I don’t know if any of you wingdings would ever have the stones to read us over on FOXSports. Probably not. But if you did — and if you could read anything other than the day of the week printed in block letters on the back of your tighty-whities — you’d understand that we don’t […]
Continue reading →What a ride it’s been for Larry Brown from Long Beach. Titles in Carolina and Denver. Titles in Kansas and Detroit. A bronze medal in Athens. 35 years in the business, en route to becoming the oldest coach ever to win a title. And now, at 65, Brown has finally come home to tackle his […]
Continue reading →This year’s balloting promises to be the most hotly contested MVP race in years. As the calendar turned to September, nothing remotely close to a consensus pick had emerged. MVP discussions raged on throughout the entire year. Fans and journalists were changing their minds faster than Paris Hilton changes her mind about who she marries. […]
Continue reading →And with that, the Chicago White Sox dispatched the ghosts of their shoeless forebears back into the ether from whence they came. The ghosts – the ghosts of corruption and human fallibility, this time, not of billy goats and Billy Buckner – instantly vanished into the night. 88 years of futility resonated as emphatically within […]
Continue reading →The season ended badly for the Dodgers over a month ago, but I’ve been keeping busy. You don’t stop doing a job just because you’re fired. As an official advisor to the chairman for the Dodgers, I’ve been bending Frank McCourt’s ear all season, trying to keep him from making even more mistakes, especially since […]
Continue reading →When we here at Yard Work found out that two of our contributing writers were starting a feud, we decided to get them together here at YW headquarters. Here, slightly edited, is part of that conversation. Ana Maria Callejeo Guillen: So, Spartacus, what did you think about World Series 2005? Spartacus: Well, Ana Maria, I […]
Continue reading →As the season draws to a close, YW has assembled a series of expert panels to debate baseball’s postseason honors. This week, we tackle the Manager of the Year awards. Joe Morgan I think Frank Robinson should be the Manager of the Year. Frank Robinson has been a key part of the Nationals’ success this […]
Continue reading →Dear Mr. George Bodenheimer and Mr. Mark Lazarus, As the presidents of ABC, ESPN and TNT’s sports divisions, you have tremendous influence on the minds of our nation’s youth. It is not a role that anyone should take lightly. Since founding the A.C. Green Youth Foundation in 1989, I have been deeply committed to helping […]
Continue reading →Qyntel: I was housesitting for a month last winter for my parents. They have two purebred chows – cute as heck, but such a pain! I’d let them outside for their business, but they’d never come back in! Every time I went to let them in (because they’d be @ the door, snorting & whatever), […]
Continue reading →G’day! The yobbos here at Hard Wood asked me to scribble out a bit about my first year in the NBA. At first, I told them, “Pull your head in, mate” — but then I figured out that this might be a good way to keep in touch with the Joe Bloggs back home. So […]
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