Posts by Shane Ryan
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The MLB Weekend Top 10: Immovable Rays, Meet Unstoppable Dodgers
August may be the lowliest sports month of all, but we’ve got ourselves a fantastic little weekend of professional baseball. Feast your eyes, perk your ears, and open your hearts: It’s list time. 10. The Battle for Tejas (TEX-HOU) For so long, we’ve watched a pair of mighty franchises duel for the hearts and minds […]
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Why Tiger Woods, Warrior-Golfer, Will Win the PGA Championship
Normally I write a “top 10 contenders” post before each major, but after witnessing Tiger Woods’s recent form, I decided it wasn’t necessary. I’m convinced he’s going to end his long drought and win this year’s PGA Championship, “Glory’s Last Shot,” per the dramatic men on television. So rather than giving token lip service to […]
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The Faces of A-Rod: Return to Baseball
With a 211-game suspension looming, Alex Rodriguez returned to the Yankees lineup last night, going 1-for-4 in his first game of the 2013 season. We know that A-Rod is a complex man, full of depth and shadow. But though we’ve studied him for years, have we truly captured his essence? Today, we honor the man […]
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Conversations With an Idiot: Is Tiger Woods ‘Back’?
You may have heard that Tiger Woods shot a 61 on Friday at the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, setting a course record and tying his best professional round ever. He went on to win the tournament by seven strokes over Henrik Stenson and Keegan Bradley, and will be the odds-on favorite to end his major […]
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The MLB Weekend Top 10: Nolan and Billy, to the Death
It’s August, the worst month of the year! Time to shut your blinds, turn the air conditioner down to 56, and hibernate for 30 days with only baseball and unsweetened ice tea for companions. Here are the best ways to make it through the first weekend of Hell Month. 10. A-Rod A-Rod A-Rod A-Rod He’s […]
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10 Sensible Rules for Golfing With Others
After reading Jim Cavan’s excellent piece on the 10 worst pickup basketball blunders last week, I couldn’t stop thinking about what an equivalent golfing list would look like. In a sport so polluted by etiquette and decorum, the possibilities seemed endless.
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Pitchers’ Duel Diary: Adam Wainwright vs. Jeff Locke
Welcome to the new series for pitching junkies, in which we anticipate one excellent matchup per week and diarize it to learn something about the practitioners of the Mound Arts. In the process, we also discover meaningful things about ourselves and our lives through the lens of baseball. There is always a lesson at the […]
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The Future Adventures of Johnny Football
Johnny Manziel is a legend. First, he won the Heisman Trophy as a freshman, leading Texas A&M to an epic regular-season win over Alabama and demolishing Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl. His exploits earned him a righteous gunslinger nickname, “Johnny Football,” and he was an American hero at age 20. But the word “legend” is […]
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The MLB Weekend Top 10: A-Rod and Nine Other Things
Let’s goooo! 10. A-Rod wants BACK, everyone! HE WANTS BACK! The headline on ESPN.com right now is “A-Rod decries mix-ups, lobbies for Fri. play.” My question is, do you think A-Rod knows what “decries” means? It strikes me as such a funny word to use in the context of a guy who allegedly owns pictures […]
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Important Questions to Wrap Up the Antonio Morrison vs. Dog Incident
In case you’ve been living under a rock — or just in some normal place where you don’t follow stupid sports stories — settle in for some enlightenment. Florida Gators linebacker Antonio Morrison, a sophomore, was arrested at 3:43 a.m. Sunday for walking by a police car, barking at a police dog that was in […]
