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Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks

MLBNew York Yankees at Toronto – YES/Rogers Sportsnet, 7 p.m.Atlanta at New York Mets – Peachtree TV/SNY, 7 p.m.Washington at…

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TRIVIA: Three straight starts against pitcher

The last trivia question asked “What actor paid $93,500 for the game-winning baseball that rolled between the legs of Boston…

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Red Sox Sign Backup Catcher

The Red Sox have signed catcher David Ross to a minor league deal, he will be the third string catcher…

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One big question…

For those who have been following the freakout in the comments section over at Stampedeblue over the report that Manning…

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News from USC – now it’s just getting uncomfortable

Seriously, I wish I were making this all up….but I’m not. Most of us who love college football enough to…

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Site News

Please forgive the notable absence of a legit post today. Work has been stressing me out, and I’m currently working…

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NBC Sports to Televise Lots of Swimming Over the Next Four Years

Call it the Michael Phelps effect. Now that swimming brought in ratings gold for the first eight days of the…

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It’s a Thursday Linkage Thing

As I’m trying to watch the USA-Brazil gold medal women’s soccer game through NBCOlympics.com, but the video keeps buffering and…

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What Does Buchholz Departure Mean For the Rotation.

With Clay Buchholz in Portland the Red Sox rotation now includes: Beckett, Byrd, Dice-K, Lester, and Wake. Since they demoted…

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Bullpen

I know this was a long time ago, but remember back when the snow was on the ground and we…

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Sox Sign Ross, Lane

While not major moves, the Red Sox front office continues to prepare the roster for September call up season adding…

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Sports Illustrated’s Top 10 players in the Big Ten

You’re going to love this list, and I have no reason to quarrel with it; 10) Curtis Painter, QB –…

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Eichelberger Key to ’08 D?

While we mostly lament the defensive tackle situation as the likely “soft spot” on the defense, and the praise mainly…

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Pick-Em Shirts 2008

I can make all of these shirts (except the dog shirt) in XXXL and in a women’s shirt as well….

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Gene Upshaw, suffering from pancreatic cancer, is dead at 63

This may break the logjam with rookie salaries. The NFL will be polite and honor the 7 time Pro Bowler…

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Steelers sign Farrior to a long-term deal

Steelers.com broke the news this morning. Five more years of James Farrior. I guess this means that Foote’s days are…

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Team Preview: Indianapolis Colts

2007 Record: 13-3 Coming off their Super Bowl Championship in 2006, the Colts expected big things from their team. When…

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WRs, TEs, RBs

1) Maybe it is time to STOP drafting Wide Receivers. For one year?! Granted that we pulled a Ryan Grant…

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Joe Paterno – Creepy-Old-Guy, or Pants-Pooper?

This is the Big Ten Network’s latest promo commercial, featuring all 11 coaches of the league. Watch it and tell…

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Wrigleyville

I’m not going to get into my experience in the bleachers last night. It would just be too easy. I’ve…

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Three amazing Buckeyes days to go!

Folks, we’re into single digits finally….there’s only 9 days left before kickoff! The countdown we have been running has been…

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Brews bounce back, win rubber match, 5-2

The Brewers and Manny Parra took the rubber match Wednesday afternoon, 5-2, thanks to early run support for Parra, as…

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Sheets, Crew lose to Astros, 5-2

Ben Sheets threw 96 pitches–66 for strikes–on Tuesday. But it was the strike that Geoff Blum smacked for a 3-run…

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Titans break camp with dizzy bat race

One of my favorite days at training camp is the last one. As camp progresses, things start to get more…

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2008 Preseason Blogpoll Is Released

The preseason Blogpoll is released over at MgoBlog. It is fair to say that my #25 ranking of ND may…

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Red Sox Staff Stinks Up the Joint

How bad an outing was it for the Red Sox pitching staff? So bad that Alex Cora had to warm…

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Precious Olympic Moments

The Olympics provide so many special moments… I… I just can't control my emotions right now. So Special.

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Larry Bird: I’d Sit For Kobe

Larry Bird was on the Dan Patrick show… and Dan tried to bait him into all sorts of crazy answers. …

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Dennis Johnson Tribute

BallerBlogger.com has a nice little tribute to one of the most underrated players in NBA history:  Dennis Johnson Johnson was…

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