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Padres Close To Signing Top Pick Donavan Tate?
August 12, 2009 by
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MLB.com and Keith Law have confirmed that the San Diego Padres are close to signing Donavan Tate, the team’s top pick from the 2009 MLB Draft. Both sources think a deal is imminent and at worst will be completed before the August 17th deadline. Tate, a prep outfielder was taken...
Join Or Die: U.S.-Mexico Live Blog!
August 12, 2009 by
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Game time is fast approaching (4 p.m. EST, Telemundo/mun2), and I’m getting amped. Even though the game isn’t on the ESPN family of networks, the Worldwide Leader is actually doing a good job of hyping the game and breaking it down.
Bob Ley and Alexi Lalas are actually...
TheBaker’s Annual English Premier League Preview
August 11, 2009 by
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The English Premier League season begins this weekend, and as you know, we hear at Rumors and Rants are big footie fans.
And we try to keep you in the loop each and every EPL season. And for the most part, we’re wrong. We always overrate Tottenham and believe this is the year...
Link Dump! Brought To You By Sara Jean Underwood
August 11, 2009 by
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Sara Jean Underwood was once on the cover of Playboy’s Girls of the Pac-10, representing Oregon State. Now she’s representing today’s links. Enjoy.
I dunno what they’re talking about, I think he’s plenty intimidating - The Legend of Cecilio Guante
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Join Or Die Tomorrow For U.S.-Mexico Live Blog!
August 11, 2009 by
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The U.S. soccer team’s inevitable trip to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa has its biggest test so far when it travels to Mexico City for Wednesday’s World Cup qualifier.
The Americans’ troubles south of the border have been well documented. (The U.S. is 0-22-1 on Mexican...
Tigers Facing Decision Over Magglio Ordonez’s Playing Time
August 11, 2009 by
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Now this is what you call a rough decision.
The Detroit Tigers are currently in first place in the American League Central by three games over the Chicago White Sox. The ChiSox just added former NL Cy Young winner Jake Peavy and Alex Rios to their roster and seem poised to make a...
Screw Your Watch List
August 10, 2009 by
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It would be so easy to post on what I was complaining to Phillips about all weekend, namely that preseason polls are ********, but everyone knows that. It’s like saying the Big XII has some good offenses in it. We all know polls cause all types of hell at the end of the season and [...]
Link Dump! Brought To You By Josh Hamilton’s Schwerve
August 10, 2009 by
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Actually, this is the picture because I think his sobriety becoming such a public debate is ridiculous. Okay, so the pictures are hilarious, but anyone talking about how he “fell off the wagon” or anything else is offensive and wrong. But damn are the pictures hilarious...
Vernon Davis Continues To Piss Off The World
August 10, 2009 by
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The 2006 NFL Draft, like every professional sports draft, had its share of flops. Names like Vince Young (No. 3), Michael Huff (No. 7), Matt Leinart (No. 10), Tye Hill (No. 15) and Bobby Carpenter (No. 18) come to mind. But none perhaps is a bigger bust than San Francisco tight end...
The Blue Jays Would Be Crazy To Keep Alex Rios
August 10, 2009 by
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While we have to wait until tomorrow afternoon to find out which major league team placed a waiver claim on Toronto outfielder Alex Rios one thing is abundantly clear - the Blue Jays would be crazy to pull him back and keep him on the roster.
A few years ago the 28-year-old Rios looked to be [...]
Kids These Days…
August 10, 2009 by
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It hasn’t been such a good offseason for a pair of precocious pros who Chicagoans have embraced early in their careers.
This spring, we learned that the person that took Derrick Rose’s college entrance exam was not actually Derrick Rose. At the end of the day it really...
USC Football Team Sings “Lean On Me” In Meeting
August 10, 2009 by
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Pete Carroll’s meetings with his USC Trojans have become the stuff of internet legend over the past few seasons. From having players fake-arrested, to impromptu visits from Snoop Dogg and Will Ferrell, the coach Carroll tends to keep the teams meetings, like the rest of his...
Link Dump! Brought To You By UFC 101 and Kenny Florian’s Awesomeness
August 07, 2009 by
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No disrespect to BJ Penn, but Kenny Florian is the official MMA fighter of Rumors and Rants for a reason. We’ll most definitely be watching the title fight (and Silva/Griffin) on Saturday night…and hopefully gloating on Sunday after Ken-Flo wins hisself the belt.
Dear...
Glen Davis Is A Big Baby
August 07, 2009 by
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Never has a nickname been so appropriate.
Glen “Big Baby” Davis has had a tough time this summer as a restricted free agent, because no one has really come calling after him. The Boston Celtics have offered him a minuscule contract, as they wait to see if another team...
This Movie Looks Awesome
August 06, 2009 by
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OK, so in reality “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” looks like it’s going to be a gigantic, steaming pile of monkey crap. But I have to be honest, the women in it look incredible. And hey, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ” sucked, but Megan Fox was able...
Indiana Football Lays Out The Welcome Mat For Opposing Fans
August 05, 2009 by
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Sometimes you just know you suck.
Like when Ben Affleck watches his movies, he knows it’s ****. Right? I mean, you’d have to.
Well, as an Indiana University graduate I know my alma mater’s football team blows. Everyone knows. CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd ranked IU No. 97 among the...
Link Dump! Brought To You By Eli Manning’s Money
August 05, 2009 by
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Well, not FUNDED by it, but definitely inspired by it. I realize he won a Super Bowl for them, but really? And I also have to admit that it’s not like the highest paid player in the various sports leagues is always the most deserving.
Eli’s about to get paid. But can we...
TheBaker’s NFL Preview: Kansas City Chiefs
August 05, 2009 by
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Who knew?
First game of the 2008 season away to New England. Kansas City safety Bernard Pollard comes in on a blitz, goes low and crumples The Golden Boy.
That kid people know for being nothing more than a backup in college and a backup in the pros finally gets his shot. The Kid...
TheBaker’s NFL Preview: Oakland Raiders
August 05, 2009 by
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Four coaches in four years.
Four quarterbacks in four years.
An average of just under four wins a season during that four-year stretch.
That’s not the type of forward movement Al Davis and Oakland Raiders fans are looking for.
Davis used to make the Raiders relevant. Now, he...
Johnnie B. Bad?
August 05, 2009 by
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On Sunday, we learned that the San Diego Padres have officially given up on the Mark Prior Reclamation Project, putting a once incredibly promising career onto seemingly permanent ice.
On Monday, the Cincinnati Reds announced that promising young hurler Edinson Volquez underwent Tommy...
The Answer Is No
August 04, 2009 by
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I don’t mean to be a dick to Cal. They’re just harmless hippies trying to make their way in the Super Max Penitentiary that is college football. And since they’re a mediocre program that’s been trying to make the “big step” into one of the big prison...
Link Dump! Brought To You By The Saved By The Bell Reunion
August 04, 2009 by
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I mean I know Jimmy Fallon was asking for this because it was funny. And let’s be honest, I loved that show, but I haven’t thought about how cool a reunion would be for even a minute.
I blame Dusty Baker…because he has one of the biggest track records of this ever...
More Dysfunctional: The Mayweathers Or The Jacksons?
August 04, 2009 by
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In what has to be the least surprising story ever written about on this blog, boxing trainer Roger Mayweather was arrested Sunday morning for strangling a woman in Las Vegas.
Melissa St. Vil, a female boxer who Mayweather once trained, called 911 and screamed out her address before...
TheBaker’s NFL Preview: St. Louis Rams
August 03, 2009 by
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The last remnants of the St. Louis Rams’ Super Bowl glory days are gone. But you probably already figured that with last year’s sparkling 2-14 record, and all.
Personnel wise, future Hall of Famers and Rams’ lifers Orlando Pace and Torry Holt were sent packing as...
Link Dump! Brought To You By Rachel Nichols
August 03, 2009 by
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Rachel Nichols (no, not that one) is in the upcoming GI Joe movie, which looks like crap, but hey whatever. I’m sure that suit is tactical and not tight for no reason.
Fedor signed with Strikeforce! Snap! - Fanhouse
I’d like to think it would have been the Padres that...
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