Good thing Felix Hernandez received some run support Monday. After last week, I’m guessing he was rethinking that $175 million, seven-year deal with the Mariners. On Wednesday, King Felix allowed four hits, no walks and no earned runs in eight…
Good thing Felix Hernandez received some run support Monday. After last week, I’m guessing he was rethinking that $175 million, seven-year deal with the Mariners. On Wednesday, King Felix allowed four hits, no walks and no earned runs in eight…
Kevin Durant is about to make history. Unless he goes 0 for 5 from the free-throw line in Wednesday’s season finale against Milwaukee (or 0 for 14 from 3-point range), Durant will become the sixth player in history to shoot…
Interesting work, as usual, from Joe Posnanski as he takes a position-by-position look at players who have been voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame over the years by the writers. How have the standards changed? Which positions receive favoritism?…
A couple days after Alabama’s thrashing of Notre Dame, the most important thing about the BCS title game finally dawned on me: Thank goodness Ohio State was on probation. Ohio State finished 12-0, but the Buckeyes were ineligible to go…
The justification is right there in the rules. The ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame states, “Voting shall be based upon the player’s record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played.”…
Before we take a three-hour respite — otherwise known as the Fiesta Bowl — from the Chip-Kelly-to-the-NFL talk, let’s consider the overriding question in all this: Will his offense work in the NFL? The answer is obvious: It doesn’t matter.…
I write. It’s what I do. While others might turn to prayer or exercise or sedatives as a coping mechanism, I lean on words. And beer. Words and beer. Oh, and pizza. Words and beer and pizza. So when I…
Here’s a sneak preview of a Talking Point for Friday’s paper about the fascinating Sam Bowie “controversy”: In 1984, the Trail Blazers selected Sam Bowie with the No. 2 pick in the NBA Draft — one spot ahead of Michael…
Bill Simmons’ latest column, here at Grantland, includes some interesting insight into Bill Russell. It’s not as though Simmons hasn’t tackled the subject before; read the chapter in “The Book of Basketball” in which he eviscerates the notion that Wilt…
Jack Taylor of Grinnell College in Iowa scored 138 points Tuesday night in a “college” basketball game, if you can call a matchup with Faith Baptist Bible College a college basketball game. That’s an eye-popping number, but the people at…
