Archive for December, 2007
The Mitchell Report
Former Sen. George Mitchell delivered his Christmas present to Major League Baseball today, releasing his report on performance enhancing drugs.
Amazing enough, went you take a step back and look at the players mentioned and look at their physique and output the past few years, well - if it walks like a duck and talks like [...]
AHL All-Star voting begins online
Vote online for your favorite Iowa Stars players in the 2008 AHL All-Star Classic Fan Balloting.
Vote now through January 6 and help fill the AHL Planet USA team with Iowa Stars. You can also win prizes including a team signed 2008 AHL All-Star jersey, an autographed commemorative magazine or a t-shirt.
Hurry, this maybe one of [...]
Cubs get Fukudome
The Cubs burned the Padres this morning have agreed in principal with Japanese outfielder Kosuke Fukudome, to a four-year, $48 million deal. Pronounced “koh-skay foo-koo-DOUGH-may”, Kosuke was a first round draft pick of the Chunichi Dragons in 1999. Last year he was named Central League MVP, hitting .351 with 31 homers and 104 RBI.
US Open goes ‘Reality TV’
New York Times had a piece Sunday on how the US Open this June at Torrey Pines will include a bunch of average Joe’s teeing it up and have their sounds televised by NBC.
This a great idea and was born out of Tiger Woods’ comment last year when the conditions at Oakmont were such that [...]
I think the Iowa Stars have a prospect
Check out 9-year-old Max Gerlach from Flower Mound, Texas. Someone needs to forward this video over to Dave Allison and Scott White. We need to sign this kid.
Let’s have our own little BCS Playoff
It is very easy to complain about the BCS. I mean, the NCAA couldn’t put up a bigger bullseye to hit.
So, rather than rehash what is wrong with the BCS, our good friend Andy Launspach took matters into his own hands and setup a playoff system for D-1 college football and we’ll play the games [...]
Random thoughts on a Friday
This BCS nightmare has to end. Please, just set up a bracket with 12-16 teams, whatever –and play the thing off. The best submission this week was a well-thoughtout bracket from a listener and we’ll post a copy of it here next week. Then jump on the message boards here at 62andeven.com and lets hash [...]
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