Meanwhile, in Japan, Dwight Howard dunked on a giraffe
The basketball was roughly 11 feet off the ground, according to CBS Sports.
via BI
Beast
Swapping A.J. Burnett for Jason Bay makes sense for both the Yankees and the Mets
Over the last two seasons, they have been two of baseball’s biggest enigmas. They have the same annual salary ($16.5 million), and each player has two years left on his contract. And even though no team could possibly want them right now, A.J. Burnett and Jason Bay should be swapped for each other. Yes, the Mets and Yankees make crosstown trades about as often as Jorge Posada has used his catcher’s gear lately, but they should make an exception in this case.
More —> NYDN
Interesting
Report: Mets placed David Wright on waivers earlier this month. He was pulled back after Rockies put a claim in.
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Buddy Ryan’s Boys: The College Years
(can you tell which one is Rex & which is Rob?)
Rob Ryan on the left, Rex Ryan on the right.
RIGHT?!
I agree with your guess.
Rob’s shirt! ”It only tastes fattening.”
Haha
Report: Alex Rodriguez “played in an underground, illegal poker game where cocaine was openly used”
RadarOnline.com and Star magazine have published a report claiming Alex Rodriguez “played in an underground, illegal poker game where cocaine was openly used.”
Tabloid reports should be taken with truck fulls of salt, obviously, but the story is a follow-up to the June crackdown of a Hollywood poker game in which big names like Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Rodriguez regularly played.
Rodriguez previously denied playing in the game in question, but has been linked to other “underground” poker games in the past and RadarOnline.com speculates that he could be “facing potential fallout from Major League Baseball, which previously warned him to stay out of illegal poker clubs and now has two investigators looking into his activities.”
Continue reading… Aaron Gleeman, HardballTalk
