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31 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
The Sports Randomizer
-The NFL has changed its logo for the first time in almost 30 years. They presumably spent a lot of money on this, so it's a good thing they got their money's worth. -First dodgeball, now tag. A Colorado elementary school has banned the game of tag on its playground, because children were "chased
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31 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
SEC Football QB Studs
The SEC has gained respect around the nation because of its amazing athletes — usually on defense — that seem to shut teams down when they play out-of-conference games. With all the focus having shifted from the offense to the defense, there is still one thing that hasn't changed in the
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30 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Strahan, Why So Sad?
It's Aug. 29 — the NFL season kickoff is right around the corner, and Michael Strahan still hasn't decided whether to report to the Giants. NY Daily News is reporting that Strahan is still taking "the next day or two" to sort out what he wants to do regarding the season. This is just one of th
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30 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
The Sports Randomizer
-Tim Couch used steroids and HGH? How could anyone use not one, but TWO performance enhancers and still be THAT bad? -Drew Henson was released by the Minnesota Vikings on Monday. It's interesting how fast highly touted two-sport athletes can become zero-sport athletes. -Mike Mussina has been p
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29 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
What To Do With an All-Star Gone South?
This just in: Mike Mussina is no longer a good pitcher. Hell, he's not even a mediocre pitcher anymore. Yes, shocking news to all of you, I know. Mussina couldn't have possibly picked a worse time for the Yankees and their fans to lose his Hall of Fame arm. Admittedly, late August is not a good tim
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29 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Angels Fans + Postseason = Annoying
Don't look now, but the Angels are absolutely on fire and look to safely cruise into the post-season. They are up by three games on a Mariners team that is seemingly incapable of catching the bats and arms of the California team. So just go ahead and kill me now, because I don't think I can stoma
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28 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
SEC vs Pac 10 in Week One … Pac 10 Could Use This Win
I doubt anyone will dispute the SEC's claim of being the toughest conference in college football. Take a look at the pre-season AP poll. Two top 10 teams. Six top 25 teams. Even the unranked teams are tough. Clearly, from top to bottom it's the best conference out there.Of course, Pac 10 fans feel d
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28 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Five Things to Expect This Year in the SEC (Where Games Actually Matter)
Photo courtesy of www.thehogblogger.comIn the first of many blogs on the SEC, I begin with five predictions I've made for the upcoming year. For a complete list of my weekly predictions, feel free to check out my blog, Sports Wrap Up Blog, at www.nola.com/sports. Photo Courtesy of http://www.dawgbl
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27 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
The Sports Randomizer
-Mark Cuban will dance out the post-season anger on "Dancing With The Stars" next season, where he will undoubtedly find conspiracy in the officiating (Go get 'em, Cubes!)-Lance Briggs' 0,000 black Lamborghini was found wrecked on a Chicago expressway today. This just in: Football fans no longer
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27 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Top Ten Worst Sports Fans
10.) Cincinnati Bengals fans: Tigers can't change their stripes, and Cincinnati Bengals fans can't change how fickle they are. During the lean years of futility in the franchise history, in which the team posted 14 consecutive losing seasons, seeing a Bengals jersey on the street happened about
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27 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Five Football Things I'm Pretty Damn Sure About
1. Preseason NFL Football is better than the Stanley Cup Finals It's early in the third quarter and I'm watching the Eagles and Steelers play a real snoozer right now. Kevin "Corn on the Kolb" (yes it's pronounced "Cob" and pretend I'm Chris Berman for that one) is in, and I really just d
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26 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Croyle's The Backup ... And He's Nuts!
So, the Kansas City Chiefs have named their starting QB for the season and it's ... Damon Huard. Or is it Brock Huard? I always get them confused. Actually, though, does it even matter. If you're a Chiefs fan, you CAN'T be excited for the season based on what you've seen in the past three weeks.In
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24 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
The Sports Randomizer
-Texas / Oklahoma football rivalry leads to castration. Of a fan. In a bar. By another fan. Seriously.-Andy Rooney provides a cogent example of why people shouldn't ramble publicly about things they don't know anything about. In his case, sports. Because apparently in Andy Rooney's head, all moder
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24 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Marbury Backpedals
After writing about (and being rather harsh on) Stephon Marbury yesterday following his unfortunate comments to the camera concerning Vick, I feel it's only fair to touch on his explanation of said comment today. Marbury gave the New York Post an interview today in order to clear up what he felt wer
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22 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
The Sports Randomizer
-Stephon Marbury defended Mike Vick (in the most idiotic statement since Clinton Portis uttered "it's only dogs,") equating dog fighting to deer hunting and maintaining that dog fighting is just a sport. Now if only we could set up a bloodsport match between Portis and Marbury, where only one leave
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22 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
This Just In: Vick Not Even A Good QB
On a busy and disappointing week for the former Falcons quarterback, sources close to the Michael Vick camp have confirmed to me that, “Vick’s really not even that good.” This comes after Vick has agreed to a guilty plea in his dog-fighting case. The plea, of course, will put him out of footba
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22 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Rex Grossman Most Thrilling QB Alive
Rex Grossman is the most exciting player to watch in sports, ever. Unless you are a Bears fan, of course If you don't care whether the Bears win or lose, however, watching Grossman is thrilling. It's like watching the ultimate exercise in futility. How will he mess up next? How ridiculously ill-c
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22 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Denied!
Proposing to a girl on the big screen during a sports game has got to be pretty much the dumbest thing men ever came up with in the long history of dumb things men come up with. Believe me when I say that I've disappointed enough women in my lifetime to sort of understand them, and if they have a
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21 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
I Miss My U
Watching the Giants-Ravens game Sunday night made me really depressed. Why, you ask? Because it's reminded me just how mediocre my beloved alma mater, the University of Miami, has become. Currently on their team, the Ravens have Ray Lewis, Ed Reed and Willis McGahee. The Giants have Jeremy Sh
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20 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
My Fantasy Football Nightmare
Like most of you, I'm playing fantasy football this season. And, like most of you, I can't wait. In fact, I've already bought the magazines, read the "experts" columns and started putting together my draft board. But yesterday all my joy, excitement and anticipation was sucked out of me when the com
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20 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
The Sports Randomizer
-Eric Gagne had a water bottle thrown at him by a fan Friday night for forgetting how to pitch after joining the Red Sox. -Two Iowa wideouts were arrested and suspended for credit card fraud, which will undoubtedly move them up the draft boards at the Cincinnati Bengals head office. -Kobe Bryant
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20 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Vick to Star in His Own "Longest Yard"
The other shoe has finally dropped in the Mike Vick case with Vick reportedly ready to plead guilty to the charges, although this shouldn't particularly shock anyone. Once the federal government comes at you with an indictment, the chances of getting out unscathed are roughly equivalent of the cha
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18 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Donaghy Dropping Dimes
It really figures that two days after writing a story about how Stern is taking this Donaghy thing way too hard, that I would be proven to be a total idiot. That's because Tim Donaghy is reportedly about to drop the dime on 20 other NBA refs regarding gambling. Not necessarily illegal gambling,
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18 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
McNabb Plays Game, Doesn't Get Injured
Donovan "the man with one knee" McNabb looked surprisingly good in his return to the field in the Eagle's preseason game against the Panthers yesterday, completing 6-of-9 passes for 138 yards and most importantly, got sacked and got back up. Fantasy football speculators are undoubtedly already mo
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17 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
The Sports Randomizer
-Pat Summitt filed for divorce. No word yet on whether the split has anything to do with the image of her in a cheerleader outfit. -ESPN "reported" this week that Colts' safety Bob Sanders is "craving burgers and pizza" after a recent diet. Brilliant. I'm sure the Pulitzer is in the mail. -Ci
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17 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
The Sound of Cardinals Fans Weeping
The only thing that could make Cubs fans happier (aside from an open-goat policy at the Wrigley Field gates) than being a half game back of Milwaukee right now in the NL Central is news that Carlos Zambrano has finished his negotiations with the team and has finally signed a million, five-year
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17 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Justice? Or just a smarter way to gamble.
Yesterday we learned that Tim Donaghy has pleaded guilty and is now in negotiations to accept a plea bargain from federal prosecutors. Donaghy, for the charges brought against him, could face up to 25 years in prison. Yesterday we learned that Michael Vick is also in negotiations to accept a p
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16 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Offerman Channels His Inner Marichal
It’s really amazing this sort of thing doesn’t happen more often. I’m talking, of course, about Jose Offerman going Juan Marichal on John Nathans and Matt Beech last Tuesday, attacking both with a bat after getting hit by pitch. It’s really amazing that we went 42 years without seeing
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16 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Chin Up, Mr. Stern
Could David Stern possibly sound any more beaten and defeated than he does now? With each bit of news released surrounding the Tim Donaghy spectacle, Stern looks more and more like a man being led to the gallows. Now, Stern has certainly never been Mr. Personality and comes off as one of the s
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15 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Weekly Sports Randomizer
-Shaq takes a visit to China to dress up as a superhero, because it's not fun enough to be a cop in Miami. -New Eagles' punter Saverio Rocca got lit up by a late hit during a preseason game. It was glorious. Nothing signals the beginning of NFL football like a punter getting jacked up by a cheap
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14 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Holy Cow! I'll Miss You, Scooter
Growing up, I was a die hard Yankee fan. Over the course of an entire season, maybe I missed five games a year. My life literally revolved around the Yankees. And they weren't even that good. But it didn't matter. As long as I could watch Mattingly, Righetti, Winfield and the rest of the boys - and
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14 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
A Strange Year of Fantasy
After years of blissful fantasy football league fun, I’m excited for the fantasy draft this year more than ever. Typically, fantasy drafts are very formulaic processes where everyone pretty much knows how the first few rounds are going to play out, with a few exceptions here and there. For e
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14 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
More Like Steely McDumb
It’s been one week since the Steelers unveiled their laughable mascot, Steely McBeam, to the unabated derision of the sports world as a whole. That week has not diluted the hatred expressed by many Steelers fans towards the Cowher caricature, nor has it lessened the joy of Browns fans everywher
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13 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
NFL Denies Reports of Vick Suspension
The NFL denied reports yesterday that Goodell was ready to hand down a year-long suspension for Mike Vick, as had been reported on Yahoo. Vick had been told not to report to training camp, but so far no other sentence has been handed down. The commissioners’ office is reported now to still be
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13 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Russell Should Stay Out of Oakland
JaMarcus Russell, first overall draft pick with the Oakland Raiders in the 2007 NFL draft obviously did not start the Raider’s first preseason game on Saturday, still holding out from the Raiders until the contract money is right. Word of advice, Russell: there isn’t enough money in the worl
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13 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
McNabb to Sit Preseason Opener
In a move that shouldn’t particularly surprise anyone, Donovan McNabb will not play the Eagle’s preseason opener against the Ravens on Monday. A.J. Feeley will instead take the start with Kelly Holcomb getting the secondary backup reps. Controversial (at least in Philadelphia) draft pick
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13 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Ankiel Brings Heart Back to Sports
Last week I wrote about Bonds’ historic home run being the massively ironic feel-good story in sports this year due to the fact that it took the NBA referee scandal and the Vick dogfighting case off of the front page of the sports section, at least momentarily. Immediately after writing it, how
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10 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Old Timers Game Revisited
Not so fast! What the hell is going on with the NBA? Old players, with lots of arthritis, seem to be coming out of nowhere saying they want back on the court. Is this a last ditch effort to get that elusive ring? Is it a hunger to be back on the court and in the middle of the action? Or ar
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09 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Bonds is Feel Good Story of the Summer, Ironically
It has been a tough summer for sports, to say the least. Between the sickening Vick dogfighting indictment and the horrifying details coming out surrounding that situation and the NBA referee scandal, I can’t remember a time when horrid sports stories dominated the sports universe and mainstrea
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08 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
756 Has Been Hit, But What is it Worth?
With Bonds’ 756th home run clearing the right center field fence last night in San Francisco, speculation began immediately in my mind regarding the value of the ball for the lucky fan who caught it. Certainly we will all find out soon enough with the inevitable auction that will determine th
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08 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Problems Already for the Saints?
They became the new America's team last year following a magical year, reinspiring the devastated New Orleans area and becoming a damn good football team in the process. The Saints looked prime to continue the wave of emotion and talent into the new season, but things are looking rocky early for th
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07 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Cubs Remain Cursed!
Given the Cubs' torrid play over the last month and their steady gain on the first place position in the NL central, the Cubs appeared to be in the midst of a season of destiny stirring memories of their amazing (and heartbreaking) play during the "year of the Bartman." Just as then, Cubs fans have
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07 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Are the X Games Cheating Imminent Disaster?
Despite my love for the X Games competitions every year, particularly the Moto X and skateboarding portions, I’ve long worried that a serious injury and/or death was an inevitability at some point. This worry is particularly potent when one factors in the events and tricks getting bigger,
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07 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
In Defense of Barry Bonds
What an over hyped mess this Bonds home run chase is. Now, its no surprise that Bonds is one of the most hated athletes on the planet (perhaps of all time) mostly because of his attitude toward the press and fans of baseball who don't reside in San Francisco. Of course, most people will claim the
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06 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Tom Glavine May Be Baseball’s Last 300 Game Winner
With Tom Glavine’s 300th win last night over the Cubs, baseball fans have most likely witnessed the last time ever that a pitcher will hit that hallowed mark. Glavine makes the 23rd pitcher to make the list of 300 game winners, and surprisingly, only the fifth lefthander on the list. The b
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06 Aug
Blog: Bleacher Bloggers
Bonds Went Yard, Can I Stop Pretending To Care Now??
Well, it's finally over. Barry Bonds caught Hank Aaron in San Diego Saturday night and I have to tell you ... I don't think it would be humanly possible for me to care any less. I mean, how astonishing is that? The most prestigious record in all of sports, and most of the baseball fans I know could
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