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For One Great Ballplayer, Philadelphia Was A Perpetual Traffic Jam
Originally published in January 1970 in Jock magazine. The author, Bill Conlin, died on Thursday. He was 79. Conlin was a legend in his native city who wrote elegantly and hilariously about Philadelphia sports in the days before he allowed himself to become a grouchy old fud. He spent the last decad...
Cherrypick Your Way Through 143 Years Of Baseball Stats
Did you know that Curt Schilling led the league in complete games from 1992-2001? That Tim Raines led the league in hits from 1981-87? That Fred McGriff led the league in home runs from 1987-95? All great stats to argue for your favorite player's HOF admission, made possible by the magic of cherrypi...
Texas Booster Says Charlie Strong "Would Make A Great Position Coach"
Nearly everyone thinks Texas did right when they tapped Charlie Strong to be their next head coach—everyone outside of Texas, anyway....
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Texas Struggles To Tactfully React To Black Football Coach [UPDATE]
Update: The Dallas Morning News says that it intended to quote Lou Holtz when it said "hip-hop coach." The tweet itself did not contain quotation marks or attribute the phrase to Holtz....
Reports: Charlie Strong To Texas Will Happen Eventually
If we've gotten this far in the Strong-to-Texas story—he reportedly called a staff meeting at 9:00 a.m. this morning—it seems pretty certain that Charlie Strong is going to leave Louisville for Texas. But who knows, everyone always gets so careful with these things....
Let Zach Randolph Put You In The Christmas Spirit
Here's a nice moment from Wednesday's Thunder-Grizzlies game, in which Z-Bo does a really great thing for a young fan who wanted a souvenir to take home with him....
ESPN Says The Ravens (Who Won) Had A Sub-Zero Chance Of Winning
The graph above, tweeted out by ESPN Stats & Info last night, shows the win probability for the Ravens and Vikings over the fourth quarter of their ridiculous Sunday game, which saw five lead changes in the final two minutes....
Marc Gasol Keeps The Grizzlies Regular
Here's a fun blurb from Memphis's daily, the Commercial Appeal, attributing a humorous malapoopism to Tony Allen. Marc Gasol has a Grade 2 sprain of his MCL in his left knee and is out indefinitely. This is problematic for the Grizzlies and worse for the Appeal....
After Losing, Tuukka Rask Fails Miserably At Breaking His Goalie Stick
Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask gave up the game-ending shootout goal to Derek Roy for a 3-2 loss, and he was fuming. Of course, Rask tried to break his stick, because that's what one does when they're angry about a loss. "Tried" is the keyword here....
Pacquaio And Rios Trainers Come To Blows In Macau
Trainers for Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios had to be separated after an altercation in Macau this morning, ahead of their scheduled fight. ...
Tony Allen Kicks Chris Paul In The Face, Gets Ejected
Tony Allen earned a Flagrant 2 foul and an ejection tonight after taking the maxim "play defense with your feet" a little too literally....
Z-Bo Had A Little Z-Bo
Zach Randolph exited last night's Grizzlies game against the Pelicans after eight minutes, when he got word that his fiancée had gone into labor. Mother and child are healthy after the birth of a 7-pound, 4-ounce son (only 250 pounds or so to go). This is the actual player report that teams have to ...
NFL's Ace Parker, The Hall Of Fame's Only Centenarian, Dies
This is the trouble with living too long. You die too late....
GOALIE FIGHT!
The Capitals took a 7-0 dump on the Flyers, but some measure of revenge (Momentum? Enforcement? What's this bullshit supposed to be about again?) was gained with a full line brawl in the third period. The highlight was Ray Emery skating the length of the ice to fight Braden Holtby, who wanted none o...
That Time Mike Schmidt, Age 38, Scored From First On A Wild Pitch
A reader named Brad wrote in to ask if we could track down the video for this one. It's Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt scoring from first on a wild pitch during a game against the Mets on April 18, 1988. Hardball Times remembered it several months ago, on the occasion of its 25th annivers...
Allen Iverson Finally Obeys Laws Of Nature, Officially Retires
Allen Iverson made his retirement official today, even though it's hard to know how, exactly, to define such a thing for him. Iverson, now 38, was never a professional basketball player so much as he was, foremost, an object in motion, tending always to stay in motion. If Iverson can be said to reti...
Blown Calls Don't Get More Blown Than Bucknor Robbing Yelich
The Marlins tonight won their 59th game of the season, over the Phillies, no thanks to this call at first by umpire CB Bucknor. If this weren't a senioritis game between two also-rans, it would definitely go down as one of the biggest botched calls in recent memory. Heck, this was a meaningless game...