Young pitchers have always been watched over very closely. Their arms are important – without them they can’t do their jobs. So managers and teams may chose to limit innings and pull these young guns out of games early because of their pitch counts. It’s a healthy thing these managers and teams are doing. They […]
Author: Megan Filipowski
Bartolo Colon receives suspension
Two drug related suspensions have been issued in one week by Major League Baseball. The newest 50-game performance-enhancing drug (PED) suspension recipient is Oakland Athletics’ pitcher Bartolo Colon. Like Melky Carbrea, of the San Francisco Giants, Colon tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone. He will be missing the remainder of the regular season (40 […]
Another 50-game suspension
Melky Cabrera was the MVP of the 2012 All-Star game in Kansas City. He was leading the National League in batting average before the All-Star break and is currently only second with a .346 average to Andrew McCutchen’s .359 average. But now it doesn’t really matter because for the next 50 games Cabrera will not […]
King Felix throws perfecto
[mlbvideo id=”23925009″ width=”400″ height=”224″ /] As according to Justin Verlander’s twitter, Felix Hernandez can now enter the perfect game room for MLB 2K12. This is something that even Verlander himself cannot do. For Hernandez, it was the very first perfect game in Seattle Mariners’ history. It was the 23rd in the Major League Baseball history […]
Lions Arrests.
I have never seen or heard of a team getting arrested as many times as members of the Detroit Lions have this year. Reading articles about “who got in what trouble with the law this week”, isn’t exciting as a Lions fan. It brings groans and moans about how the team needs to change. This […]
A Musical Closing Ceremony
For me, the Closing Ceremonies was just a large concert. It seemed like it was musical number after musical number. And almost all of them were performed live (the rest came through videos). I was excited to see the Spice Girls perform because I grew up listening to them. But otherwise I didn’t care for […]
Inge dislocates shoulder, hits go-ahead run
[mlbvideo id=”23832015″ width=”400″ height=”224″ /] Brandon Inge, the former Detroit Tiger, has been nothing short of inspirational in his time as an Oakland Athletic. Fans in Detroit, talked more trash and gave Inge the hardest time because of his lack of performance not only at the plate, but in the field as well. They weren’t […]
Amputee runs in Olympics
An amazing man with an amazing story. It’s South African Oscar Pistorius. The first double amputee to run and compete in the Olympics. As he stood on the track it was obvious he was different than the other competitors. He exuded confidence and proved to the world that he could perform on the greatest athletic […]
A Beach Volleyball Three-peat
Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor have proved that they may be the best Olympic beach volleyball duo to ever compete. There ability to perform at their best on the Olympic stage is nothing but impressive. They have not one, not two, but three gold medals to prove it. May-Treanor competed in the beach volleyball […]
Stephan Feck’s back flop
The Olympics are the time when athletes need to be at their best. It’s the biggest stage that any athlete can perform on. It’s so big that it only occurs every 4 years. This is also not the place to perform at your worst. Unfortunately, this happened to German diver Stephan Feck. On a dive […]