The Dominican Republic’s partisans in Washington Heights were shocked by their team’s loss in the World Baseball Classic to an opponent that calls the sport “honkbal.�...

In a continuation of my jokes forwarded from friends series, this one is from my most regular contributor Andy, who may have been thinking of our friend Mary when he forwarded it. Hee hee hee. Four Retired Guys Four old retired guys are walking down a street in Naples, Florida. They turned a corner ...

It's not that I ever disliked Judas Priest, but for some reason it took me until now to finally, completely jump on the bandwagon. I heard the singles growing up, I chanted "Breaking the Law" along with Beavis and Butthead in grade school, but the full force of the Priest always seemed to elude me. ...

Our Canuck seems pretty down that Canada has been eliminated from the World Baseball Classic. It's the biggest surprise of the tournament thus far. Right now Italia is playing Venezuela and I'm rooting hard for the Euros to beat Team Chavez. It would be nice for a European team to get some recogniti...

One shaves her pubes, the other doesn't, one came of age in the 70's, and the other 30 years later, one allows double penetration and facials, the other demures. But they are both named Eva. The classic porn company VCX has released a trunkful of Golden Age titles, including "The Second Coming of Ev...

The response to our recent Chillin' with the Rip column, our guide to some of the best music to tune out the noise, was so overwhelming that we just had to get right back at it and bring you volume II. Now, the goal of this column is to give all you waveriders a glimpse into some of the mellower tun...

Much head scratching over Italy's defeat of Canada in the World Baseball Classic on Monday. How could such a thing happen? Easy. It was pretty much just a glorified MLB spring training game. Amusingly, the Italian team is nicknamed The Azzurri, a name which is usually reserved for Italy's national s...

Team USA Key to Canada’s Success Well it looks like Team USA was the Key to Canada’s success, at least at the box office for the WBC. Last night’s game against Italy drew under 13,000 fans. As we all know by now Saturday’s game vs the USA had over 42,000 in attendance. Of cou...

On Saturday they provided the fans at Toronto's Rogers Centre with a taste of what last gasp baseball was all about, on Monday they took their last gasp. Team Canada has struck out at the World Baseball Classic , after a shocking 6-2 defeat at the bats and gloves and stellar pitching of the Italian ...

On Sunday, there were five games on the 2009 World Baseball Classic schedule. The first game saw Cuba hit six long balls on their way to beating South Africa 8-1. Then the Dominican Republic bounced back from their stunning defeat against the Netherland to beat Panama by a final score of 9-0. The Un...