Year: 2009
Finals MVP Named After Russell
The man is the greatest champion in all of sports. He is the best player in Celtics history. He and…
Read more »Origins Of The “Big Balls” Dance
Basketbawful has uncovered the origins of the Sam Cassell "Big Balls" dance. And it comes from the movie "Major League…
Read more »Thoughts On Fixing All Star Saturday
So I processed what I saw from Phoenix yesterday… swished it around a little… and came up with a few…
Read more »The End
Terrible, Terrible, Gut-Wrenching Loss Tonight to the Beavs. We can say what we want about the many positive attributes of…
Read more »Jeff Reed arrested at Sheetz
Updated:Steelers kicker Jeff Reed was arrested early this morning at a Sheetz off of Route 22. Apparently, he was upset…
Read more »75-73 USC beats Bama
Holmes with a tip at the end of the game to lift USC over Bama. Another closing seconds win for…
Read more »I’m all Valentines Day’d out
Too much pink floating around today. I need to watch a hockey fight or something. Since I don’t want to…
Read more »Picture of the Year: Jaguars Game
Car problems have delayed me from doing much around here lately. Today’s poll comes from the Jaguars game back at…
Read more »A Valentine’s Day letter
Dear Bill, I knew from the moment you started as the Twins GM that you were the GM for me….
Read more »Thabeet Dominates For UConn In Win Over Seton Hall
Is there any big man in the country playing any better than Hasheem Thabeet right now. Thabeet narrowly missed a…
Read more »Angels sign Ervin Santana to four-year deal
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP)—Right-hander Ervin Santana and the Los Angeles Angels agreed to a four-year contract worth about $30 million on…
Read more »Do you smell that? IT’S THE SPRING
Updated:Today is the first day of official workouts at Pirate City and I feel like an overstimulated little kid reading…
Read more »Mason Back and Ready..
It was clear that members of the Detroit Red Wings had an agenda last night. Go big and aim for…
Read more »Links of the Day 2/14/09
Updated:Happy Valentine’s Day, here are some old links. About time the FBI got around to checking things like this out…
Read more »USC faces Bama
Time for the gamecocks to ‘man-up’ as they enter mid Februay tied for the SEC East division lead, the Gamecocks…
Read more »Happy Valentine’s Day: Here’s Livan Hernandez
Last year, when the Twins traded Johan Santana to the Mets, they replaced him in the rotation with Livan Hernandez….
Read more »Dr. Strangeglove
My local paper did some research on the best-ever negative baseball nickname now that people are focusing on all the…
Read more »SEC Hoops Power Poll Round Table
As many of you know by now LOHD is part of the SEC Power Poll Blog Network. From time to…
Read more »The Blogging All-Stars Make All-Star Predictions
Updated:All-Star weekend is here and it’s the weekend for the Damon Jones appearances, the Barkely vs. Bavetta foot races and more ‘Bron-Howard-Shaq danceoffs….
Read more »Week 6 SEC Basketball Power Poll
SEC Basketball Power Poll is up at http://www.garnetandblackattack.com/ so check it out by clicking HERE. This was my ballot for…
Read more »Ellsbury Bulked Up During Offseason
Wondering where the power might come from without Manny’s bat? Look to the big guy playing center. Jacoby Ellsbury spent…
Read more »TAH-NOO-TAH!!! Eats Baby Rabbits…
TAH-NOO-TAH say, “Te’o no Katzenmoyer, but still will rip your intestines out.” Tenutas vision of the defense @ Rivals Video…
Read more »Paw Prints – The Daily Roundup – 2/14
It’s game day for the No. 1 UConn Huskies men’s basketball team as they are in Newark, NJ at the…
Read more »The dreaded transition period
36 home runs surrendered (ridiculous), an increase in walks (74), and a 5.01 ERA (although the defense wasn’t exactly helping too much that season), were all contributions to a year in which Josh Beckett wasn’t exactly proud of (nor were we after giving up Hanley Ramirez AND watching Anibel Sanchez throw a “No-No”).
But I firmly believe that an abundance of fastballs was also a contributing factor to his lack of success.
Wolves Updates 2/14
Jonah Ballow/Timberwolves site surveys some of the Wolves for their All-Star predictions. Kelly Dwyer/Ball Don’t Lie on the rookie of…
Read more »The Sights and Sounds of Spring Training
Not exactly the most exciting thing in the world but “Play Ball!” can’t be far away. Fenway West- The Western…
Read more »The Final NFL Power Ranks
Better late than never right? I usually have been posting the weekly power ranks every Tuesday after the week’s games,…
Read more »Robinson A Hall of Fame Finalist
16 Hall of Fame finalists have been selected, and our very own David Robinson is one of them. One of…
Read more »Wow, Scal Made The All Star Game!
Holy CRAP! When the hell did Brian Scalabrine make the All Star game? And how come I didn't know he…
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