Month: August 2008
Giant Rush
Last Sunday, after finally getting a chance to review the tape, ultimatenyg noticed that the Lions were doing a lot…
Read more »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)…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »Fall In Love With Big Baby All Over Again
Updated:One of the things that made this past season so enjoyable was that the players are so enjoyable. Aside from…
Read more »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…
Read more »TOR 4, BOS 1: Halladay goes the distance
Roy Halladay was simply Roy Halladay pitching a complete game – 8th of the season –
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »The Victoria Times Mailbag
Updated:The Victoria Times, as most of you are unaware, has an e-mail address, and even though none of you ever…
Read more »Book Review: Dirty Water – A Red Sox Mystery
Updated:Jere Smith from A Red Sox Fan in Pinstripe Territory sent me an advance copy the new book Dirty Water…
Read more »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,…
Read more »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,…
Read more »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…
Read more »Naturally, Ted Leonsis Would Be Pissed if You Contracted His Team
On Wednesday, Ross McKeon of Yahoo! (exclamation point required by law) filed his copy of Wyshynski’s “5 Ways I’d Change…
Read more »This Day In Red Sox History
August 16 1915: “Smoky” Joe Wood, shut-outs the visiting Nationals 1 – 0. The District lost all 11 games at…
Read more »Links of the Day 8/16/08
A pretty good take on that whole Spanish team picture from the Olympics from True Hoop. The EPL started it’s…
Read more »8/16: Debut, Take Two
Prev. Gm: Toronto Blue Jays (62-60) @ Boston Red Sox (70-51) Roy Halladay (13-9, 2.72) @ Paul Byrd (7-10, 4.53)…
Read more »Quickie Saturday Links
Updated:Today is one of those days where it’s technically the weekend, but I have to do so much work around…
Read more »FREEWAY SERIES AHEAD?
Angels, Dodgers Could Meet in Fall ClassicBy Adam Dodge – Angelswin.com Senior Writer For the Angels, it’s only a matter…
Read more »Running Backs Starting to Stagger
You really do want to stay positive. I mean it is just mid-August, and this is the time when you…
Read more »Beating a Dead Horse
If the AL East is a horse race then one horse is dead on the track: the New York Yankees….
Read more »Gameday: Cowboys @ Broncos
The Cowboys will get a good test tonight against the Broncos, and its expected that the Cowboys starters will play…
Read more »AP has the Buckeyes at #2
The poll just was released. Georgia is #1, barely ahead of Ohio State. Other Big-Ten teams ranked include Wisconsin (13),…
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