Stephen Strasburg is a no-doubt star, so far, but it has been one place that has driven all the coverage, MLB Network, the people most responsible for Strasburg's national emergence and their first network-made star.
Diego Forlán is a 31-year-old striker on the Uruguayan National Team who scored two goals in his team's match against the host South Africans. Sig Hansen is a tough-as-nails no-nonsense Norwegian crab fisherman on the Deadliest Catch. They share more than just a passing resemblance.
In baseball, every day is a new opportunity to see something that has never happened before. Throwing the 20th perfect game in MLB history, Roy Halladay's perfection was also 20 days after Dallas Braden's, making this the first season in baseball HISTORY to feature two perfect games. Awesome.
The Vancouver Olympics may be over but that doesn't mean we should forget the hot athletes who participated in them. And just think, London is only 2 years away!
When it comes to the minor leagues, teams need to be creative with their giveaways in order to draw reasonable crowds. On Monday, the Brooklyn Cyclones, Single A affiliate of the New York Mets, are celebrating current Mets first baseman -- and 2008 Cyclone -- Ike Davis. On the big league scene Davis has been one of the few bright spots in a Mets season marred by injuries, lack of production and lack of direction from the front office.
One of the ways Davis has endeared himself to the fans is by throwing his body around in service of the game, including when he came up and had several spectacular catches on foul balls, particularly on one where he flipped over the railing. The Cyclones Monday will be celebrating that catch with my favorite bobblehead I've seen this season, and if that's not enough, the Medieval Times people will be there too, presumably on the field jousting away. What more could you want from a night at the minor league park?
Awesome!
Also, if you're a Mets fan seeing the Cyclones is the only way you're going to see a first place team, so I'd go there rather than Citi Field...
Men reach a limit where they can no longer perform; women can do multiples like it's nothing, their voracious appetite never sated. No matter how many holes are available, women want more, it's just a fact of life. At least according to this headline...
During the first inning of Sunday's game Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard was taken off the field with a sprained left ankle. Helped off the field by the team's training staff it seems that the trainer, presumably inadvertently, gave the big slugger a wedgie as they moved to the clubhouse.
Painful, sure, embarrassing, somewhat, but the strangest thing of all came from MLB's official Twitter profile which posted this very professional tweet:
Strange, but cute too.
X-rays were negative and it is not clear how long Howard will be out of the lineup.
29-year old X Games motocross rider Paris Rosen was going for a front flip during the Best Trick competition on Friday, but when he hit the jump he didn't get enough rotation and instead landed HARD on his back before having the bike hit him and roll away. He lay motionless for several minutes before he was taken to a hospital for X-rays. His agent insists that he'll be fine.
Maybe I'm just a big wuss but that seems like it really really hurts. Of course, because I also tested at genius-level in IQ tests I wouldn't be in that situation in the first place, but hey, not everyone can be me.
Sacramento Kings guard Tyreke Evans won the Rookie of the Year award this season for his play on the court, there he is a speedy scoring star, unfortunately that need for speed can get you in trouble off the basketball court. A video released by the California Highway Patrol shows Evans racing another car on the highway at speeds over 120 mph.
Caught via aerial camera the video clearly shows Evans and another car jockeying for position and driving recklessly across all 4 lanes of the highway as they reached autobahn-style speeds. The police generally frown upon that.
When police finally caught up to the Kings' star, police arrested him at gunpoint, presumably for being black and driving in a Mercedes. He pleaded no contest to the charge of reckless driving, receiving 80 hours of community service, losing his license for 30 days and, because he's still only 19, ordered to take part in a teen driving program. What a jones!
Maybe he's just trying to repeat as Rookie of the Year and nab NASCAR's trophy too?
To get involved in the Power Wheels Racing Series you need only bring an all-electric vehicle and desire. Enthusiasts will modify, soup up and just generally trick out their sweet mini rides for the series which requires each racer to participate in three different styles of racing, the straight drag race, a tire-lined road track and an hour-long endurance race.
This sounds like a delightful way to spend a Sunday. If you don't love fatties on way-too-small vehicles then you're allowing the terrorists to win.
"What usually takes a day, day and a half for Mother Nature to take care of, we did in half an hour," Gerry Peterson told reporters after setting fire to a baseball field in St. Albert, Canada. After being soaked by rain for several days the old light-the-field-on-fire tactic seemed to be the best solution to get it back in playing condition.
Unfortunately, instead the field has been shut down after city officials tested the mound and found that it still contained contaminants from the diesel fuel liberally poured on the field prior to the immolation.
"If I thought for a second it was hurting a kid, I never would have done it," Peterson added.
The field is shut down at the moment as it is being cleared of the fuel remnants, it is likely the field will unusable for the rest of the year.
"I wouldn't say it was an over-reaction," city spokesman Chris Jardine said. "I would say it was an appropriate reaction to ensure for public safety."
When they aren't making pre-tweens feel giddy the Jonas Brothers like to get in some good ol' fashioned softball action. If you're in the New Britain Connecticut area on August 13th you can even see the abstinence boys taking on some of ESPN's top commentators in a game to benefit the Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
The Jonas Brothers' team, the Road Dogs will be taking on ESPN's G.O.A.T.S (greatest of all time) squad which features personalities like Mike Greenberg, Trey Wingo, Matt Berry, Michelle Beadle and Eduardo Perez should be a shoo-in to win. After all Eduardo Perez once played professional baseball! Not well, but still, he should be able to beat up on some mop-haired tween-idols.
Also, don't discount the distraction factor of Michelle Beadle being near virgin teenagers. The G.O.A.T.S should just send her out before the game to stretch for an inordinate amount of time and the Jonas brothers won't be able to concentrate on anything else.
After their World Cup performance left them without a win -- although WITH a surprisingly good performance against Brazil -- the North Korean squad on their return home has been subject to a series of public humiliations.
First when they arrived home they were subjected to commentator Ri Dong-Kyu and 400 students in the People's Palace of Culture reprimanding them for 6 HOURS! Then coach Kim Jong-Hun was expelled from the Worker's Party of Korea and was sent to go work construction on a building site. According to one of Great Leader Kim Jong-Il's sons the coach "betray[ed] the trust" of his nation despite the country starting in the most difficult qualifying group.
After deciding to hold their first ever live sports broadcast the North Koreans were subsequently demolished 7-0 by Portugal, much to the dismay of the Most Supreme Incredible Great Leader. The government was less than pleased.
Presumably, at least so far, the soccer team has gotten off relatively easy, in the past if North Korean athletes or coaches performed badly they were regularly sent to prison camps. That hasn't happened this time. Yet.
A Pennsylvania horse trainer was arrested on Wednesday after evidence and testimony revealed that he administered performance-enhancing "milkshakes" to his charges as well as injecting them with snake venom prior to their races. Darrel Delahoussaye was charged by the state police with two felony counts of theft by deception and one misdemeanor count each of rigging a publicly exhibited contest, administering drugs to race horses, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
Earlier this year several horses trained by Delahoussaye were euthanized after coming down with injuries during their races. In recent years snake venom has become a go-to for shady horse trainers to inject in their steeds as a means of shutting off the nerves that transmit pain. With the receptors off, horses will run faster and harder than previously although with a much greater risk and likelihood of severely hurting themselves. Delahoussaye was at the time working for controversial owner Michael Gill who was subsequently banned from racing in February and dispersed his entire stable. In January Gill had three different horses break down and need to be euthanized in January alone.
A groom testified to police that he saw Delahoussaye injecting his horses with snake venom and milkshakes regularly, in complete violation of the rules of horse racing. In addition the groom said that Delahoussaye would regularly go through medical waste bags in search of syringes he could use on his horses.
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The Slanch Report has started an online petition asking the MLB Network to air the Dock Ellis no-hitter he threw on June 12, 1970 against the San Diego Padres. The moment was a seminal piece of baseball history and is certainly worthy of being rerun.
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Sacramento Kings guard Tyreke Evans won the Rookie of the Year award this season for his play on the court, there he is a speedy scoring star, unfortunately that need for speed can get you in trouble off the basketball court. A video released by the California Highway Patrol shows Evans racing another car on the highway at speeds over 120 mph.
"What usually takes a day, day and a half for Mother Nature to take care of, we did in half an hour," Gerry Peterson told reporters after setting fire to a baseball field in St. Albert, Canada. After being soaked by rain for several days the old light-the-field-on-fire tactic seemed to be the best solution to get it back in playing condition.
After their World Cup performance left them without a win -- although WITH a surprisingly good performance against Brazil -- the North Korean squad on their return home has been subject to a series of public humiliations.
A Pennsylvania horse trainer was arrested on Wednesday after evidence and testimony revealed that he administered performance-enhancing "milkshakes" to his charges as well as injecting them with snake venom prior to their races. Darrel Delahoussaye was charged by the state police with two felony counts of theft by deception and one misdemeanor count each of rigging a publicly exhibited contest, administering drugs to race horses, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
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