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I was raining prior to today’s 1-0 Dodger home victory over the Arizona Diamonbacks.
According to the Dodgers Media Guide, here are the Dodger Stadium rainouts:

4/21/67 vs St. Louis Cardinals
4/12/76 vs San Diego Padres
9/10/76 vs Atlanta Braves
9/11/76 vs Atlanta Braves
5/8/77 vs Philadelphia Phillies
5/9/77 vs Philadelphia Phillies
8/17/77 vs San Francisco Giants
4/15/78 vs Atlanta Braves
9/5/78 vs San Francisco [...]

I went to the Dodger game last night. In the eighth inning, the Diamondvision prompted a fan sing-along to a piece of big-haired 80’s drek that I won’t call “rock”.
No, I don’t want to bring my kids to sing or hear MTV-raised “fans” who should know better sing
“A singer [...]

There is one day a year where there are no NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL games.
What is it?
Charles can’t play.
My America-centric apologies to fans of world sports like soccer’s World Cub and cycling’s Tour de France.

There is one day a year where there are no NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL games.
What is it?
Charles can’t play.
My America-centric apologies to fans of world sports like soccer’s World Cub and cycling’s Tour de France.

I was a little sad to hear that Mike Piazza retired this week, unsigned and out of uniform. For Barry Bonds to fade out of baseball and disappear unclaimed and unwanted makes sense. It is unfortunate to see the greatest offensive catcher ever ride off into the sunset without a grand tour [...]

Professional sports, otherwise known as the Big Four (MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL) in North America has permeated every aspect of society and influences both young and old alike. Youngsters look keenly upon their sporting idols, dreaming of making that perfect game winning play in the old neighborhood playground while the elder statesmen of our [...]

Sportswriter.Net was privileged this month to have a day to ourselves with Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and the crew of Team RadioShack at their inaugural training camp in Tucson, Arizona. Here’s a quick taste of what we saw. You can read more about it, see our exclusive photo gallery from the Tucson [...]

Catch the latest Tour de France 2008 coverage over at bicycle.net

OK, on the eve of taking my family to tonight’s Dodger game against the San Francisco Giants, I had a painful coffee-spraying guffaw, courtesy of Larry Dobrow the CBS Power Rankings:
You know how y’all assume the writer of these rankings is completely biased against your favorite team? Well, let me come right out and say [...]

Forgive the mix of Scottish lyrics and the combination of Loch Lomond with Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken.

The low road is the short “high” road of syringes of HGH and steroids, paved with lucrative contracts gained through performance enhancement… properly at the cost of immortalization in the shrine of Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall [...]

OK, I was impressed with today’s one-pitch win by Joe Beimel, but troyfromwestvirginia is a Beimel-lovin’ freak. He’s recorded at least 5 YouTube videos about his icon and has this lovely animated Joe Beimel bobblehead as the background of his YouTube page.
Way to go, Troy. You put fanatic in the word fan.

See also Amgen Tour of California 2008 – Prologue Video

So a pre-pubescent towheaded boy comes up to you and says he can shoot a cueball to flip a dime into a shotglass.
I’m reminded of Sky Masterson from Guys And Dolls:
One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not [...]