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Posts from ‘August, 2009’

2009 MLB Home Run Numbers

I was reading a real, physical newspaper this weekend and noticed the MLB stats in the sports section. It’s September 1st and look at those AL numbers. If not for Pena, the League leader would have only 32!
This is one of those striking realizations, or maybe more of a reinforcement of reality, for me.

Wake up with: Gabriel Gonzaga Vs. Chris Tuchscherer Fight Video

If you haven’t heard or seen this from Saturday, you might want to be certain you have digested your morning donut and coffee. Tuchscherer gets, apparently, the worst kick to the groin in UFC history. He starts to throw up and believe it or not they restart the fight. Tuchscherer is then immediately hit with [...]

Welcome to the weekend!

This week my beloved alma mater’s mascot made his second appearance on a This Is SportCenter spot on ESPN.
I wouldn’t show it here if it wasn’t a really good one. Ok, yes I would.
It is, however, a really, really good one. It pokes fun at two things that ESPN usually would not make light of… [...]

Broncos Suspend Brandon Marshall

Just hours ago the Broncos decided to suspend Brandon Marshall (seen above doing his own thing). All week Brandon had been walking through running drills and batting balls down as oposed to catching them. Even better Marshall decided to start punting balls across the field instead of giving them to ball boys.
That is priceless. I [...]

Favre: Sport’s greatest villain? Maybe not.

It’s been about a week now since Brett Favre “shockingly” came out of retirement to join the Vikings and for me, the most interesting aspect of this story has been the fan and media reaction. What really made me laugh was almost as soon as the story broke, SI.com posted something like 3 or 4 [...]