Roundup: Average MLB Salary Nearly $4 Million; Katie Nolan vs. YouTube Comments; Eggnog Contest Winner Hospitalized
By Jason McIntyre
The tale of Rico Harris, the former prep basketball star who disappeared. [Fox Sports]
Nice read on Cardale Jones, the Ohio State QB who will try to beat Alabama in a playoff game on New Year’s Day. [SI]
Average MLB salary hits nearly $4 million. [LA Times]
Former SI longform writer Gary Smith: The story that got away was Al Davis. [Irish Examiner]
How soccer is reshaping the NFL. From Ndamukong Suh to Odell Beckham to Ezekiel Ansah to Andrew Luck, they all played lots of youth soccer. [WSJ]
Bob Glauber’s with me: Jets need to go all-in for Jim Harbaugh. [Newsday]
Andrew Wiggins had a nice game against the Cavs – 27 points on 16 shots – but Cleveland rolled Minnesota, 125-104.
If you’ve got DirecTV, congrats! You get Longhorn Network in January. [Statesman]
Really sad story from Doris Burke: One of her brothers was killed when he was in high school while working at a gas station. [Courier-Journal]
Oregon WR coach Matt Lubick hadn’t eaten a hamburger in decades. [Go Ducks]
Cost-cutting CBS has pulled the plug on Jim Rome’s TV show, but his radio show lives on. [Sports Business Journal]
Is Jameis Winston worth the trouble? [SI.com]
Columnist goes to Ann Arbor, dresses up like Jim Harbaugh. School wasn’t in session, so nothing really happened. [WSJ]
The Entourage movie trailer: Yes, yes, yes.
Katie Nolan gets a lot of nasty comments on youtube. So she talked trash to them, Andrew Luck-style.
Derrick Jones, a high school kid, but on an impressive dunking show last weekend. Wait for the last dunk. Pretty sick.