Albert Haynesworth, the $100 million man (who really only has $41 million guaranteed but gets to claim nine figures, thanks to the NFL ego inflation the cap rules provide) has basically been the Washington Redskins’ offseason.  Six draft picks (mostly low ones) and the Haynesworth signing pretty much cover the waterfront on the Potomac.

However, the […]

One of the most effective ways to find blog posts is to go a Google News search on “football” and “arrested.” It never fails. But it’s usually pretty pedestrian stuff. But throw in an Ivy League school, and attempted feticide, and I’ve stuck gold.

A Harvard assistant coach has been charged with trying to run […]

After second-generation ballplayer John Mayberry, Jr. launched a home run in his second major league at-bat in today’s Phillies/Yankees game on Fox, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver lavished praise over John Mayberry, Sr. (a 14-year major leaguer) and expressed how proud he must be. The camera lingered over a man in a World Baseball Classic […]

The new Yankee Stadium is on a ridiculous home run pace, no one denies this. But the more level-headed pundits out there have chalked it up, somewhat logically, to a lineup that hits a lot of home runs, and the complete lack of a pitching staff.

But not Peter Gammons. The grand old man of the […]

You don’t tug on Superman’s cape; you don’t spit into the wind.  You don’t pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger and you do not make close calls in favor of the opponents of Connors State College’s baseball team.  These are the facts; Jim Croce made them easy to remember in song format, even.

(Umpires […]

Don’t live in Boston? I’ll catch you up to speed. No one likes Dennis Eckersley’s color commentary on NESN. He’s filling in while Jerry Remy recovers, and it’s pretty much a train wreck. He’s not particularly knowledgeable, his meandering anecdotes go nowhere, and he’ll out-and-out ignore the action. 

But we all stop to look at train […]

The Golden State Warriors’ front office cannot comprehend why their fans would feel the need to vent about their frustrations with the franchise. After all, they were winners dozens of time this season! 29 times total against 53 losses, but that’s just negative talk.

In the fight against negativity, Golden State Warriors public relations director Raymond […]

As you’ll remember, James Harrison declined to accompany the Steelers to meet President Obama. Instead he remained home and fed his baby son to his pit bull.

OK, that’s an oversimplification. But Harrison’s 2-year-old son James III was sent to the hospital after being bitten by the dog, and two other people were bitten while […]

Last we saw Gisele Bundchen, the supermodeling significant other of Tom Brady was featured in a photo shoot with a bevy of nude muscular black men. (And you thought her Vogue cover with LeBron was provocative.) But now it’s good to see Ms. Bundchen-Brady getting back to what she does best - baring her body […]

What last-second playoff buzzer beaters used to mean in Cleveland:

What last-second playoff buzzer beaters mean in Cleveland now: