Articles by Alan Draper (246319)

The FREE Fantasy Football Challenge 2007 Update
Our Super-Crazy-Ultra-Free Contest is filling up fast. Eleven of the 20 available teams in our league are already in place….
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ERIC GAGNE TRADED TO RED SOX
5:16 PM A potential roster crunch was just solved … unfortunately. Brendan Donnelly is undergoing Tommy John surgery and will…
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Joel Pineiro traded to Cardinals
Joel Pineiro, who may have become the closer (although that wouldn’t have lasted very long) had Jonathan Papelbon elected to…
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Off Season Midterm Grades: The Winners
Read: “Winner”+ Boston accent. Last week, Batman and Robin helped tell you about the losers of the off season thus…
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The Last Mary Tyler Moore Show
Growing up as a kid in Rhode Island in the 1970’s, I’ll always remember the CBS Saturday night lineup including…
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Just say NO to Jermaine Dye!
Note: I’ll be obsessively tracking the the moves by Theo made (if any) today throughout the day. As soon as…
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Titans training camp report, Tuesday morning, July 31
Ken Stabler wrote in his autobiography Snake that training camps made leaf-raking look like an exciting occupation and that the…
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The Genius Passes
Farewell to Bill Walsh, the greatest coach of his generation, the greatest football mind of my lifetime. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2954719&campaign=rss&source=NFLHeadlines We stated…
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Keeping it Low
But you really can’t anymore. Check out this link: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=katz_andy&id=2954205 Put plain and simple: this upcoming year is going to…
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BREAKING NEWS – NHL RETURNING TO ESPN?
According to the Sports Media Watch blog, the NHL is talking to ESPN about picking up NBC’s portion of the…
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Primetime and Late Night Viewing Picks
Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia Phillies – ESPN, 7 p.m.How I Met Your Mother – CBS, 8 p.m.Hell’s Kitchen – Fox,…
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Monday Afternoon Links
Just got the sad news that former San Francisco 49er coach Bill Walsh died of leukemia. He was a pioneer…
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Still enjoying the Ride
When I woke up this morning, I made a promise to myself that I was going to go an entire…
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Mini Pony of the Day 7-30-07
Aw c’mon! Who’s the punk that’s leaving a mini horse all alone? I would never do such a thing. In…
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Big Ben’s Ex Wins First Tourney
Natalie Gulbis, the former Anna Kournikova of golf, won the Evian Masters in France. It was her first LPGA victory….
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Our Tribute to Kevin Garnett
What can I say? I’m absolutely devastated at the loss of Kevin Garnett. No amount of draft picks, “potential”, or…
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What Kind of Procedure/Surgery Did Santonio Holmes Have?
New poll time! Santonio Holmes has not disclosed the background of his “personal” injury. Supposedly, it was some kind of…
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Other Results From The Dave Littlefield Poll
The What is Dave Littlefield’s Legacy? poll has been up for too long, so its time for a new poll….
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Trade Jenkins? Turnbow?
Sigh…I made the mistake of listening to Heller & Murphy on ESPN 1070 Radio in Madison on Monday…I like them,…
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The Dumbest man alive
That’s it. Vic is officially insane. Today he questioned whether Marvin Harrison was going to the Hall of Fame because…
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The Monday Links
Back to work on a Monday. Had heavy rains here early in the morning, but they’re over now and we…
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Mike Lange Is Coming Back!…To Radio
Scratch my back with a hacksaw, Mike Lange is returning to the Penguins. I know this is semi-old news, but…
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Where did they hide that elephant in the room?
Corey Simon is missing. Seriously, he just didn’t show up and won’t tell anyone where he is. Hiiii–larious.http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070730/SPORTS03/707300359/1247/SPORTS Also, vote…
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Pacman To Wrestle?
Reports are surfacing that you can soon see Adam “Pacman” Jones in a wrestling ring. It will be the first…
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Titans positional analysis – cornerbacks
There’s an old debate whether quality or quantity is more important. The Titans may find out this year — they’ve…
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Play This. Part 2
So I posted the original version of this game about a week ago. Several people emailed and commented that they…
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Ice Cold Brew(ers)
Since today is an off day for the Crew, and I had a moment, I thought I’d look to see…
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Trade Deadline News And Notes
Other than Opening Day, unquestionably my favorite day of the regular season occurs on the last day of July. The…
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Bryan Burke and Kevin Lowe Are Like So Totally Not Talking Right Now
“Oh my gawd, Kevin Lowe is soooo dreamy.”HockeyTalk.biz On Friday, Anaheim GM Brian Burke spouted off in a media conference…
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