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Manny (Brett- and Chichester) being Manny (Brett- and Chichester)

Post author By BostonMac
Post date August 11, 2008
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By Ryan P. McGowan

They say celebrities always die in threes, such as my personal favorite celeb death trio: Jacques Cousteau, Jimmy Stewart, and Gianni Versace in June/July 1997. And since Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes died within one day of each other, if you’re an overweight, middle-aged black comedian, I’d make sure you are within an arms’ reach of a defibrillator over the next few days.

Apparently, celebrities get overexposed in the media in threes as well. Like George Costanza in velvet, I have ensconced myself in wall-to-wall coverage of Manny Ramirez, Brett Favre, and “Clark Rockefeller” over the past couple of weeks.

Tags Boston Red Sox, brett favre, manny ramirez, ny jets, unsolved mysteries

All Other Sports

Oak Tree to Unretire Seven of the Greatest Jockeys of All-Time- and Julie Krone

Post author By bsd987
Post date August 10, 2008
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Something here is not right.

Like the kids game, which of these is not like the other: Cordero, Vasquez, Hawley, Day McCarron, Bailey, Stevens, Krone.

Krone? Julie Krone? Amidst a list like that?

College Football

Alabama Fan Shows That Sports Too Can Be Inhuman

Post author By bsd987
Post date August 8, 2008
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I missed this story. Completely. Had no idea about it. And in some way, I’m glad I did. It’s just so inconceivable, so inhuman that I would rather not even know about it.

And until now, I did not know about it, living in permanent ignorance. Not on this planet, never on this planet.

College Football

Is Boston College The Most Underrated BCS Team Of All Time?

Post author By collegefbfan8898
Post date August 7, 2008
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Mention the Boston College Eagles in relation to the college football world, and one thing comes to mind. Sports fans from all around will make reference to the 1984 game against the Miami Hurricanes. You know the story. The Eagles needed a touchdown to win the game. A few seconds left on the clock. Flutie takes the snap, scrambles around, and tosses a very long pass into the end zone. Some guy (Gerard Phelan for you con-college football experts) caught the ball on what would be later labeled a “Hail Mary” pass. The BC Eagles stunned the Miami Hurricanes 47 – 45. Fans, and not just the ones from Chestnut Hill, will mention this game as one of the best finishes of all time. But wait, Boston College has established some college football prominence over the last few years.

Tags bcs, boston college eagles, College Football

General Sports

The NFL- NBA- MLB- and Even (gasp) Golf: The Wackiest Week in Recent Memory

Post author By djcfla1
Post date August 7, 2008
2 Comments on The NFL- NBA- MLB- and Even (gasp) Golf: The Wackiest Week in Recent Memory

By David J. Cohen

I’ve been watching sports for many years and every once in a while, you’ll hear something that makes you chuckle. Most weeks in sports are exciting but as far as the giggles go its rather mild. This week has been a firestorm full of madness. Hilarity ensues…

Tags Golf, MLB, NBA, NFL

All Other Sports

Pimlico Race Course as Good as Closed

Post author By bsd987
Post date August 6, 2008
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This might as well be the end. This might as well be a funeral.

For the past two decades, every horse racing news out of Maryland was one of contraction. Whether it was the end of the Pimlico Special, the fabled stakes race that once pitted Seabiscuit versus War Admiral in a march race, or purse cuts or requests not to have race dates at Pimlico, it has been a near-constant struggle.

Tags horse racing, magna, maryland, pimlico, preakness, thoroughbred racing

Video Games

Video Game Review: Top Spin 3

Post author By Vin
Post date August 5, 2008
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Tennis is a strange sport for a video game. I think you’d be hard pressed to find 5 people you know who own a console and play tennis competitively. Now, most people don’t play football either but that doesn’t stop Madden from being a juggernaut franchise. The difference though is that everyone watches football while high level tennis television ratings are about equal to the John Deere Classic in golf. Didn’t see it? Don’t worry — nobody else did either.

So why make a game that has no players and no TV audience? Well, because you can actually take your time to make a polished game. Without yearly refreshes and tight deadlines, you can do something like completely revamp your controls and create a game that makes sense. While EA is busy making games for kids on the short bus and your grandmother (All Play!), 2K Sports went the opposite route and made Top Spin 3 harder than ever. So while the learning curve is pretty steep, Top Spin 3 is absolutely worth it.

Tags maria sharapova, Tennis, Video Games, xbox 360

Seattle Supersonics

An Open Letter to Sonics Fans

Post author By TokenCanadian
Post date August 5, 2008
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By Scott Gilmour

Dear Seattle;

First off, we would like to officially welcome you to our hell. You see, our city is a charter member of that small fraternity of places that know what it’s like to lose their team. Actually, let us rephrase that: have their team ripped away from them under the watchful eye of a short, New York-living commissioner with a law degree. More than that, we felt that we should pull you aside for a man-to-man, city-to-city talk. The kind of talk that almost certainly has to take place in an old bar over a tall pint of beer.

Tags basketball, canada, david stern, gary bettman, hockey, ny jets, seattle, sonics, supersonics, winnipeg

Chicago Cubs

Chicago Cubs Midseason Review

Post author By brianjstultz
Post date August 5, 2008
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We have reached the midway point of the 2008 Cubs season and the season has gone about as well as any of us could have hoped. Great pitching, solid clutch hitting and contributions from every player has led the Cubs to the top of the National League Central and tied for the best record in baseball with the Los Angeles Angels of Anahiem of California of the United States of North America of the Planet Earth.

Tags chicago, Chicago Cubs, piniella

NFL General

Sunday Night Football

To some, Sunday is a time to unwind. To many, it is a day of worship. I spend my Sundays relaxing while praising the football gods. It is an American tradition to participate in the great sport of football. Unlike with most other sports, you do not need to physically be in the game to be a football participant. It is as much of an experience for the player as it is for the spectator. The trials and tribulations experienced by players on field translate to fan emotion off field. Therefore, for this past November’s Sunday Night Football game–this season’s undefeated team to beat, the New England Patriots took on my favorite team, the struggling Philadelphia Eagles–I decided to focus on the onlookers of the game instead of on the game itself (being a fan of the game, this was harder to do than it may seem).

Tags football, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles