Ok everybody knows I’m a degenerate gambler. I’ve been gambling and losing for the last 20 years of my life. The only time I’m not betting is when I’m shut off from my bookie and on some sort of payment plan. I’m not proud of this, but it’s just the way it is. The point is I’ve been gambling a long ass time and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like what’s happened the last 3 days in baseball with the totals. Do you want to know what the over is in the past 3 days? Brace yourself now…..6-

I heard a story that I’ll probably completely mangle in the re-telling, but I can’t find the source. My remembered version of the story goes like this: Two (non vegetarian) people are stranded (separately) on an island with no food and very little water. They each have a knife and a cute little bunny rabbit with them. One person kills eats the rabbit after a few days. They survive and are rescued. The other person holds out as long as they can, until they are weak with hunger and ex

[This is part two of our series on the changing relationships between sports leagues and news organizations. See the whole series here . —Josh] Before diving any deeper into the growing power of sports leagues over how news organizations do their work, it’s important to trace the legal path that got us to this point. A few landmark cases have played a big role in determining what kinds of influence can be wielded over your local sports section. In 1997, the NBA unsuccessfully sued Motoro

One of the most interesting aspects to come out of the Confederations Cup, after the United States came from nowhere to end up as the runners-up to Brazil, was observation of the reaction to Team America’s successes back home. As is common knowledge, American TV has never been a huge fan of soccer as a whole and many of America’s top sports pundits are clueless when it comes to the world’s most popular pastime. That said, US “soccer-heads” will likely have been driven up the wall by the pundit

By PAUL HAGEN Philadelphia Daily News CLEARWATER, Fla. - It was just another day in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Just another tryout on an isolated baseball diamond. And, frankly, when Phillies international scouting supervisor Sal Agostinelli saw Yohan Flande throw that day in December 2004, he thought he was looking at just another pitcher. Good [...]