Jan 28, 2004 | Andy
Cleveland Indians minor league prospect Kazuhito Tadano held a press conference yesterday to admit that he once appeared in a Japanese gay porn video in which he “engaged in a homosexual sex act.” Karry Ling was watching the press conference live in the...
Jan 27, 2004 | Andy
It?s time for Running the Numbers! It?s the column that will be the same pointless drivel, but this time with the implication of being a statistical analysis! It should be fun? This initial column of RTN (See, I can do that well, can?t I?) will focus on the Illinois...
Jan 27, 2004 | Andy
What a long weekend it’s been for the New Jersey Nets. In just 4 days, they have a new boss, a new home, and now a new Coach, as Byron Scott was unexpectedly shown the door this morning. In keeping with the franchise’s predilection for head coaches who...
Jan 27, 2004 | Andy
With all of the babbling the past couple of days by Rob Neyer and Phil Rogers (what a pair, there) about how many wins it’s going to take to win the NL Central, I decided we should just look at the schedule and figure out how many games the Cubs will win in...
Jan 26, 2004 | Andy
Awards shows, especially Hollywood awards shows are really nothing more than a chance for really dumb rich people to give trophies to other really dumb rich people. But once and a while, they get something exactly right. There I was, nearly comatose on the couch...
Jan 23, 2004 | Andy
It is a lonely Friday in the pastoral wind-blown beauty that is Champaign-Urbana this morning, so let?s take a look at the two biggest stories of our little sports world of the last couple days. First, media reports saying Greg Maddux had rejected an initial contract...