Articles by Alan Draper (245814)
“My Best Opportunity Of Winning Them Rings”
Thanks to reader I Bleed Green in LA (Note: How much are YOU loving life right now???) for bringing up…
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Thanking The Celtics
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jCs5lnyPDk] My ongoing, blatantly overt effort to get free things from major corporations continues in the afterglow of the NBA…
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The incredible downfall of Javon Walker
The last time, I think, that NFC North teams really feared Brett Favre and his passing attack was when Javon…
Read more Wolves Updates 6/18
Michael Rand/Star Tribune plays golf with Corey Brewer and has the player read a scene from "The Notebook" (video). …
Read more More on Love’s workout
From Don Seeholzer/Pioneer Press: Reviews should be taken with a grain of salt at this time of year, but Love…
Read more Private party with LeBron James
OK, so this is blatant “look at me” blogging here…..and I know it, but it’s too cool to not let…
Read more Yeah, baby! Parra paces 7-0 win over Jays
Someone cut Manny Parra in my fantasy league a week or two ago (yeah, usually it’s me that gives up…
Read more Links of the Day 6/17/08
And I’m back. Check out what I did yesterday. I figured BMR was due for some geopolitical conversation. Former Purdue…
Read more Colon To DL, Chris Smith Called Up
Bartolo Colon is headed to the 15 day disabled list with a bad back. He hurt his back on a…
Read more 6/17: Coco?
Zach isn’t here. I think he might have forgotten to put up the game thread because he’s so despondent over…
Read more Tennessee era all-time team: right tackle
In contrast to the center position in the Tennessee era of the franchise, there has been relatively good stability at…
Read more Tonight’s Lineup 6/17 at Philadelphia
Youk is out another game after experiencing back spasms yesterday. Ellsbury sits with Coco in center and Lugo gets a…
Read more A Few Tuesday Afternoon Links
I’ve found a few more links this afternoon. First, Sports Illustrated’s Michael Bamberger chronicles for Golf.com how NBC produced the…
Read more Rashard Mendenhall Doesn’t Like Ron Zook, Illinois
(picture blatantly stolen from Kiss 96.1) From Foul Balls via Deadspin comes news that Steelers first round pick Rashard Mendenhall…
Read more Primetime & Late Night Viewing Picks
College World SeriesNorth Carolina vs. Fresno State – ESPN2, 7 p.m. MLBRed Sox at Philadelphia – NESN/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7…
Read more Dumbass Hank Blames The NL for the Loss of Wang
Chien-Ming Wang gets hurt running the bases last night and whose fault is it? According to Hank Steinbrenner it is…
Read more A-Rod and Pete Rose Love Each Other
Check out this bizarre story of Pete Rose and A-Rod’s text message relationship. They even sent texts on why A-Rod…
Read more Our Tuesday Linkage
We have a wide range of links today. Let’s start with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who looks over the…
Read more Tuesday’s workouts- Love and other bigs
From Mike Trudell/Timberwolves site: As for Love, Minnesota wasn’t the first NBA team to bring in other big, long players…
Read more Tiger Woods and social change
The world will soon overflow with the digital ink expended in the quest to describe Tiger Woods performance over the…
Read more Wolves Updates 6/17 Part 2
From Zach Eisendrath/Timberwolves site: Q: On picking third in a so-called two player draft: McHale: Again, I’m not here to…
Read more Spring Fish Wrap – AZ Mildcats Edition
Great weather, nice stadium that seats over 56,000, great hoops program…..but a football team that hasn’t been to a bowl…
Read more Classic Mini Pony of the Day 6-17-08
(originally published on 6-17-07) I’m giving you another video, mainly because it rules.I imagine this conversation to be something along…
Read more Where will you be in 5 years?
When Strahan announced his retirement, the first thing I heard was how he was going to get inducted to the…
Read more Series Preview: Blue Jays (35-36) @ Brewers (36-33)
The Brewers take on the Toronto Blue Jays in their third interleague matchup of the year, sporting a dismal 1-5…
Read more The Unofficial David Ortiz DL Survival Guide
On May 31st in Baltimore David Ortiz took a swing of the bat that would cause many a Red Sox…
Read more The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Good: Big Papi’s cast came off today and he can begin the rehab of his wrist. Dice-K had a…
Read more What’s in a Location Name?
I was out in Arizona for work recently, and I noticed that the Phoenix metro-area teams all have their own…
Read more Jet Lag, Vegas & Jemele
As if a cross-country flight isn't bad enough, we've learned the Celtics flight out of L.A. was delayed some 6…
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