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?
ESPN’s resident Bostonian, Peter Gammons, said here on “Mike & Mike in the Morning” that the new Yankee Stadium is poorly conceived and widely ridiculed.
Oh, snap. I just remembered I’m supposed to be off today. Have to stop before the family notices
After battling injury for nearly all of last season, Maria Sharapova is slowly making a comeback in women’s tennis. Today she reached the third round of the WTA’s Warsaw Open, beating her opponent 6-2, 6-0
After battling injury for nearly all of last season, Maria Sharapova is slowly making a comeback in women’s tennis.
Ratings data from ESPN regarding Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference finals: The Nuggets-Lakers tilt Tuesday was watched in an average of 5.8 percent of homes with ESPN and by 8.1 million people, making it the most-viewed basketball game, college or pro, in ESPN history. Compared to ESPN’s coverage of last year’s Eastern Conference finals opener between the Pistons and Celtics, viewership was up 49 percent. Tuesday’s game averaged 16.1 percent of homes in Denver, the highest rating for an ESPN or ABC game in records kept since 2003
Don’t bet on it. In case you missed it, things already got underway in the West as far as the conference finals in the 2009 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs is concerned with the Detroit Red Wings humbling the Chicago Blackhawks with a devastating 5-2 beatdown. Inexperience was clearly on display as the Detroit Red Wings took advantage of the Blackhawks’ ineptitude.
Too much blog material, too little time. Please check back Wednesday for that.
Breaking : After Tony Kornheiser’s abrupt firing from Monday Night Football, the bald bitter broadcaster has been spotted roaming around Las Vegas craps tables betting wildly, pounding whiskey and hitting on mature, attractive vixens. He is still on the loose though. Due to his fear of flying, he may be seen busing around town with an enormous and dinosaur-looking man named John Madden.
Breaking : After Tony Kornheiser’s abrupt firing from Monday Night Football, the bald bitter broadcaster has been spotted roaming around Las Vegas craps tables betting wildly, pounding whiskey and hitting on mature, attractive vixens. He is still on the loose though. Due to his fear of flying, he may be seen busing around town with an enormous and dinosaur-looking man named John Madden