Archive for August, 2011
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
The St. Louis Cardinals have one of baseball's best young pitching prospects in Shelby Miller. The 20-year-old is 7-3 with a 2.97 ERA for Double-A Springfield this year and features a mid-90s fastball and a devastating curve. One thing is clear: Miller certainly isn't far from the big leagues as ...
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
It's never a good sign when the best receiver in your team's history played during FDR's administration, but when Indiana's your team that's the type of thing that happens. (My buddy's grandfather is the still the leading rusher in DePaul history, but at least they gave up football before the ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
...yeah, I didn't think you'd like that. And neither do Leeds United fans.
A decade ago, Leeds United was playing in the Champions League. Now the famed soccer club enters its eighth consecutive season out of England's top flight and is getting more attention for Michael Sheen's masterful performance in "The ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
If you haven't read Yahoo! Sports' insane, incredibly well-sourced, documented and in-depth investigative piece on the NCAA violations at the University of Miami from 2002-2010, do yourself a favor and give it a read. It is as good a piece of sports journalism as I've read in years.
The report details ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
For the third year in a row the Washington Nationals opened up the checkbook and added to their farm system by doling out tons of cash to their draftees. Monday night the Nationals and general manager Mike Rizzo succeeded in getting all three of their first/sandwich-round picks under contract. And ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
World's Greatest Living Peorian Jim Thome (apologies to Joe Girardi) moved up in baseball's record books on Monday night by becoming the eighth player in big-league history to hit his 600th career home run. There will be no HBO special to capture the chase to this accomplishment (as far as ...
Posted in Chicks Man, MLB | 3 Comments »
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Here's something we can all agree is good news: according to his doctor, Bryan Stow is making progress in his recovery.
Stow is the San Francisco Giants fan who was brutally beaten on opening day outside Dodger Stadium. He suffered serious brain injuries in the attack, but is now awake and ...
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
It's signing day in Major League Baseball. Tonight at midnight eastern time, teams have to come to terms with the players they selected in the 2011 MLB Draft or lose their rights. Entering today just 10 of the top 33 picks in the draft had signed. And eight of the ...
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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Trevor Bauer was taken with the No. 3 pick in the 2011 MLB Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Most experts thought the UCLA product would be the first player from the 2011 class to reach the big leagues. Those predictions look like they are about ready to come true.
Bauer made ...
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Saturday, August 13th, 2011
The Florida Marlins made one of the most puzzling roster moves in recent Major League history on Saturday as they optioned outfielder Logan Morrison to Triple-A New Orleans. Normally I'd give a team the benefit of the doubt in a situation like this and say "I'm sure the Marlins know ...
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