This baseball fan isn’t the only one antsy for spring. Closer Brian Wilson for the World Series champion San Francisco Giants made a stop on Lopez Tonight Friday and dropped this new video for MLB 2K11′s $1,000,000 perfect game competition. Wilson co-wrote and adlibbed the short film in which he debates his pitching prowess on [...]
In the end, Rhode Island’s feverish efforts to woo the America’s Cup back to the place many in Rhode Island and the sailing world believe is the trophy’s true home failed on the last night of the year. The news, officially delivered just four hours before the stroke of midnight on the East Coast, dashed [...]
The Phillies stunned the baseball world when they signed Lee to a five-year, $120 million contract, which includes a vesting option for a sixth season that would increase the deal to $135 million. Lee passed up more money from the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers to join Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels [...]
The biggest downside of a West Coast team winning a World Series title? Hands down, it has to be required late-night appearances with the script-following clown in Burbank instead of heading east for a visit with David Letterman. Any benefit of the doubt I was going to give Jay Leno during Brian Wilson’s(notes) appearance on [...]
That’s how Sparky Anderson will be remembered by those whose lives he touched — and, in some cases, whose careers he guided. From the players who played for him, to the umpires with whom he sometimes disagreed, to commissioner Bud Selig, who knew him and liked him long before he became the commissioner, Anderson will [...]
Former President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at Game 4 of the World series. He was accompanied by his father, George HW Bush, while former First Ladies Laura and Barbara watched from the stands. Bush threw a perfect pitch – right over the plate. He made it look so easy. The crowd [...]