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An explanation courtesy of the fantastic The700Level piece: Chase's Four Letter Fall Out:
Upon viewing Chase being introduced live at Yankee stadium, I was rather shocked to hear my favorite baseball player get booed. You don't boo Chase Utley. It wasn't until people commenting on this site pointed it out to us that we realized Chase Utley dropped an F-bomb in reaction to the boos. "Boo? F*ck you," Chase quipped to fellow second basemen Dan Uggla as the cameras rolled and caught every syllable.
More importantly, here is the awesome video:
If you couldn't ...
A fact to impress your friends with today: the Olympic start gun gives inside runners an edge, since sound from the starter's gun is known to take longer to reach athletes who start from the outside lanes than their competitors on the inside
This just in from sportspickle:
A week after rocking the NBA with charges that the 2002 and 2005 playoffs were rigged, former league referee Tim Donaghy hit basketball fans with another gut shot today by charging that beloved 1986 basketball movie “Hoosiers” was also scripted.
“Everyone from Gene Hackman to David Stern might try to deny it,” said Donagy, “but I know the truth. I saw a copy of the script a few years go. A street vendor was selling it in Manhattan.”
While Donaghy alleges that NBA referees merely influenced those playoff series in 2002 and 2005 with biased officiating, “Hoosiers,” he ...
An absolutely fantastic article on that one Ken Griffey Jr. card we all remember: the 1989 Upper Deck rookie. Aside from explaining the incredible overproduction of the card, which was something completely unbeknownst to me, the article goes into detail about the beginnings of Upper Deck and that 1989 set in general, and there's some great stuff in there:
The Griffey card was the perfect piece of memorabilia at the perfect time. The number the card was given only furthered the prospect of his cardboard IPO. Junior was chosen to be card No. 1 by an Upper Deck employee named ...
The best pitching seasons of all-time, the 10 worst cleanup hitters since 1957, a closer look at what has happened to Barry Zito and baseball's all-time best sluggers.
Jon Lester, who less than a year ago was recovering from cancer, has just thrown a no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox. Watch a video of the last two strikes from the game right here:
VIDEO - Jon Lester putting the finishing touches on his no-no
This is from the AP story:
Jon Lester can now add pitching a no-hitter to his already amazing list of accomplishments.
The 24-year-old lefty, who survived cancer to pitch the clincher of Boston's 2007 World Series victory, shut down Kansas City 7-0 Monday night for the first no-hitter in the majors this season.
"Really, words can't describe it ...
The International Ski Federation (FIS) is now holding the 2008-09 Ski Jumping World Cup - the 30th season to date. This World Cup season began on November 29th in Kuusamo, Finland, and will run through 28 competitions ending on March 22nd in Planica, Slovenia. Top jumpers can regularly make jumps of about 140 meters (460 feet). The current overall leader (in […]
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