Archive for September, 2010

Week Five College Football Picks

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Record after week 4: 48-13 (29-30-2 ATS) 12 pm ET (2) Ohio State (4-0) at Illinois (2-1) (+17) I have no idea why I'm picking this game. Illinois is going to get destroyed, and it will be incredibly uninteresting. Sorry, Illini fans, but the UI football team sucks. They're going to produce a ...

The Pittsburgh Pirates Lock Up No. 1 Pick In 2011 MLB Draft

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Start celebrating Pirates fans. Pop the champagne, spray each other down, get crazy, your team has just locked up the No. 1 pick in the 2011 MLB Draft. On second though, scoring the worst record in baseball is a tad different than clinching a playoff spot, and given how cheap ...

Carlos Marmol: Nastiest Pitcher In Baseball History

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

There's filthy, and then there's filthy. A 48-year old chain-smoking, Atlantic City cocktail waitress toting a purse filled with Valtrex is filthy. The mess two honeymooners leave between the bed sheets qualifies as filthy, as well. But ladies and gentlemen, let me bring to your attention a whole other type of filth. That ...

Sasha Vujacic May Get To Relax A Lot This Season

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Sasha Vujacic might want to have his girlfriend, Maria Sharapova, put her "friends and family" tickets up on StubHub or something, because the 26-year-old guard might not be playing much this season for the Los Angeles Lakers. Despite making two insanely clutch free throws that endeared him forever to Lakers fans ...

Ten Ideas Worse Than A J.J. Redick Rap Album

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

With the news hitting the internet that J.J. Redick would be releasing a rap album, I frankly couldn't think of a worse idea initially. The most hated white player in NCAA basketball history venturing into the rap game? Really? Whose idea was this? I really want to know. Has to ...