(above : bunch of delusional motherfuckers who don’t have the common sense to know their achievement pales in comparison to the outcome of the Big Sky Tournament final) “I can’t see, if you’re a baseball fan, how you can’t get into this tournament,” insisted Team ...

I’m in Los Angeles this afternoon, where there are a few things that never seem to change.  Seeing a sign that reads “Flynt Aviation” always makes me wonder if I’d really trust Larry Flynt to run an airline.   The jukebox at Barney’s Beanery still plays Dramarama (ha...

In Monday’s Guardian, TV Go Home / “Nathan Barley” creator Charlie Brooker (above) considers the results of a recent survey that revealed nearly two-thirds of the public have lied about reading such tomes as “War & Piece”, “Ulysses” and “The Bible...

With apologies to Greg Dulli for the above headline, I link to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s John Gonzalez, covering the story of (former) Lincoln Financial Field gopher Dan Leone.  Stricken with the the neurological disorder transverse myelitis, when Leone isn’t running game day errands ...

Because who wouldn’t pay big bucks to watch the game’s top (available) talent hitting balls off a tee?  While Pedro Martinez, Sidney Ponson and uh, Carlos Zambrano aren’t too big to use the WBC as their auditions for 2009 employment, if Curt Schilling had been invited, he’d ...

“Last week’s column on Mike Piazza has drawn more reader e-mail than any of the 97 columns that have appeared on this site,” boasts former NY Times baseball scribe Murray Chass, loathe to credit any portion of the blogosphere for this remarkable upturn in traffic. Instead, under the gu...

While Cowboys fans are left to ponder exactly how Dallas is meant to be a better team next season after telling a wide receiver who’d caught 38 TD’s in 3 years to fuck off, Sports On My Mind’s D.K. Wilson is quick to ask “can you name one other athlete in any other sport who ...

While praising SNY’s Keith Hernandez for “giving it all he’s got - no holding back…most of the time”, the New York Daily News’ Bob Raissman wonders why the former Mets 1B is so reticent to compare and contrast his history of cocaine abuse with baseball’s ong...

Chelsea’s 2-0 defeat of Coventry earlier today put the latter into the FA Cup Semi-Finals, a feat accomplished with the assistance of Ashley Cole despite the defender’s mid-week arrest on charges of, uh, swearing at police.  Cole had the misfortune of making headlines at roughly the sam...

OK, I realize the above headline isn’t nearly as provocative as “Duaner May Be A Goner”, but it will have to do.  With a succession of Mets away on WBC duty, Dan Murphy and Bobby Kielty each had a pair of hits in Saturday’s 7-5 loss to Washington, a contest that concluded ho...