Written by Joe M on 25 August 2010
Before the 2010 season, Jose Bautista was known for being a part of the most hilarious Rule 5 draft in Major League history.
Not anymore. As of Aug. 24, Bautista is just 10 home runs away from the most unlikely 50-home run season since Brady Anderson.
A player destined to be remembered only as a utility guy has turned into an All-Star, power-hitting third baseman on the verge of reaching a home run total that was all but impossible to achieve just a quarter century ago.
And the one question you have to ask is, what’s this guy on? Of course, as of now, there’s no proof Bautista is on anything more than Gatorade and Power Bars. But you still have to wonder, right?
We can thank The Steroid Era for that cynicism. Maybe if that had existed when Anderson was turning in his career year, things would be different.
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Technorati Tags: Barry Bonds, Brady Anderson, Jose Bautista, Mark McGwire, MLB, Roger Clemens, steroids
Written by Joe M on 24 August 2010
It looks like Johnny Damon won’t be returning to Boston after all.
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Technorati Tags: Baseball, Joe Maddon, Johnny Damon, Red Sox, Tigers
Written by Joe M on 23 August 2010
Tom Brady has something in common with former Colts coach Tony Dungy, aside from Super Bowl rings.
Neither one has watched the HBO series “Hard Knocks,” which this season features the New York Jets. While Dungy said he wasn’t a fan of the cursing from Jets coach Rex Ryan, Brady said he wasn’t watching because he isn’t a fan of the Jets.
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Written by Joe M on 23 August 2010
Earlier Monday, there were reports that Detroit Tigers outfielder Johnny Damon had been placed on waivers and claimed by an unidentified team.
Now, Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated is saying it was the Red Sox who claimed Damon. However, Damon has eight teams to which he can be assigned, and Boston is not one of them.
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Written by Joe M on 23 August 2010
The McMinnville (Ore.) High School football team was back at practice Monday, after more than a dozen players were hospitalized in the last week.
According to doctors, 19 of the players suffered from muscle damage from an enzyme known as creatine kinase, or CK.
While one of the doctors, Dr. Craig Winkler of Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, is calling it a weird case, it sounds like the cause of the injuries was an intense training camp put on by McMinnville’s first-year coach Jeff Kearin.
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Written by Joe M on 20 July 2010
Blue jeans. White T-shirt. A football. And Brett Favre, wearing or holding all three.
That’s the cover of the August issue of Men’s Journal, but on the inside is where the good stuff can be found.
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Written by Joe M on 16 July 2010
Someone forgot to tell the Red Sox that the All-Star Break ended Thursday night, Paul Pierce says something interesting about the Celtics and John Daly wears funny pants in Britain.
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Technorati Tags: Celtics, golf, John Daly, Landon Donovan, Paul Pierce, Red Sox, soccer, Tour de France
Written by Joe M on 16 July 2010
On Wednesday, Brett Favre said he still was undecided about a return to the Minnesota Vikings and one more season in the NFL. Never mind that training camp starts in a couple of weeks, Favre just isn’t sure yet.
Favre isn’t sure if his surgically-repaired ankle – remember this – will hold up through the season, but if it can, he’s not worried about long-term injury. It’s too late for that, my friends.
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Written by Joe M on 15 July 2010
What can we say about a night with no professional sports? If you’re a fan of the MLS or WNBA, you had plenty to watch, but if not, it was a long night.
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Written by Joe M on 15 July 2010
The night after the MLB All-Star game is the quietest night in sports.
Unless you’re ESPN.
If “The Decision” wasn’t enough self-promotion for you, at around 7 p.m., the front page of espn.com announced Wednesday night as “The Biggest Night of Sports.”
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Technorati Tags: ESPN, ESPYs, MLB, NASCAR, NBA, NFL, NHL
