Mets drop seventh straight, fall one game under .500 Take a look around the league with Big League Stew's daily wrap up. We'll hit on all of the biggest moments from the day that you may have missed, while providing highlights, photos and interesting stats. Exactly two months to the day the New York Mets had their 11-game winning streak snapped by the New York Yankees, they lost their … [Read more...]
Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews named as NHL 16 cover athletes
Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews named as NHL 16 cover athletes Since 2011, EA Sports has revealed its cover athlete for the NHL videogame series at the NHL Awards. Changing things up for NHL 16, there will be two players on the cover for the first time in the game’s history. From EA: “I’m honored to not only share the Stanley Cup Championship with Patrick, but to share the EA SPORTS NHL 16 … [Read more...]
Cycling-Froome says he missed drugs test this year (Reuters)
Cycling-Froome says he missed drugs test this year (Reuters) Former Tour de France champion Chris Froome has revealed he missed a drugs test earlier this year but blamed over-zealous hotel staff for the mishap. "I had a couple of recovery days and I took my wife down to quite an exclusive hotel in Italy," the 2013 Tour champion was quoted as saying in British media. "On the first morning … [Read more...]
Froome says he missed drugs test this year (Reuters)
Froome says he missed drugs test this year (Reuters) Former Tour de France champion Chris Froome has revealed he missed a drugs test earlier this year but blamed over-zealous hotel staff for the mishap. "I had a couple of recovery days and I took my wife down to quite an exclusive hotel in Italy," the 2013 Tour champion was quoted as saying in British media. "On the first morning the … [Read more...]
Sources: Blazers fear Aldridge free-agent exit
Sources: Blazers fear Aldridge free-agent exit Marc Stein, ESPN Senior Writer Close • Senior NBA writer for ESPN.com• Began covering the NBA in 1993-94• Also covered soccer, tennis and the Olympics 0 Shares Print The Portland Trail Blazers traded forward Nicolas Batum on Wednesday amid a growing belief within the organization that LaMarcus Aldridge is poised to leave them in free … [Read more...]
Turkish draft prospect Cedi Osman has beautiful hair
Turkish draft prospect Cedi Osman has beautiful hair For roughly 10 years, the second round of the NBA draft has been full of foreign players selected by teams whose fans know next to nothing about them. Apart from cursory scouting reports online and a few grainy highlights attended by Fran Fraschilla's breathless descriptions, no one really knows much about these prospects. For at least one … [Read more...]
Virginia tops Vanderbilt for first College World Series championship
Virginia tops Vanderbilt for first College World Series championship For the third time in the past 10 seasons, Division 1 college baseball had a chance to crown a back-to-back champion. Instead, the University of Virginia Cavaliers denied history while creating a piece of their own, knocking off the Commodores from Vanderbilt University 4-2 in Game 3 of the College World Series to win the … [Read more...]
How Bob Hartley won the 2015 Jack Adams Award
How Bob Hartley won the 2015 Jack Adams Award Should Bob Hartley have won the 2015 Jack Adams Award for leading the Calgary Flames to the playoffs? Well, he did win it, so the point is a bit moot. But the bottom line is that there were several candidates that could have staked a claim to the award, and Hartley was as deserving as any of them. Well, except for Peter Laviolette, who should … [Read more...]
Gio Gonzalez’s beard has an official sponsor
Gio Gonzalez's beard has an official sponsor At a time in our existence where everything in sports has a sponsorship, from every segment and feature on game broadcasts, to every square inch available in every major sporting facility, to all of the major superstars themselves, this announcement by Wahl Home Products only makes sense. On Tuesday, the company announced the results of its annual … [Read more...]
The Eye: Roundup of Wednesday's MLB action
The Eye: Roundup of Wednesday's MLB action Run at perfection: Blue Jays pitcher Marco Estrada took a perfect game into the eighth inning against the Rays before giving up a one-out infield single to Logan Forsythe. *** Garcia continues to dominate: When the Cardinals lost Adam Wainwright for the season in late April, there were suddenly big questions about the St. Louis rotation. How could … [Read more...]