Month: August 2008
With Monday’s Olympics Ratings Down, NBC Moves To Something Else
NBC’s ratings for Day 10 of the Olympics were down, but still solid. The Sports Media Watch says last night’s…
Read more »Yaz in Hospital
Carl Yastrzemski was admitted to Mass General hospital this morning after experiencing discomfort an chest pains. He will turn 69…
Read more »8/19: Suddenly Road Warriors
Prev. Gm: Boston Red Sox (72-53) @ Baltimore Orioles (60-64) Daisuke Matsuzaka 14-2, 2.74) @ Daniel Cabrera (8-7, 4.78) 7:05…
Read more »Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks
MLBRed Sox at Baltimore – NESN/MASN, 7 p.m.New York Yankees at Toronto – YES/Rogers Sportsnet, 7 p.m.Anaheim at Tampa Bay…
Read more »Team Preview: Tennessee Titans
2007 Record: 10-6 Vince Young wins games. Let’s just clear the air on that. Over the past two seasons, Tennessee…
Read more »Big(foot) Ben?
Early last week, there were rumors of a Bigfoot body found in Georgia. Any mention of supposed mythical creatures being…
Read more »New Monday Night Football Open Lyrics
From the ESPN press release announcing the return of Hank Williams, Jr. to Monday Night Football, the Alleged Worldwide Leader…
Read more »Some Tuesday Linkage
Time for some linkage on this Tuesday. Starting with Sports Business Daily/Journal’s Olympics website, Tripp Mickle and David Broughton write…
Read more »The Eighth Inning
Lester cruises through seven, if the Red Sox can just get to Paps the game will be over. This scenario…
Read more »It’s Official. Mad Dog to Sirius XM
The announcement was made on the Howard Stern show this morning and shortly after that, the press release was out….
Read more »Mini Pony of the Day 8-19-08
Updated:Little dude looks like he needs a friend. I’ll let Roy Norris, the owner of the blog I found the…
Read more »Tuesday Ramblings – What Could Have Been
It’s easy to do, pondering what could have been. We do it all the time, in every walk of life….
Read more »Peyton shows, Floria screwed, White confused
Peyton showed up at Colts practice today, and appeared to walking fine. All this seriously screws the imbecile Mike Floria…
Read more »Injury Report from Browns game
Brandon London, Terrell Thomas, tho not implied to be serious
Read more »POLL: If the Sox are to catch the Rays, who’s the key?
In the latest edition of the Firebrand poll, we asked: Cool Standings has the Red Sox with an 83.8% chance…
Read more »Preseason mid-term grades for the 2008 Titan draft class
With two preseason games already in the books, some of the rookies from the Titans 2008 draft pool have already…
Read more »This one goes to 11
11 days left! I do love these countdowns. Anthony Gonzalez first showed up on a Buckeye highlight reel when Ted…
Read more »CC writes same story in 9-3 win
Another day, same story. Monday evening, CC Sabathia got the start against the Astros, his 9th since joining the Brewers. …
Read more »Santi ready to go
In good news for the Peyton Manning watch, rookie TE Tom Santi has been declared ready to practice. He is…
Read more »Power Outage?
Since coming to Boston, Jason Bay has been more than warmly received. His smooth swing is balanced by a persistent…
Read more »Blogpoll Revisited
After a long hard look at my first ballot for the blogpoll and after watching a string of injuries, arrests,…
Read more »Wolves Weekly: New Uniforms Unveiled
It’s a monumental day to be a Wolves fan, as today was the unveiling of the new Minnesota Timberwolves jerseys….
Read more »Lester and Bay Deliver
The Red Sox needed a good win today after the disaster yesterday and they got one thanks to Jon Lester…
Read more »Monday Night Stuff
Time for another update. I’ll start with Neil Best of Newsday who tells us that Sirius XM Satellite Radio will…
Read more »Get Well Yaz
Carl Yastrzemski is in the hospital with chest pains. Here's hoping he'll be ok. Yaz was my favorite player as…
Read more »NBC Decides To Talk About Everything, But Sunday’s Ratings
The NBC public relations department is very good at finding ways to promote the ratings for the Olympics. It’s using…
Read more »New York Giants defeat Cleveland Browns 37-34 in preseason
The Giants first team punched the Browns in the mouth the first half. They physically dominated them, and the score…
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