With three weeks left in the regular season, the bubble is shrinking. Next week, we’ll just examine the bubble teams – which number roughly 20, by our count – at this time. Here’s last week’s offering. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for February 9th, 2010
George Hill is apologizing to his team, fans, family and girlfriend for some nude pictures he took last year. “A year ago I made a mistake and take full responsibility for my actions. I have matured and learned from this episode.” For those of you that enjoyed last month’s theme of Greg Oden’s member, just wait. Since Hill isn’t a former #1 pick, we might not hear as much about this crank , but don’t be surprised if more junk surfaces.
[CBSSports.com via @RealFreemanCBS]
Erin Andrews’ Peeper Had Other Targets, like Female Sports Reporters and Actresses
Courts, Legal, ESPN, Erin Andrews 12 Comments »
Michael David Barrett, you’ve got issues. “Also, as he did with victim Andrews, defendant ran “People Searches” (a type of Internet background check that can produce information such as date of birth and home address) on more than 30 other women between Nov. 25, 2006 and July 2, 2009. These women included other female sports reporters, as well as other television personalities.” [The Smoking Gun]
We’re a few weeks late on the December numbers, but you’ll find them below. All the big boys had a terrific month. Can they thank Tiger Woods? He got in the accident late in November, and there was Tiger news seemingly every day (every hour?) in December. You’d think traffic would slow down around the holidays with everyone taking time off work and spending time with family instead of surfing for sports news … but no. We’ve included the December 2008 numbers as well so you can see the kind of growth everyone’s had. (And because we always have trouble coming with an idea for a photo here: Brooklyn Decker.) Read the rest of this entry »
The Detroit Free Press became “Freep” a few years back. Now? It’s Scott Boras’ PR firm. While other outlets are breaking news, Freep’s John Lowe brings us word, through Scott Boras, that free-agent outfielder Johnny Damon loves Detroit.
Damon roots for the Red Wings.
David Brooks Shocker (!): Academia is Wrong – Big-Time College Sports Are Good For Everyone!
College Basketball, College Football, Dumb College Kids 41 Comments »
In Friday’s New York Times, columnist David Brooks defended the status of big-time collegiate sports: Read the rest of this entry »


The Bachelor: Happened upon this show last night - probably for the 2nd time since the season when Jesse Palmer was on it - and one of the finalists is named Gia. She looked familiar ... yup, same Gia Allemand who dated Carl Pavano of the Yankees. She also was linked to a hockey player on the Senators named Chris Campoli. [Bachelor] (9)Gia From the Bachelor Used to Date Carl Pavano of the Yankees
1-liner, Baseball, NHL, Television 9 Comments »

The Bachelor: Happened upon this show last night – probably for the 2nd time since the season when Jesse Palmer was on it – and one of the finalists is named Gia. She looked familiar … yup, same Gia Allemand who dated Carl Pavano of the Yankees. She also was linked to a hockey player on the Senators named Chris Campoli. [Bachelor]
