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Chris Carpenter pitched on short rest to win Game 7 of the World Series Friday and give the Cardinals their 11th title in franchise history. It was an impressive start for Carp who gave up two runs in the first inning and shut out the Rangers for the …
Some days you show up to the ballpark and just don’t have your fastball. Apparently the same can be true for singers. Meat Loaf was on tour in Australia recently and he performed at the Aussie rules football grand final (the Australian …
Running back Matt Forte is having the best season of his career. The fourth-year back has accrued nearly 1,100 yards through seven games this season. He’s on pace to nearly match Chris Johnson’s 2009 record season of 2,509 yards from …
Mack Brown has enjoyed plenty of success at Texas, including a national championship and streak of nine straight double-digit win seasons. But since losing Colt McCoy after the ’09 season, the Longhorns have struggled. They went 5-7 last year …
Earlier this week we told you that Tony Romo’s wife, Candice Crawford, is pregnant and that the couple is expecting its first child. Romo broke the news at a high school assembly of all places. Please spare us the jokes about Romo fumbling his …
Michael Vick is a special player. He has skills that very few other players possess, which makes him hard to defend. He’s even harder to prepare for in practice because so few players can replicate what he does. With the Cowboys preparing to …
You may remember Jordan Crawford for his dunk embargoed around the world. He’s come a long way since the day when Nike blocked his embarrassment of LeBron James. Crawford, a second-year guard with the Wizards, had a great tournament with Xavier …
Chris Johnson has struggled this season. The man who eclipsed 2,000 rushing yards in 2009 can’t even crack the 45 yards per game mark this year. There are many reasons why he’s struggling this season, though it’s hard to isolate the …
For a few minutes during Game 6, Josh Hamilton looked like he was going to be the hero. Hamilton, who is playing through a groin injury that would have him on the disabled list if it were the regular season, homered for the first time the entire …
The folks at Red Bull have been doing fun stuff with Tim Lincecum all year. They were running a contest where fans got to try and duplicate Timmy’s pitching motion for a chance to face him, and the fan who won it pitches exactly like him. …
Sometimes announcers try to turn themselves into something bigger than the game they’re covering. It’s a bad strategy because the game is almost always more important than the people describing it. Joe Buck recognized that on Thursday …
David Freese. David freaking Freese. We’ve never changed the title of the website here in nearly five years of operation, but it felt like the appropriate way to honor the man for his incredible performance in Game 6. Freese clutched up in the …
There has been plenty of speculation about Missouri joining the SEC, and an article posted on the SEC’s website Thursday indicated the move is forthcoming. At some point Thursday, a link appeared live on secdigitalnetwork.com that announced …
Texas Rangers fans looking for a scapegoat to blame after losing Game 6 have to look no further than Dallas-Forth Worth TV station KDFW. At some point during the game, that message appeared on at least one mobile phone. Obviously it was premature …
Colorado Rapids forward Omar Cummings became the second professional athlete we know of to publicly Tebow. Cummings scored the first goal of the Rapids-Columbus Crew MLS game Thursday night and he went down in prayer. If the Rapids have Tebow on …
The Bears released safety Chris Harris Thursday, two weeks after he asked for a trade. Harris was a second-team All-Pro last season, but he only played three games this season after hurting his hamstring in the team’s opener. Harris is a …
