Baseball is often most fun when anomalies collide. Like the Royals and winning. And a switch-hitter facing a switch-pitcher.

Such a fantastic event happened last night when Pat Venditte, who can pitch with both hands, met switch-hitter Ralph Henriquez in the bottom of the ninth in a Class A minor-league game.

Remember the scene in Billy Madison when Bradley Whitford disgustingly asks, “Are they gonna throw a party every time he passes a grade?!” That’s how I’m beginning to feel with these Boston/New England championship parades.

It may not be long before Bostoners begin to feel the same way, as the taxpayer cost of all of these […]

If you enjoyed watching that 3-9 football season that Notre Dame put together last year, there’s plenty more where that came from.

NBC has renewed their TV deal with the amusingly independent football program with a 5-year extension. Now if only coach Charlie Weis could expect such contract security.

The NHL reminds more and more of an abandoned fantasy team; any points they score are just out of blind luck. Take for instance the legal action enacted by Gary Bettman & Co. late yesterday.
The league has gone to the courts to request the right to discipline the owners of the New York Rangers, the […]

The announcement of John Harbaugh as head coach of the Ravens came as a surprise to many.

It certainly came as a surprise to the University of Cincinnati, who interviewed Harbaugh for the top job at their football program, and turned him down, twice.

Pacman Jones is no more.

Adam Jones is reportedly asking that he no longer be referred to by that name. So for that reason, I look forward to calling him Pacman for another 10 years.

In the dying wake of SpyGate, another football team has been outed as sign stealers: the 1997 Northwestern Wildcats, specifically in their game against Michigan that season.

(Bill Belichick not the only huge, fake boob stealing signals, wives?)
Stealing signs with the naked eye is legal in college football, and if it wasn’t for a couple of […]

An international soccer website is reporting that futbol sensation Ronaldinho was offered a 32-million-euro deal from the L.A. Galaxy (that’s about $49.58 million US, and it’s “after tax“).

But how can the Brazilian say “Não” to that kind of cash?

The BOSTON HERALD is reporting that ESPN recently released a statement apologizing for remarks made by ESPN.com PAGE 2 writer Jemele Hill. The statement addressed Hill’s piece from last week where she compared rooting for the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals to “saying Hitler was a victim.”

Hill has since revised her column, leaving much […]

We know Tiger Woods can slow down the field, but slow down the economy?

Turns out that Monday’s 18-hole playoff for the U.S. Open championship took a toll on Wall Street.