On Monday afternoon, I made the drive west on the 401 to the wonderfully rustic Langdon Hall in Cambridge, the designated headquarters hotel for the Jays’ caravan as the club tries to spread the word across the country and re-establish…
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Big Blue Links for Sunday:
Jerry Tipton: Hot free-throw shooting carries Georgia to 77-70 win over Kentucky.
Chip Cosby: Special-teams mistakes costly as UK loses BBVA Compass Bowl.
John Clay: Lost weekend found Kentucky with no answers.
Mark Bradley: In beating regal Big Blue, Georgia proves it’s big-time, too.
Mark Story: Pitt-iful showing in bowl game a nightmare for Joker [...]
John Clay’s Sidelines
All of Wednesday’s Hall of Fame excitement and buzz is winding down. Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven are on their way to Cooperstown on July 24, while the blogosphere outrage surrounding who was left out is gradualy subsiding. It’s interesting…
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Depends on who you ask. A bunch of fans in the 109 section of Nationwide Arena are saying that referee Paul Devorski taunted them before flipping them off via a subtle, but fairly obvious, obscene gesture. During the Columbus Blue Jackets’ 4-3 shootout win over the Minnesota Wild, the group of fans started razzing Devorski over what they thought was a missed call. Witnesses claim they were giving Devorski the business pretty good, as to be expected from the hometown [...]
The Last Angry Fan
Thursday Tennessee pulled off a somewhat impossible loss to North Carolina after the Tar Heels turned a botched final drive into a 30-27 overtime victory.
(Blessed with an unlikely victory, Carolina coaches were less than gracious)
Considering the circumstances, you could perhaps understand obscenities emanating from inside the Volunteer locker room.
But an off-color mocking of the [...]
SPORTSbyBROOKS
Within the space of a few recent emails in the wake of the surprising Zack Greinke trade to the Brewers, I have been accused of labelling Alex Anthopoulos both a genius and an idiot depending on reader interpretation, while I…
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