Bravo Reality Series, “Real Housewives of Orange County” Has Real Trouble
Real-life Husband and Wife, Matt and Jeanna Keough, Are Headed for Divorce
Ex-MLB All Star, Matt Keough’s Drinking Lands Him Jail for Six Months
It Could Have Been Five Years
Real life means jail time for one of the reality “stars” of the Real Housewives of […]

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In what is being called “baseball’s most infamous lineup since the 1919 Black Sox scandal,” former ME Sen. George Mitchell’s 21-month, $20 million, 409-page investigation on the prevalence of steroids, human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball alleges that at least one player from each of the 30 MLB teams was […]

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Waterboarding kabuki, truth to power, and other observations…
By Jefferson Flanders
With a tip of the fedora to legendary New York columnist Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but…
YOU DON’T HAVE TO AGREE (AS I DO) WITH JOHN MCCAIN AND THE MILITARY’S LEGAL ESTABLISHMENT that waterboarding is torture, or to believe that the United States should never engage […]

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Today’s Political Lunch menu features a Clinton roast and a Waldo salad for Fred Thompson. Plus, Chris Dodd may share his nachos with you, but you’ve got to buy your own ticket to the ball game.
Watch now!

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Major League Baseball has settled into its playoff series’, creating tense times for Yankees manager Joe Torre. After losing to the Cleveland Indians in the first two games of their first-round playoff series, it was publically announced that Torre’s job was on the line if the Yankees did not win this series. As if in response […]

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Campus free speech, Clinton and Shakespeare, and other observations…
By Jefferson Flanders
With a tip of the ballcap to legendary New York columnist Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but…
SEPTEMBER WAS A STRANGE MONTH FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ON AMERICA’S COLLEGE CAMPUSES. Columbia University invited the president of Iran—a Holocaust denier, Israel hater, and all-purpose enemy of the […]

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Fisking Robert Fisk’s 9/11 fantasies, a farewell to the Scooter, and other observations…
By Jefferson Flanders
With a tip of the cap to legendary New York newspaperman Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but…
“FISKING” IS THE TERM COINED FOR THE PUBLIC DEBUNKING (by bloggers, journalists, and other critics) of claims made by British journalist Robert Fisk. A quick […]

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I’ve often criticized what one might call the “paternal abandonment script”–the standard assumption that if a father doesn’t remain in his children’s lives after a divorce or separation, it’s because he “abandoned the family” and/or chose to remove himself from his children’s lives. One example is my blog entry Dick Allen & the Misleading ‘Paternal […]

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It seems that steroids have now become a problem for Japan as well as the United States in the sports world. A California native playing baseball in Japan has been suspended and fined after failing a drug test to check for steroid use. The substance that showed up in the test turned out to be […]

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On Tuesday night, Barry Bonds’ dream was realized when he hit home run number 756 in right field at AT&T Park. Over 43,000 fans witnessed the home run live which prompted a fireworks explosion as a stunned Bonds circled the bases. He was met by his Giants teammates and 17-year-old son, Nikolai. Despite this milestone, […]

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Last week, the Roberto Clemente Museum honoring the Pittsburgh Pirate legend opened with celebrations including a few open-house parties and a $30,000 check from Councilman Len Bodack. The museum has been made possible by Duane Rieder who has been working for 11 years to get it running. It was constructed out of an old Enginehouse […]

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A coach for the Tulsa Drillers was killed by a foul ball during a minor league baseball game on Sunday night. Coach Mike Coolbaugh was hit in the head by a line drive while coaching first-base during a Texas League game with the Arkansas Travelers. The ball was hit by Tino Sanchez in the ninth […]

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A coach for the Tulsa Drillers was killed by a foul ball during a minor league baseball game on Sunday night. Coach Mike Coolbaugh was hit in the head by a line drive while coaching first-base during a Texas League game with the Arkansas Travelers. The ball was hit by Tino Sanchez in the ninth […]

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The American League has been victorious in the MLB All Star Game once again thanks to Ichiro Suzuki, who hit the first inside-the-park home run in All Star game history which led to the team’s 5-4 win on Tuesday night. Suzuki hit the ball off the right-field wall at AT&T Park which got away from […]

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The night before the 2007 All Star Game, Major League Baseball’s top power hitters competed in the Home Run Derby in San Francisco. By the end of the night, the Los Angeles Angels’ Vladimir Guerrero was crowned this year’s champion hitting 17 home runs to beat Toronto’s Alex Rios in the final round. This was […]

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Milwaukee Brewers star first baseman Prince Fielder, 23, will start in the All-Star game tonight, and is leading the National League in homeruns. There are inevitable comparisons between Prince Fielder and his father Cecil (both pictured), who led the majors in RBI three seasons in a row for the Detroit Tigers during the 1990s. Both […]

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A few days ago, Pittsburgh Pirates CEO Kevin McClatchy announced that he will resign from his position at the end of the season. This decision now calls into question the futures of general manager Dave Littlefield and manager Jim Tracy. However, principal owner Bob Nutting has stated that their fates will not be decided upon […]

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Rumsfeld’s shameful legacy, democracy at risk in Asia, and other observations…
By Jefferson Flanders
With a tip of the cap to legendary New York newspaperman Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but…
DONALD RUMSFELD’S SHAMEFUL LEGACY at the Defense Department is spotlighted in Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article “The General’s Report.” Hersh’s piece is based on interviews with retired […]

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Recently, Little League International, which has over 2.3 million baseball players around the world, has instilled a new rule that allows pitchers to throw no more than 75 pitches in one game. This change has come as a result of an increase in arm injuries in the last few years. Doctors are alarmed by the […]

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On Tuesday night, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander pitched a no-hitter versus the Milwaukee Brewers in a 4-0 win. Verlander, the 2006 American League Rookie of the Year struck out 12 batters last night, putting him at 7-2 for the season. ESPN broke into the game in the eighth inning to see if Verlander could […]

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This year, the 2007 MLB All-Star Game will be held in San Francisco’s AT&T Ballpark. It will be the third time the games will be held in San Francisco, the first since 1984 held in Candlestick Park, and the first in AT&T Park since opening in 2000. This is an appropriate year for the Giants […]

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Rajai Davis made his first start as a Pittsburgh Pirate on Tuesday night against the Washington Nationals in RFK Stadium. He had just been called up from AAA Indianapolis, and manager Jim Tracy is anxious to see what he can do that current center fielder Chris Duffy can’t and vice versa. His biggest question is […]

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The fourth game in a four game series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates was halted for thirteen minutes in Great American ballpark when two Reds outfielders collided while going after a ball, knocking one of the players unconscious. Center fielder Ryan Freel and right fielder Norris Hopper collided while going after a […]

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Scales Sports Project:Latest News on Gambian sports!!

Gambia’s under 20 team
By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie, Banjul.
Paid for And Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper.
Soccer fans across The Gambia would in less than one hour troop down to various stadia in the country for scintillating and earth-trembling matches in the GFA 2nd Division league. In […]

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By Jefferson Flanders
With full credit to New York newspaper legend Jimmy Cannon for the phrase: Nobody asked me, but…
WILL 9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORISTS LOOK AT THE CURT SCHILLING “BLOODY SOCK” CONTROVERSY and see the “evil hand” of the Bush Administration in this “false flag,” uh, “false sock” operation? Here are the particulars: Baltimore Orioles broadcaster Gary […]

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By Jefferson Flanders
With a tip of a Yankees (or Red Sox) cap to New York newspaper columnist Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but…
IS DAVID AXELROD THE NEW POLITICAL GEPPETO for Democrats and is Barack Obama his latest Pinocchio? Two intriguing newspaper pieces—Ben Wallace-Wells’s profile of Axelrod in the New York Times Magazine, “Obama’s Narrator,” and […]

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Six people were killed and many injured when a bus from an Ohio college fell off an overpass onto Interstate 75 early this morning.
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, witnesses said the bus got off the Interstate in the HOV (higher occupancy vehicle) lane, seemed to lose control, crossed Northside Drive at an angle and […]

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Managers of the Atlanta Braves said today the sale of the team to a company in Colorado should not affect any of the team’s staff or players.
  

The prospective owners at Liberty Media have declined to comment on the team’s future, but Manager Bobby Cox and General Manager John Schuerholz told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that […]

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By Jefferson Flanders
As the legendary columnist Jimmy Cannon used to say: nobody asked me, but…
NYU’S MITCHELL STEPHENS HAS RE-IMAGINED THE ROLE OF MAINSTREAM JOURNALISM in his provocative Columbia Journalism Review essay “Beyond News.”
Stephens believes that the Internet and the 24/7 news cycle has made obsolete the traditional next-day reporting of newspapers and the broadcast media. […]

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Ironman Cal Ripken, Jr. and slugger Tony Gwynn are heading to Cooperstown.
Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petrosky announced today on Major League Baseball’s Web site that Ripken and Gwynn were elected to the Hall of Fame. It was the first year on the ballot for the men who both played their entire careers for […]

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