Alan Draper

A little curve ball this morning. These guys are members of the Mini Ponies, a New England track and trails…

Every so often, you stumble upon someone on Twitter that (A) you’ve never heard of and (B) you’re kicking yourself…

1) Eli Manning is set to get a 6 yr deal worth ~$97M. That’s a lot of hospital birthing centers….

Linda from Connecticut has a blog, that doesn’t really have anything to do with baseball, but on a recent trip…

(Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports) Another month, another new name atop our consensus mock draft.  The current king of the hill…

(Mark Dolejs-USA TODAY Sports) The unthinkable has happened – Andrew Wiggins is no longer atop our consensus mock draft. And three prospects…

(Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports) The 2013 NBA Draft was widely panned as being among the weakest drafts in recent memory….

  The 2013 NBA Draft was widely panned as being among the weakest drafts in recent memory.  But 2014 doesn’t…

(Mark Zerof-USA TODAY)   We are only hours away from this year’s NBA Draft, yet there still is no consensus…

For a team that is returning all but 1 of its key players from last year’s regular season, the Celtics…

  This seems a lot like the banishment of Adam and Eve from Eden. No more Irish football. You think…

The November 4th, 2014 edition of daily news for the Los Angeles Angels including Richards on track in recovery, Howie…

The January 17th, 2014 edition of daily news for the Los Angeles Angels including Angels remain involved with Tanaka negotiations…

The August 1st, 2013 edition of daily news for the Los Angeles Angels including Angels have ‘unsettling clubhouse atmosphere’, Burnett…

We’ve been so obsessed with the Eagles depth chart during training camp that we may have overlooked what the Pittsburgh Steelers…

Don’t you do it. Don’t you dare do it. You’re watching those highlights from last night, seeing Albert go yard…

First of all, I’d like to dedicate this Guys on Ice to frequent reader Sleza, for agreeing with me on…

What’s with all the chicks with mini ponies lately? I mean, I’m not complaining, but it seems like once I…

It’s hard to believe that two short years ago to this day, North Texas Fisticuffs started as a low-level blog…

For once, Squawker Jon and I are united in our baseball fandom this weekend. And we were both equally thrilled…

A few more items for you on this Tuesday. ESPN will televise five Big XII football games this fall. It…

The Giants need to rebuild in 2016. Realistically they must confront the brutal facts and not think ‘title’ in 2016. Blue…

It’s a star studded episode of Fireside Chats as we first welcome Jeff Goldberg who tells us why he thinks Big Papi is going to be swinging a big stick this year and how Jon Lester’s contract extension could be the best of the Sox offseason moves. Jeff, a career newspaper journalist with the Hartford Courant before they made some deep cuts in the sports department last year, also gives us a candid look at where the media landscape. It doesn’t look bright for the newspaper industry.

From newspapers we turn the conversation to injuries and who better to talk to than Will Carroll from Baseball Prospectus. He is the injury expert (I’ve given second thought to using the word guru – thanks Will) and he tells us why we shouldn’t rely on Brad Penny, not to fear for Mike Lowell or David Ortiz, and that if Julio Lugo is half the woman that Mary Lou Retton is, he’ll be back on the field in short order (you’ll have to listen to understand the reference). All that and a new t-shirt contest after the jump!

  When Jim Rutherford pulled the trigger in December on sending out the extremely underwhelming Daniel Sprong to bring in…

Two years ago I lost my stepmother to ocular melanoma and it was fucking devastating. I’m going to head into…

For Philadelphia Phillies fans, it was the best of times, unless you are Ted Passon, who’s “best of times” turned into a “worst of times” at the flip of a switch, or in this case…car.

“Hey Philly, remember when we just won the world series for the first time in 28 years? That was great! Then my car got flipped over and that wasn’t great.”

Smiles everyone, smiles. Lots of reason for smiles at UCLA these days, as the Rick Neuheisel era has arrived with…

I had the outright privilege to talk with good friend (or pal, as he would prefer I put it) Andrew…

Update, 7:35 p.m.: Steve Zipay at Blue Notes reports that Marian Gaborik will miss tonight’s game due to the flu….