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Archive for August, 2009

Tie Goes To The Runner

So last night i was reading a book called “Is This A Great Game Or What?” by ESPN baseball commentator Tim Kurkjian and he wrote “Why do people insist the “a tie goes to the runner”?” He is right, it has never been written down in a rule book. I think that if its a [...]


A Gun, A Club, And A Not So Smart Football Player

Why does it seem that football players seem to have problems that very few other people do. First it was Michael Vick (who will play his first NFL game in two years on Thursday) and now it is the New York Giants Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the leg while at a nightclub earlier this [...]


A Bad Week For Umps

This has not been a good week for umpires. There have been a bunch of bad calls and bad decisions. It all started with a call in a game a few days ago when a centerfielder threw up his arms because he was annoyed with a strike call and was thrown out by the home [...]


12 Down, 92 To Go

It’s going to be confidential and anonymous. That’s what the 104 Major League Baseball players who tested positive in 2003 performance enhancing drug tests were told. So much for that. So far, 12 of those names have been released. Those were Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Kevin Brown, Andy Pettitte, [...]