Posts by Shane Ryan
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About Last Night: Roger’s Dinner With Andre
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday. Special “in related news” edition! Roger Federer tied Andre Agassi for second on the all-time Grand Slams wins list with a first round victory at the U.S. Open. In related news, USTA officials detained Agassi before the […]
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Injustice at the Little League World Series?
On Saturday, Shane Battier broadcast a complaint via Twitter. “Why does the Little League World Series stop becoming a double elimination tourney at the American and foreign champ games? Makes no sense,” he tweeted. My first reaction when I saw this tweet wasn’t to wonder why Battier, a professional basketball player, cared about fair play […]
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About Last Weekend: The Price of Success
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports over the weekend. Usain Bolt, Olympic gold medalist and the heavy favorite in the 100m finals at the World Championships, was disqualified at the event on Sunday, after a false start. But you have to wonder: did Bolt really […]
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The 10 Greatest Grand Slams in History
On Thursday night, the New York Yankees set a record with three grand slams in a single game. The magical evening brought the grand slam back into the forefront of the national discourse, and today it’s barely an overstatement to call it the most significant part of human society. In honor of the brave new […]
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About Last Night: That Ole Yankee Charm
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday. The Yankees set a major league record by hitting three grand slams in a single game on the way to a 22-9 win over Oakland. Not content with a 13-run rout, sadistic manager Joe Girardi also put Jorge Posada […]
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About Last Night: The Ochocino Proposition
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday.
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About Last Night: Punishment Abounds
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday.
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Ten Great Baseball Quotes Inspired by Ichiro Hating On Cleveland
A doubleheader between the Mariners and the Indians in Cleveland on Tuesday brings to mind one of the greatest baseball quotes of all time. In April 2007, a four-game series between the teams had been canceled because of a snowstorm, and the games were being made up piecemeal as the season went along. On June […]
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About Last Night: Verlander’s 19th Opus
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday.
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Watching A.J. Burnett Implode
I fished my wish. After rooting vigorously for A.J. Burnett to fail Saturday so that he might be removed from the rotation for the Greater Yankee Good, I watched it happen in technicolor. The villain of my imagination fared even worse than I could have hoped — 1 2/3 innings, five hits, three walks, two […]
