Well this is one of the best plays you will see all year, and it didn’t come from the professionals. It didn’t even come from the college level! No this one came from the often overlook junior college baseball world. Derrick Salberg of little Lower Columbia College gives us one of the most unbelievable plays you [...]
Hype can get you a lot of things in sports; a big contract, endorsements, and the recognition of your peers — Washington Nationals 19 year old outfielder Bryce Harper is proof of this, and while he has begun to live up to the hype, he’s not there yet. Where he will be though, thanks to [...]
Premiere Edition of a new weekly column, reviewing the top sports news of the week. This week I review “Bountygate”, Bill Parcells possibly going to the Saints, Tim Tebow as a Jet, Dodgers being sold for $2 BILLION, Andrew Bynum’s benching, NCAA Championship Preview, and Nash to Miami? All this and my highlight and lowlight [...]
Talk about a pretty cool premiere. The Los Angeles Dodgers are having a solid season so far, sitting on a 53-46 record at the moment. The Dodgers shot out to the best start in baseball, but they have fallen off recently. They are only 2.5 games behind the Giants, but they knew they needed to [...]
You’ll have to pardon Southern Californians if we’re a little more, uh … distracted than usual. It’s been a veritable sportsgasm in the L.A. basin for the past month. The epicenter of it all has been the Staples Center. For the first time since it opened in 1999, all three of the building’s main [...]
How do you frame a moment in sports history that essentially frames itself? After all, Johan Santana’s 134-pitch masterpiece Friday night was the first no-hitter in the half-century-long history of the New York Mets. That’s really all the framing you need from a wide-lens perspective. But what makes a great moment so special is that, [...]