Articles by Alan Draper (246303)

Paw Prints – The Daily Roundup – 10/11

The extra conditioning work in the offseason is paying off for Donald Brown and Darius Butler. Former UConn Huskies men’s…

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George Young speaks

This week, Plaxico Burress came back. (Pat Hanlon, quoting the late) George Young: “We are not in the business of…

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Dice-K, luck lead Sox to 2-0 win; Boston leads the series 1-0

Welcome to October, Tampa Bay. The Rays and their fans, who created an atmosphere like that of a cicada-infestation with…

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Seeing Clearly

Hey, it’s Saturday so that means Eyes in the Backfield is ready. Did you like how I just tacitly admitted…

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Wolves Updates 10-11

From Travis Heath/Hoopsworld: As for all of the talk about Love’s weight, he admitted he has put on a few…

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Marty Brodeur’s Answer to Carey Price’s SOTY

Marty Brodeur must have been pissed off watching us all crown Carey Price’s stick save as the save of the…

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Preseason: Wolves 95, Nuggets 118

Wolves preseason record: 2-1 Box Score From Pat Graham/Associated Press: Al Jefferson grabbed 11 rebounds and scored 10 points for…

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Rays Fan Gets Ejected For Too Much Cowbell

Even security at the Trop gets annoyed at the cowbell. From the Heater: Andy Munkittrick, 27, came out of the…

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Houdini Does It Again

Dice-K looked like he was going to have another short outing after getting a little wild and loading the bases…

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7th Inning Stretch

I prefer NY’s Irish Tenor doing God Bless America over David Archuleta (who?), but in the land of retirees, I…

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Thank you, Star Tribune

I am back home for a couple days for a friends’ wedding (which means that I actually am blogging from…

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Narragansett Beer

My Uncle Mickey used to own a ‘packy’ in RI. That’s a package store, or a liquor store, for those…

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Sleepness nights returns to The BBC

This blog was founded because yours truly was unable to sleep one night before an Ohio State game 2 years…

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Pierce Leaves Game With Neck Injury

Paul Pierce was mugged by Ron Artest on the way to the hole in the first quarter… and ended up…

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CSN Drops Cousy

Comcast SportsNet has let Bob Cousy go.  There's no doubt in my mind that this is some kind of cost-cutting…

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I Can Get Used To This

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFgyOWHB5pg] That was one of the big highlights last night…. but the man of the hour, really, was Tony Allen….

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Swagger

Am I the only one who sees/feels/senses the Celtics' swagger this year? I know we are just two games into…

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Bring The Crazy

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD796H08J7w] Ron Artest and the Houston Rockets are in town tonight (actually, in Manchester, NH).  The Rockets are still trying…

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The TBS Slant

It’s been noted in various posts and subsequent comments that the TBS game analysis is biased against the Sox. Buck…

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Frank and the Bloggers

I think Frank is on to the scribes. There’s been no shortage of posts on various blogs, no shortage of…

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Enjoy The Game

I’ll be back with an update after the game, for live updates during the game check out Eric Ortiz’s blog…

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Rays Bar Stocks Narragansett Beer For Sox Fans

I hope security at the Trop has the safety off their tasers tonight because the fans representing Red Sox may…

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Site News: Cool-Ass Interview Coming

Next week, I’ll be bringing you a pretty badass video interview with an awesoMe personality in the sports world. I…

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Rays Lineup For Game 1 of ALCS

Akinori Iwamura 2BB J Upton CFCarlos Pena 1BEvan Longoria 3BCarl Crawford LFCliff Floyd DHDioner Navarro CGabe Gross RFJason Bartlett SS…

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Red Sox Lineup for Game 1 of ALCS

Jacoby Ellsbury, CF Dustin Pedroia, 2B David Ortiz, DH Kevin Youkilis, 3B J.D. Drew, RF Jason Bay, LF Mark Kotsay,…

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The Trop in the Post-Season: Everyone’s Nightmare

The bad lighting, the awful acoustics, fans with cowbells; what’s not to like about the Trop? When game one gets…

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Your Obligatory (and Belated) Pre-Season Prediction Post

Snowcrest.net Well as you probably know, we’re not shy about writing up those posts that everyone and their dog also…

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Links of the Day 10/10/08

I would have thought, of all the Twin Cities radio personalities, I would have thought it Tom Bernard that would…

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Red Sox Nation Invades Tampa Bay

Rays fans are not even safe in their own local watering hole. Will it be the same story at the…

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