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
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
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?
YES’ Kim Jones talks to Ca-Boom about being an innocent bystander in the recent string of brazen whipped-cream attacks in the South Bronx.
photo by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com Doyle Brunson, legendary poker player, opens the 2008 World Series of Poker With Las Vegas daytime temperatures hitting triple digits the poker rooms around town are seeing increased business as poker players from around the world begin to make their way to the summer’s big poker show, the 2009 World Series of Poker.
A clarification on that post about today being the 70th anniversary of the first televised sports event: Actually, the Columbia-Princeton baseball game was the first televised event in the U.S. Nearly three years earlier, the Germans experimented with broadcasting some of the Olympic Games in Berlin.
The Yankees Thursday announced new procedures for batting practice that will allow fans without tickets near the field to get close to it - but not in the Legends Suite. I wasn’t that big on autographs as a kid, and I’m still not. Once I asked Bonnie Bernstein to autograph something at the Super Bowl because as a child she studied at the gymnastics academy my daughter was attending at the time.
If you are a sports fan who does not normally follow the National Hockey League, you really should strongly consider watching Game 7 of Penguins-Capitals Wednesday night. Thank you for your consideration, and have a pleasant evening. Photo: Getty (UPDATE: Oops.
Michael Irvin has gotten to know new Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez a bit, and he gave me some thoughts on him this morning: “He has something very few quarterbacks have. Quarterback is such an elite position and it’s always kept separate, almost next to the coach
Geeeeeeeeeeez. The golf media needs to chill out dude! So Tiger didn’t shoot 65 and make multiple eagles and give us the usual spectacular performance… neither did Cejka.