Couldn’t resist the obvious baseball cliche but MLB.com At Bat 2009 is pretty great … You’d expect the obvious features such as live boxscores or even live pitch tracking … And as you can see at the bottom of the screen, you can tap to access (from left to right), GAMEDAY is live pitch & [...]

I suppose this might be the best way to test out your golf nerves – can you putt while all around people are slapping their palm to their heads, mocking you loudly or throwing their clubs, beer bottles and the golf cart at you? Will you kiss the putter head and mutter ‘prime golf directive?’ [...]

At an NFL game, when the field goal kicker is about to boot the ball, they send two guys to run up a net behind the goal posts. Why? To protect the people a good 50 yards behind the net? If you’re sitting behind the goal posts, can you not see a 12″ inflated leather [...]

“Unhappy Kirilenko seeks trade from Jazz.” “Kirilenko ‘ready’ to give up $63M contract.” Though he feels much better after meeting Jerry Sloan, the coach – because … “Kirilenko said he would accept Sloan’s criticism as long as Sloan was willing to offer equal amounts of praise.” HOW EXACTLY WOULD THAT WORK? YOU’RE AN IDIOT! – [...]

The New England Patriots appear to be guilty of videotaping the NY Jets defensive signals – not only a violation of league rules but teams were specifically warned last season NOT to videotape … shouldn’t the penalty match the reason they managed to score so many points after halftime last week? By videotaping the signals, [...]

MLB: RHP Jesus Colome (soft tissue infection in right buttock)

ESPN has updated their podcasts for easy access via your iPhone. When you go to ESPN.com, click on the PODCENTER link and if you’re visiting from your iPhone, you should be offered the link on the right hand (above). Tap and instead of having to wade through tiny icons and links, the iPhone page looks [...]

Yep, “He’s Outta Here!” or “He Could Go All the Way,” or “These guys are killin’ me!” or “Buried in the Cellar” takes on a whole new meaning. You can die in peace now if you’re an Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies [...]

The Tour de France can be a little puzzling to first time observers. There are stages where the leader/leaders nonchalantly let others ride past them without a care in the world and other stages where they fight tooth and nail to chase down another pack and then take it easy … Basically, the winner is [...]