Archive for May, 2010
JoeSportsFan’s Recommended Reads: Cardboard Gods Winners
Posted: 20th May 2010 by JoeSportsFan in MLB
Last week, we posted a challenge to JoeSportsFan.com readers to see who could come up with the best “untrue fun fact,” for this vintage Doug Jones card.
After a robust response from our dependable audience, our panel voted and determined the top two submissions, both of which will not only get the satisfaction of knowing their entry is worthy of the Worthless Card Collection, but will also get a copy of Cardboard ...
Another Devils Off-Season Arrives Too Early: What Went Wrong
Posted: 20th May 2010 by levinakl in NHL
The New Jersey Devils had high hopes heading into 2010 NHL Playoffs.
After finishing second in the Eastern Conference and adding star LW Ilya Kovalchuk to the roster, the sky was the limit for the hopes of what this team was thought to be capable of doing in the playoffs.
Unfortunately, for the third straight year, the Devils are forced to reflect and take a long hard look at themselves and try ...
2010 NBA Playoffs: Why Game Three Is a Must Win for the Boston Celtics
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Stew Winkel in NBA
Some might say it is an overstatement to label a Game Three on the home court of a team that is leading in the series 2-0 as a "must win."
Most times, they would be right.
But right now, in this series, in these playoffs, and for these Boston Celtics, Game Three is exactly that.
A must win.
Here are some numbers why.
768: The number of minutes played by Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce, Kevin ...
Todd Wellemeyer’s Latest Stumble Increases Volume of Cries for Madison Bumgarner
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Jason Figueiredo-Dumpit in MLB
If you haven't heard them before, you should definitely start to hear them now.
Todd Wellemeyer’s latest debacle on the mound has many San Francisco Giants fans pining (even louder) for the promotion of top pitching prospect Madison Bumgarner. After a spring training stint that was about as absurd as the new immigration law in Arizona, Bumgarner is once again turning heads with the Fresno Grizzlies, and it might ...
There have been many instances in which the team with the best record didn't win the pennant. In 1973, neither New York's most beloved team, the gutsy New York Mets, nor the New York Yankees' former unofficial farm team, the Oakland (Kansas City) A's, had its league's best record, but both were pennant winners. The World Series, pitting two similar teams in what was to become a riveting ...
International Pastime: Why MLB Must Move All-Star Game Out of Arizona
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Lewie Pollis in MLB
For those of you who’ve been living in a cave for the last few weeks, some crazy stuff is going on in Arizona.
A new state law requires police officers to check for immigration papers whenever they spot someone who “looks illegal.” Another new policy forbids people with accents from teaching English—I’m betting that won’t be enforced against Brooklyn inflections or Texas drawls—and bans ethnic studies in schools—because God forbid the ...
Cleveland Indians Trading Post: Jake Westbrook to Yankees, Mets, Dodgers
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Lewie Pollis in MLB
Welcome to the Cleveland Indians Trading Post, a new weekly segment to help my fellow Tribe fans sort out which of the few familiar faces we have left might not be around much longer.
This week’s potential trade candidate is Jake Westbrook.
The basics
After throwing six no-hitters (including a perfect game) in high school, Westbrook was taken by the Rockies in the first round of the 1996 draft. A ...
NBA Pre-Draft Camp Starts This Week: Five Things Learned at the Camp
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Jon Star in NBA
Often overlooked by the lottery itself, the five-day long NBA Pre-Draft Camp starts this week. A few dozen of the league's top prospects will descend on Chicago for the annual workout leading up to the draft.
The event has changed over the years, but the camp still gives scouts and talent evaluators from all 30 teams a chance to size up and evaluate players whose names they may call ...
LeBron’s Next Move? It’s Got To Be The Red, White and Blue
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Rob Shaeffer in NBA
As everyone and their mom joins the debate and chimes in with their thoughts on where Lebron should play next year, I have the perfect team in mind that nobody is talking about.
The Harlem Globetrotters .
Yep, the Harlem Globetrotters . Allow me to explain. Lebron will be the best player on the Globetrotters. In fact, if he sticks with the team, he could go down as the greatest ...
Philadelphia Flyers Take Commanding Lead, Head To Montreal
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Adam Davis in NHL
We are now two games in to the Conference Finals in the NHL, and so far in the East, the Philadelphia Flyers have taken a comfortable lead on their opponents, the Montreal Canadiens. Well, comfortable might be an understatement since the Flyers are embarrassing the Habs.
What's interesting about the Flyers' play as of late is how it follows the pattern of their roller-coaster-esque play in this year's post-season.
Let's review.
Round One: ...