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Never before has a major league baseball franchise transformed itself so dramatically and so quickly.  Despite twice winning World Championships (1997 and 2003) as wild card entries in the only two times they have made it to the post-season, their band-wagoning fans...

Josh Hamilton is a “recovering” alcoholic and drug addict.  His never-ending struggle with addictions has certainly been well documented.  Josh Hamilton also  happens to be an extraordinarily talented professional baseball player.  Last Friday, after his second...

Haven't the New York Giants already given Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots enough bulletin board material for this year's Super Bowl XLVI (46th)?  I guess not!  I just ran across this article where they are already proclaiming themselves Pro Football...

Taken as the 5th overall pick (out of UCLA, where he was a consensus first-team All-American) in the 2008 draft, this guy is quickly establishing himself as the League’s best white player, and one of the best all-round players PERIOD! At the risk of being perceived as...

The baseball off-season nearly passed before its prized free agent, Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder, found a new home. We were hearing Nationals, Dodgers, even the Rangers, but the 27-year old Fielder shocked the baseball world and came home to where his father...

It’s official, Commissioner Roger Goodell has instantly made the NFL Pro Bowl the most meaningless All-Star game in professional sports!  We should crown it now for what it is; the Twitter-Bowl. For the first time ever, players will be permitted to tweet during the...

 Peyton Manning's future will be decided in the next few weeks.  Where will the legendary future hall-of-famer be working later this year.  What do you think the ideal team fit might be for Peyton Manning?  Or, is it time for Peyton Manning to retire from football and...

This week the NASCAR season begins with performance testing at Daytona International Speedway. I can't begin to describe all the changes being evaluated, but I have read that track speeds are exceeding 208 MPH. Through tough economic times, it's blue-collar fans have...

Rangers’ President and CEO Nolan Ryan was so impressed with the 25-year old Yu Darvish that his Texas Ranger ballclub “posted” a $51.7M fee just to win his exclusive negotiating rights, then recently signed the so-called “Bob Gibson of Japanese baseball” to a $60M,...

There’s not much in the sport of boxing these days that gets me very excited.  However, a World Welterweight Championship war between Floyd ‘Pretty Boy” Mayweather and Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao would get me totally stoked!   Mayweather, the WBC welterweight champ...

Hank Haney’s new book The Big Miss is scheduled to be released just before this year’s Masters Tournament (March 27 to be exact). The Big Miss chronicles the teacher-student relationship Hank Haney had with Tiger Woods.  I can't say... I have not read it!  HankHaney...

I was certainly not shocked, but VERY discouraged, to see that the major league baseball owners voted a two-year contract extension to Commissioner Allan Huber "Bud" Selig this week. Afterall, he was once one of them too (as a former owner of the Milwaukee Brewers...

I look forward to the annual baseball Hall of Fame elections each January more than any other sports Hall of Fame voting.   Very enjoyable to see Barry Larkin (statistics) get voted in this past week on his third try, capturing 86% of vote (75% minimum required...

What is Jim Harbaugh doing?  Surely, he should let us know!  Does Jim Harbaugh have something to hide?  I'm certainly not informed.  Did Jim Harbaugh even know his San Francisco 49-ers had a chance to beat the New Orleans Saints today in the NFC Conference semi-final...

Rex Ryan, the New York Jets crying head coach... the foot-fetish videos, the renegade image, trash-talking with opposing players... I have just about had enough of this braggart! He reminds me of another a-hole coach who was loved or hated by his players......oh yeah,...

OK... the "Biggest Rip-Off in College Football History"  might be a bit of an overstatement, but I'm listening to Brent  Musberger call tonight's college football game between Alabama and LSU and he seems to have the privalege of overstatement.  Boy, does he! I...

Following Detroit's 45-28 drubbing adminstered by the Saints, 2nd year undrafted free agent from Pitt, Aaron Berry, tweeted "Y'all can go back to being broke and miserable"   ... read more on how his Detroit Lion teammates responded.  When will athletes learn how...

40-year old catcher Jorge Posada is now being thrown to the curb by the Yankess after a 17-year career similar to how they have treated many of their aging stars. I understand baseball is a business, and the Yankees are all about business. But for Posada to come out...

While I'm not sure it's totally official, Penn State University (PSU) seemed to come to closure today with the news that New England Patriot offensive coordinator, Bill O'Brien, will replace the legendary Joe Paterno as the future coach of the Nittany Lions. Yet, this...

I just watched the ESPN E:60 report on Aaron Rogers.  It provided a graphic and well orchestrated biographic description of the Green Bay Packer championship quarterback.  As a die-hard Packer fan of  50-years, I've witnessed good and bad times.  However, I never...

My Virginia Tech Hokies must be one bad-ass team when the placekickers are the ones that get in trouble. The starter never even made the trip to New Orleans for tonight's Sugar Bowl clash because he was arrested for breaking and entering. Then, the back-up was sent...

Yes, that Rudy (a.k.a, Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger) along with 12 others ran the old "pump-and-dump" scheme to increase the value of the sports drink also named "RUDY" to gain more than $11M in illicit profits. The 5'6" iconic Golden Domer, now 63, is settling out of...

TV host of HBO's Real Time, political humorist, funnyman, and atheist Bill Maher's recent tweet following the Broncos blowout loss to Buffalo has created a national outcry among the Tebow Nation. We're all entitled to freedom of speech in this country, and I do...

I'm pieved!  I had a conversation this evening with my brother ...a die-hard Redskin fan.  He's a bit disgruntled that his Skins won't be able to draft Matt Barkley since Barkley announced earlier today that he would stay at USC and complete his senior year.  I...

Just when you thought this guy has it all and has done it all, he kicks it up a notch. Bam!! Following each of the many one-night stands up in his Trump World Tower bachelor pad, Derek Jeter, the all-time Yankee hit leader and 12-time All-Star sends his babes home in...