Cavs Fans Out Of Luck & Cheap Pizza By Dinner?

Northeast Ohio residents hoping to take advantage of Papa John’s 23-cent pizza offer as their evening meal better have Domino’s on standby.

The CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER serves up news that the pizza chain may run out of pies by dinnertime. Today’s 23-cent special was in response to Papa John’s sponsorship of LeBron James’ “Crybaby” shirts during […]

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16% Of Bama Football Tix Reserved For Students?

If you’re an Alabama student who can’t wait to roll with the Crimson Tide at Bryant-Denny Stadium next season, better take a number.

The university’s CRIMSON WHITE newspaper (via EDSBS) reports that only 16% of the stadium’s seats are allotted to the Tuscaloosa enrollment, the 3rd smallest allotment in the football-fanatical SEC.
But school officials argue that […]

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Tiger Stadium Finally Coming Down? Probably.

After years of wrangling with local preservation groups and other distracting matters, the city of Detroit has awarded a demolition contract for the final knee-whacking of Tiger Stadium. The city will pay nothing for the service; selling off the scrap from the neglected ol’ girl will raise over a million dollars for the firm […]

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Curse Or Worse: Did Cubs Throw 1918 Series?

The 1919 Black Sox are forever embedded, for better or worse, in the history of our national pastime for conspiring to throw the World Series. But a recent development leads THE SPORTING NEWS to wonder if the Cubs of 1918 also might have been guilty of the same thing. They might only be looking at […]

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Blog-O-Rama: ADHD In Baseball; Repeat That?

• STEROID NATION has a look at ADHD drugs as they pertain to baseball.
• YOU BEEN BLINDED says Stephen A. Smith wants the draft rigged in favor of the Knicks. Like that would ever happen (cough: Patrick Ewing).

• DEUCE OF DAVENPORT breaks down the Bernard Hopkins beat down.

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Cuban, Allen Vote Against Sonics Move To OK City

Despite the best efforts of the blogosphere, the NBA owners have voted overwhelmingly to approve the Sonics’ move from Seattle to Oklahoma City. But it wasn’t a unanimous decision.

CBS SPORTS reports that Friday’s final tally was 28-2 in support of the move. The two owners casting the dissenting votes were Mark Cuban of the Dallas […]

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It’s Only $95 To Watch Zero-Sum Huskers Football

So, let’s just get one thing out of the way. College football scrimmages are a waste of time. There it is. I’m sure there’s some degree of comfort fans might get by seeing their favorite collegiate athletes wear colored helmets and block and tackle some … well, other players on the same team, since there […]

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Fox Sox-Yanks Viewers Switched To NASCAR Start

Bottom of the 9th. Two outs. Two strikes. The Boston Red Sox, up 4-3, are one more out away from defeating their hated rival, the New York Yankees. Robinson Cano is at the plate. Here’s the windup and the pitch …
*CLICK!*

Welcome to tonight’s exciting NASCAR action!
Such a scene was seen by by viewers on Fox […]

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Final Four Tix Commanding Small Fortune

If, say, hours before tip-off of the Final Four, you felt compelled to try to get a seat at the Alamodome tonight, prepare to pony up some dough, as the SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS discovers tickets are going for as much as $6,000 apiece.

“As of Thursday morning, the average Final Four transaction on StubHub was $770, […]

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Getting Drunk At A Padres Game Isn’t Cheap

This baseball season will be the fifth for the Padres in San Diego’s plush Petco Park.

It will also be the fifth consecutive year that beer at the ballpark will be more expensive than the previous season. And that’s just the way baseball likes it.

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