A laurel and hearty handshake to SNY’s Gary Cohen, deserving winner of our inaugural TV Voice of Reason Award for this exchange with Ron Darling entering the bottom of the eighth Friday in Boston: Cohen, after listening to almost everyone in Fenway singing together: “Fenway Park, where the fans actually like the song ‘Sweet Caroline.’” Darling: “Everyone participates. So loud
This week’s Sports Illustrated included an article from its “vault” on Tom Seaver’s 300th victory, for the White Sox at Yankee Stadium in August of 1985. It mentioned 54,032 cheered the conclusion of the event, but even if that many tickets were sold, I promise you there were not that many people in the stadium at the end.
After a day’s worth of flying — had a lengthy layover at Dallas/FTW (FTW!) — I landed at McCarran International Airport in Vegas at about 10 p.m. last evening. Garry from PokerNews met me at the baggage carousel, and when my overstuffed bag finally turned up it felt a little like I’d won at roulette
You’d think that at some point someone would have clued Tito Jones in on the fact that he was in a fight and not a sparring match. In fights, you actually have to defeat your opponent, not just rock them and let them recover
The New Orleans Saints Jeremy Shockey was taken out via stretcher from Rehab , Las Vegas’s best pool party of the week. Rehab is arguably the greatest pool party in the world
Women’s action at Roland Garros began with defending champion Ana Ivanovic winning in straight sets.
A tip from the Joker to get your betting day under way…. Lugano. It’s the Swiss Monte Carlo, apparently
Form and results point to Matt Dartnall’s speedster, says The Lord. You have to fear (!) a number of things, more of which later, but there really is only one greyhound that can win the Derby at Wimbledon on Saturday - and that’s Ballymac Ruso ([3.7]). It’s the only scenario that form students can have after the quarter-finals and semis, because Matt Dartnall’s dog has been faultless from the boxes and set the fastest time in the event in both races.
Speaking of short outfield porches (see three posts down), here is a question I’ve asked before and never had adequately answered: Why are baseball outfields deepest in centerfield and shallowest in left and right? Why not a uniform distance all the way around?
Speaking of Barbara Barker’s feature on athletes who tweet, I got three tweets in three minutes reporting K-Rod was ambulatory in the Mets’ clubhouse this Sunday morning. Thanks, Lennon, Burkhardt and Davidoff! (I don’t remember how we all muddled through the 20th century without this stuff.)