Archive for July, 2010
New York Mets Dominate Around Jon Niese, Win 5-3
Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Flushing Baseball Daily in MLB
Alex Cora and Jon Niese, I tell you. I actually missed tonight’s game, but was watching updates, and when I heard Cora hit a bases-clearing triple, I had to see how legit it was. It was pretty dang legit. Niese had a heck of a start, allowing one run (a home run by Josh Willingham in the seventh) and striking out a career high of eight batters. He ...
Niese Dominates Washington Nationals, New York Mets Win On Game-Ending Pickoff
Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Sammy Makki in MLB
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Jon Niese had another fantastic outing, striking out a career-high eight batters against the Nationals, as the Mets beat Washington, 5-3.
The Mets offense seemed to be flat early on for the second straight game, scoring a first-inning run on an Ike Davis RBI groundout.
Niese struck out five of the first nine outs he recorded and allowed one hit in each of the first five innings.
After the Ike Davis run-scoring groundout, Nationals ...
Granted, the preseason hasn’t even started yet, but the time for predictions has come as many media members and fans are trying to pick NFL teams are going to wind up when it’s all said and done this season. It might be difficult to try and make these predictions right now, but we can already tell some things from what has happened this offseason in terms of how teams look ...
Calvin Watkins of ESPN Dallas listed Marion Barber and David Buehler as people over which to worry . On the other hand, he thinks Doug Free and Alan Ball will be fine.
We'd actually reverse this. While there is certainly a lot of confidence in Free and Ball, the Cowboys must at least be somewhat worried about whether the two players' inexperience will come back to ...
NHL Free Agency: New York Islanders Are In on Ilya Kovalchuck
Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Matthew Calamia in NHL
According to TSN's Darren Dreger, the Islanders are becoming a top player in the Ilya Kovalchuck free agent sweepstakes.
A main reason for Garth Snow and owner Charles Wang's interest is in part to attract interest to the team in order to build a new arena. Over the last couple seasons, the Islanders have been at the bottom of the league in attendance.
The Islanders have reportedly offered the left winger a ...
Who The Starters For The MLB All-Star Game Should Be (And Their Backups)
Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Tom Considine in MLB
The MLB All-Star Game is soon. Unfortunately, we don't always get to see the best players selected for it. In this slideshow, we'll take a look at the best position players in the National and American League. The following players SHOULD be the starters for the All-Star game...Begin Slideshow
NBA Free Agency: The 10 Free Agents the Los Angeles Lakers Would Love To Sign
Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Joel Spickerman in NBA
Back-to-back titles. Defeating the Boston Celtics in the Finals. The game's greatest player moving up the all-time list. The greatest coach of all-time proving his brilliance once again.
Those are outstanding accomplishments, to be sure. No one can ever take those things away from the Los Angeles Lakers. However, the moment the parade ended in Los Angeles, the 2010-2011 season began. All that ...
NBA Free Agent News: Only LeBron, Wade, and Bosh Know the Real Story
Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Thomas Galicia in NBA
Panic set in throughout Miami at around 5:45 pm as we heard these possibly sobering words:
Wade to take second meeting with Chicago.
Callers flooded The LeBatard Show not believing what they had heard. Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski, who had been reporting all season that Wade was staying in Miami, even called in to talk about the possibility that Wade was leaning towards Chicago and teaming up with LeBron there.
Meanwhile in Twitterland, ...
A few months ago I wrote an article detailing what I believed should have been Bryan Colangelo’s agenda this summer.
The main focus was to satisfy Chris Bosh’s desire to add a more talented wing player and hope that Bosh would resign, while also resigning Amir Johnson and adding a few more pieces to try to create a playoff team and maybe even a championship contender.
That dream has gone out the ...
These ballplayers put "the hurt" on the baseball all month long. The listed men rung up opposing pitchers and didn’t blink as they sent their ERA into space. Their team jersey sales have sky rocketed and they might end up on an upcoming episode of MTV cribs. The few, the proud, they are “The Kings of Swing”.
1) OF Josh Hamilton Tex
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