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?
If you’ve been distracted by all the NBA action lately, chances are you missed one of the NHL’s great performances last night.
We all know Albert Pujols is one the best players in baseball, but on Thursday night he also proved there is no I in team. While hitting his 14th homerun of the season he took out the I in the “Big Mac” sign at Busch stadium
Hayden Panettiere is all grown up now. The nineteen year old has gotten a long tattoo message written on the left side of her back, in Italian.
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.
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
Roger Federer has won his first singles title of the season and his first against Nadal on clay in we can’t remember how long. Roger won in straight sets 6-4, 6-4 against the world number one who was clearly a different player than the one witnessed yesterday against Novak Djokovic in the longest ATP match in history, 4 hours and 2 minutes. Nadal never seemed to get the fire necessary to turn things around as he did in yesterday’s second set against Novak who had won the first won so decidedly
At the Madrid Open, Rafael Nadal faced an unbelievably tough opponent in Novak Djokovic of whom Nadal handed the first set over 3-6. It then became a battle of wills in the next two sets that would last a little over four hours but each would end in two tie-breaks; one in which Nadal completely controlled, and the other where he fought off two match points. Although Nadal led in the error category 50 to 43 and trailed in winners 31 to Djokovic’s 37, Djokovic’s a major downfall to his excellent game was his inability to convert more than 2 of 8 break points, a couple of those being match points