After what seemed like an eternity, the Boston Red Sox finally filled their managerial vacancy this week when the team hired long time manager and baseball person Bobby Valentine to take over Terry Francona’s job. Valentine beat out Gene Lamont, who was the other candidate for the opening. Some Red Sox players are disgruntled [...]
College football over the years has brought up some flamboyant personalities, some true greats, Heisman winners who would turn out to be busts in the NFL, monumental upsets for the ages, and a slew of reminders that on any given day between those chalked lines of a football field, anything can happen. The Play is [...]
Every sports fan has been in this position at some point in their life: their favorite team has taken a guy that would be better suited to cleaning the bathroom than being a first round draft choice. Even worse, the guy they picked plays a position that they already have strength and numbers at, while [...]
Every sports fan has been in this position at some point in their life: their favorite team has taken a guy that would be better suited to cleaning the bathroom than being a first round draft choice. Even worse, the guy they picked plays a position that they already have strength and numbers at, while [...]
Miscues are common in sports, be it professional or amateur. Missed assignments, blown coverage, poor execution, inability to grasp the concept of what’s going on, all lead to big momentum shifts for the opponent. Good teams find a way to overcome them, but sometimes it’s not in the realm of possibility, in the case of [...]
I have gone back to the archives and brought back a game that has fond memories for Red Sox fans, the sixth game of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds led the Red Sox 3 games to 2 going into game six at Fenway Park, with Luis Tiant throwing to preserve [...]
After having a tentative deal to end the National Basketball Association lockout that started July 1 this year, the players are getting ready to go to their training camps before the league will officially open in Christmas day, December 25. US District Judge Patrick Schiltz put a lawsuit on hold, Tuesday, on all court proceedings [...]
WOLLONGONG, New South Whales — The World Boxing Foundation middleweight champion Shannan Taylor from Australia finally showed some signs of recovery after being hospitalized because of drug overdose. “He opened his eyes, then shut them again. And squeezed the nurse’s hand, he moved up and sat up,” said Shannan’s grateful father Steve Taylor who watched [...]
The ATP season is over and all of the players are now relaxing before the new season will start in January particularly Australia for the Australia Open. World no.1 Novak Djokovic dominated most of the season by grabbing 10 titles, including three grandslams. He won the Australian Open, Wimbledom and US Open titles with a [...]
The month of November hasn’t been kind to the Houston Texans from a football standpoint. Sure, they got Andre Johnson back after a six game absence for a hamstring injury, and the rest of the receiving group held their own in his absence. Yes, they won all three of their games in the month, including [...]
The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy given to the National Hockey League champions. The Stanley Cup is named after Lord Stanley of Preston, who was the Governor-General of Canada from 1888 to 1893. The Cup was first awarded in 1893 to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association on behalf of the Montreal Athletic Club. Stanley [...]
The French Connection was irrevocably broken one Sunday afternoon in March this year. Rick Martin, one third of the most famous line in Buffalo Sabres history, died Sunday afternoon in a car accident that happened in Clarence, New York, a suburb of Buffalo. Reports say that Martin had a medical emergency before the accident, where [...]
