The SportScape College Football Odyssey
In college football, 90 percent of the games you attend are your team’s home games. And if you’re lucky, you go to the bowl game and maybe an away game too. But sometimes you need to dig out of a single-team rut. We’ve found a way.
Week Sauce: Where Maybe There’s Hope For Soccer After All
Here’s a recap of the weirdest or most overlooked sports stories on the Interweb this week. Plus, as you’ve come to expect, definitive proof of what happens when you let futbol-ers have it their way.
‘Ze Steroids Do Nothing! A Case Study Disproving PED’s Affects
Manny Ramirez‘s return to Chavez Ravine on July 16 was overwhelmingly (and unsurprisingly) positive. Why not? They cheered Bonds in the Bay Area. Missourians still dig Big Mac (and Big Macs). They cheered Alex Rodriguez in the Bronx. Heck, New Yorkers even cheered Sergio Mitre after he threw 5.2 innings in a winning effort on Tuesday. The bottom line is that fans – generally speaking – want their players to be clean and awesome, but when push comes to shove, they’ll settle for just awesome.
So I Hear Mark Buehrle Had A Nice Little Outing
For as few people who talked about Jonathan Sanchez’s near-perfect no-hitter 13 days ago, the crush of baseball fans discussing Mark Buehrle’s perfect game evens things out a bit.
Rubio To Endorse Land O’Lakes? It Could Happen
Since NBA Draft Day four weeks ago, all eyes have been on 18-year-old wunderkind, Ricky Rubio. But for some compelling backstage hustling, all eyes ought to be on Timberwolves President of Basketball Operations David Kahn, because that man is desperate and his desperation is becoming awesome.
