Beaten by a baloney sandwich?

Feb 28, 2008 | Andy

Yesterday, an intrepid reader informed me that Cubscast.com had posted a podcast in which they announced the winners of their first-ever Strode Awards. First, if you’re going to name an award after a bullpen coach, how can it be anything but The Gamboa Awards?...

NBA Week in Review : 21-27 Feb

Feb 28, 2008 | Matt Turvey

For a change, the big news out of the league this week has been injures, not trades. Just when we were all settling in for the most competitive playoff race in decades, Yao Ming goes down with a stress fracture in his foot, and the whole Rockets franchise swears...

Baseball for imbeciles

Feb 26, 2008 | Andy

Saturday night I was at a Barnes and Noble looking in vain for the Baseball America Prospect Handbook (not to fear, I eventually found it at another bookstore), and one book that was in great supply was another hit from the …For Dummies series. This one is on...

Meet the Cubs

Feb 24, 2008 | Andy

I always imagine that the first day of spring training has to be a lot like the first day of school. You get new clothes, you are a little nervous, you meet your new classmates, and one of you wets his pants. Every year baseball teams overturn their rosters, and...

NBA Writer Round Table – desipio.com edition

Feb 21, 2008 | Matt Turvey

Yesterday, 8 members of the highly-paid and extremely well connected ESPN staff had a Writer Round Table discussion about the NBA’s phenomenal Western Conference. And despite repeating and contradicting themselves for almost 4,500 words, there wasn’t...