Year: 2009
This Week’s Post in Which I Chastise Steve Simmons for Being a Dick and Doing No Research Whatsoever
Isn’t this fun? It’s become a weekly ritual to break down and destroy Simmons’ arguments. Or, as I like to…
Read more »Angelswin.com interview with PE.com Michael Becker
Interview conducted by Chuck Richter – Angelswin.com Executive Editor We recently caught up with the Angels beat writer for the…
Read more »Super Sunday or, EH?; Best of Lists Continue
Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Ready to watch Pittsburgh and Arizona settle things on the field? And as a Seahawks fan,…
Read more »Stupid Fans…
So last night I sat in my actual season ticket seat. I actually dread sitting there. I wish we could…
Read more »Red Sox Don’t Like Losing Dice-K to WBC
While the rest of the rotation gets ready in Ft. Myers Dice-K will be training with the Japanese National team….
Read more »Sabres 2, Coyotes 0
I don’t feel like writing much so here are some quick hits: I wish Jokinen had been invisible last night….
Read more »HERE WE GO
Yes, there’s a story about Andy LaRoche in the PG today. Somehow, though, I don’t think the Pirates are much…
Read more »Shocker! Joe Torre gets caught lying about A-Rod being A-Fraud
As several Squawker readers noted in our comments section yesterday, Joe Torre contradicted his own book regarding the use of…
Read more »Michael Phelps using bong at South Carolina Party
Puff Puff give….Mike-y Like-y….. Seems Super Mike was testing his lungs at a USC house party back in November. This…
Read more »Paw Prints – The Daily Roundup – 2/1
Just when the “Wanted” posters were about to go up on campus, UConn Huskies men’s basketball small forward Stanley “Sticks”…
Read more »The Varitek Signing Aftershock
When comparing Varitek to similar catchers of his caliber and taking todays economy into effect, this is just bad management on the Sox part. However, this is no longer here nor there, and I think every rational Sox fan agrees with this. The real question now is, how do the rest of the catchers stack up after this?
Not to belabor an already conspicuous thought, but with the games played incentive that was so generously added by Mr. John Henry & Co. and Tito Francona’s persistence on sticking with his veterans, one can safely presume that Varitek will get the vast majority of the at-bats coming from the catching position. So now the question becomes even more interesting, who gets the other fraction of the at-bats?
Read more »Wolves at Boston 02.01.09
Click here for the forum’s thread for tonight’s game at Boston Game previews: Associated Press Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune…
Read more »Live Super Bowl Blog
Demond and I will be listing our thoughts about XLIII tonight. If you want to join in, drop us an…
Read more »Wolves Updates 2/1
From Marc J Spears/Boston Globe: Houston center Yao Ming was voted in as the West’s starting center by the fans…
Read more »No KG, No Worries
Ok…I got worried when the T-Wolves cut a 20+ Celtics lead down to 6 late in the fourth. But Superman…
Read more »Johnny Would Have Been Proud
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu8Da3pe9h0] This is awesome for old school guys like me. All anyone else needs to know is that Johnny Most…
Read more »KG Out With The Flu
Comcast SportsNet just reported Kevin Garnett has the flu. He'll miss today's game and maybe Tuesday's game as well. We'll…
Read more »No Word On Perk
First, let me start by thanking the fine people at Tanqueray for the splitting headache I have this morning. Damn…
Read more »Perk Fined 10K
Kendrick Perkins was fined $10,000 today… but not suspended. Celtics center Kendrick Perkins said he was fined $10,000 by the…
Read more »Angelswin.com interview with Ryan Mount
By Chuck Richter – Angelswin.com Executive Editor Bats: Left Throws: Right 6’0’ 175 lbs. DOB: 8/17/1986Rancho Cucamonga (High-A): AVG-OBP-SLG: .290-.337-.512…
Read more »UConn Men Stake Claim To No. 1 With Rout Of Providence
The No. 2 UConn Huskies men’s basketball team hasn’t exactly played it’s best basketball against the Providence Friars in the…
Read more »UConn Women Start Slow, Run Past Georgetown 80-61
Tina Charles led five UConn Huskies in double figures with 17 points as they overcame their slow start to beat…
Read more »Carolina beats UK by 1 pt
Downey is the man. Another closing seconds win for South Carolina as they beat UK 78-77. Go ahead basket came…
Read more »Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2009
Bob Hayes – Dallas Cowboys wide receiverRandall McDaniel – Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Bucs guardBruce Smith – Buffalo Bill…
Read more »Bullet Bob Hayes Bound for Canton
The NFL announced today that “Bullet” Bob Hayes has been inducted in the the Pro Football Hall of Fame. After…
Read more »Big Game
Happy superbowl weekend to you, Cougar Nation! Hope you had a great week. Well today, we play the no-longer-Mildcats. After…
Read more »Links of the Day 1/31/09
If you aren’t a football fan, here are a few alternatives. Of course, if you don’t plan on watching the…
Read more »UConn Men Lose Okwandu To Academics
Updated:Declared Academically Ineligible: The UConn Huskies men’s basketball team will be down one player for the rest of the season…
Read more »Saturday Morning Links
Let’s give you some links this morning. They should be the last links before Super Bowl Sunday, but we’ll see….
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