Articles by Alan Draper (246319)
Lineup Choices
Jed Lowrie will be making his MLB debut tonight, most likely at third base moving Youk to first and giving…
Read more Dan Rooney Endorses Obama
As noted on PSaMP before, the Steelers are Democrats. Well, except for Lynn Swann. The latest Obama-endorser is owner Dan…
Read more Links of the Day 4/15/08
It’s tax day! Hope you have everything in on time. This guy, the Salesman of the Year, probably does. The…
Read more Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks (with Some Afternoon Picks Added)
JournalismE:60 – ESPN, 7 p.m.Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel – HBO, 10 p.m. MLBBoston at Cleveland – NESNplus/STO, 7 p.m.Minnesota…
Read more 2008 Titans’ schedule released
In 2008, the Titans will start and finish the season against the same opponents they faced at the beginning and end…
Read more Cowboys Schedule: Tough Year Ahead
The NFL released the schedule, and there will be no “projected” easy games this year. The Cowboys will have to…
Read more Tuesday’s Linkage
Let’s give you more links today. At 2 p.m. ET, the NFL will release its week-by-week schedule. Both the NFL…
Read more 4/15: Byrd Hunting
Prev. Gm: Boston Red Sox (8-6) @ Cleveland Indians (5-8) Tim Wakefield (1-0, 3.27) @ Paul Byrd (0-2, 11.05) 7:05…
Read more Manny Drives Cleveland Sport Writers to Despair
Cleveland sports writers must have had a late night. I’m sure more than one of them had their articles just…
Read more Schilling on the Yankees Next Season…No Way
There were rumors that Curt Schilling might pitch for the Yankees next season based on his doctor’s comments on WEEI…
Read more Series Preview: Brewers (8-4) @ Cardinals (9-4)
The Brewers continue their road trip in St. Louis, for their first meeting of the year with the Redbirds. The…
Read more Schill: No Yanks, rehab good, new contract
Curt Schilling was on EEI’s Dennis and Callahan this morning and made a few statements. One of them was that…
Read more Classic Mini Pony of the Day 4-15-08
(originally published on 4-15-07) In honor (it’s not really an honor, but you get the point) of the Pens losing,…
Read more GO GET ‘EM HOWIE!
In a word…..WOW. So THAT is what that letter was all about when they agreed to the sale. This is…
Read more The Wisdom of Crowds Results
A few weeks ago I asked “the crowd” here at MVN and specifically the Fire Brand community to participate in…
Read more Myers of the Daily News with more New York Giants post mortem
Gary Myers had a good piece over the weekend which recapped the 4 game playoff run.It is always easy to…
Read more This Week in Angels Baseball – (Week of April 14th)
By Victor Varadi – Angelswin.com Columnist Overall Record: 7-6 Games behind: 1.5 Week Record: 3-3 Week in Review: Last week…
Read more Weird April So Far
Coco is hitting, Papi is not. ‘Manny Being Manny’ is now the ‘Man-Ram.’ Detroit is in the cellar, but Baltimore…
Read more Got Manny?
Manny Ramirez continued his MVP start with another great game. Manny’s game winning 2 run homer in the top of…
Read more Yooooooooooouuuuuuuukkkkkkkk
Kevin Youkilis continues to drive the Sox offense. His 1 run homer to start the 8th inning has put the…
Read more All Suited Up (Except KG)
Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce did not play in tonight's game against the Knicks. While it appears Doc Rivers is…
Read more This Is Not Entirely Fair
This thing you see here is a chart of local NBA TV announcer "homerism". That little blob way at the…
Read more Wolves Updates 4/15
Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune looks at each player’s probability to continue with the team. From Mike Trudell/Timberwolves site: The…
Read more Preview of Real Sports for April 15, 2008
Coming up the new edition on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO, premiering Tuesday, April 15 at 10 p.m….
Read more Kruk puts a curse on the yanks
John Kruk was in a great commercial for ESPN’s ‘Baseball Tonight’ during the Sox-Tribe game today.In it, he’s working the…
Read more Big Papi’s woes
Last night, despite Ortiz’s 2-4 night, I was frustrated at the way he handled the at-bat against Rafael Betancourt, especially…
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