Articles by Alan Draper (246319)
NFL Divisional Playoffs Picks
Let me do the picks just as Seattle-Green Bay is about to start. Seattle at Green Bay – Fox, 4:30…
Read more Gamecocks face the ‘mighty’ UT
No not Texas but the Univ of Tennessee. UT is currently ranked eighth with a 13-1 record and will square…
Read more Ben McCauley Will Scream In Your Face At A Ratio Of 1:2
Every now and then, I gotta check in with my old high school. Happened before when some kid rushed for…
Read more BIG SATURDAY
Greetings Cougar Nation… Welcome to what COULD be the biggest game in the history of the program. Win today and…
Read more Some Saturday Linkage
Let’s give you some links. You know when you get up early on a Saturday and do some errands, you…
Read more Hall unproven at 3B (was “Hall stunk at 3B in ’06”)
Bill Hall made 2 errors in 10 starts at 3B in 2006…or the equivalent of 32.40 errors over the course…
Read more ’08 Outlook for Dustin Pedroia
’07 Season: The Red Sox finally found a long term solution at 2nd with Dustin Pedroia. The rookie started the…
Read more Doug Melvin should be fired if he moves Braun and Hall (again)
Doug Melvin has made the dumbest move of his tenure with the Brewers–informing his best hitter, Ryan Braun, that he’ll…
Read more The Angels Past, Present, and Future: Part Eleven–The Bullpen
F-Rod blowing smoke down someone’s pipe Part Eleven: The Bullpen HISTORY Of the major areas of a baseball team—lineup, starting…
Read more Videos of the Week – Some Tennis Stuff
Since the Australian Open is about to begin this weekend, I’ll give you some interesting tennis videos. I have to…
Read more Awful Announcing is Awesome!
One of the best blogs in cyberspace is Awful Announcing. I’ve put the site in my blogroll to the left…
Read more Some Friday Night Links
Some links for you this evening before I watch the Amazing Race Asia, Episode 8. In his NYP TV Sports…
Read more Weekend Viewing Picks
Saturday, January 12NHL/Boston at Philadelphia – NESN, 1 p.m.On the Brink: PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament – NBC, 3:30 p.m.Fox NFL…
Read more Wolves Updates 1/12
Previews of tonight’s game at San Antonio: Rick Alonzo/Pioneer Press Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune Matt Tiano/Timberwolves site Click here for…
Read more UConn’s White Wins MAC Hermann Trophy
Yes I know I don’t write too much about the UConn men’s soccer team but when there’s some big news…
Read more Wolves 82, Rockets 113
From Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune: On Tuesday, against an opponent on its way to its eighth consecutive loss, the Wolves shared…
Read more College Basketball Viewing Picks (All Times Eastern)
Saturday, January 12 College Gameday, live from Lincoln, NE – ESPN2, 11 a.m. NC State at North Carolina – ESPN,…
Read more Diversity in baseball
Hey guys, Quick note that I wrote an article for MVN’s The Last Page called Skipping a generation: Baseball
Read more The Kiss of Death
Last week Blezow had the Bucs. Not. This week he has jumped back on the Giants bandwagon, ugh. And to…
Read more God Bless Bill Hall
I have no doubt that the signing of Mike Cameron will make the Brewers an overall better team. The signing…
Read more Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks
PGA Tour/Sony Open in Hawaii, 2nd Round – Golf Channel, 7 p.m.College Basketball/Navy at Bucknell – ESPNU, 7 p.m.NBA/New Jersey…
Read more Friday Megalinks, Finally
I managed to get back from the jobsite earlier than expected so I can do some links plus a few…
Read more BREAKING NEWS: Brewers add Cameron
The Brewers are rumored to have signed free agent outfielder Mike Cameron on Friday, according to the AP, with an…
Read more Behind the Mascot — Fin the Orca
In light of last week’s news of mascot/actress interspecies relations, I decided to dive a little deeper and do some…
Read more ’08 Outlook for Kevin Youkilis
’07 Season: Youk broke the American League record for consecutive games at first base without an error, he has proven…
Read more A spring training of calm
Remember that time when Jonathan Papelbon was trying to become a starter last year. Remember that time where we had…
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