Did you miss the battle between Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel and home plate umpire Bob Davidson this week? It was pretty great. Manuel got upset that Davidson got in Brian Schneider’s way as he tried to grab strike three in the dirt. Schneider couldn’t get the ball and the dude was safe at first [...]
The Anaheim Ducks announced on Wednesday that they signed veteran center Saku Koivu to a one-year contract. The deal is believed to be $3 million and does include incentives. Koivu gets this contract despite the fact that he’s 37-years old and his production has steadily declined the last few years. He had 38 points last [...]
The Philadelphia Flyers are already in a lousy situation against the New Jersey Devils. They are down 3-1 in the series, but it’s much worse than that. The Devils are killing the Flyers in most aspects of hockey. The Flyers can’t even carry it out of their own zone without a huge fight. And Game [...]
Nothing sucks more than having to make an example out of a couple guys and punish the whole team. The Nashville Predators are down 2-0 to the Phoenix Coyotes in the best-of-seven second round series and could use all the help they can get. So, suspending a guy who is tied for team lead in [...]
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 [...]
The NHL playoffs have been amazing this year so far. A lot of that could be due to the absolutely bloodbaths that a few of these series have become. There has been a lot of dirty play, and Raffi Torres of the Phoenix Coyotes has been one of the poster boys. During Tuesday night’s game [...]
The San Francisco Giants are full of great young pitching, which is all well and good. It’s one of the best situations you can be in, until it’s time to pay them. They just recently doled out a huge contract to Matt Cain, and now it’s Madison Bumgarner’s turn. According to SFX, they extended Bumgarner [...]
The Baltimore Ravens traded for Lee Evans last year to help them stretch the field. He didn’t stretch much of anything all season because he was battling a busted foot and rarely saw any action. Now, it seems that the Jacksonville Jaguars are willing to roll the dice and bet that his terrible season was [...]
As you surely have heard by now, the Miami Marlins have suspended manager Ozzie Guillen for five games for comments he made recently to Time magazine. Guillen had nice words for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and many people didn’t care for that. “I respect Fidel Castro,” Guillen said in the article. “You know why? A [...]
The Philadelphia Eagles took a decent-sized gamble last year when they gave former New York Giants WR Steve Smith several million dollars. He was coming off of a serious knee injury and they didn’t really know what they were getting. What they did get, was a big waste of time. Smith was rarely on the [...]
The Indianapolis Colts got rid of a lot of talent after they watched their prize possession sign with the Denver Broncos. They have tons more holes now (and they had a butt ton before) and need to fill them. So, while they re-signed Reggie Wayne this offseason, they still have more receiver slots to fill. [...]
The free agent market for linebackers this offseason has been tepid at best. While other players were signing as soon as free agency kicked off, linebackers were largely chilling out at home hoping the phones rang. And perhaps the prize of the LB free agent class, Curtis Lofton, has sat the longest. A four-year man [...]
I don’t know for sure whether or not this move will sting the Jacksonville Jaguars, but it should. The Denver Broncos have traded Tim Tebow and a seventh-round pick to the New York Jets in exchange for fourth- and sixth-round picks. Sure, there will be plenty of time to pontificate about what the Jets will [...]
Brandon Lloyd has said all offseason that he wants to play with Josh McDaniels. He had most of his success playing in McDaniels system, which started back with the Denver Broncos. McDaniels is now the offensive coordinator with New England Patriots, a position that he held several years ago. And Lloyd made no bones about [...]
Dontrelle Willis used to be a hell of a pitcher. And while those days are long gone, he did pitch surprisingly well for the Cincinnati Reds last season, holding lefties to a .127 batting average. He was good enough to persuade the Philadelphia Phillies to sign him to a minor-league contract this offseason. Too bad [...]
New York Giants punter Steve Weatherford came into the 2011 season as what can only be described as a journeyman. He’d been with the Saints, Chiefs, Saints again, Jags, Jets and then the Giants. So, for him to come in and punt the way he did was nothing short of spectacular. His 45.7 average through [...]
The Buffalo Bills have toiled in relative obscurity since…well, since recent memory. They’ve had some talented players, but never enough of them and they just haven’t had what it takes to compete consistently with the New York Jets and New England Patriots in the division. But, maybe that’s starting to change. Not known as a [...]
The Philadelphia Eagles have had their share of ups and downs with WR DeSean Jackson. He can be a Jekyll-and-Hyde type of player, with amazing ups and frustrating downs. So, that made it difficult when it came to negotiating a long-term deal. What’s he worth? On one hand, he’s absolutely electric and can cause major [...]
It’s easy for fans to focus on their teams getting big-name, big-ticket free agents soon after the signing period begins. After all, it’s fun and you want your squad to bring that dominant guy (at whatever position) who is going to make a huge impact. But, many times it’s the smaller names that are brought [...]
We’ve been covering a lot of NFL activity today (and rightfully so), but the NBA has some stuff going on too. Specifically, a somewhat blockbuster between the Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks. Sources tell Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports that the trade involves Monta Ellis, Andrew Bogut and Stephen Jackson. “Milwaukee and G-State are [...]
The Washington Redskins are the latest team to shuffle their wide receiver core. They have signed former Indianapolis Colts receiver Pierre Garcon, although we don’t have contract details right now. Garcon will instantly become the top target for RGIII (assuming that the Redskins don’t trade the pick). However, Redskins fans better hope that they didn’t [...]
Almost as elusive for the Chicago Bears as the franchise QB (depending on what you think of Jay Cutler), has been that elite wide receiver. They kind of thought they were getting that with Roy Williams but we know how that turned out. So, they are going to take a shot with another attitudinal guy [...]
Perhaps the biggest deficiency of the Dallas Cowboys the last couple of years has been their secondary. And the poster child for that porous secondary could have been oft-injured cornerback Terence Newman. He got routinely toasted and was a liability. Well, the Cowboys have dealt with him appropriately. According to Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com, the [...]
At one point, it looked like there would be a nice group of free-agent wide receivers for teams to choose from. Guys like DeSean Jackson and Dwayne Bowe got the franchise tag, so unless you’re willing to up the anti, you can scratch them off the list. Now, you can take one more name off [...]
File this under “We Don’t Get It.” The New York Jets have signed quarterback Mark Sanchez to a three-year contract extension. Read that again. Seriously. Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s remember that he got paid big bucks as a top pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. He has two years left on that [...]
