Florida Panthers New Third Jersey.

Yankees Set World Series Record.

 Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez struck out three times each in the second game of the 2009 World Series. It was the first time in baseball history that a leadoff hitter and cleanup hitter woofed at least three times apiece in the World Series.

Melanie Oudin’s Shoes.

This is simply magic. Melanie Oudin. Shoes she designed herself. Rolling into history at the US Open.
It doesn’t get any better than that.

Check this out while it lasts.

That is from ESPN’s Power Rankings on the second week of the new season. Rub your eyes all you want, it is real.

Mark Fidrych will be remembered forever.

(Editors note: I wrote this one year ago when the new major league baseball season was about to begin. Mark Fidrych died today, and in his honor I will re-post it each year on April 13th. Fly on, Bird. Fly on.)

That was Mark Fidrych at the height of his inspirational Rookie of the Year season. [...]

The Columbus Blue Jackets are in the Stanley Cup Playoffs!

It took seven long years, but now it has happened. The last NHL  team that had never qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs is going to the postseason.
I grew up in Newark, Ohio. Columbus was very close to home. I can hardly believe that there is a major league sports team there, but they are [...]

Squirrel Girl Sports Set?

Of course it would not be limited to the bushy-tailed wonder that is Doreen Green, but what do you think about a Vs. System Sports Set? All aglow from the Florida Marlins’ smashing success on Opening Day this year, I’m dreaming of some seriously athletic superhero cardboard this morning.

Sports and spandex seem to be two [...]

Another Opening Day in Miami.

That just about says it all. The dreams, the realities, the hope and the beauty of our fair city on Opening Day. I love you Miami!

I got my Greatest Hits.

The best thing about memories? They don’t have an expiration date.
It’s a glorious Sunday morning and I just stumbled upon a trading card that will live forever in my thumping little heart. I can still feel the envelope in my hands the day I opened the Congratulations You Won letter.
Thanks Upper Deck, I still got [...]

Richard Zednik Celebrates Slashed Throat Injury With Killer Game.

Wow. Just got back from one of the most emotional and incredible hockey games I have ever seen.
On the one-year anniversary of Richard Zednik’s life-threatening skate-to-the-neck freak injury, our Slovak Supremo scored a game-tying goal to cap a thrilling comeback from 4-1 down in the third period against the Toronto Maple Leafs here at home.
Then he [...]