Articles by Alan Draper (246303)
3/26: Cancer Boy!?
Prev. Gm: Boston Red Sox (1-0) @ Oakland Athletics (0-1) Jon Lester (0-0, -.–) @ Rich Harden (0-0, -.–) 6:05…
Read more Drop Some Ds on That Beotch
The next trend in goalie equipment? Why it’s pimp my netminder, of course. _uacct = “UA-1868762-1”; urchinTracker();
Read more #5 – Sept. 25, 1979: Angels win first ever division title
By Geoff Bilau, Angelswin.com Senior Editor “The Angels one out away from their first championship ever. Porter at the plate,…
Read more Jon Lester Can Make The Japan Trip Worth It
If Jon Lester can pitch the Sox to a victory tonight all of the hassle and problems with starting the…
Read more Morning Viewing Picks
MLBBoston Globe Pre-Game Show – NESN, 5 a.m.Red Sox vs. Oakland – ESPN2/NESN, 6 a.m. (Hopefully, there won’t be an…
Read more Steve’s MLB Preview: Postseason and Awards
First off, I think individual awards are overrated, unless a player needs them to get into the Hall of Fame…
Read more USC suspends Garcia from football team until Aug. 15
University of South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia was suspended today from all team activities until Aug. 15 by USC Athletic…
Read more “Those who stay will be champions – Hey, where ya going? Please stay!”
As mentioned earlier today, at least one Michigan offensive lineman has left the football team. Justin Boren has quit the…
Read more Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks
College Basketball NCAA Women’s Tournament (All Games on ESPN2)Kansas State vs. Louisville – 7 p.m.Purdue vs. Tennessee – 7 p.m.Arizona…
Read more More Tuesday Stuff
It’s time to give you some more links today. John Ryan of the San Jose Mercury News says A’s fans…
Read more DirecTV Talks!
Finally, the Boston Globe has heard from DirecTV and its explanation is still not sufficient, but it’s something. Reid Laymance…
Read more DirecTV Is Still Silent
About four hours since I sent an e-mail to DirecTV asking what caused its outage, leaving millions of fans in…
Read more Boycott Directv
I used to have Directv but after years of terrible customer service I canceled my account. They double billed me…
Read more Football links? It’s about time…
Here are a couple of interesting ones to chew on: Scouts Inc ranks the top 64 wideouts. Wayne, Harrison and…
Read more Manny Wins 1 Million Yen
Manny Ramirez was named the MVP of the opener in Japan and was awarded the prize of 1 Million Yen….
Read more This DirecTV Outage is Irritating Not Just Me
Well, I sent an e-mail to DirecTV asking what happened with the system outage this morning that effected the two…
Read more Verron Haynes Likes To Bounce Checks
Stupid Verron and your flashy cars. It appears that (former?) Steeler Verron Haynes sucks at paying bills (he was released,…
Read more Opening Day Links
It may be early for baseball to open the season, but there’s always something special about Opening Day. For Red…
Read more What do you want to ask Peter Gammons?
Wow, what a treat. On a flier, I e-mailed Peter Gammons and asked him if he would be willing to…
Read more DirecTV Outage Costs Many Fans Opening Day
As has been reported on in many places this morning, DirecTV subscribers waking up early to watch Opening Day were…
Read more Moss and Manny Help Sox Steal A Victory
The Red Sox are 1-0 but for much of the night (or morning) it looked like they were headed for…
Read more Gamecocks Garcia latest in Arrested
So what do you say or what can you say? There have been seven USC players arrested or cited since…
Read more Moss and Manny deliver
The stage was set for Daisuke Matsuzaka to have a big showing, but Brandon Moss and Manny Ramirez stole the…
Read more BREAKING NEWS: Brewers release Claudio Vargas
Adam McCalvy of MLB.com’s story JSOnline.com’s Tom Haudricourt’s take on it Wow…neither McCalvy, Haudricourt, Vargas, or myself saw that coming….
Read more Foregone conclusion
No, it’s not just the name of David Brent’s band (bonus points to anyone who gets that reference). The Cleveland…
Read more Classic Mini Pony of the Day 3-25-08
(originally published on 3-25-07) Trip and Cuddles rule. They are the Mini Pon(ies) of the Day. This picture comes from…
Read more Even Video Games Love Carolina
With our biggest hoops game since the 1941 NCAA title game coming up Thursday, the experts are coming out of…
Read more Dice-K Struggles in the First
As I posted earlier, Dice-K needs to pitch well in the first and the Sox need to win the inning…
Read more J.D. Drew Out of Lineup
J.D. Drew was scratched minutes before the first pitch in Tokyo due to a bad back. Drew was replaced with…
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