With the cats away, the kids will play. Michigan State and Central Michigan took advantage the Tigers’ nine-game road trip by sneaking in the second annual “Clash at Comerica Park” Tuesday night. What has become a nice highlight to both teams’ seasons, the two teams went to battle before a couple thousand fans on a perfect night in the D.
And speaking of perfect, CMU...
With the cats away, the kids will play. Michigan State and Central Michigan took advantage the Tigers’ nine-game road trip by sneaking in the second annual “Clash at Comerica Park” Tuesday night. What has become a nice highlight to both teams’ seasons, the two teams went to battle before a couple thousand fans on a perfect night in the D.
And speaking of perfect, CMU...
A Canadian lacrosse game between the Coquitlam Adanacs and the Nanaimo Timbermen turned into a heaping hodgepodge of haymakers this past Saturday. Cayle Ratcliff of the Timbermen jumped a member of the Adanacs after Coquitlam took a 15-4 lead. I’m not sure what sparked the onslaught, but it escalated into a time-wide soiree when players realized they weren’t playing a...
The quickest way to get yourself excused from the baseball field is to make contact with an umpire. Blue Jays rookie third baseman Brett Lawrie must have had a hot date and didn’t want to stick around for the final out of Tuesday’s game. Before this video starts, Lawrie had a 3-1 count. Lawrie thought the next pitch was outside, so he started toward first base only to be...
NO SOULS
How low can you get? A report says the home of Junior Seau was burglarized not long after the former linebacker committed suicide.
New York Rangers alternate captain Brad Richards didn’t directly factor into any of the three goals the Rangers put passed Devils goalie Martin Brodeur, but he had a key night nonetheless. Almost 21 minutes of ice time is expected at this time of year and the 14 the faceoff wins are nice. But two $hits in one game? That is the stuff that brings home Cups.
On Monday afternoon, former Major League Baseball trainer Brian McNamee provided details of his direct involvement in Roger Clemens steroids usage. Clemens is on trial at U.S. District Court for lying to Congress in 2008 about his use of performance enhancing drugs.
In total, McNamee said that he injected Clemens eight to ten times during the summer of 1998. The former Blue...
Tigers catcher Gerald Laird pretty much summed up how badly the Tigers’ offense has been so far this season. Laird laid down a sacrifice bunt in the 5th inning of Monday’s game. And then this happened…
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In 2009, Tate Forcier became just the third true freshman starting quarterback at the University of Michigan. That was then. During his freshman year, Forcier was Mr. September leading Michigan to a 4-0 record with wins over powerhouses Eastern and Central Michigan, Indiana and lowly Notre Dame. Amongst the Wolvie faithful, Forcier was a legit Heisman candidate.
And then Tator...
KILLING GOPHERS
The Seoul, Korea-based LG Twins brought in the wirey 23-year old right hander Jessica Jung to face some random dude who found himself in the batter’s box for the ceremonial first pitch.
Jung, the Korean-American version of is supposedly best known for her work in a nine-girl group named Girls’ Generation. I’d say google it, but it isn’t worth it. Anyway, Jung certainly...
When the school year ends and most students have gone home, it can get lonely as a college baseball player. There are only so much extra soft toss you can do and so many extra ground balls you can field. You play one or two games a week and then your normal weekend series. Other than that, you have your daily practices, a summer class or two and chasing women.
The Emory baseball...
CLASSY GESTURE
The Red Sox presented current Indians pitcher Derek Lowe with a replacement World Series ring from Boston's 2004 championship after the original one was stolen during a burglary in April.
After getting my first round of golf in for 2012, I developed two minor blisters. They’re both on my left hand and probably could be alleviated if I wore a golf on my left (top) hand, but I find it more comfortable to go au naturale with my bare hands. I’ve done it for years. I did it in baseball too. They’re actually more calluses than blisters. They’ll probably...
NIFTY SLAPPER
Unless you’re one of the 13 people that watched Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals between the Phoenix Coyotes and the Los Angeles Kings, you missed this little diddy.
Instead of dumping the puck into the Kings’ zone, Coyotes defenseman Derek Morris decided to let one rip at the net. Kings goalie Jonathan Quick wasn’t (say it with me) quick enough. You can’t really...
No, not those cups.
That’d be junior pitcher Colby Holmes and junior infielder Christian Walker enjoying themselves on the bench.
OUT OF HAND
Mark DeRosa is the latest MLB player to hurt himself in bizarre fashion, after an aggressive high-five from teammate Bryce Harper strained his oblique.
Kate Upton has become synonymous with dancing and we are all better people for this new phenomenon. Recently, she was in the MLB Fan Cave dancing with two schmos named Ricky and Ricardo. Stupid, I know, but nobody gives a rip about the dweebs.
Except this time, we’re totally duped into thinking we’re about to see something totally incredibly hot. Instead, I almost choked...
I’ve always been baffed by The Players Championship in golf, which started Thursday in Florida. I thought golf was supposed to be a gentleman’s game. You know, you wear nicely pressed pants, a polo shirt buttoned to the collar, white shoes, a preppy visor and a white belt if that’s your style.
But for The Players Championship, I’d expect a guy to show up sporting an Ed...
Rod Allen has energizes a broadcast booth like very few do. He has Rod-isms for days – “I see ya, (every Major League ball player)”; “Country strong”; “Go on, (whomever); “Oh Joe Mauer, I want to make passionate love to you.”
But one thing he won’t be confused for is a wordsmith. Judging by the way he pronounced the name of the Oakland A’s first baseman Kila...
Tigers skipper Jim Leyland is known to some as the “Wizard of Woodward” and known to others as the “Wretch of Wrongness” based on the decisions he makes on a nightly basis. Baseball managers have to make countless decisions game-in and game-out – his batting order, who will be available out of the bullpen, when to bunt, when to hit and run, when to make a pitching change...
There are athletes with class (Shane Battier) and then there are athletes with very little class (Amare Stoudemire). If you haven’t seen a lick on NBA basketball, you’ll know which one is Stoudemire here.
It looks like someone is bitter that he’ll be enjoying the second round of the NBA playoffs on his couch. Nice guys do finish first sometimes. But then again, it helps...
RAINOUT ENTERTAINMENT
When you hit four home runs and tally 18 total bases the night before, you can do anything you darn well please. That includes enjoying the next night’s rain-out by pulling a Rick Dempsey and sliding around on a rain-soaked tarp.
Josh Hamilton put on a little show for fans in Baltimore for the second consecutive night, but tonight’s had nothing to do with hitting a baseball...
CBC host Ron MacLean’s opening for Game Six between the Rangers and Capitals failed miserably tonight. He mentioned that New York City and Washington were the two targets for September 11, 2001 and should have stopped there. He went on to say that hockey players are ”like firefighters, like police officers” and threw around numerous 9/11 references.
Hockey players aren’t...
If you have six extra minutes today, I recommend that you give this video a watch. It’s exactly what it says it is. Maybe it’ll make you forget that the Los Angeles Kings are playing the Phoenix Coyotes in the Western Conference Finals.
I told you.
In what has to be the biggest piece of bologna ever written about a piece of plastic, it was partly responsible for fetching $67,100. Per eBay:
In the third quarter of the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, February 26th2012 -Miami Heat point guard Dwyane Wade fouled Kobe Bryant across the face, breaking his nose and giving him a concussion. For the next five weeks of the NBA season...