Articles by Alan Draper (245814)

Manny shoves traveling secretary to ground; threat against Sox’s black and Latinos

Never a dull moment around here. Houston seems to be the land where players get into it with their employers….

Read more

Personal Seat License Grief Counseling

The 5 stages of Personal Seat License Grief:1) Denial- “I can’t believe we have to pay off those rich owners.”…

Read more

Vlad’s Decline In Power Numbers

By Eric Notti – Angelswin.com ContributorJune 30, 2008 Behind every problem is a reason. There seems to be a simple…

Read more

This Week in Angels Baseball (June, 30th)

By Victor Varadi – Angelswin.com Columnist Overall Record: 49-33Games Ahead: 4.5Week Record: 3-3 Week in Review: If John Lackey (2-0…

Read more

Series Preview: Brewers (44-37) @ Diamondbacks (41-41)

The Brewers start the second half of their 2008 season with four games in Phoenix against the Arizona Diamondbacks.  The…

Read more

Should the Red Sox trade Kevin Youkilis for Mark Teixeira?

Talk about your loaded question: should the Red Sox trade Kevin Youkilis for Mark Teixeira? The logic? The Red Sox…

Read more

Bagpipe Monday… Warpath

With 2 months to go until college football kicks off, it’s time to get on the warpath.

Read more

MY WISH: An end to the SportsCenter My Wish segments

Steve (you remember Steve?) and were chatting on the interwebs today, and Sports Center came on. The following conversation ensued….

Read more

Malone and Lightning Agree to Long Term Deal

When the Islanders signed Rick DiPietro to an unprecedented 15-year deal it was considered crazy. It still might be a…

Read more

Manny Gets Into Altercation With Sox Traveling Secretary

Manny Ramirez was displeased with Red Sox traveling secretary Jack McCormick because he could not get him 16 tickets to…

Read more

Miller on playing for the Wolves

From Sid Hartman: Mike Miller, the Mitchell, S.D., native who came to the Timberwolves in Thursday’s draft-day deal with the…

Read more

Billionaire Boys Club – Lebron James

After watching the NBA Draft on Thursday, one of the big trades of the night was the trade that sent…

Read more

Wolves Updates 6/30

From Andrew Alberg/USA Today: That Love just happened to grow up idolizing former Boston Celtics great Kevin McHale was incidental…

Read more

Introductions Tomorrow

From Celtics.com… our draft picks will be introduced tomorrow morning Giddens, Walker and Erden To Meet Media in Waltham Tuesday…

Read more

In Appreciation Of… James Posey

We are spending some time looking back over the Boston Celtics championship season… in an effort to truly appreciate the…

Read more

“My Dream Came True”

One thing everyone keeps hearing about JR Giddens is that he's got a bit of an attitude problem.  If we…

Read more

Posey Opting Out Today

The Globe is reporting what we all know… that James Posey is opting out today.  He is likely looking for…

Read more

Welcome To Title Town

These are great times in Boston.  Show your city pride with our new "Entering Titletown" shirt.  click on the shirt…

Read more

Met Fan Knows What to Do With a Foul Ball From A-Rod

A Met fan in today’s Yankee game showed the proper technique for disposing of a foul ball from A-Rod. Watch…

Read more

The Week Ahead

As Euro 2008 has finished, the sporting eyes turn to the 4th of July holiday weekend in the United States…

Read more

Oki Is Not So Doki

I usually agree with Francona’s moves in a ballgame but I must say I was perplexed when he went to…

Read more

Terrible Cartoons take on the Astros

Have you ever actually seen the Astros mascot? It’s named Junction Jack and it is completely terrifying. Run. RUN FOR…

Read more

65

Coyotes traded for Brian McGrattan of Ottawa for a 5th round pick in 2009 that we aquired from Boston. It…

Read more

SOX ON DECK: June minor league notes

When Clay Buchholz was optioned to Pawtucket, it was with explicit instructions to work on (i.e. throw) his fastball. So…

Read more

Ben Sheets and Brewers bats ineffective in a dome

Sunday was a day that nothing went right for the Brewers in a 5-0 loss to the Twins. Ben Sheets…

Read more

A Sunday Link Thing

After a few glitches involving my computer, I think I’m ready to bring you some links this morning. Starting off…

Read more

Color Me Confused

Here’s a quote from an article yesterday, not taken out of context mind you, from a certain hockey blogger that…

Read more

Today’s Lineup 6/29 at Houston

CF Jacoby Ellsbury 2B Dustin PedroiaRF JD DrewLF Manny Ramirez3B Mike Lowell1B Kevin YoukilisC Jason VaritekSS Julio LugoSP Josh Beckett…

Read more

Sunday Hot Links

Some quick-hitters to get your Sunday going: Jeshua Anderson’s Olympic dreams are over for 2008. After winning the 400m hurdles…

Read more
Arrow to top