Articles by Alan Draper (246303)
Jason Bay will wear #44
In the press conference today Jason Bay said it was slim pickins for numbers with the Sox and Eric Davis…
Read more Craig Smith Undergoes Knee Surgery
From the Timberwolves site: The Minnesota Timberwolves today announced forward Craig Smith underwent successful arthroscopic surgery to repair a meniscus…
Read more Lowell to Bat Clean-Up
Extra Bases is reporting that Mike Lowell with be the clean-up hitter for the Sox with Jason Bay batting 5th….
Read more Big Recruit Signs – Damario Jeffery
Per Gamecockcentral.com, Columbia (S.C.) four-star safety Damario Jeffery had offers from coast to coast, including tenders from almost every SEC…
Read more Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks
MLBOakland at Red Sox – KICU/NESN, 7 p.m.Anaheim at New York Yankees – FSN West/WWOR, 7 p.m.Detroit at Tampa Bay…
Read more Will Schilling Give Up #38 For Bay?
Jason Bay was number 38 in Pittsburgh and there is no word yet on what number he is going to…
Read more HBO’s Hard Knocks Returns August 6
HBO SPORTS, NFL FILMS AND “AMERICA’S TEAM” JOIN FORCES FOR A NEW SEASON OF THE ULTIMATE REALITY SERIES WHEN HARD…
Read more 8/1: Baywatch
Prev. Gm: Oakland Athletics (53-54) @ Boston Red Sox (61-48) Justin Duchscherer (10-7, 2.37) @ Tim Wakefield (6-8, 3.94) 7:05…
Read more Hockey Players are mysteriously sexy.
Other Amy McCarthy pictures contained decidedly more nipple Pictured at left is Amy McCarthy, sister of Jenny McCarthy and wife…
Read more Wolves Updates 8/1 Part 2
Lyndal Scranton/News-Herald on Blake Ahearn: Ahearn appeared in 12 games last season as a rookie with the injury-depleted Miami Heat,…
Read more What a difference a year makes
This time one year ago, I had just moved into an apartment and was trying to get my cable set…
Read more Peter Gammons Gives Some Insight Into Manny Trade
Peter Gammons has a new blog post up where he shows that Red Sox executives believed Manny was done for…
Read more Manny’s Sportscenter Commercial
Looks like ESPN has to call Manny back to change into a Dodger uniform for the commercial they made last…
Read more The 2K Decade – How the Pac-10 Has Fared
There were some interesting comments to come out of our own Rooster’s picks from Monday. Misguided as some of them…
Read more Rivals gives us the full college football rankings
Rivals has finally completed their rankings. I first spotted them last night during a particularly nasty bout of insomnia. But…
Read more Posts that have no sports-based theme at all
Like this one…. Sorry, I had to do it. Too funny not to. But while I’m here, it’s down to…
Read more Series Preview: Brewers (60-49) @ Braves (50-58)
The Crew heads out on the road, starting with three games in Atlanta against the Braves. Jeff Suppan, the only…
Read more Bradshaw the jailbird
More ongoings at camp gmen. Just when you thought the Bradshaw situation was going to resolve itself and fade away…
Read more Turn the Page
It’s hard to remember a longer week in recent Red Sox memory. It seems like ages since the Red Sox…
Read more Time To Turn The Page, Up Next: Oakland
Baseball does not stop in mid-season, even for Manny so it is time to look at the road ahead for…
Read more West Coast Tube Tied in August
Not a whole lot of Sox on national TV this month: Fri, 1 Aug v. OAK, KICU, 4:05 pmSat, 2…
Read more Hansen and Moss are Gone, Who’s Up Next?
Quick look at who is lurking down in Pawtucket.Last week I wrote about knuckleballer Charlie Zink who is now 13-3,…
Read more JR Giddens Is REALLY Happy To Be Here
JR Giddens hasn't even officially been signed yet… but he's thrilled to be part of the team. Not only that……
Read more Wolves Updates 8/1
From Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune: On the one-year anniversary of the blockbuster trade that sent Kevin Garnett to Boston and reshaped…
Read more Who is Jason Bay?
I have always had a warm spot in my baseball heart for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first game I ever…
Read more DL Shuffling, What it Really Means
We’re getting reports from camp that there are some defensive line shuffling, mainly between Jay Ratliff and Marcus Spears. If…
Read more LA Times Dodger’s Blog Misses Biggest News Of The Season
This is sad when bloggers are paid to cover a team and are one of the last places to report…
Read more Angelswin.com Prospect Hotlist (Week of July 28th)
Sean Rodriguez and Brandon Wood are the top 2 in this week’s Hotlist By David Saltzer – Angelswin.com Columnist Once…
Read more The Show is Over, Manny has Left the Building
It’s finally over. Sportswriters and broadcasters everywhere are questioning the Ramirez/Bay trade with most lumping the Sox into their loser…
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