Cubs Name Closer!! Fantasy Impact

Every Tuesday and Thursday, I dig through the Sports Blogtopia to find the best posts to share with you, my loyal readers, like a father bringing home the bacon (or something like that). Now, I'm Bringin' Home the Blogs...In a great piece of (realistic) Olympic fiction, evil Yao and the Chinese commies scheme to snatch America's lone chance at redemption, trapping the...

Kosuke Fukudome is only 52 spring training at bats, and Chicago Cubs fans are already questioning his skills.

The longer Kerry Wood remains on the free-agent market, the less likely it seems that he will return to the...

Wood has the chance to reinvent himself in a way no other athlete has ever done. Most superstar athletes play to their ability and fade out, rediscovering the technical aspects of the game to be capable additions to a team other than the one they helped build. Injuries kept Wood from maximizing his natural talent, and unlike his former teammate Mark Prior, he still has a chance to...

Hunter's gift is the largest individual gift in the history of the university's athletic department. When completed, the complex will serve as an indoor training facility, a baseball field and stadium, and a site for statewide Little League baseball tournaments.

In what will undoubtedly go down as a pivotal moment in his life, Carlos Zambrano woke up this morning to find a glowing blue light coming from his brand new Nintendo Wii.

If you need info on Seattle, the USS Mariner is the place to go. Batters are hitting .364 this season off of Felix through his first 25 pitches of every game. "Attention Rafael Chaves - for the love of God, please stop having Felix establish the fastball in the first inning by throwing 92-97 MPH heaters on every single pitch to the first 4 to 5 batters of the game."...

It is the custom of every sports blog worth its weight in paint for mother?s basement that, when news is slow, some inept local columnist gets the FJM treatment. It?s partly a tribute to what is possibly the greatest sports blog ever, and partly a reason to spew bile at said local scribe. Today?s victim: Fred Mitchell. From yesterday?s Tribune, an article entitled ?Cubs Undecided...

I wasn't going to say anything.After seeing the latest SI cover highlighting Fukudome and the Cubs proclaiming that "It's Gonna Happen" I decided to keep my mouth shut. Ignore it. Don't even pick the damn thing up! Maybe the jinx wouldn't land on the Northside.After all, the Cubbies had been on a hot streak since Alphonso Soriano hopped onto the DL and Reed...

Watch any game where Roger Clemens, Kerry Wood, or Josh Beckett are pitching and you're bound to hear the announcers comment on the native Texan's "passion", "tenacity", and "attitude" accompanying a comment about their willingness to throw their upper 90's fastball inside on hitters without fear of ...

With the Cleveland Indians about 40 days from starting up spring training, much of the talk regarding the team will revolve around their off-season moves. Perhaps this is why there wasn't much off-season talk around this time last year? Regardless, Mark Shapiro (whether he'll admit it or not) learned from last season's mistakes of laurel-resting and hit the ground running...

A few years ago I used to get worked up about possible injuries. ?Take this guy out.? ?Don?t play him today.? ?There is something wrong with this guy.? ?It?s clear to me that his arm is hurt.? I could go on, but I won?t bore you. Suffice to say I acted as I knew more about the injury than the player or the organization. This is wrong. It?s taken me some time to finally realize...