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This picture really is ...
On Tuesday night, the damp crowd at Yankee Stadium was eagerly waiting for the start of the game after a 50 minute rain delay. Michael Kay, Paul O'Neill, and Ken Singleton were announcing the game for the YES network, and as they were talking, the camera shots seemed to be avoiding shots of the field. Kay eluded that the Yankees had something special planned for the first pitch.
To honor Mariano Rivera for notching his 500th career save the other night against the Mets, the closer was going to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. The crowd roared with delight and ...
The first time I heard John Lennon's song "Imagine," I scoffed, spit, and pronounced it "Ono Pap." Just a dream like one of those things we had for Martin and Bobby, both dead, just frankly, irreversibly dead. Dead, dead, dead.
Who cares about impossible dreams? Someone will plant a bullet in them. Bulleted, slashed, sliced, dashed, nuked: this dream too will die.
Jim Brown's dream is sort of like Lennon's dream: a bunch of crap on fleeting review. Lennon penned a song asking people to think about a world without countries.
Jim Brown, the NFL Hall of Famer, and the greatest (there is ...
In history, men existed who with their way of life have inspired many others to act for something better. Some used words, other actions. But all simply did not quit even when facing enormous obstacles in they way.
The American athlete Jesse Owens was one of those men.
James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens was born on September 12, 1913, to Henry and Emma Owens. In his early years, he suffered from health problems. In fact, he almost died while suffering from a recurrent pneumonia. His mother helped him to overcome his illness and get back to his feet.
It was a difficult time for ...
I wonder what a Bleacher Report commercial would look like if Zander and the head honchos at B/R decided to make one. I wonder what it would look like if Billy Mays was presenting it...hmm...zzz...
This pitch was presented in front of a live studio audience.
Bored with sports? Is sports a passion that you can write about? Are your writing skills at least up to the minimum standards (i.e. at least eighth grade)? Think you can write about your hometown or favorite teams better than your local newspaper writers?
Hi, Billy Mays here with the solution. Welcome to the open source sports networking site ...
Speaking on HBO’s Real Sports, which is hosted by Bryant Gumble, Jim Brown said, "There are one or two individuals in this country that are black that have been put in front of us as an example. But they're under a system that says 'hey, they're not going to do a certain thing.' That disappoints me because I know they know better.”
Gumble asked Brown if he was referring to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.
"Yeah, I know they both know better, OK," Brown said. "And I know they both can do better without hurting themselves."
Maybe Tiger Woods missed the memo ...
There exists a fine line between what some call "real sports" and the virtual phenomenon that is fantasy sports.
But they are deeply connected.
Each stem from a passion, a love; for the game, the friends, the fans...the money. Each satisfy the hungriest sport's soul, and enslave us by moments of greatness; trapping us by addiction.
And yet they have such different backgrounds.
One game uses brains, the other, brawn. One uses a computer; an object regarded as holy by its owners. The other uses practice fields and treat them as the battlefield before the war.
Sports have been around since forever; 77 B.C. to be ...
National champion gymnast Keeley Kmieciak interview chat on The Athlete’s Sports Experience blog is tonight, Tuesday, June 30 at 7 p.m. CST.
Hope to see you there. (Note: Don’t Forget 8th-round MLB draft pick interview coming soon)
Link: The Athlete’s Sports Experience
Professional athletes who cheat the game by using performance enhancers should be made as an example of to the general public. They should be shamed to the point of no mercy, be punished for their actions, and serve a certain amount of time for their behaviour.
It seems as if we now live in a society that wants to tolerate such nuances, that the respect of the game and culture no longer applies to the status quo, or that people who are creative find ways to hide their shameful deeds in the hopes that no one would notice their unusual ...
Professional athletes who cheat the game by using performance enhancers should be made as an example of to the general public. They should be shamed to the point of no mercy, be punished for their actions, and serve a certain amount of time for their behaviour.
It seems as if we now live in a society that wants to tolerate such nuances, that the respect of the game and culture no longer applies to the status quo, or that people who are creative find ways to hide their shameful deeds in the hopes that no one would notice their unusual ...
