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We received the official press release form the Washington Nationals announcing their 2010 Coaching Staff. Here they are:
Manager: Jim Riggleman
First Base: Dan Radison (NEW)
Third Base: Pat Listach (returning)
Pitching: Steve McCatty (returning)
Batting: Rick Eckstein (returning)
Bench: John McLaren (NEW)
Bullpen: Jim Lett (NEW)
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With the free agent signing period officially underway, we would’ve thought that the first news to come out would be an announcement of a deal for a starting pitcher. Turns out it’s news about a player already under contract for [...]
Blue Chip of the Week: Antawn Jamison
What can you say about the return of Antawn Jamison apart from, “Thank God!” and “About time!” Jamison missed the first 9 games of the season with a shoulder subluxation, but [...]
by Adam GretzFiled under: NHL Power Rankings
One of the biggest story lines entering the 2009 college football season was whether or not USC was on the verge of an uncharacteristic down year.
The Trojans had lost a significant part of last season’s Rose Bowl team. They would be forced to start plenty of inexperienced players—including a true [...]
Across the nation you will be hard-pressed to find anyone who is not familiar with Tim Tebow.
Tebow has been part of two national championships for the Florida Gators and has won a Heisman Trophy. He has already been immortalized by the University of Florida with his motivational speech plaque at [...]
Two-a-day practices in August, offseason conditioning, the basics. What do they have to do with this week's Ohio State-Michigan game? Simple, Michigan must do the little things correctly. With six straight conference losses and a bowl birth on the line, Michigan must return to the basics.
1. Run Blocking
In the six [...]
On Friday night, November 20th, the Miami Heat will be visiting the Toronto Raptors with high hopes of breaking their recent slump. After consecutive losses to the Thunder and the Hawks, the (7 – 4) Heat are [...]
The Florida Gators are poets of destiny because they have defined recent times through actions and results translated into words.
The Florida Gators are poets of destiny because they have defined recent times through principles and standards translated into relevance.
The meaning we place on their performance should take into account our view of [...]
by Holly CainFiled under: Jimmie Johnson, Hendrick Motorsports
HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Two days before he attempts to wrap up a historic fourth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup championship Jimmie Johnson has announced a contract extension with Hendrick [...]The UCF football team did something last Saturday it hadn’t done in 22 tries; beat a ranked team. After a historic 37-32 win over No. 13 Houston, the Knights are bowl eligible and face Tulane Saturday with an outside shot at the Conference USA title.
The match up
UCF (6-4 overall, 4-2 C-USA) [...]
Most Nebraska players and fans knew that the Big 12 North would come down to this.
All of us figured at the beginning of the season that a match-up between a Kansas school and Nebraska would decide the Big 12 North.
Just not this Kansas School.
Last weekend was supposed to be the [...]
The late 1960’s and early 1970’s marked the heyday of what would become the ultimate showdown in college football—appropriately referred to as “the game".
In a decade which signified Bo Schembechler’s initial head-coach season at Michigan in 1969, and ended with Woody Hayes last year as head-coach for Ohio State, the" [...]
Garrett Wolfe, a third round pick in 2007 out of Northern Illinois has landed on the injured reserve for the second straight season.
Wolfe suffered a lacerated kidney in the November 8th blowout against the Cardinals. Wolfe had 22 carries for 120 yards and a touchdown so far [...]
This is the reason why they play the games, correct? You play all season long to get to the point where you have that one game that defines your season. Win and you are playing for the Big 12 championship. Lose and you are left pondering all the “what if’s” [...]
At the beginning, I apologized.
I was standing in front of a big group of people in a bar in midtown New York City, and I knew that the year before I had wandered in in a suit and told them that this would be an off [...]
This is Iron Bowl week in Alabama.
The Iron Bowl is the yearly rivalry game between the University of Alabama and Auburn University.
It is the annual brother versus brother, sister versus sister, husband versus wife, father versus son, mother versus daughter in state rivalry game.
There is no other rivalry games in [...]
Thanks to Tully Corcoran, Topeka Capital-Journal, for the Jayhawk preview.
1. Pre-season talk had Todd Reesing in the Heisman mix, but he has struggled the past few games. Was that because of an injury or something else? What intangibles does Reesing bring to the [...]
The Associated Press first reported early today, November the 20th, the New York Knicks won’t pursuit free agent PG Allen Iverson. Iverson, who cleared waivers on Wednesday night and became an unrestricted free agent, was expected to be targeted and maybe even sign with the [...]
Yes, there's an OSU preview coming.
The Essentials WHAT #15/16 Michigan v. Houston Baptist WHERE Crisler Arena WHEN 7:00 ESTMichigan will probably come out with the same lineup they played last game: Darius Morris at the point, Laval Lucas-Perry at guard, Manny Harris and Zack [...]
With one game remaining in the regular season, at this point every Penn State fan has one thing on their mind, and that is what bowl game will their Nittany Lions end up. When the season begins, every college football team has the same goal, and that is to make [...]
(Without Chan Gailey, Tech never lands Morgan Burnett. Think about that.)
Ah, rivalry season. It's the greatest time of year.
The Jackets will spend the first weekend of this wonderful stretch on their first real bye week (it's sort of fair to count long week after the Miami game).
But a bye week [...]
On Saturday, Virginia Tech will be hosting NC State in Lane Stadium for what will be the last home game played for some of the Hokies top players. Cody Grimm, Kam Chancellor, Sergio Render and Stephan Virgil are among the group, and are looking to make one last memory on [...]
by Matt WatsonFiled under: Bobcats, Heat, Knicks, NBA Rumors
A four-time scoring champ leading Mike D'Antoni's up-tempo offense? It looked like a match made in heaven on paper, but the Knicks have apparently decided' [...]
by Knox BardeenFiled under: NFL Injury Report
Whether it's torn, sprained, broken or just needs to be taped, Injuries to Watch will keep you up to date on injuries around the NFL and how they'll affect your' [...]I love my job, but not to the point that I’m shooting out of bed at the crack of dawn with a big smile on my face. Just ask my wife, she of the sharp elbows.
Perhaps I should take a cue from Anthony Dixon, Mississippi State’s irrepressible senior running back. [...]
Uga VII. Rest in peace, buddy.
Before I get to some Georgia Tech news, let me first say that it breaks my heart to see Uga VII pass away at such a young age.
He was only four years old, and all indications are that he died of a heart attack at [...]
Since Notre Dame signed the contract with NBC to broadcast every Irish home game to the entire nation in 1991—yes, it’s been that long—these games have become marathons, usually lasting well over three hours and sometimes approaching the four-hour mark.
There have been periodic references to this trend in the media, [...]
Hey you remember that old play that the teams of the 80's used to run? You know that play where the quarterback would turn like he's going to give the ball to the fullback and then sprint down the line with it, and then he would either keep it or [...]
With one comment earlier this season, Bobby Bowden made it clear.
When asked about him stepping down, he responded: "What would I have to gain by stepping down?"
Not, "What would the team have to gain by stepping down." And with that one comment, the mindset and attitude of FSU head coach [...]
For several years, the long-abandoned Laurel Hill Tunnel in western Pennsylvania has allegedly been a aerodynamics test site for Chip Ganassi Racing’s NASCAR and IZOD IndyCar Series teams. During this time, we’ve heard a couple of educated guesses about what exactly goes on inside that [...]
Wyoming is a huge (31.5) home underdog to TCU on Saturday for a very good reason.
TCU is the only team in the country in the top 15 in both offense and defense.
Wyoming, under first-year head coach Dave Christensen, has an underachieving offense and an average defense, as evidenced by BYU's' [...]
After an extremely up and down season for both teams, Purdue and Indiana finish their seasons this Saturday at 3:30 PM in Bloomington, Indiana.
Indiana began the season winning their first three games, but they have lost seven of their last eight games and have nothing left to play for but [...]
Upon my arrival to Madison, Wisconsin, I was skeptical. Stories of an Ann Arbor-esque city, beautiful campus, and scenic downtown seemed a bit overzealous.
My first stop was the University of Wisconsin Union Building to pay a visit to the “Der Rathskeller” eatery. Traditional German-themed decorative touches gave an old-time feel [...]
By JOHN P. WISE
One Great Season
No clever lead in here. I'll just get right to the point. The Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is the best in all of sports.
Yankees-Red Sox? Sorry, they play 18 times a year, which means unless it's September or October, most of the meetings have nothing' [...]
On February 20th at the Nokia Theater at L.A. Live, Will Ferrell and friends will be putting on a comedy show to benefit Coach Carroll’s charity A Better LA. Tickets went on sale this morning at 10 a.m.
Click here for more info.
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by Clay TravisWith Auburn's off week so late in the season, one can start to see how the next season will develop as players will leave to either pursue NFL aspirations or continue their careers in other areas of life.
As is so often mentioned by this writer and my fellow colleagues here [...]
by FanHouse NewswireFiled under: FIFA World Cup
LONDON (AP) -- Thierry Henry denied Friday that he was a cheat but said the "fairest solution" would be to replay the France-Ireland World Cup playoff that was decided by [...]Ach: this one is late for no reason other than I forgot to post it yesterday. In keeping with our "you can't have one with the other" theme of late, Jamiemac of Just Cover appears but we forgo an Ohio State blogger on the premise that even if they' [...]
by Bruce CiskieFiled under: Browns, Buccaneers, Colts, Lions, Ravens, Saints, NFL Fans, NFL Live Blogging
by Tom ZillerFiled under: Cavaliers, Hawks, Heat, Lakers, Mavericks, Raptors, NBA Awards
Firstly, let me just say that I will be happy if either team wins (BLASPHEMY!), given what happened to UCONN this year.
With the dawn of the UCONN game roughly 24 hours away, I can say that I am nervous about this one. UCONN fields a very competitive team that has [...]
by Adam GretzFiled under: Ducks, Lightning, NHL Videos
Anaheim Ducks defenseman Scott Niedermayer decided to celebrate his team's 4-3 overtime win (in which he scored the game-winning goal) against the Tampa Bay Lightning [...]
Ask Georgia Tech commitment Barry “B.J.” Bostic to describe the small town of Louisville (pronounced Lewis-vill) from which he hails and you can feel the smile come through the telephone.
“Not too many big places around here,” Bostic said of Jefferson County’s seat, population 2,700. “There aren’t many towns that don’t [...]
by Christopher BottaFiled under: Thrashers, FanHouse Exclusive
Zach Bogosian, the 19-year-old defenseman from the Atlanta Thrashers, has emerged as a serious candidate for the United States Olympic Team, a pair of sources have told FanHouse.When seniors go to Miami, they tend to retire there, but when Duke's seniors head to Miami Saturday, they will be hoping to extend their football careers.
The Blue Devils' current group of seniors has seen a lot of ups and downs in Durham—mostly downs, as the team was arguably the' [...]
I know this my day to give predictions, and we’ll get to those. But I’ll let you know now that they’ll be brief.
From time to time I ask for permission to use this space to share something personal with you. This is another one of those times.
Yesterday we lost a [...]
What an absolute garbage weekend for college football. The #1 and #2 teams are ducking competition and there is no showcase games whatsoever. This might be a good Saturday to run errands. Hell even the normally interesting Michigan vs. Ohio State game is completely irrelevant. The Buckeyes [...] From the beginning of his tenure as head coach at the University of Kansas, Mark Mangino has had many obstacles to overcome, most importantly turning the fortunes of a perennial loser.
For starters, he inherited practice and game facilities that did not measure up to premier programs in the Big XII. [...]
On the eve of UCLA's biggest regular game of the season the LAT has a feature on the MJD. Following excerpts give us a glimpse of classic MJD:
So when a cluster of New York Jets fans taunted him before Sunday's game at the Meadowlands with a singsong chant [...]
by Tom ZillerFiled under: Rockets, NBA Injuries, NBA Rumors, NBA Coaches
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! has a half-harrowing, half-hilarious tale out of Minneapolis, where sources say Tracy McGrady put on his uniform Wednesday to [...]
by Michael David SmithFiled under: UFC
Every year, Black Coaches and Administrators (BCA) releases “report cards” where they judge college minority hiring practices. This year is no different than every other year in the fact that they were disappointed, overall. There were a few high points – both Miami (OH) and New Mexico State got [...]
Colt McCoy is just one win away from history.
Texas quarterback Colt McCoy does not recall every detail from his initial conversation with coach Mack Brown about McCoy’s opportunity to become the winningest quarterback in NCAA history.
But he does remember [...]
by Kevin BlackistoneFiled under: Soccer
Thanks to The Elusive Shadow for the questions and the guys at Corn Nation for the Nebraska analysis.1. Kansas State has had trouble stopping the pass this year. Can Nebraska take advantage of this, or do you think the Huskers are better off concentrating [...]
Thanks to The Elusive Shadow for the questions and Bring On The Cats' Tye Burger for the Kansas State analysis.
1. How worried are you about Nebraska's defense?
Nebraska's defense is highly concerning, to say the least. They're good against the run, which is the only [...]
(photo courtesy of Donn Rodenroth***)
I think the most important thing to remember at this juncture is that Uga VII wasn't just a mascot who we see on Saturdays. He was a family pet who lived in the home of Sonny and Cecelia Seiler 365' [...]
