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Wolves Updates 5/10
Myles Brown/SLAM Online discusses with The Rake’s Britt Robson "the sibling rift between accredited journalists and their blogging brethren along…
Read more Does The Spurs Playoff Roster Only Show 5 Players?
Last time I checked, the Spurs had more than 5 players on the playoff roster right? Since games 1-3, I’ve…
Read more How will the Titans use Jason Jones?
Several days before the draft, DE Phillip Merling was the guy I hoped the Titans would select at #24. DT…
Read more Tonight’s Lineup 5/9 at Minnesota
Ellsbury, CFPedroia, 2BOrtiz, DHRamirez, LFLowell, 3BYoukilis, 1BDrew, RFVaritek, CLugo, SS Lester, P Fenway West- The Western Home to Red Sox…
Read more Smoking Aces
By Chuck Richter – Angelswin.com Executive Editor Going into the season most thought John Lackey and Kelvim Escobar would be…
Read more NHL – Dallas vs. Detroit, Game 1 Highlights
Here are the highlights from last night’s Western Conference Finals, Game 1 between Dallas and Detroit. Mike Emrick had the…
Read more Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks
MLB New York Yankees at Tigers – YES/FSN Detroit, 7 p.m.Toronto at Cleveland – Rogers Sportsnet/STO, 7 p.m.Anaheim at Tampa…
Read more USC Baseball faces a big weekend series
USC (34-15) travels to ARK-kanas (28-20, 10-13) for a crucial weekend series in Baum Stadium, Fayetteville, Ark. This weekend’s series…
Read more Other Philadelphia Statues To Deface
What with all the furor over who is going to deface (or already has defaced) the Rocky statue in Philly,…
Read more Tonight, ESPN Will Change the Way We Look at Hockey Commentating
Mmm… Grapes. The day is here folks. In a way, it almost seems as if the apocalypse as we know…
Read more Preview of Real Sports for May 12, 2008
Another edition of Real Sports runs this Monday. I’ll have a real time review when it airs. But here are…
Read more Horn and Deloach break up
What started out as a perfect marriage is over. Just kidding but it seems that Horn is settling in nicely…
Read more A Friday Megalink Day
Let’s give you the Friday media links. It’s another busy weekend for both viewing and awards as the New England…
Read more Richie Sexson Proves He Still Can’t Hit
I know its not the Sox but Richie Sexson killed my fantasy team last year with his awful hitting and…
Read more 5/9: We can’t lose to a guy named Boof can we?
Prev. Gm: Boston Red Sox (23-14) @ Minnesota Twins (17-16) Jon Lester (2-2, 3.94) @ Boof Bonser (2-4, 4.29) 8:10…
Read more Links of the Day 5/9/08
I’m of the opinion that baseball fights are awesome. Two things: the announcers AND Eduardo Perez said that the pitch…
Read more Casey and Cora Feed The Paw Sox
Sean Casey and Alex Cora have honored the tradition of feeding the team during their rehab assignments in Pawtucket. Cora…
Read more Hoiberg to represent Wolves at lottery
From Charley Walters/Pioneer Press: Timberwolves assistant GM Fred Hoiberg will represent the team at the NBA draft lottery on May…
Read more Wolves Updates 5/9 Part 2
Mike Trudell/Timberwolves site chats with Ryan Gomes about the offseason, his teammates, and the upcoming birth of his daughter (audio)….
Read more Classic Mini Pony of the Day 5-9-08
(originally published on 5-9-07) I understand that MPotD stands for mini pon-y of the day. Singular. Yet there are times…
Read more If You Can’t Win, Fight
When you score 1 run in your last 32 innings(!), you are bound to be frustrated. So what the hell?…
Read more Back-to-back sweeps and a sleep strike
Well with that 7-2 debacle in Miami last night, the Brewers finished up their road trip 2-7 including six straight…
Read more TRIVIA: Yay for bad OBP
First, the previous trivia: Tom A was right with his answer of Williamsburg to the question of: “The bullpens at…
Read more In Praise of the best New York Giants Defensive End of All Time- Michael Strahan
I started to comment to Cody in the previous post and it quickly became obvious that this two sentence reply…
Read more Marlins finish sweep of Brewers, 7-2
The Brewers lost the series finale to the Marlins Thursday night, 7-2. The loss marks six straight defeats for the…
Read more 3 Point Shooting Spurs San Antonio to Victory
San Antonio was facing down a tough challenge in game 3, and as it turns out, they really are up…
Read more Sox Start A New Win Streak
Josh Beckett quickly made everyone forget about yesterday’s loss with a dominating performance. He went 7 innings striking out 8…
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