Look, the guy’s an injured rookie. They don’t come much more obscure than that. I can hardly put him any higher can I?
He’s shaved off the luscious locks, but Gabbert looks as much of a liability as ever. The Jags don’t exactly have anyone else though, so he’s safe for now at number 31. If it were a list of cool names though, he’d be top 5 (Drew Brees at 1, of course).
Amidst all the dirty steroid talk that hogs baseball headlines, one of the true nice guys in sport marked an exceptional milestone. Ichiro Suzuki’s line drive into left field was his 4000th hit in a career spanning both Japanese and Major League Baseball. Those Japanese League hits won’t count in the MLB record books, obviously, but it is worth noting that with the rules on international free agents what they were when he began, the American Majors were not really an option. That was until a few tweaks in the laws allowed him to sign with Seattle as a 27 year old, and Suzuki quickly...
In the grand stage show of professional sports, Alex Rodriguez is one of the bad guys. But as scathing as I have been about the guy in the past (I take none of it back) and despite what Major League Baseball may have thought, Alex Rodriguez is still good for the game. Because plays a crucial role, one that no great story can do without. He plays the villain.
FIBA Oceania Men’s Basketball Championships
Australia, as expected, came out on top in the two game series to claim the Oceania Men’s Basketball Championship. A 70-59 win in Auckland gave the Aussie Boomers the advantage, and they hammered it home with a 76-53 win in Canberra.
Look, I understand that baseball needs to be clamping down on drug cheats. They are a permanent stain on the game, and the recent Biogenesis bans are a good step forward. But I cannot help but feel that they are doing this more for the reputation of the MLB than for the interests of the game. They want to show that they’re stamping down on cheaters, but they don’t want the bad PR that comes with exposing such frauds. So they’ve tried to do both. And as the great Ron Swanson once said: It is better to whole ass one thing than to half-ass two...
Injury is the bane of the professional athlete. Greg Oden knows this better than anyone. He once had the basketball world at his fingertips, but persistent injuries have kept him from ever getting close to his potential. His is a tragic story of wasted talent, but there may be a redemptive turn in his tale yet.
Well, that was a bust. Only three major trades came through on deadline day, and none were especially exciting. Still, a number of teams have enhanced or damaged their season’s prospects, if mostly via their own inactivity. Here’s the breakdown of this morning’s moves:
