What, you think we ain’t got the moves? Here, our 2008 preview rolls on with Mr. Bob Costas, the Paul McCartney of American sports kommentariat. Salutations, baseball lovers. Isn’t this the best time of year? Somewhere, leather is popping, crusty old bench coaches are spitting and swearing and scratching themselves, and the only things greener […]
Continue reading →“Yard Work, Spring 2008: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” continues as we welcome legendary play-by-play announcer Jim Ross with his preview of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007 and is also a great cook. With Opening Day less than two weeks away, tensions are […]
Continue reading →To continue our Nobel-worthy 2008 season preview, we focus on the San Francisco Giants — and who better to preview this team than the city’s most beloved columnist (and inventor of the terms “beatnik” and “hippie”), Herb Caen? Ol’ “Three Dots” has been out of commission since 1997, but we are proud that he came […]
Continue reading →Continuing our stunningly comprehensive series, we are proud to welcome award-winning hipster-bait Japanese author Haruki Murakami. His novels include Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Kafka on the Shore; he has also published non-fiction and about one million short stories in The New Yorker. He checks in from […]
Continue reading →In 2004, best-selling authors Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan teamed up to write Faithful, a day-by-day account of the Boston Red Sox championship season as experienced through the eyes of two diehard fans. Now that Boston has once again climbed to the summit of their sport, we here at Yard Work are proud to re-team […]
Continue reading →Continuing our award-baiting preview of the 2008 Major League Baseball season, Yard Work is proud to present Scott Templeton‘s report on the Baltimore Orioles. Formerly of the Baltimore Sun, Mr. Templeton is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist currently contributing to the New Republic and the New York Times. We hope you enjoy his unique and […]
Continue reading →Welcome to the latest installment of Yard Work’s 2008 Season Preview. Today’s preview comes from a currently defunct weblog [concerts.1111111kcrtickets.com/blog] whose content we assume is free for us to cut and paste into our own online publication that we do not consider a “blog” in the slightest. We’re using an incongruous pic of good old […]
Continue reading →Welcome to Part Four of our continuing 2008 Season Preview. Today’s topic is the Atlanta Braves, and today’s writer explains who the hell she is in the very first paragraph, so read on! Hello there everyone. My name is Alexyss K. Tylor, and I am the author of the best-selling book, and host of the […]
Continue reading →Editor’s Note: John Rocker, the maligned former closer for the Atlanta Braves, has signed a book deal with Regnery Publishing (publisher of such bestsellers as Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry) to chronicle his comeback attempt. Regnery and Mr. Rocker have graciously agreed to post some of the pitcher’s entries […]
Continue reading →When it came time to negotiate a new contract this off-season, Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek told his agent Scott Boras to play hardball, but in his heart Varitek knew that there was only one place for him – manning the plate in Fenway Park as he’s done for the past seven years. And if […]
Continue reading →