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 ...

With Sean Avery poised to join the Rangers (or, hey, some other team) Tuesday morning, we’ll be forced to read John Tortorella’s quote from his time as a TSN talking head at least another dozen times. The Daily News’ Filip Bondy did the honors Monday: “Enough is enough,”...

…nor ill-founded accusations of plagiarism.  Wes Malott, he of the burgeoning war of words with Michael Wilpon, was victorious in Sunday’s Etonic Marathon Open, and in the eyes of Strike For Show…Spare For Dough’s Leftyism, can safely be called a sore winner. Two weeks ago, ...

(l-r : Wrighty, noted Rocky Marciano biographer.  Not shown : nasty fuck in sunglasses and black shirt) WFAN’s Mike Francesca used his little-watched “Mike’d Up” program on WNBC/Ch. 4 last night to insist he and David Wright have “made amends”, and while it’...

“What recession?” chuckled WFAN’s Richard Neer upon hearing news of the Redskins inking DT Albert Haynesworth to a 7-years, $100 million pact on Friday.  And while only $41 million of that amount is guaranteed, the otherwise celebratory Chris Mottram of Mr. Irrelevant is all-too a...

With immediate salary relief in mind, the struggling Kings are sending Brad Miller (above) and John Salmons to the Da Buills in exchange for Andres Nocioni, Drew Gooden, Michael Ruffin and Cedric Simmons. While Blog-A-Bull salivates over the prospect of Miller playing alongside Joakim Noah and Tyrus...

Of General Mills’ decision not to feature the 2008 World Series victors on the front of a Wheaties box, The 700 Level’s Kulp declares, “I don’t eat Wheaties.  First of all, they suck.  Second, I don’t usually eat breakfast.  Third, did I mention Wheaties are terrible...

First of all, I kind of love the baldness of the Heyman story linked below - its assumption that the worst thing about the A-Rod affair is not that he may have done it, but that he got caught when the CBA said that he shouldn’t have. But while the morality/legality of PEDs will always be a loa...