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…
Read moreGeorge Young speaks
This week, Plaxico Burress came back. (Pat Hanlon, quoting the late) George Young: “We are not in the business of…
Read moreDice-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…
Read moreSeeing Clearly
Hey, it’s Saturday so that means Eyes in the Backfield is ready. Did you like how I just tacitly admitted…
Read moreWolves 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…
Read moreMarty 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…
Read morePreseason: 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…
Read moreRays 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…
Read moreHoudini Does It Again
Dice-K looked like he was going to have another short outing after getting a little wild and loading the bases…
Read more7th Inning Stretch
I prefer NY’s Irish Tenor doing God Bless America over David Archuleta (who?), but in the land of retirees, I…
Read moreThank you, Star Tribune
I am back home for a couple days for a friends’ wedding (which means that I actually am blogging from…
Read moreNarragansett Beer
My Uncle Mickey used to own a ‘packy’ in RI. That’s a package store, or a liquor store, for those…
Read moreSleepness 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…
Read morePierce 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…
Read moreCSN Drops Cousy
Comcast SportsNet has let Bob Cousy go. There's no doubt in my mind that this is some kind of cost-cutting…
Read moreI 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….
Read moreBring 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…
Read moreThe TBS Slant
It’s been noted in various posts and subsequent comments that the TBS game analysis is biased against the Sox. Buck…
Read moreFrank and the Bloggers
I think Frank is on to the scribes. There’s been no shortage of posts on various blogs, no shortage of…
Read moreEnjoy The Game
I’ll be back with an update after the game, for live updates during the game check out Eric Ortiz’s blog…
Read moreRays 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…
Read moreSite 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…
Read moreRays 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…
Read moreRed 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,…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreYour 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…
Read moreLinks 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…
Read moreRed 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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