News from June 2009

NHL Mock Draft – 2nd Round

Each player has ratings for the following scouting services: NHL’s Central Scouting (CS), The Hockey News (THN), McKeen’s (McK), International Scouting Service (ISS), Red Line Report (RLR), and Bob McKenzie of TSN.ca (TSN). CS breaks down their ratings by North American skaters, European skaters, North American goaltenders and European goaltenders. ISS, RLR, and TSN all [...]

2009 NHL Mock Draft

The coronation of John Tavares as hockey’s next big thing is set for June 26, 2009 in Montreal as the Canadiens 100th anniversary hits its zenith with the NHL’s 2009 Entry Draft. Now it is up to the New York Islanders to decide where Tavares begins his professional hockey career. Often pegged as the odds-on [...]

Benitez Blows All-Star Game as Liberty Wins, 7-5

NEWARK, NJ— Armando Benitez blew a comfortable lead during a showcase game.
Sound familiar? Benitez wasn’t even wearing a Mets uniform this time. Instead, the Newark Bears closer failed to hold a two-run ninth inning lead in the Atlantic League’s All-Star game Tuesday night, giving up four runs on five hits as the Liberty Division stormed [...]

The Game Never Gets Old For The Wizard

NEWARK, NJ— Ozzie Smith’s cleats barely left the Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium grass as he jogged out to shortstop.
No backflips accompanied Smith as he took his position during the Atlantic League’s All-Star pregame celebrity exhibition softball game. The 54-year-old said his crowd-pleasing acrobatic ways are a thing of his playing days.
“I play too much [...]

Where Are They Now?

The goal of any MLB player, any professional athlete really, is to never be the subject of a Where Are They Now? story. It’s personally degrading. It’s kind of insulting. If televised, it’s a way for the masses to make fun of you. “Where Are They Now – (insert your name here)” means you were [...]

A Whale of a Last Day at Bethpage

BETHPAGE, NY – Even after four days of disappointing weather, and tough golf, the U.S. Open did have a gem in it.
A holdover Monday finally gave the Long Island crowd something to cheer about and also something to groan.
First you had Lucas Glover, who fought through and won his first major. A 29 [...]

A Long Tournament on the Long Course

BETHPAGE, NY – Here we are on Friday and the first round is still not done at the U.S. Open. Weather will do that. Yet, today is a glorious day, especially for 18 holes and Day 2 did not disappoint.
Tiger Woods shot four over and didn’t seem happy. And currently American Lucas Glover leads the [...]

Strasberg Not Worth the Money Boras is Asking

There hasn’t been an amateur player in the history of baseball worth a $1 million signing bonus, let alone the catastrophic amount (reportedly $50 million) about to be demanded by Stephen Strasburg’s agent, Scott Boras. This is why baseball’s draft, which kicks off this afternoon, is such a travesty.
The draft was established in 1965 after [...]

The UFL Ready To Go For 2010

NEW YORK – If you had said to me three years ago that a new professional football league would start up and play games during the fall, when the NFL and College Football (not to mention High School Football) were in full swing, I would have suggested some sort of substance abuse recovery program.
Two years [...]

Queens Native Phil Williams Goes to 11-1

Hinkley, MN – Tonight’s featured bout at Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota was to have been a match between two New York boxers: Queens native Phil Williams and Queens-based Connecticut native Jaidon Codrington. Codrington, however, dropped off the card less than a week before fight night, his team claiming an unspecified career-threatening injury. So tough [...]

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