Month: July 2011

For no particular reason, here are some random baseball thoughts: — Since starting the season 2-10, the Red Sox have gone 62-30 entering Saturday's game. That's a .674 winning percentage. If […]

Jake Locker has signed with the Tennessee Titans, agreeing to a four-year deal worth $12 million. This will lead to a somewhat-misguided discussion about how much Locker passed up by […]

Here's an interesting post at baseball-reference.com about just how little support the Mariners' Doug Fister has received. For example, Fister's park-adjusted ERA is now 11 percent better than the league average, […]

Great action at the Diamond League track and field meet in Monaco: A fist fight between two runners after the 1,500 meters. The hilarity: It starts with a head butt to […]

I have no idea what Tiger Woods was thinking. Woods fired his caddie the other day. Stevie Williams has claimed all along that he knew nothing about Tiger's overactive social life, […]

Nice story in The Oregonian about Portland State's Sherri Murrell, the only openly gay coach in Division I women's basketball. Some of the comments on the story question whether this is […]

With Ohio State and Oregon and Boise State and other college football programs in the cross-hairs of the NCAA, the Wall Street Journal did a story about which programs have […]

The U.S. women's soccer team has, deservedly, re-entered the American consciousness with its thrilling victory over Brazil. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I am a longtime fan of this […]

The U.S. women's soccer team has, deservedly, re-entered the American consciousness with its thrilling victory over Brazil. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I am a longtime fan of this […]

Derek Jeter has reached the 3,000-hit mark, and he has done so with a flourish. Here's a chance to revisit a By the Numbers column I wrote last month in which […]