If my last name was Clapp and people called me Stubby, I’d be an angry little ball of fire too. Clapp is the manager of the Astros’ Single-A affiliate, the Tri-City Valleycats, after he had a cup of coffee with the St. Louis Cardinals in...
Rory McIlroy shook the golf world this weekend. His dominant U.S. Open win came along with umpteen records. His records included the all-time best 36-hole score (131), all-time best 54-hole score (199) for a U.S. Open and the all-time 72-hole score...
A few nights ago, the Richmond Flying Squirrels, the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants celebrated Teacher Appreciation Night during their game against the Binghamton Mets. The Flying Squirrels marketing staff all deserve a raise. Thei...
After our research staff combed through all 346 Division I college basketball rosters, we came up with our Top 40 best names of the 2010 season. Players have been separated into four regions. Which region would you pick to win the All-Name Tourname...
The world has been taken over by reality television. I’ll admit, I watch my fair share of (fake) reality garbage. Most of the time, it’s for the eye candy. Some shows, The Hills for instance, are a dentist’s dream. With Labor Day ...
By now, you have probably seen Prince Fielder on the cover of ESPN the Magazine’s 2014 Body issue. He’s naked and it’s flat out gross. Somebody was paid real money to come up with the idea to put a naked Prince Fielder on the cover of a magazine. ...
Astros fans have it bad. They pay American currency to go watch opposing teams pummel their team on a night-in-night-out basis. Monday night was no different as the Tampa Bay Rays invaded Minute Maid Park. Rays outfielder Matt Joyce hit a can of c...
I don’t know if this is a normal occurrence at Dodger Stadium or Hyun-Jin Ryu. During batting practice prior to Monday’s game, Ryu picked out a lucky fan, we’ll call him Deuce, and played catch with him over the right center field wall. Simply put, t...
The West Michigan Whitecaps, the Tigers Single-A team in Comstock Park, MI held their fourth-annual food contest which determines Fifth Third Ballpark’s next extravagant food item. The winner for 2013: Baco – a taco with a bacon shell. It basically...
Tradition has been the name of the game in South Bend, well that and bowl losses (they have won two of their last 12 bowl games). But adidas threw tradition out the window with Notre Dame’s new alternate football uniforms. Is adidas mocking the Nik...