In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday.
On Day 1 of the NFL draft, Andrew Luck was taken first by the Colts and Robert Griffin III was taken second by the Redskins. The Jets opted for Quinton Coples with the 16th pick, a defensive end from North Carolina who Rex Ryan praised for his "impressive rib extension, muscled rump, and high potential protein value."
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Wednesday.
After attempting to save his job with a unilateral retirement announcement, Joe Paterno has been fired as head coach at Penn State. Student demonstrations and riots in support of Paterno ensued at the university, where the kids admired him so much that once he disgraced himself, they decided to follow suit.
We've got a bona fide Twitter superstar on the podcast! Logan Morrison, left fielder for the Marlins and proprietor of the excellent Twitter feed @LoMoMarlins, joins the show to talk about the virtues of on-base percentage, his thoughts on clubhouse chemistry, his own rising career, what it was like to almost get traded for Ozzie Guillen, and how he plans to adjust when the Tampa Bay Rays inevitably swoop in and trade for him. He also weighs in on the World Series.
Then Jon "Boog" Sciambi, ESPN broadcaster deluxe and friend of the show checks in from St. Louis. We talk about insider vs. outsider access, gaps in human cognition, the meaning of sample sizes, and whether or not Bernie Williams was the biggest choker of all-time. (Spoiler alert: he wasn't.)
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday
Matt Moore earned an important win in his first major league start as the Rays beat the Yankees 15-8 and pulled within two games of the wild card and the idle Red Sox. His signature victory came against a lineup featuring such Yankee luminaries as Chris Dickerson, Austin Romine, Ramiro Pena, Brandon Laird, and Greg Golson. Afterward, Moore asked to keep the game ball, but Laird had already sold it to a fan for six dollars so he could eat his first meal in a week.
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday.
At a hearing that lasted 80 minutes, Roger Goodell heard Terrelle Pryor's appeal of his five-game suspension. Pryor's appeal opened with a take-off on the Beach Boys' "Help Me Rhonda" called "Help me Roger," and it reportedly had Goodell dancing in the aisles. Later, he reduced the commissioner to tears with a passionate rendition of Beneatha Younger's "Me, I'm nothing" monologue from A Raisin in the Sun.
Here’s your Wednesday baseball news long toss covering stories on and off the field.
The Brewers have perhaps lost a little of the SWAT Team swagger, have lost five of their last seven games. And while Tony La Russa will make sure the Cardinals won't make up ground in the National League Central standings, the last thing the Milwaukee really need is any clubhouse chemistry problems. Enter recently acquired Francisco Rodriguez, humming a My Chemical Romance classic and trying to get used to being the set-up man, rather than the closer. He told CBS Sports, "I'm not fine. They told me I'd have the opportunity to close some games, and we've had 20-some save opportunities since then and I haven't even had one."
In case you were out living a young person's life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday.
This morning we're counting down the ten most significant moments of Tuesday night. They could be great, they could be awful, or they could be "other," but the ranking is entirely dependent on their importance. Kind of like how Time magazine's Person of the Year can be Gandhi, Hitler, or Mark Zuckerberg.
