Sadly, the AVP Volleyball Tour has come and gone from Los Angeles this summer, and somehow I missed the events in Hermosa, Manhattan and Huntington Beaches.

(Zamparelli: Volleyball player or popular race team in Formula Bun circuit?)
But I’m pleased to report a happy ending to the SoCal season for those like me who missed it: […]

Remember when main media and sports blogs went absolutely wild in criticizing ESPN’s new crackdown on Tweeting ESPN employees? If you’ve been paying attention since ESPN management took that enormous public relations hit, it’s clear that 99% of the memo that went out about the new policy is not being enforced by the suits @ […]

Gina Carano is headlining an MMA card for something called “Strikeforce” in San Jose tonight that Steve Cofield of YAHOO SPORTS calls, “the biggest fight in women’s MMA history.”

(Got you thinking about if Gina really did do that sex tape?)

Guys (and girls?), what’s hotter, Gina Carano …

… as a badass

… in a […]

Give athletes this: with enough time and opportunity, they can figure out incredible ways to get injured. True, nothing’s going to top John Smoltz trying to iron a shirt while he was wearing it. Or Clint Barmes trying to carry too much deer meat up a flight of stairs and breaking his collarbone. But Phillies […]

One of the biggest allures of seeing a baseball game is the food. Sure, all sports’ stadiums sell food of some sort, but only baseball has the deep emotional connection to hot dogs, nachos, and all the other sensory overloaders that come with an evening at the ballpark.

(Yum.)
So it would seem that the best food […]

Recall, if you will, that the major off-season move in the NFL was undoubtedly the Bears sending Kyle Orton and a truckload of picks to Denver for “disgrunted” Jay Cutler. The general consensus was that it was a fine move by Chicago, but that they overpaid - badly - for Cutler.

(Orton, during a rare moment […]

In a parity-rich league like the NFL, it’s kind of hard to sustain a legacy of poor play. When bad teams get good draft picks year in and year out, eventually, they’ve usually got no choice but to morph into a good team.

(Obligatory, of course.)
Oh, but then there’s the Bungles-err, Bengals. Since 1991, they’ve achieved […]

Recall, if you will, the Nationals’ decision to draft superprospect Stephen Strasburg with their first pick, knowing full well the inherent difficulty they’d encounter trying to sign him. Strasburg’s reportedly good enough to be a top-level starter now, and his agent (notorious inflationist Scott Boras) is willing to do anything to keep him out of […]

Back in the days of Little League, no matter how bad-blooded the games were (usually not very), at the end of the game, we always shook hands with the opposing team. And without fail, there was always one jackass who would spit on his hand before hitting the line. That usually engendered more hostility than […]