Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Jamie Moyer has been designated for assignment by the Colorado Rockies, a move that might end the 49-year-old's career.
About six weeks after becoming the oldest starting pitcher to win a game in major league history, Moyer will now become a free agent. At a news conference on Wednesday, the veteran ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
After losing Charlotte to Conference USA and Temple to the Big East, the Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Conference appeared destined to spiral down the crapper like a stale floater on a scorching hot summer afternoon. Alas, the clouds dissipated and two beacons of light shined down from the heavens in the forms ...
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
Three flights of stairs separate me from my mailbox, so I have plenty of time to ponder the world’s greatest mysteries in transit.
On one of these jaunts I was thinking, “When was the last time I actually mailed something? Sure I get mail, but when was the last time I ...
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
Always in the market for a new television show, I was instructed to check out ABC’s “Happy Endings.” I was told it was in the mold of “How I Met Your Mother” and that I’d like it. So I queued up On Demand episodes. Not bad. Some laughs, some misses.
But ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
The manager of the Warner Robins (Georgia) Little League team that competed in the 2011 Little League World Series has been suspended for the 2012 edition of the event for breaking tournament rules.
Little League International spokesman Stephen Barr announced Tuesday that Phillip Johnson of the Warner Robins American Little League ...
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Last year, we began what we hope becomes a tradition here at Rumors and Rants and tipped our hats to Cheap Trick by naming the losers of the year in every sport we pay attention to.
In case you are wondering, there is no scientific formula to being named loser of ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Missouri's flirtation with the SEC is just that, a flirtation. They know full well they'll never be able to compete in that league and are just using them to get the conference they really want to look at them: the B1G Ten. Check out the lede to this article from the ...
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