Year: 2009
Petty might be on his way back to Columbia
Per The State newspaper Phil Petty might be coming back to USC as the new QB Coach. Petty is currently coaching…
Read more »An Open Letter to Sidney Crosby
An open letter to Sidney Crosby My dear Sidney Crosby, you seem a bit stressed out as of late. Now,…
Read more »Preview of Tonight’s Damages
This is Ellen meeting with two FBI agents telling them she wants to take Patty Hewes down. Looking forward to…
Read more »Boston-area resource for baseball books
Nothing too substantive here, but a definite find for anyone in the Boston area. In Burlington, MA, about a 5…
Read more »Ask Mel Thomas A Question For A Chance To Win Her New Book “Heart of a Husky”
Updated:Attention UConn Huskies women’s basketball fans!!! Would like you a chance to ask former Husky great Mel Thomas a question…
Read more »What should Mark Teixeira’s home run call be?
Updated:Now that Mark Teixeira is officially a Yankee, it’s time to figure out something important. No, not where he should…
Read more »The Mid-Week Links
I’ll give you some links today then do some work. Before I get to that, I have some self plugs….
Read more »VOTE FOR HHR!
Updated:Non-sports story real quick. Take a minute and vote for my buds over at Hugging Harold Reynolds. They’re up for…
Read more »Total Titans Q&A exchange with a Ravens writer
Titans fans, I’ll be asking one of the writers from Ravens Roost, MVN’s Baltimore Ravens site, to participate in a…
Read more »Mini Pony of the Day 1-7-09
Updated:Aaahhhh! Mutant mini horse! But the little freak is still the cutest mutant alive! Even cuter than these links: Some…
Read more »Published Votes Are Bad News For Rice
Over at Home Run Derby they have calculated the votes for all baseball writers that have published their picks for…
Read more »Maurice Jones Drew – Crazy Man
I hate the off-season. I hate that the season didn’t last one more week. I thought San Diego would be…
Read more »Paw Prints – The Daily Roundup – 1/7
For fans of the UConn Huskies women’s basketball team, I will have a special opportunity involving a former Husky coming…
Read more »I like the new digs
Well, my Spanish Galleons, Loser Domi here. I’ve been a star commenter around these parts. I’ve even guest posted a…
Read more »Joe DeCamillis Named New Special Teams Coach
Could this be the beginning of more changes coming to Dallas. Change seems to be the word of the year…
Read more »Cleveland Cavaliers now officially best in the NBA
Well, at least by the standings; Cleveland – 27-6 LA Lakers – 27-6 Boston – 29-7 By percentage points, the…
Read more »Good news for Giants fans: Robbins is ready
Updated:Yesterday, Fred Robbins spoke on his blog for the first time in 3 weeks. If you read #98’s comments this…
Read more »Wolves Updates 1/7
Click here for the forum’s thread for tonight’s game against OKC Game previews: Associated Press Brian Stensaas/Star Tribune From Brian…
Read more »Beating the Ravens’ defense 101: The Giant formula
Updated:This weekend, the Tennessee Titans will be faced with the stiff challenge of overcoming one of the league’s best defensive…
Read more »Using xBABIP and IF/F to predict some Sox’s 2009 numbers
A month ago, Chris Dutton and Peter Bendix collaborated together to come up with a new statistic — xBABIP. For batters, a .300 BABIP is not a reliable benchline (as it is for pitchers), nor is there one standard benchline across all batters. They have to be personalized, which Dutton and Bendix did.
David Ortiz looks to be in line for a monster regression to the mean… except in this case, regression is a good thing. You can expect a .300 average as a reasonable forecast next year for Big Papi.
Check out the numbers behind the reasoning for Big Papi, plus some interesting numbers on Jason Bay, Julio Lugo and others…
Read more »A simple question
So I’m sitting here watching the MLB Network tonight (featuring Trenni Kusnierek, who’s probably more popular among long-time WHYGAVS readers…
Read more »143
O.M.G. I think the Coyotes missed the memo that there was a game tonight. I honestly can’t write anything right…
Read more »Oakland Raiders 08 Season Ballers
After yet another rough season for the Silver and Black, it is now time to put together the list of…
Read more »Wolves 94, Grizzlies 87
Updated:Wolves record: 9-25 Box Score Chris Herrington/Beyond The Arc live blogged the game From Phil Miller/Pioneer Press: The Wolves aren’t…
Read more »UConn Men Win In Morgantown By Six Points
No .5 UConn Huskies head coach Jim Calhoun said that he expected all 18 games in the Big East to…
Read more »UConn Women Open Up Big East With Rout Of USF
The No.1 UConn Huskies women’s team is supposed to have an easy time during Big East play this season. South…
Read more »Seriously… 6 Minutes?
Just curious, Doc Rivers, as to why Gabe Pruitt only got 6 minutes of burn while Ray Allen and Rajon…
Read more »Darius Is Available Again
Just sayin' MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis Grizzlies waived forward Darius Miles, who was trying to make a comeback…
Read more »Shut. Up.
The Celtics were on the precipice of building a lead… maybe into pulling away… when Paul Pierce drove to the…
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