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The Weekend In Sports

Oct 2nd, 2011
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First the positives: The University of Saskatchewan Huskies beat the UBC Thunderbirds making Coach Brian Towris the winningest coach in CIU football.  For you American readers, this is a pretty big deal.  Brian Towris wins year in and year out with no scholarships and until recently, inferior facilities to almost every other university in Canada.  [...]

Would this look good in my living room

Feb 11th, 2011
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It’s a 1/16 scale model of Ebbets Field during the 1955 World Series (Dodgers vs. the Yankees).  4 1/2 months, 1,100 hours and $4,500 later…. More information and a video of the model can be found here. 

I hate dat Derak Jeter

Sep 16th, 2010
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Several years ago I was in Boston and staying at the Midtown Hotel when it started on fire.    As we were wandering out of the front door, these rather round, handlebar wearing mustache, firemen come waddling in to put out the fire.  You would expect these firemen to have their game faces on as [...]

Yankee Stadium

Apr 22nd, 2009
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I was stunned when I saw this photo of Yankee Stadium and realized that it was an in-game photo and not batting practice.  Look at all of those empty $2500 seats. I am not the only one who is noticing this.  This photo tells the story. It says that there are a lot of Yankee [...]

25 Improbable Players on MLB Rosters

Aug 13th, 2008
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  I enjoyed #11 from Yahoo! Sports. Sidney Ponson. SP, New York Yankees: Fat. Popped twice for DUI. Beat up an Aruban judge and landed in jail. Got released by Texas for allegedly getting drunk and acting stupid at a hotel bar. And somehow on his sixth organization despite all that and a career ERA [...]

Barry Bonds

Jul 25th, 2008
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A co-worker is slowly dying inside.  He is a lifelong New York Yankees fan.  Through the good and the bad.  The ups and the downs.  The ones that you grudgingly respect even as you mock them after the team flamed out in early October again.  The reason for his pain, the New York Yankees are [...]