I’m busy dodging the treacly stories on Jon Lester’s triumphant return to health/MLB/no-hit status. Not because I’m a bitter cynic (which I am) but because this story’s Hollywood ending was never in doubt…

After reading T.J. Simers’s terrficially abusive column on the philosophical paradigm of one Andruw Jones, I called my friend at the L.A.

At 597 homeruns, it is safe to say that most are pulling for Ken Griffey Jr. to break the 600 plateau and would really have loved it if he could have been healthy enough to have challenged for the all-time record (you know the one held by *Bonds).

Sometimes I will admit I rag on girls for playing sports, but realistically one look at Jenny Finch striking out major league ballplayer after major league ballplayer and my point gets pretty washed away.

Apparently people have gotten to the point where we can fully not take a joke any more. Papa John’s Pizza issued an apology to Cleveland and the Cavaliers for making T-shirts…

In the US, online gaming is a $12bn a year business that is expanding despite the government’s opinion that it violates a law against placing interstate bets using telephone lines. I wrote a earlier post

I really liked this article from Yahoo Sports on the most embarassing moments in Major League Baseball history. Though I can’t argue with much of what is on the list, 2 other things would have made my top 10.
First, how can you not be embarrased about having an All-Star game that ended in a [...]

Watching the HR derby last night, I couldn’t help but be alternately amused and disgusted at the antics of the floating fan base taking in a view of the right-field facade of PNC Park. These people, in their brightly coloured canoes and kayaks, were so jacked up to watch the derby that they chose their [...]

If you follow hockey on any level whatsoever or if you caught Sportscenter after the American Olympic Hockey Team was announced, you would know that Jeremy Roenick was pissed and called his not being picked for the Olympic team the biggest snub of his career. Recently David Amber (formerly of TSN and now on ESPN [...]

We have about 35 million people in this great country of Canada and the fact that so many of them were glued to their television, radio or the Internet yesterday to see the live announcement (the simple fact that there was a press conference covered by all 3 is something unto itself) of Team Canada’s [...]

We’re 34 games into the 2005/2006 NHL season and the twine’s really poppin’. If you’ve been watching (or gambling) pretty hard you may have noticed another trend livening up the Canadian-ballet: overtime. Through 30-34 games we’ve seen 98 overtime losses. That means, essentially, that we’ve seen 98 overtime games. It’s not like that average old [...]