In an earlier post, I predicted the Boston Red Sox would win their World Series matchup over the Colorado Rockies in five games. Scratch that. The Sawx are going to sweep the Rockies. Game 1 tonight at Fenway Park was embarrassing as the Red Sox won 13-1; I don't see it getting any better for […]

This afternoon, I took a few minutes to watch ESPN’s “pre-game analysis” of the Breeders Cup. After that, it was back to the live coverage of the fires, where I’ve been glued. It was eerie to see the lurid red sunlight moving across on my media-room wall. Here in central Los Angeles, in that cloudless […]

Got this email from someone at Harpo. Oprah is doing a segment on “gay around the world” on Wednesday, and she’s talking to John Amaechi during the show. Wanna see the power of Oprah? Right now John’s book, ‘Man in the Middle,’ is #193,720 on Amazon . . . Got this email from someone at […]

By special request… 😛 The most mind-boggling thing isn’t how Andy Reid refuses to commit to the run. That’s an old, old story. Yesterday the running backs gained 5 yards per carry in the first half, but after 12 first-half rushes Brian Westbrook got the ball only 6 times rest of the way. Nor is […]

I have hated ESPN doing Monday Night Football and realize I should just watch without the sound, but that’s not always easy, especially when watching with friends. The biggest problem with the broadcast is Tony Kornheiser. He is terrific on “Pardon The Interruption,” but nothing but annoying on MNF. He constantly beats one point to […]

One of Outsports’ most prolific article contributors (and a prolific athlete, I might add), Ross Forman, is running his first marathon in Florence, Italy, later this month. He’s running in part to raise money for AIDS Foundation of Chicago. I was a distance runner for many years, and I’d never consider running a marathon, so […]

I know what Cleveland Indians fans are going through tonight. The empty feeling that comes with watching your team blow a 3-1 lead in a best-of-seven series and not even really putting up a fight doing so. Seeing the California Angels (as they were then) implode in spectacular fashion in 1986 against the Boston Red […]

I was at the Temple football game with the Outsports poster known as phillyrunner. During the game he made a trip to the men's room and returned in shock: "There are no urinals in there!" Sure enough, there were plenty of stalls with toilets — perhaps thirty or so — but not a single urinal. […]

This year I made the unlikely decision to buy a season-ticket package for Temple football. I have no ties to Temple. I’m not a major follower of college football. This year, however, they have a home game against Penn State. The individual ticket prices for the Penn State game are roughly double the cost of […]

People magazine is in the middle of an online contest to find the sexiest baseball fan alive. Only one guy, a Red Sox fan, has his team still alive in the playoffs (as of Thursday morning). My pick: Christopher Noonan (right), a Chicago Cubs fan. His answers are pretty lame, but he’s got a great […]

The man in the photo is not an actor on the new show “Caveman,” but rather the latest sex symbol in France. He is Sebastien Chabal, a rugby player,who has made French women swoon during the rugby World Cup being held in France. As the Times of London wrote: He's garnered attention for his bone-crushing […]

It was either that or the shots the guy was having bought for him. But after his Bears got spanked by undefeated Kansas on Saturday, 58-10, Baylor assistant coach Eric Schnupp stayed out a bit too late back home in Waco, Texas, and decided to urinate on the bar at Scruffy Murphy’s. While that name […]

I started going to rock concerts in the early 70's. Back in those Prehistoric days of *gasp* no Internet, the deal for getting tickets was simple: you camped out at the box office at the venue for three days and whoever was there first got the front row center seats. Simplicity itself, really. Fast-forward to […]

Local media outlets are reporting that Garrett Reid, the oldest son of Eagles coach Andy Reid, is now in jail along with his brother Britt. Garrett failed to show up for a court-ordered drug test today and was subsequently arrested. Both Reid brothers were arrested in separate incidents on the same day back in February. […]

The National Lacrosse League, the professional indoor league, has canceled the 2008 season due to a labor dispute. The team owners say they're losing money. The players say owners are diverting revenue to avoid showing a profit which would automatically increase the money received by players. Free agency is also an issue. In the NLL, […]

From Pro Football Talk: Redskins receiver Brandon Lloyd has some eye-opening comments about former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman during a Monday visit with the Sports Junkies on WJFK in D.C. "I don't believe Troy Aikman anyway," Lloyd said. "He wasn't man enough to admit his personal life situation when he was a player." Pressed by […]

ESPN headline tonight: “Rockies to play in 1st world series in team history.” The ESPN guys were getting pretty worked up about it. I have to agree with Jim Allen. Compared to the yawn that much baseball has been in recent years, the Rockies bring some underdog excitement. Some good young pitchers, some crisp hitting. […]

This gem from the people at LOL Jocks. When Tommy boy’s done throwing the football, he has a future wearing cologne . . . -Cyd Zeigler jr. This gem from the people at LOL Jocks. When Tommy boy’s done throwing the football, he has a future wearing cologne . . . -Cyd Zeigler jr.

At least in his tastes. From a New York Times Magazine Q&A with Sean Avery of the New York Rangers: Fantasy career: I’d like to be an editor of a fashion magazine. Creatively and artistically, it is something I’d like to do, and I think I have a lot of ideas that would be good […]

According to a report by ESPN The Magazine’s Buster Olney, when former Sen. George Mitchell releases the report on his investigation into steroids in major league baseball, it will be huge news. This information, Olney’s sources said, came in a conference call between all 30 teams and MLB lawyer Tom Carlucci. Carlucci is said to […]