The Cowboys' 7-6 win was a bit like a Bob Ross painting: We don't want to [...]
Short on preliminaries this week, since the list is longer – I’ll get right to it.
1. Mosies Seirra: 9-24-1988 / 6′0″, 225 / signed as free agent out of Dominican Republic
Like some other positions, this is a list with a very close choice for the top [...]
Coming into Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Hornets, the Miami Heat was in a bit of a skid. It had lost its previous three contests and four of its last five. Playing at home against a Hornets team without Chris [...]
Coming into Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Hornets, the Miami Heat was in a bit of a skid. It had lost its previous three contests and four of its last five. Playing at home against a Hornets team without Chris [...]
Coming into Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Hornets, the Miami Heat was in a bit of a skid. It had lost its previous three contests and four of its last five. Playing at home against a Hornets team without Chris Paul was a [...]
Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul (!) Morosi of Fox Sports report that it looks unlikely Roy Halladay will come to the Cubs:
The Cubs would love to trade for Blue Jays right-hander Roy Halladay, but they would need to clear salary to pull off [...]
Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul (!) Morosi of Fox Sports report that it looks unlikely Roy Halladay will come to the Cubs:
The Cubs would love to trade for Blue Jays right-hander Roy Halladay, but they would need to clear salary to pull off [...]
Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul (!) Morosi of Fox Sports report that it looks unlikely Roy Halladay will come to the Cubs:
The Cubs would love to trade for Blue Jays right-hander Roy Halladay, but they would need to clear salary to pull off such a move, [...]
#1 – Atlanta Hawks
The best team of the NBA so far. Josh Smith has been superb in the first 14 games. He has been the horse they have been riding. The Hawks had a weird loss to the Hornets Friday [...]
We received the official press release form the Washington Nationals announcing their 2010 Coaching Staff. Here they are:
Manager: Jim Riggleman
First Base: Dan Radison (NEW)
Third Base: Pat Listach (returning)
Pitching: Steve McCatty (returning)
Batting: Rick Eckstein (returning)
Bench: John McLaren (NEW)
Bullpen: Jim Lett (NEW)
[...]
With the free agent signing period officially underway, we would’ve thought that the first news to come out would be an announcement of a deal for a starting pitcher. Turns out it’s news about a player already under contract for [...]
Blue Chip of the Week: Antawn Jamison
What can you say about the return of Antawn Jamison apart from, “Thank God!” and “About time!” Jamison missed the first 9 games of the season with a shoulder subluxation, but [...]
On Friday night, November 20th, the Miami Heat will be visiting the Toronto Raptors with high hopes of breaking their recent slump. After consecutive losses to the Thunder and the Hawks, the (7 – 4) Heat are [...]
Garrett Wolfe, a third round pick in 2007 out of Northern Illinois has landed on the injured reserve for the second straight season.
Wolfe suffered a lacerated kidney in the November 8th blowout against the Cardinals. Wolfe had 22 carries for 120 yards and a touchdown so far [...]
The Associated Press first reported early today, November the 20th, the New York Knicks won’t pursuit free agent PG Allen Iverson. Iverson, who cleared waivers on Wednesday night and became an unrestricted free agent, was expected to be targeted and maybe even sign with the [...]
For several years, the long-abandoned Laurel Hill Tunnel in western Pennsylvania has allegedly been a aerodynamics test site for Chip Ganassi Racing’s NASCAR and IZOD IndyCar Series teams. During this time, we’ve heard a couple of educated guesses about what exactly goes on inside that [...]
I watched Wednesday night’s Detroit-Dallas game on the NHL Network within a morbid context. On my commute home last night I read ‘Detroit: A City on the Brink,’ published last month in The Week magazine. I recommend it as must-reading for [...]
Green and Cardinal on a roll
As readers know, I use what I call “Point Value over Average” to measure the Milwaukee Bucks performances. PVOA compares the Bucks performance to the NBA venue-adjusted average and can thereby provide a [...]
Yesterday brought sobering news to Blazers fans when word broke that Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen had been diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma earlier in the month. It’s a non-hodgkin’s form of lymphoma. It isn’t the first time Paul Allen has [...]
ESPN’s Mike Sando gave an early look at what’s going on with Pro Bowl voting.
I’m not really concerned with the other teams so here’s an update on where the Cardinals players stand…
Adrian Wilson is first in Pro Bowl voting for [...]
Maybe this is why the Bucks don’t sell out
This post has nothing really to do with the Milwaukee Bucks or the NBA, but I was laughing my ass off reading a post from a different blog linked to on Footballoutsiders.com, and [...]
I figured your penis needed a cup of morning joe and it was time to put all that vitriol aside as we enter Friday Funday here at FinsNation. So here’s Kelly Brook. The hottest goddamn bitch on the planet and I will fight you [...]
By Brendan Tyman
The battle of speed vs. power could lead to an even bigger bout between the heavyweights of the pound-for-pound divisions.
If Manny Pacquaio, the Filipino, defeats Cotto, this might set up a possible match between Pacquaio and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Pacquaio has a whole [...]
So concludes our marathon pre-fight coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2009, Manny Pacquiao against Miguel Cotto. Don’t forget to join us for a live blog of the bout Saturday! We’ll do round-by-round coverage of all the evening’s fights, and the more people join in [...]
J.C. Bradbury is an economist at Kennesaw State University and author of the popular blog Sabernomics. He uses economic principles for baseball analysis, which often makes him an iconoclast in sabermetric circles. We haven’t spoken to him since April, so it’s good [...]
The 2009 Copa Sudamericana semi-final first legs were competed on Thursday and saw Fluminense and River Plate (URU) gain one goal edges going to the second leg next week.
Fluminense 1 Cerro Porteno 0
Fluminense struck gold with a 1-0 win on the road over Paraguayan powers Cerro [...]
The Washington Capitals face off tonight against the Minnesota Wild in Washington. They will do so without Alexander Ovechkin.
Ovechkin practiced with the Caps yesterday, but did not disclose when he will return.
The 24-year-old Russian said he’s got his [...]
The Flyers tallied their fifth straight win on the season with a convincing 5-1 win over the Ottawa Senators. It was another team effort with four players accounting for the five goals. Danny Briere was the star of the game with his [...]
The Flyers tallied their fifth straight win on the season with a convincing 5-1 win over the Ottawa Senators. It was another team effort with four players accounting for the five goals. Danny Briere was the star of the game with his [...]
Surprising Answers
For my last two posts I needed to calculate the Win Contributions of 3 of the new Minnesota Timberwolves (Sessions, Flynn, and Ellington). They are all making positive Win Contributions. So how are the Timberwolves 1-6? Either I screwed up my [...]
My vacation pushed back my posting schedule a little, but Indianapolis is in my rear view mirror and I’ve now caught up with a few of the other weekend developments — some mentioned above, some not — so we’re about to begin our marathon coverage of Manny [...]
When a team usually acquires a star player — say, a future Hall of Famer — in an overwhelmingly one-sided trade, there’s no doubt that they won that deal. Or so it would seem.
There was no way the Cavs were losing this one. They [...]
When a team usually acquires a star player — say, a future Hall of Famer — in an overwhelmingly one-sided trade, there’s no doubt that they won that deal. Or so it would seem.
There was no way the Cavs were losing this one. They gave up basically [...]
The internet used to be pretty cool. Some boobies here, some sports news there- everybody went home happy.
But now?
Now it’s fucking nuts! I mean who has the time to even think about creating a video like the one below? Even Al Gore has to be pretty impressed [...]
Would you put these guys in charge of a team?
Via Big Stein, we have Sonny Jurgensen talking on 980 AM this morning about the fate of Vinny Cerrato is tied to [...]
Would you put these guys in charge of a team?
Via Big Stein, we have Sonny Jurgensen talking on 980 AM this morning about the fate of Vinny Cerrato is tied to [...]
Would you put these guys in charge of a team?
Via Big Stein, we have Sonny Jurgensen talking on 980 AM this morning about the fate of Vinny Cerrato is tied to the Sherman Lewis [...]
Twitter isn’t for everybody, as Phil Rogers demonstrates:
The Milton Bradley rumors going around the GM meetings, like the brown acid at Woodstock, are not specifically good.
What would constitute a “good” Milton Bradley rumor? One that is, um, true?
Twitter isn’t for everybody, as Phil Rogers demonstrates:
The Milton Bradley rumors going around the GM meetings, like the brown acid at Woodstock, are not specifically good.
What would constitute a “good” Milton Bradley rumor? One that is, um, true?
[...]
#1 – North Carolina Tar Heels
The defending National Champions are still the team to beat in my opinion. Hansbrough, Ellington and Lawson are now gone but no other coach has as much depth in the sophomore class than Roy Williams in order to replace them.
#2 – Kansas [...]
Front Row Motorsports is looking to run two cars in the 2101 season full time. They are also looking to a manufacture as well.
Kevin Conway is going to try to qualify for all three events at Phoenix this weekend. He will try to qualify a [...] 
In what will be a flashback of last years Eastern Conference Finals matchup, the Orlando Magic will take on the Cleveland Cavaliers for the first time this season.
Cleveland hasn’t necessarily gotten off to the start that most analysts and [...]
The Red Sox renegotiated Tim Wakefield’s annual option today. Wake had been working off an auto-renewing option locked in at $4 million, but the aging knuckleballer struggled with injuries in 2008 and 2009, forcing the Sox to tweak the deal for future years:
Extra Bases: The [...]
Egad! The kapman and his legion of nincompoops better turn on Billy Williams in a hurry:
Billy Williams, the Cubs Hall of Fame outfielder, former coach and current senior adviser, says he is not ready to give up hope that Bradley could become a [...]
Egad! The kapman and his legion of nincompoops better turn on Billy Williams in a hurry:
Billy Williams, the Cubs Hall of Fame outfielder, former coach and current senior adviser, says he is not ready to give up hope that Bradley could become a productive player for [...]
Bogut’s big weekend
I updated the Bucks individual Win Contribution chart after the Knicks game. As you can see, the numbers have changed radically since my initial WC chart of a week ago. They’ve somewhat inverted. Andrew Bogut has had [...]
Bogut’s big weekend
I updated the Bucks individual Win Contribution chart after the Knicks game. As you can see, the numbers have changed radically since my initial WC chart of a week ago. They’ve somewhat inverted. Andrew Bogut has had three good games [...]
This is one post that every baseball fan should check out. Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumorslooked at the top 50 free agents of the offseason and predicted where each would wind up before next spring.
The Trib can’t get Milton Bradley out of town fast enough. Headline today:
After getting rid of Milton Bradley, Chicago Cubs have 3 priorities in offseason
So, is that four priorities? If so, why not save space and say “Cubs have 4 priorities [...]
The Trib can’t get Milton Bradley out of town fast enough. Headline today:
After getting rid of Milton Bradley, Chicago Cubs have 3 priorities in offseason
So, is that four priorities? If so, why not save space and say “Cubs have 4 priorities [...]
The Trib can’t get Milton Bradley out of town fast enough. Headline today:
After getting rid of Milton Bradley, Chicago Cubs have 3 priorities in offseason
So, is that four priorities? If so, why not save space and say “Cubs have 4 priorities in offseason”?
Other than [...]
Here are some notes from the weekend:
The Red Sox declined Alex Gonzalez’s $6M option for 2010 over the weekend. It is believed that the Sox will continue to talk with Gonzo about staying in Boston at a lesser price. Some feel that Gonzalez’s [...]
Here are some notes from the weekend:
The Red Sox declined Alex Gonzalez’s $6M option for 2010 over the weekend. It is believed that the Sox will continue to talk with Gonzo about staying in Boston at a lesser price. Some feel that Gonzalez’s [...]
Here are some notes from the weekend:
The Red Sox declined Alex Gonzalez’s $6M option for 2010 over the weekend. It is believed that the Sox will continue to talk with Gonzo about staying in Boston at a lesser price. Some feel that Gonzalez’s [...]
Here are some notes from the weekend:
The Red Sox declined Alex Gonzalez’s $6M option for 2010 over the weekend. It is believed that the Sox will continue to talk with Gonzo about staying in Boston at a lesser price. Some feel that Gonzalez’s offense (or lack [...]
After scoring just four goals in five games, the offense came alive for the Boston Bruins on Saturday night. With the Buffalo Sabres in town, the Bruins jumped out to a 3-0 lead, en route to evening their five-game total with four goals in [...]
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