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    146th Belmont Stakes - Saturday, June 7th 2014

    Coburn does strike me as "iggerrant". How did he make his mooney?
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    2014 MLB Season

    FYI, the Boston Globe reports that Drew will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season. If he had taken the $14+M qualifying offer, I think he would have again been tethered to a draft pick. FWIW, the Red Sox outfield offense is so pathetic that if Drew clicks and...
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    2014 Boston Marathon results

    That search function is limited to the top 1,000 finishers. He wasn't one of them
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    2014 Boston Marathon results

    Is there a site that publishes a searchable list of the times of all the finishers? A cousin of mine ran in it, but he is nearly 60 years old and likely did not make the top 10,000.
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    NFL considering abolishing extra points?

    Anyone can make six out of ten in the driveway, even seven out of ten with a little practice. But basketball players run up and down the court, get whacked and then have to take the results of their first two. A few decades ago, it was published in my local newspaper that the free throw...
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    Rick Wise pitched a major league no-hitter in which he hit TWO home runs. :p
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    2013-2014 NBA Season

    Celtics "win" again.
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    A starting pitcher throws each and every pitch when he is on the mound. A starting fielder fields a tiny fraction of that many. 162 games times 9 innings each is about 1,400 or so innings. A 200 inning starter pitches 1/7 of his team's innings, whereas a 162 game a year position player bats...
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    "P" on that

    From ESPN.com: Spurrier's nine assistant coaches also received raises that put their combined compensation at $3.3 million, up from the $2.7 the group earned this past season. All assistants were given new two-year contract agreements except for defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward, who received...
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    My former business partner was on the same CYO basketball team as two convicted murders.
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    If he isn't worth the money, then no pitcher is, but from a risk standpoint, I'm not sure that any pitcher is. In addition to the contract, the Dodgers must be paying for a huge insurance policy, but I doubt that such policies cover for injuries or deterioration that simply reduce a pitcher's...
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    Happy Anniversary Mr. Kraft!!

    Grogan makes my all-time tough-guy list. When he was running with the ball and was about to be tackled by a cornerback or safety, he didn't do the chicken-sh*t, knee first slides like Roger Staubach. He used to put his head down and fire himself into the tackler just like a running back.
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    2013-2014 NBA Season

    Unprecedented? There was no player before Jordan who played out his contract without complaining??? In fairness to Jordan, I don't think he demanded that his contractual annual payments of $30,140,000 for 1996-1997 or $33,140,000 for 1997-1998 be increased.
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    2013-2014 NBA Season

    The end of the Jordan saga was bizarre. Jordan had an unenforceable "gentlemen's agreement" to eventually own or co-own the Wizards. He wasn't playing just for $1 million a year. He was playing to enhance the value of the franchise. The price he expected to pay for his share after...
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    Happy Anniversary Mr. Kraft!!

    You're never as smart as you look like you are when you're winning and you're never as dumb as you look like you are when your losing, so I guess that means that Dan Snyder is not as dumb as he always seems to be, because he's always losing. Snyder is vilified for every personnel move he makes...
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    2013-2014 NBA Season

    Back in 1966, Cincinnati Red's owner Bill Dewitt pronounced Frank Robinson to be "an old 30" when he traded him away for Milt Pappas.
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    Trammel yes, Whitaker, no. Second basemen should be underrepresented because they are shortstops who aren't good enough to play shortstop. I remember when I tried out for the JV baseball team, I tried out at second base. There were only five of us, whereas there were a dozen trying out for...
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    Kobe Bryant

    As a high milage player whose game depends on his exceptional athleticism, his career isn't going to end in a fade out. At some point soon, the incidence of physical breakdowns will become too high to justify goving him cap space or to fill the rest of the roster around hiss talents and skills...
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    All six of the top six were supposed to have made the playoffs and would have if not for the injuries. As far as the other four of the top ten are concerned, I can't assess the Giants because I stopped following them when Willie Mays left, but the other three, the Blue Jays, Rangers and...
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    NFL 2013 Season

    Is anyone watching Washington/Atlanta? Cousins at quarterback looks damn good. If it wasn't for the FOUR Washington fumbles - some unforced or negligibly forced - the game would be a rout by now. His QB rating is 157.9 with under three minutes to go in the second quarter, and 234 yards passing.
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    2013-2014 NBA Season

    The first place Boston Celtics are leading the Knicks 71-34 in the third quarter. Just think, they can win the championship with what they have and trade Rondo for a future first round draft pick or two and have the foundation of the next dynasty in place!
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    The columns stack up vertically if you type [code] and [/codee] before and after the table data. I had to mistype "/code" in the closing format bracket, otherwise it would have been executed as a code table.
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    NCAA 2013 Football Season

    I don't think I've ever seen a 9-0 team suck this badly.
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    There are now more teams willing to carry big payrolls. I went back and looked at the payrolls in 2004 and 2005, when the Red Sox won their first recent world series and the next year, and back then, the Yankees had averaged $200 million for four years, but the Red Sox 2004 payroll of $124...
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    Irving Fryar

    I just learned that a month ago he and his mother (age 72) were indicted for defrauding banks out of $690,000. Was it widely reported at the time? I only stumbled onto this after seeing two different recent football stories that each brought Fryar to mind: one was an unrelated story about a...
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