June 8 is finally here, and the Memphis Redbirds have a very important question to ask you - Got Clapp? Stubby Clapp, that is, whose likeness will be immortalized this evening when the Pacific Coast League team gives out Stubby Clapp bobbleheads to the first 1,500 fans attending their game with the New Orleans Zephyrs […]

First of all, the fact that Chad Ochocinco is on Twitter and nobody bothered to tell us is reprehensible. We’re not sure if it’s verified, but it certainly smells right: a self-taken profile picture, reference to it actually being him in the username, and most importantly, the pervasive, almost desperate earnestness that seems to inform […]

Lord knows there are many to choose from, but my favorite Adam Pacman Jones story has to be the one from August of last year, when he was informed that his NFL suspension was over while dining at Hooters. Yes, an NFL without Pacman seems somehow sad and incomplete — a notion I happen to […]

If Game 1 of the NBA Finals seemly confirmed the suspicion that the Orlando Magic didn’t belong on the same floor with the Los Angeles Lakers, at least the Magic put an end to that on Sunday night in Game 2. They remembered how to shoot (at least two of them did), played some (at […]

For the first time in many, many moons, I sat in a major league ballpark recently and watched two complete MLB games - pitch-by-pitch. (White Sox v. Royals weekend before last.) I worked as a professional baseball announcer for nine years, at the minor- and major-league level, and I must say that what I saw […]