole Pau Gasol from the Memphis Grizzlies (Kwame Brown, Jarvis Crittendon, 2 first-round picks…

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TOR 4, BOS 1: Halladay goes the distance

Roy Halladay was simply Roy Halladay pitching a complete game – 8th of the season –

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The only addition by subtraction..

done in the past year was cutting Luke Petitgout. Not that Ultimatenyg had it figured out or anything. The reason…

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Wolves Updates 8/17

Chris Murray/Reno Gazette-Journal on Kirk Snyder:  Snyder’s agent, Chris Emens, said his client has been contacted by five or six…

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Team Preview: Denver Broncos

2007 Record: 7-9 Denver was one of the league enigmas last year. They put forward solid performances and won games…

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The root of Titan passing woes: Vince or the receivers?

Many of us sat in anguish as we watched Vince Young’s not so stellar 4-of-13 passing performance last night. During…

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Tonight’s Red Sox Lineup 8/16 vs. the Jays

Jacoby Ellsbury, CF Dustin Pedroia, 2B David Ortiz, DH Kevin Youkilis, 3B J.D. Drew, RF Jason Bay, LF Jed Lowrie,…

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NBC Is Crowing Again

Here’s another NBC press release on the total viewers, although the ratings for Friday primetime were down from Saturday. Yesterday,…

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Boston Continues To Improve Farm System

Baseball America pointed out that the Red Sox are serious about the long term success of the franchise by spending…

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