Crazy Good Jump Rope: Seriously.

posted by Joey Michaels to other at 05:46 PM - 10 comments

Unassisted triple play by Phillies' second baseman Eric Bruntlett: The prior 15 times this happened. _{via Metafilter}.

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 11:03 PM - 14 comments

25 Things We Miss In Football: Also, stay off my lawn, you lousy kids.

posted by Joey Michaels to football at 04:11 PM - 14 comments

Ron Artest's Musical Tribute to Michael Jackson: Artest is one of several athletes who have paid tribute to Jackson this week. Others include Ken Griffey Jr. and Kei Kamara. _{via Metafilter}

posted by Joey Michaels to other at 11:03 PM - 2 comments

Eight.: Phelps.

posted by Joey Michaels to other at 03:56 PM - 16 comments

600

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 07:49 PM - 38 comments

Yankees fan kills Red Sox fan.

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 02:44 AM - 31 comments

Giants Win Superbowl!

posted by Joey Michaels to football at 09:07 PM - 275 comments

Chargers Beat Colts, 28-24,: and move on to face the Patriots next week.

posted by Joey Michaels to football at 03:27 PM - 58 comments

Jonathan Papelbon's dog eats World Series winning baseball. : ESPN's brief coverage of a toothsome story of a Boston terrier named Boss, his master and a baseball that has seen better days.

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 05:38 PM - 36 comments

Chief Wahoo: A Modest Proposal.

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 04:59 PM - 41 comments

New Panthers QB: Vinny Testaverde.: The 1986 Heisman Trophy winner joins his seventh team. At 43, he will be the oldest QB currently playing, though not the oldest QB ever. That honor goes to the legendary George Blanda who played until he was 48.

posted by Joey Michaels to football at 01:52 AM - 34 comments

Jim : "Pud" Galvin (1856-1902) was baseball's first 300 win pitcher. He was also one of the first players to use performance enhancing chemicals. Specifically, monkey testosterone, called the "elixir of Brown-Sequard."

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 01:33 PM - 12 comments

Bill Frakes' Favorite Sports Photos. : Si photographer Bill Frakes shares some of his favorite sports photos. From the Silly to the sad. He has a few other sports galleries online as well.

posted by Joey Michaels to general at 05:47 PM - 13 comments

Colts are Superbowl Bound.

posted by Joey Michaels to football at 09:28 PM - 101 comments

Tigers Win 3-1 in World Series Game 2

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 10:41 PM - 134 comments

Cards win the NL Pennant.

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 03:31 PM - 49 comments

Coach Offers Kid Money to Bean Autistic Player: A youth baseball coach accused of offering an 8-year-old money to bean an autistic teammate so he couldn't play was sentenced Thursday to one to six years in prison.

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 08:42 PM - 43 comments

Vote For Santana: Clinton Portis, who recently got some flack for taking himself out of Washington's recent victory of Jacksonville, is doing press conferences as characters again. This week, he's a Napoleon Dynamite parody named Dolemite Jenkins.

posted by Joey Michaels to football at 04:41 PM - 5 comments

Baseball's Most Disgraceful Moments: "Here we're interested only in what's at the far end of the embarrassment spectrum, the serious stuff that left a stain on the game that cannot be cleansed."

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 04:07 PM - 25 comments

Tiger takes the plunge: Tiger Woods traveled to New Zealand this weekend to be the best man at the wedding of Steve Williams, his long-time caddy. While there, he took the time to bungee jump 134m (about 440 ft) from a cable car into Nevis Valley. One can't help but wonder if Mark Steinberg had a heart attack when he heard about this. According to the article, Tiger says his insurance was "taken care of."

posted by Joey Michaels to golf at 04:05 AM - 16 comments

Newly licensed driver crashes into Australian women's cycling team: An Australian team cyclist has been killed and two others are in a critical condition after six cyclists were involved in a head-on crash with a teenage driver in Germany.

posted by Joey Michaels to other at 01:22 AM - 30 comments

Texas politician battles sexy cheerleading: "Under the bill proposed by Edwards, any school district that permits a 'suggestive' performance by cheerleaders would have their state funds reduced by the Texas Education Commissioner. "

posted by Joey Michaels to culture at 08:15 PM - 11 comments

The Derek Jeter Center: "The arena is in downtown Boston, the heart of Red Sox Nation. There couldn't be a bigger insult than to name it after the captain of the hated New York Yankees." Follow up to the FleetCenter story. See also this Metafilter thread.

posted by Joey Michaels to general at 01:57 PM - 16 comments

He Shoots, He Scores: Jordan Snipes of NCAA Div III's Guilford College shoots an 87 foot game winner with .6 seconds on the game clock. " It was Snipes’ most eventful moment in life since he suffered a collapsed lung in a Jordan-Matthews High School football game."

posted by Joey Michaels to basketball at 05:48 PM - 4 comments