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12 stadium tour

Currently on a twelve baseball stadium tour in twelve days. Just completed first leg in Milwaukee and now in Minneapolis about to head to the twins. Follow along at 12in12.ipeat.com.

Matt Millen Erie Connection?

Did anybody hear the Football Today Podcast on Oct. 9th?  Jeremy Green was talking with Bill Williamson about the Raiders.  When they got to the subject of possibly hiring a general manager, Matt Millen’s name came up and Jeremy Green said quote. Its a long flight from Oakland back to Erie, Pennsylvania So my question [...]

New Faces at the Aussie Open

Both Federer and Nadal lost their semi final matches in the Australian Open to Novak Djokovic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga respectively. This ends the long time domination by tennis’ top two players. For Djokovic who has been nipping at their heals for the past year, he could claim his first Grand Slam title from the relatively [...]

Is this a movie or am I dreaming

If you haven’t been paying attention the Colorado Rockies have made it to the World Series on a winning streak, 21 of the last 22 games, that makes you feel like you are watching a movie. What is their secret do they have a tyrant owner trying to sell the team to warmer climates or [...]

Iron Mark

Mark Martin is just some 200 odd points out of twelfth after yet another top ten finish. While this may seem trivial remember that he has started five less races than the rest of the field. And now that Kyle Busch has signed with Gibbs and Earnhardt goes to Hendricks next year, this makes the [...]

Dan the Man Majerle hits two improbable shots before pregame show

I loved following Majerle when he was playing with Barkley and KJ. And he is still entertaining us. AJSPS Technorati Tags: Dan Majerle, PTI

Twitter Draft Solution

If you really get into the NFL Draft but don’t want to waste 10 hours in front of the boob tube or a computer waiting for your teams’ pick. Give twitter a try. I found this NFL Draft Twitter today. Not sure if it for real but I am going to give it a try. [...]

Bye Bye Mare

In prep for the upcoming draft, I took a visit to the Miami Dolphins page. Sadly, I found that on April 3rd Miami had traded their Kicker Olindo Mare to the Saints for a sixth round selection. As a long time Dolphins fan this is a sad moment for me Mare has been a rock [...]

No Ring, Small Cars, iPod Dilemma

Yesterday on Salisbury and Rosenbloom, they discussed an article on askmen.com, Top 10 Athletes Without Championships. And of course on the top of the list my favorite football player Dan Marino. Of course this spurred the discussion of who should have been on the list included on the list were Charles Barkley and Karl Malone. [...]

NBA insanity, MNF mixup, Tennis powers

Van Gundy has suggested that to solve the non-problem of teams dumping games to get more balls the lottery system, that all NBA teams should be entered into the lottery with equal amount of balls. “I think every team should have an equal chance at winning the lottery, from the best team all the way [...]

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