Posts by Shane Ryan
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Home Run Derby Retro Diary!
Not to start off all Debbie Downer on you guys, but it’s 7:43 p.m. and I’m not feeling too juiced for the Home Run Derby. Yesterday, I compared it to the NBA slam dunk contest in the sense that it gets really repetitive and boring after about 5 to 10 seconds. It’s one of those […]
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About Last Night: A Royal Slugfest
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday. Prince Fielder hit a record-tying 12 final-round home runs to win his second Home Run Derby and join Ken Griffey Jr. as the only player with multiple titles. He also remains the only prince to ever win […]
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Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez, and the Heat in D.C.
Given the chance, I will ramble on for hours at a time about Major League Baseball’s asinine blackout policy, and how it unfairly deprives me of Nationals and Orioles games, 250 miles southwest, here in Chapel Hill. Prior to 2012, the big problem for me was that I couldn’t watch the 18 Yankees-Orioles games each […]
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About Last Weekend: Fortnight Finale
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports over the weekend. Roger Federer defeated local hero Andy Murray in four sets to win his seventh Wimbledon title, tying Pete Sampras’s record for the most all-time titles. But the champion angered the crowd during Murray’s emotional post-match speech […]
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The Weekend Baseball Top 10
Here are the most compelling matchups, stories, and personalities in Major League Baseball for the coming weekend. 10. Zack Greinke’s Chance for a Classic F-You Game (Saturday, MIL-HOU) Let me make my case for Zack Greinke as an All-Star. Bear with me, because I’m going to use a revolutionary stat-comparison technique, where I take certain […]
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About Last Holiday Mid-Week Break
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports since Tuesday. Phoenix Sun? More like Phoenix done! Steve Nash is headed to the Lakers … the Los Angeles Lakers, that is. The Suns point guard worked out a sign-and-trade deal with Phoenix that will send him to L.A., […]
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About Last Night: Cleaning Out the Birdcage
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday. The Atlanta Hawks agreed in principle to trade Marvin Williams to the Utah Jazz for point guard Devin Harris, and sources report that they’ve also reached a handshake deal with the Nets that would send Joe Johnson […]
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Naming R.A. Dickey’s Knucklers
After a brief hiccup against the Yankees last Sunday, R.A. Dickey was back to his usual world-beating self on Friday, striking out 10 Dodgers in a 9-0 Mets win. He’s 12-1 with a 2.15 ERA on the year, and the prohibitive favorite to start for the National League at the All-Star Game next Tuesday. If […]
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Does Michael Phelps Have His Groove Back?
Last week, we told you that after winning eight gold medals in Beijing, Michael Phelps wasn’t quite the same. Good? Yes. World-class? Yes. But Ryan Lochte, the brightest star in the U.S. swimming scene, was challenging his throne. There was the 200-meter individual medley at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, where Lochte topped Phelps’s […]
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About Last Weekend: Tiger Roars Past the Bear
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports over the weekend. Tiger Woods moved into second place on the all-time PGA tour wins list behind Sam Snead by out-dueling Bo Van Pelt to win the AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional. “Operation Kill Tiger must now enter […]