Articles by Alan Draper (245814)

What happened John Daly

Well John Daly is up to his old antics and I am sure the PGA love it. I never thought…

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Report: Manny eyes the Bronx, chance to “punish” Sox

Just like 6.1% of all Americans during the economy’s recession, Manny Ramirez is currently unemployed and looking for work. Worse yet for the guy, there is a good chance the new administration is going to tax the bejesus out of him to spread the wealth around. Talk about kicking a guy while he’s down, right?

Standing in line at the soup kitchen, everyone talks about their dreams and aspirations for gainful employment. Manny the Ballplayer knows where he’d like to end up, too. According to a source in the New York Post, Ramirez wants to sign with the New York Yankees and have 19 chances a year to “punish” the Red Sox.

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Oh, Brother.

Last January, I had the privilege to attend a “Wild Unplugged” event. Two members of the Minnesota Wild appeared at…

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Football Friday Week X: Here We Go Again

Greetings Cougar Nation and Brinkhater Army. Hope you all are having a great week. Well, before we get to this…

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UConn Men Ranked No. 2 In USA Today/Coaches Preseason Poll

The first of the two major men’s college basketball polls are out and the UConn Huskies men’s basketball team is…

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Paw Prints – The Daily Roundup – 10/30

Let’s kickoff the post by taking a look at the highlights from the UConn Huskies 40-16 win over Cincinnati this…

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SEC 4th Best Conference

Looking over the Jeff Sagarin NCAA football ratings from the USA Today , I noticed that this “fuzzy math” has…

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It’s all about the line of scrimmage

McKenzie, Snee, O’Hara, Seubert, and Diehl (out of picture) break from the huddle. 3 Running backs who could start for…

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Wolves Updates 10-30

From Patrick Reusse/Star Tribune: Love’s final basket was a jump hook from inside the lane that pushed the Wolves’ lead…

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Season opener: Wolves 98, Kings 96

Wolves record: 1-0 Box Score “Celebrities” at the Target Center for the season opener: The Beach Boys’ Mike Love (Kevin…

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Musings of a Wolves Fan… (10/29/08)

Musings of a Wolves Fan (10/29/08) Season Record: UN-DE-FEAT-ED… or, 1-0. Wolves defeat Sacramento Kings 98-96 Well well well.  The…

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The Not Necessarily Incorrect Sports News Vol 12

– The fifth game of the World Series between the Phillies and the Rays was rained out in the middle…

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The Versus [drinking] Game of the Week (Buffalo at New Jersey)

I spent all day yesterday moving. I’ve been ready for this for about a week now, but thanks to some…

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Wolves Wrap: Wolves vs. Kings | 10/28/2008

The Season Debut of Wolves Wrap!

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Phillies win!

Congratulations to the Phillies on their World Series title. As for the rest of us, revert to hating the Phanatic….

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Q&A With Pond Hockey Producer Andrew Sherburne

Over the past week, I have had the pleasure of exchanging emails with one of the producers of the new…

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Congrats Philly

It’s about time. Kill that damn monkey already.

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Q&A Questions for the Packers

If it seems like the Titans just played, it’s because 48 hours ago, they were still playing.  Still, the NFL…

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Team exercises options on Foye and Brewer

From Don Seeholzer/Pioneer Press: The Timberwolves took care of a little business before tonight’s season opener against Sacramento, announcing that…

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Wolves Updates 10-29 Part 3

From Keloland TV: NBA standout and new Minnesota Timberwolves team member Mike Miller announced today a generous philanthropic campaign this…

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Me > You

Remember when I wrote my first-week review of Versus’ Sports Soup? It’s now on the Versus website. Go read it…

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Bad break

Did anybody see the highlights from the Houston vs. Marshall game from last weekend? What this video to see what…

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Red Sox Hot Stove Update

Jon Heyman at SI has a few updates on the Red Sox in his column. He believes Coco will be…

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Gamecock LB Norwood Named Lott Quarterfinalist

LOHD sends a big ‘Congrats’ to South Carolina’s Eric Norwood. He is one of twenty collegiate defensive players to earn…

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For Love of the Game: Yankees fan guilty

To recap, Rodriguez went to the bar to watch his favorite team play, they lost, he shot someone, then spent the next four years of his life in jail while the team, whose victory and alcohol fueled his murderous rage, wins two World Series titles.

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USC TE Jared Cook is “OK”/ Succop doing ‘research’

J Cook is “ok” according to Spurrier in this article and should play. This is an update to a earlier…

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Paw Prints – The Daily Roundup – 10/29

Chip Malafronte of the New Haven Register has some notes from yesterday’s press conference with Randy Edsall. UConn Huskies football…

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