Archive for May, 2009
In reverse chronological order… Five Favorties For The 2010 World Cup Should Baseball Writers Be Allowed to Speculate About Steroids What Do The Twins Do With Joe Mauer? Barcelona Are Champions of Europe Hard For Graduates To Break Into Sports Business and Media Champions League Final: Manchester United vs. Barcelona Onion Bag: A Legend Retires [ READ MORE ]
Least Valuable Premier League XI: This is not the worst team in the Premier League. It is the least valuable. This team would incite the masses with talent, with name recognition and with expense. They would then fail pathetically. This team could be composed entirely of Newcastle players, but we thought we’d include a few [ READ MORE ]
I apologize to the two others following me on google reader. It has been a little feverish running TheBigLead for the past couple of days. Here are some links from the effort that involved actual writing. Jake Peavy is a Product of His Home Ballpark Top Shelf: Pens Beat Hurricanes 7-4 Golden State Warriors Spike Fan Site With [ READ MORE ]
The Los Angeles Clippers won the Blake Griffin sweepstakes, and will select him #1 in the upcoming NBA Draft. The lottery is certainly exciting, but not without its problems. It should be changed. [ READ MORE ]
Steven Cohen Apologizes For Hillsborough Comments: Steven Cohen may be an idiot, but he has the right to be. Bloggers, of all people, should recognize free speech. [ READ MORE ]
In her now infamous “A-Rod,” Selena Roberts alleges that Alex Rodriguez tipped pitches during blowouts while playing for Texas. According to Dan Rosenheck of the New York Times, there is no evidence from statistics that Rodriguez tipped. That is not necessarily true. [ READ MORE ]
Half Empty or Half Full: A Look At Arsenal’s 2008-09 Season | EPL Talk. Did Arsene Wenger heroically keep Arsenal competitive, or was this Arsenal season a disappointing failure? [ READ MORE ]
The Big Lead » Blog Archive » Carmelo Anthony Is What We Thought He Is. [ READ MORE ]
The Big Lead » Blog Archive » The Top Five Game-Watching Foods. [ READ MORE ]
My Take On Manny Ramirez. I will be writing a semi-regular column for Mark Travis’ excellent website “But The Game Is On.” This entry is about why, for me, the Manny Ramirez steroid revelations do not taint the 2004 World Series. [ READ MORE ]
