How To Choose Your Own Baseball Team
Published over at The Score: http://thescore.thejournal.ie/follow-that-how-to-choose-your-very-own-baseball-team-113653-May2011/
With Baseball’s Opening Day yesterday, it’s time to choose a team to follow this season. Sport is always more fun when you’ve a team to root for.Of course, maybe you’ve a team already. Perhaps you were in Chicago on a J-1 visa for the summer, dragged along to Wrigley Field for some beer in the summer sun with the Cubs playing some baseball as a backdrop; you paid little interest but that Cubs hat is still at home in your bedroom.
MLB Opening Day… almost here…
We’ve had some bad refereeing in recent weeks but…
…the end to tonight’s St. John’s vs. Rutgers NCAA basketball game in the US of A takes the biscuit. Watch on…
Quick Book Review: Scorecasting
Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played And Games Are Won
by Moskowitz & Wertheim
The blurb said it was Freakonomics for sports, and that’s not too far from the mark.
Essentially a collection of essays long and short, Scorecasting offers a non-intuitive, economics-based explanation for many sports curiosities.… Read more...
Ireland vs. France for leCool Dublin
Published at: http://dublin.lecool.com/dublin/en/10752
Ireland v France
Allez Les Bleus! Berets will flood the streets later this week ahead of Ireland’s eagerly-awaited Six Nations joust with the French at the Aviva stadium.
Brian O’Driscoll’s men had a slow start to the campaign, scraping over the line against Italy in Rome courtesy of a crucial O’Gara drop goal in the last 90 seconds.… Read more...
Book Review: Baseball Forecaster
Baseball Forecaster
by Ron Shandler (et al.)
Each year Ron Shandler and his cohorts come up with some of the best baseball analysis and forecasting in the industry and place it all into approximately 300 pages of fantasticness.
This is no different.
Not for the casual fan; this is highly-focussed stuff where many pages upon first glance would seem like log tables.… Read more...
Book Review: Out of My League
Out of My League: The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball
by George Plimpton
This pleasantly short read provides one with an account of how the author arranged to pitch to the lineups at the 1958 MLB All-Star game, to be played at the great Yankee Stadium, and to write an article about the experience to feature in Sports Illustrated.
The Baseball Hall of Fame
One of the interesting whimsies of stateside sports is their love of Halls of Fame (yes, with capital letters). There is a Hall of Fame for the NFL (Canton, Ohio), the NBA (Springfield, Mass.), the NHL (Toronto, Canada) and almost every other sport you could think of, whether at professional, college or amateur level.… Read more...
The Metrodome’s roof collapses
Amazing footage from Fox’s local affiliate in Minneapolis of the roof collapsing at the Metrodome.
Oh yes, and it’s from INSIDE the stadium.… Read more...
Football – give us throwback kit days please
Yes, it’s a marketing ploy, but it’s a great one.
The NFL, purveyor of all things over-hyped, have one little gimmick that has me suckered hook, line and sinker.
Throwback uniforms.
The uni in the photo, as sported by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in yesterday’s game at Lambeau against the SF 49’ers, is a throwback to the 1929 season, the Packers’ first championship season.… Read more...
