The national media has done a great job of finding excuses for the Boston Celtics, who are facing a Game 7 elimination Saturday night against a Philadelphia 76ers team that really has no business getting this deep into the playoffs. One of the excuses is that the Celtics are without starter Avery Bradley, who is [...]
If you’re like me, you’ve been holding on to Michael Morse in your fantasy baseball league, waiting for him to come off the DL. He was shut down on April 11th with a torn lat muscle. Sounds painful. But, according to manager Davey Johnson, Morse will “for sure” be activated by June 8th for their [...]
Well, the good news is that this wasn’t much worse. Michael McKean, who is most famous for playing Lenny on “Laverne & Shirley” and David St. Hubbins from “This is Spinal Tap,” was injured in New York City on Tuesday when he was struck by a car. Reports say that he broke his leg, but [...]
While the offense of the Philadelphia Phillies has picked it up a bit as of late (thanks, Chooch), it’s still hardly a well-oiled machine. It’s not the one-run debacle that it was earlier this season, but they could use help. And according to Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com, that help could be on the way in [...]
The 2012 season has not been too good to the Philadelphia Phillies. They’ve been in last place most of the season and just got their first three-game winning streak of the season on Tuesday. Not good for a team with a huge payroll and World Series aspirations. Now, the team gets some more good news. [...]
The 2012 season of the Philadelphia Eagles got off to a bad start in late March when Pro Bowl LT Jason Peters ruptured his Achilles tendon. There was a smidgen of hope that he might be able to play this year, but you can squash that talk. A league source tells Derrick Gunn of CSNPhilly.com [...]
After lighting it up for my fantasy football team in 2011, Tennessee Titans WR Kenny Britt decided it would be a good time to tear his ACL and MCL in his right knee. It not only ended his season, it ended my fantasy season. So, obviously Britt had surgery to repair the injuries, but it’s [...]
Well, this isn’t good. In the early 2011 draft season, there were many mock drafts and experts who had Clemson DE Da’Quan Bowers as the No. 1-overall pick. Yep, the top pick. But, as we got closer to the draft, his stock fell due to concerns about his knee, which had microfracture surgery on it. [...]
The Washington Nationals are having a good-news/bad-news type of day. The bad news is that they obviously had to place Jayson “I hate all Philadelphia fans and will firebomb that city when my wrist is healthy” Werth on the disabled list. You’ll remember that he broke his same troublesome wrist on Sunday night against the [...]
The Washington Nationals have been pretty damn excited lately and they’ve had good reason to be. They are off to an 18-10 start and own first place in the NL East. However, they’re taking on a bit of water. 3B Ryan Zimmerman is already hurt, as is Michael Morse, who was supposed to the be [...]
I can’t think of much worse news for the New York Yankees. On Thursday night, closer Mariano Rivera was in the outfield during batting practice before their game. That’s all well and great until he collapsed in a heap holding his knee and had to be carted off the field. The end result? A torn [...]
New Jersey Devils forward Ilya Kovalchuk missed the team’s Game 2 victory on Tuesday night with a back issue. It probably helped the team win considering he was so god awful on defense in Game 1. But, on Thursday, he says he’s healthy and ready for Thursday’s Game 3, which will be played on Thursday [...]
As those of you who read OTR religiously know, Baltimore Ravens LB Terrell Suggs tore his Achilles tendon recently. Okay, so we never mentioned that, but you’re not a religious OTR reader anyway, so you wouldn’t know. So yeah, Suggs tore his Achilles recently and will have to have surgery to repair it. That usually [...]
It’s never easy when you get hurt and can’t help your team, especially during the playoffs. But, it must hurt that much more when your injury was self inflicted and the result of acting like an idiot. Yep, we’re talking about New York Knicks big man Amar’e Stoudemire. You probably heard that Monday night after [...]
Good news, Yankees fans! Remember how excited you were when you sent Jesus Montero and others to the Seattle Mariners for Michael Pineda? Yeah, unless you run into him in a bar or restaurant, you won’t be seeing him for quite a while. Pineda developed arm issues and the diagnosis is pretty bad. According to [...]
The Philadelphia Phillies might have one of the worst lineups in all of baseball. Check that, they do have one of the worst lineups in all of baseball. I don’t even have the stats in front of me, but I’ve learned enough through empirical data. Many fans in Philly can’t wait for the return of [...]
The Philadelphia Phillies just keep rolling. It’s not enough that they struggle to even score one run against poor pitchers, but now they keep getting good news. First, we found out that Cliff Lee had to go on the 15-day DL with a side strain. Now? The one guy they have who can hit the [...]
The Philadelphia Phillies are off to a rough start. They are hovering around .500 while the rest of the division (minus the Marlins of course) is thriving. Not only that, their offense is absolutely butt awful. So, they’ll need that starting pitching, huh? Of course they will! Well, they better hope some other people step [...]
The Golden State Warriors have been a bit stumped all season by the continuing setbacks that Stephen Curry has had with his ankle. Well, now they might truly find out what has been going on. According to Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports, Curry plans to have surgery on the troublesome ankle on Wednesday. “Warriors [...]
Wow. One one hand it’s kind of weird that Shea Weber didn’t get any punishment at all for his hit on Henrik Zetterberg, and now we see that the NHL is going to drop the hammer on Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres. Torres has been suspended for 25 games for his hit on Chicago Blackhawks [...]
As if the defense of the Philadelphia Flyers just couldn’t get worse after they gave up 10 goals on Wednesday night to the Pittsburgh Penguins, they will now be without yet another key defensman. Nicklas Grossman was hit in the head twice in Game 4 and will miss Game 5 with a concussion. This means [...]
Since signing a mega-deal with the Boston Red Sox last offseason, Carl Crawford has been a waste of space. He did next to nothing last year, and now is hurt so far this season. Crawford underwent wrist surgery in January and then had a setback with elbow soreness. So yeah, he’s not helping the Red [...]
The Boston Red Sox are aware of what life is like without Jacoby Ellsbury. In 2010, he was on the DL almost all year, but bounced back to have an MVP-like 2011. Well, it’s good that they are used to living without him, because he won’t be playing baseball any time soon. Tampa Bay Rays [...]
It doesn’t take long for things to go south for the New York Mets. They started out 4-0 and seemed poised to win all 162 games this season. But, while it’s still very, very possible, it’s going to be much more difficult now that David Wright will have to sit down for a bit. Monday [...]
The Philadelphia Flyers have some concerns heading into their playoff series with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Will Ilya Bryzgalov continue his stellar play in net? Will they get healthy quick enough? Can they minimize the defensive breakdowns? Well, they got a bit of good news today when they found out that defensman Nicklas Grossman will be [...]
