Alan Draper

According to the Globe's Gary Dzen, Kendrick Perkins looks pretty good during warmups:  Perkins is in uniform and warming up…

24 minutes away from a world championship.

Defense wins championships. You think Lakers fans are realizing that now?

This kid has been unbelievable tonight. Anyone who called for his benching is a moron.

5 minutes away from a world championship.

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Here we are… celebrating the 17th Celtics championship.  We're listening to KG, Pierce, and Doc all breaking down and getting…

Thanks to reader I Bleed Green in LA (Note:  How much are YOU loving life right now???) for bringing up…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jCs5lnyPDk] My ongoing, blatantly overt effort to get free things from major corporations continues in the afterglow of the NBA…

The last time, I think, that NFC North teams really feared Brett Favre and his passing attack was when Javon…

Michael Rand/Star Tribune plays golf with Corey Brewer and has the player read a scene from "The Notebook" (video).   …

From Don Seeholzer/Pioneer Press: Reviews should be taken with a grain of salt at this time of year, but Love…

OK, so this is blatant “look at me” blogging here…..and I know it, but it’s too cool to not let…

Someone cut Manny Parra in my fantasy league a week or two ago (yeah, usually it’s me that gives up…

And I’m back. Check out what I did yesterday. I figured BMR was due for some geopolitical conversation. Former Purdue…

Bartolo Colon is headed to the 15 day disabled list with a bad back. He hurt his back on a…

Zach isn’t here. I think he might have forgotten to put up the game thread because he’s so despondent over…

In contrast to the center position in the Tennessee era of the franchise, there has been relatively good stability at…

Youk is out another game after experiencing back spasms yesterday. Ellsbury sits with Coco in center and Lugo gets a…

I’ve found a few more links this afternoon. First, Sports Illustrated’s Michael Bamberger chronicles for Golf.com how NBC produced the…

(picture blatantly stolen from Kiss 96.1) From Foul Balls via Deadspin comes news that Steelers first round pick Rashard Mendenhall…

College World SeriesNorth Carolina vs. Fresno State – ESPN2, 7 p.m. MLBRed Sox at Philadelphia – NESN/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7…

Chien-Ming Wang gets hurt running the bases last night and whose fault is it? According to Hank Steinbrenner it is…

Check out this bizarre story of Pete Rose and A-Rod’s text message relationship. They even sent texts on why A-Rod…

We have a wide range of links today. Let’s start with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who looks over the…

From Mike Trudell/Timberwolves site: As for Love, Minnesota wasn’t the first NBA team to bring in other big, long players…