Articles by Alan Draper (245814)
A World Series Worth Skipping
The Detroit Tigers will host the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 1 of the World Series Saturday night. As much…
Read more Orioles Hire Woman Groundskeeper
In baseball news today, the Baltimore Orioles have hired Nicole Sherry to be their head groundskeeper. She comes to the…
Read more Watch the video, then YOU tell ME
Part close attention to the scoring plays. Notice anything?? 1) Literally every TD catch by Hill? One-on-one. Haven’t seen that…
Read more Mets Win; Series Tied At 3
After getting out of a first inning jam, John Maine pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings to lead the Mets to…
Read more UCONN Football Kicking Woes
Word of out UCONN today is that Randy Edsall won’t decide who his kicker will be until warmups on Friday…
Read more Three things…..
OK, avid readers. There’s three things I’ve gotta address. Just to clear the air so I don’t have to write…
Read more First Base, or, the Justin Morneau Lovefest
Its hard to believe that it took twenty years to get a hitter with 30 home runs, and its harder…
Read more Can It be 1986 All Over Again?
Well, the New York Mets are heading back to Shea tonight down 3-2 in the NLCS to the St. Louis…
Read more Quick Hits
Good discussion in the Adam Dunn column, keep it up! It’s definitely a problem Theo will be faced with –…
Read more Out with Leta Ford, In With Rooster
While I’m the first to admit that we have hit the MAJOR mid-season doledrums on this blog and with our…
Read more Brinkhater?? BORING.
ENOUGH of all of Brinkhater’s obsessive-compulsive disorder towards blaming everything that’s wrong in the world, from the red zone struggles…
Read more My daughter’s big day
UPDATE – I have the tickets in my hand. Section 18-B, Row 6. Seats appear to be on the 35-yard-line!…
Read more Kevin Millar and Adam Dunn: Teammates in Boston?
KEVIN MILLAR / SURVIVINGGRADY.COM The Sunday Boston Globe had a tidbit in their Baseball Notes section about Kevin Millar. Millar…
Read more What did you say about my mother?
I had so much of this weekly preview written, and then Firefox went kaplooie on me. That in addition to…
Read more My First Earthquake
Am I in Vegas? Did my buddy just put a quarter in the vibrating bed?? Well the shaking on Oahu…
Read more John Farrell Official
It’s official – John Farrell is the new pitching coach. You can read more about Farrell here. My take: I…
Read more Pena To Break Out In 2007
I found these quotes in the ProJo this weekend on Arroyo missing Boston: “I still miss playing in that uniform,…
Read more Hawaiian Earthquake
Well if your watching football and haven’t heard, there was a major earthquake this morning off the big island of…
Read more Brinkhater Supports Brink?
Hope you all are nursing the hangover from Saturday’s miserable offensive showing against CAL. While Brinkhater was not surprised by…
Read more Lowrie-ng Expectations
While 2004 will forever be known in the Nation as the year the Sox won the World Series, there are…
Read more Detroit Finishes Off the A’s
In a nail biter game today, the Detroit Tigers came from 3 runs down to sweep the Oakland A’s and…
Read more Time to start making Ohio State/Michigan comparisons
Michigan State’s out of the way. Four lightweights in front of us. The next test is Michigan. In my opinion…
Read more UCONN Rebounds From “Beergate”
In a game I was I unable to attend today due to some problems with my Jeep, the UCONN Huskies…
Read more Football Friday: Week IV (e.g. Just Wait Til Next Week!)
Happy Football Friday! Well, tomorrow marks the start of the second half of the season, the half that will mark…
Read more OK This Isn’t Funny Anymore
Just days after Cory Lidle’s plane crash, yet another Yankee has experienced some trouble with a plane flight. Today, the…
Read more Detroit Tigers Win 3-0
In today’s first playoff game, the Detroit Tigers won 3-0, behind another strong pitching performance by Kenny Rogers, to take…
Read more Lawson CAN see the game after all!
Just drive to Berkeley: http://calbears.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/101206aaa.html GO COUGS!
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