Alan Draper

Last week, the Houston Texans stayed up late to come from behind and beat the San Diego Chargers, 31-28, in…

Check me out, sometime tomorrow morning on 660 AM in Pittsburgh. You can hear me on the Kegs and Eggs…

The Can-Am Worcester Tornadoes have offered Manny Ramirez a contract for two years at $24,000. With Worcester as my birth city and a city I still frequent multiple times a week, it would be great if he signed.

The Tornadoes have had former Red Sox prospects play for the team such as Greg Montalbano and Ed Reilly, who pitched the first ever Tornadoes game and then retired immediately after the game. Former Red Sox catcher Rich Gedman has been the manager since inception. Johnny Pesky and Roger Clemens were among those that attended Tornado games in 2008. I attended the first game for the Tornadoes; you can read about it here (sadly, the pictures no longer work).

Austin Rivers has been awesome through four games and arguably deserves a chance to start.

‘Twas nary a month ago it feels when Pat Williams said something like “Fuck ya’ honky honkeys, I’m out uh…

Paw Prints is our daily look at the happenings for the UConn Huskies football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams…

Well, it happened. As had been widely rumored since the day after the season ended, the Tennessee Titans concluded a…

UConn starting quarterback Casey Cochran is out with an injury and Chandler Whitmer is in to take his place Saturday…

From Britt Robson/On The Ball:  I have long been a supporter of Wolves owner Glen Taylor, who, especially compared to…

From the trained eyes of our photographer Christine Gunn, it’s the Eastern Conference Champion Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2015 training camp.

I caught this pic on my M train as it was pulling into my stop in Queens last night. Sorry…

We’re live blogging the game tonight, starting at 8pm.  And unlike earlier in the season, we’re going to be hosting…

It is time for our first question-and-answer session of the year. As I have done before other recent Titans-Texans games,…

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While we all hope the future holds brighter days, we find ourselves looking ahead after yet another failed season in…

We’d like to announce a new partnership with TruFan.com… a pretty fast growing site that you might have seen on…

ESPN will broadcast three Philadelphia Phillies spring training games as part of its programming schedule next month. The Phillies will…

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Not much has changed this week in my look at the Heisman picture. One of my top players for consideration…

Week 2 certainly wasn’t the crowning glory of the American Athletic Conference’s season, with only Houston and Connecticut on the…

Learn from the past so at to avoid repeating mistakes, they say. But what if history tells us nothing? The…

I once attended a roundtable for writers put on by Susan Shapiro, where editors from big-name publications like the New…

The Cowboys go into Buffalo as the last undefeated team in the NFC. The Packers dropped one to the Bears….

Following Penn State’s TicketCity Bowl loss to Houston, the Fan Tab confidence rating in the Nittany Lions was set at…

I’m on record:  I hate that Kevin McHale is now a joke in the NBA.  But when he does things…

Days to provide fans with free Angel vouchers while celebrating the 66ers and Angels affiliation (San Bernardino, CA) – The…

Interesting story coming out of Wisconsin last night.  A player named Eric Oertel from a school called Racine Lutheran High…

Wednesday News/Links:  7/15/09 Catch up on all the latest news with this Wednesday edition of News/Links. Prospect camp has come…

The C’s just tweeted that after the Jazz told them Deron Williams was a game time decision… Jerry Sloan came…