Archive for February, 2008

Pitcher CJ Wilson Gets His Blog On, Gets in Trouble

Posted February 29, 2008, 4:24 pm by Jason McIntyre (19 Comments)

Curt Schilling needs to give Rangers pitcher CJ Wilson a crash course on how to blog. OK: Hammering the media. Not OK: Generalizing baseball players as douchebags in a blog post: “Come on man you have to admit the median or average guy in a baseball clubhouse does drive an SUV, drinks beer, golfs, likes [...]

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Sources: That Big East Coach Fight? Seton Hall’s Bobby Gonzalez vs. an Assistant*

Posted February 28, 2008, 4:48 pm by Jason McIntyre (12 Comments)

Two independent sources we spoke with claim that the Big East coach who threw fists with one of his assistant coaches was Seton Hall’s Bobby Gonzalez. The sources say that on February 17th, as Seton Hall was headed to the locker room for halftime, trailing West Virginia 45-30, an agitated Gonzalez went “nose-to-nose” with an [...]

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Spiezio Just the Latest LaRussa Casualty

Posted February 28, 2008, 1:22 pm by Jason McIntyre (56 Comments)

Is the only reason that Tony LaRussa is still coaching the Cardinals because of that 2006 World Series title? Because in the last two years, here are just a few of the sordid off-the-field incidents that have taken place under the watchful eye of the drunken skipper (who is still in denial about Big Mac [...]

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Fun with a Pat Forde Blind Item

Posted February 28, 2008, 11:09 am by Jason McIntyre (61 Comments)

ESPN’s Pat Forde, probably one of the most underrated reads over at ESPN, had a delicious blind item in his most recent column. It has left us stumped. Help is necessary. “Spies tell The Minutes that a Big East coach who shall remain nameless (38) recently got into a halftime argument with one of his [...]

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Can You Hear Me Now? Sampson Out at IU

Posted February 22, 2008, 6:52 pm by Jason McIntyre (25 Comments)

Kelvin Sampson, Indiana’s cheating coach, has just been fired. Looks like the school bought him out – $750,000 – and the press conference is going to happen shortly. His cell phone malefeasance won’t put him in Tark the Shark or Jim Harrick territory, but when the votes are tallied this weekend (you know, the imaginary [...]

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Tom Brady, that NFL Combine Workout Wonder

Posted February 20, 2008, 4:52 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

What unathletic, unchiseled, untanned college kid is going to unimpress NFL coaches at the combine week, fall to the second day of the draft, and respond by winning three Super Bowls, and earning MVP honors in two of them? We eagerly await this year’s workout wonder, and the low and high scorers of the most [...]

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Hunter Pence Has Trouble With Sliding Glass Doors

Posted February 19, 2008, 12:14 pm by Jason McIntyre (21 Comments)

Remember Clint Barmes tripping on deer meat and breaking his collarbone? Or John Smoltz scalding himself while ironing a shirt – that he was wearing? Or the time Sammy Sosa threw out his back while sneezing and missed a game? Not nearly as bad, but still embarrassing: Hunter Pence (a guy who carried our fantasy [...]

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