Archive for May, 2009

The Piling On Selena Roberts Continues: Salon, Toronto Sun, ESPN

Posted May 11, 2009, 10:45 am by Jason McIntyre (17 Comments)

A-Rod vs. Selena Roberts: “Most irresponsible of all, Roberts accuses the union of warning the players that their drug tests were coming up, an old charge that stems back to the 2007 Mitchell Report on drug use in baseball. If Roberts had bothered to check the basic agreement between the owners and players, she would [...]

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Former Colleague of Selena Roberts Relentlessly Rips to Shreds New A-Rod Book

Posted May 8, 2009, 9:30 am by Jason McIntyre (73 Comments)

The New A-Rod Book: Former New York Times baseball writer Murray Chass calls the new Selena Roberts book a “journalistic abomination” and hammers her much harder than Whitlock. He drives her head into the turnbuckle a dozen times. “There is far too much in this attack book for Roberts to expect readers to take it [...]

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An Interview with ESPN.com’s Mike Fish

Posted May 7, 2009, 2:29 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

Investigative sports writers are on the wane for a variety of reasons, but ESPN.com has one of the best in the business: Mike Fish. His recent piece on Lenny Dykstra generated a lot of news, but he also has done tremendous work on the Patriots Spygate story, as well as perhaps his most famous piece, [...]

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Terrelle Pryor and His 3.0 GPA Hopefully Can Crack the Terrible Heisman Threesome

Posted May 6, 2009, 4:15 pm by Jason McIntyre (79 Comments)

Those three would be the heavy favorites: Tim Tebow (won it two years ago), Sam Bradford (won it last year), and Colt McCoy (last year’s runner-up). Interesting little piece from Andy Staples of SI about how a darkhorse for the Heisman this year, OSU sophomore QB Terrelle Pryor, has mastered the nimble art of running [...]

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Eagles Backup QB AJ Feeley Has a Stalker

Posted May 5, 2009, 5:21 pm by Jason McIntyre (7 Comments)

It does not appear life-threatening, but she lived in his building. Can someone get Smoking Gun on the case? Sources tell us Muzaffar is believed to have stuffed sexually charged notes under Feeley’s door. [The police] who wouldn’t confirm that Feeley was the complainant, said the notes were not ‘sports- related.’ “I can’t get into [...]

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Confirmed: Udonis Haslem Cannot Believe the State of Florida

Posted May 3, 2009, 6:30 pm by Tim Ryan (100 Comments)

Udonis Haslem attended high school in Jacksonville, played college hoops for the Gators and has spent all six of his NBA seasons with the Heat, but this tattoo of Florida is off the charts.

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