First-Game Fantasy Failure: Victor Cruz, New York Giants
The “Cinderella” story of 2011 got off to a rocky start. Victor Cruz, the darling of fantasyland, a best-selling author and story of perseverance, had a night he’d rather forget. Cruz finished the night with six catches for 58 yards to lead the Giants, but he also finished the game with several drops. The Cowboys’ [...]
Big Little League Fight In Georgia
We’ve all seen overzealous fans, parents and supporters at grade school-age sporting events. I certainly heard them behind the backstop in my formative years, screaming at the umpires and mocking the misadventures in the field. It made a lasting impression, though most of the comments were innocuous calls to channel the flavor of the moment [...]
Clemens Mistrial: You Didn’t Think It’d Be Easy, Did You?
You didn’t think it was going to just go along quickly without a blip or two, did you? On Thursday morning, Judge Reggie Walton declared a mistrial after prosecutors introduced information from Laurie Pettitte. It was a move cautioned against in pre-trial hearings, a move to play the games “electricity” or “telephone” (Andy told Laurie [...]
In a Sea of Useless Tweets About ESPYs, I Found Gold
After watching the US Women’s victory over France, I set about the rest of my day and took care of some yelling, blogging and myriad other pre-vacation duties. As such, I didn’t see the ESPYs live (I think the replay is taping now). I did log in to check the Twitter scoreboard later in the [...]
Ryan Clark Speaks of AFC North “Rivalry”
Following the media circus that rolled into town to cover Ben Roethlisberger in 2010, the Steelers were hoping for a quiet offseason (other than the lockout questions, of course). Early in the day, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison took over the Twitter-verse and Facebook as snippets of his Men’s Journal interview started to surface. As [...]
Wouldn’t You Want Your Opponents Decked Out Like Mr. T?
The story lighting up talk shows and the blogosphere this morning isn’t the meltdown of LeBron James and the Cavaliers against the Celtics. It isn’t the pending re-vote of the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award following Brian Cushing’s positive test for a masking agent. It isn’t even the release of the Maxim 100 [...]
Can Manny BE Manny Anymore?
I couldn’t help but chuckle when I read the latest comments from Manny Ramirez about possible retirement, his status with the Dodgers and “having fun.” Ned Colletti joined the “Petros & Money” show on KLAC/FOX Sports Radio on Monday afternoon and kind of dismissed the notion of Ramirez’s relocation plans for 2011. To paraphrase, Colletti [...]
Media Day: Did You Learn Anything?
As expected, media day came and went with nary a blip on the sports landscape. A collective yawn could have emanated from the group of players as the same questions were asked … and asked … and asked ad nausea. Sure, there were a few oddball questions, a minor security skirmish and more references to [...]
