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Chase Headley Is Poised To Have a Breakout Season

Posted: 5th April 2010 by Jarred Powell in MLB
Spring training is where a player in a certain sport gets back to playing shape. When preseason games are being played, the players only play half of the games. Chase Headley looks almost in midseason shape. He led the majors this spring with 21 runs batted in.  “It’s more a credit to how guys have gotten on and how we’ve run the bases. I like the way the lineup shapes up, ...
With the way the San Diego Padres finished last year, you would think that their prospects would look better this season.  They closed out 2009 with a 37-25 record, good enough for fifth in Major League Baseball. They do not have an owner that is trying to liquidate his assets because of a divorce and they have the third best first baseman in baseball in Adrian Gonzalez returning. What could possibly go ...

Attention, Philadelphia: Leave Donovan McNabb Alone

Posted: 28th March 2010 by Jarred Powell in NFL
Donovan McNabb has endured things that no professional football player should ever have to, especially one that has been successfull on and off the field like he has been. It is not enough that he was booed when he was drafted with the second overall pick in the 1999 NFL Draft. I mean, who else did you want? Tim Couch (drafted first and retired), Akili Smith and Cade McNown (out of football ...

Allen Iverson Is His Own Worse Enemy

Posted: 11th March 2010 by Jarred Powell in NBA
A word to all young people out there, years of hard living will eventually catch up to you. You cannot be young forever. Allen Iverson is finding that out right now. His body looks beat up and his play is faltering and now people close to him are saying he needs some serious help.   Iverson’s wife, Tawanna has been separated from him for eight months and recently filed for divorce. He ...