News and Links for January 6, 2009…
I apologize for the delay in my links — holidays, death in the family, extreme case of what I think can only be the SARS or something like it… But either way, I’m back. Enjoy.
The May 2 mega-fight between pound-for-pound superstar Manny Pacquiao and 140-pound champion Ricky [...]
Sure, we can all say now that there is no chance Utah wins the BCS. Of course, they can’t when Florida is playing Oklahoma. But what about making the statement that for the 2008-2009 season, there was a 100 percent impossibility that the Utes won the BCS. Does that sound fair?
Without further adieu, the time has come to hand out the boxing awards for the year of 2008. This was a fantastic year of boxing, though in my opinion, not quite as good as 2007. With any luck (and from the signs of things, there is some luck) 2009 will be even better than both.
Every year I make a list of the fights that I want to see in the upcoming year. Last year, I got to see two of the ten that I wished for. Hopefully, I’ll get up to 50 percent in 2009. So here’s the ten fights I want to see in the next year, and the chances of them happening.
No sports year would be complete without the bizarre. The sports world is filled with some odd and interesting personalities, and if you follow them around for a year, you’re bound to run across some bizarre stories. Here is my picks for the top ten bizarre sports stories of 2008.
Continuing on with the end-of-year superlatives, it is time to name our top games of 2008. This one is always tough on a count of comparing great games in different sports. That comparison is what makes so much of this list debatable.
As the year finishes up, we are taking a look at some of the biggest stories from 2008 in the world of sports. This year was extra special, with an Olympics and a Ryder Cup to make international competition a headline, and between Tiger Woods, the Tampa Bay Rays, Eli Manning and the return of the Celtics vs. Lakers, 2008 was a fantastic sports year. Here are numbers 5 through 1.
As the year finishes up, we are taking a look at some of the biggest stories from 2008 in the world of sports. This year was extra special, with an Olympics and a Ryder Cup to make international competition a headline, and between Tiger Woods, the Tampa Bay Rays, Eli Manning and the return of the Celtics vs. Lakers, 2008 was a fantastic sports year. Here are numbers 10 through 6.
News and Links for December 22, 2008…
If you like broken legs, click here. If not, I will just tell you that if someone tells you to watch a video of a play from the Southern Miss vs. Troy bowl game, be careful. Southern Miss receiver DeAndre Brown snapped his leg while running, non [...]
Mark Teixeira entered the offseason as one of the most talented free agents in baseball, sure to command a nice salary. He likely will still get paid well, but has Scott Boras once again over-negotiated a star client to the point that they may have to back-track and take a previous offer short of what they wanted?