Get the farewell tour ready. Present Derek Jeter with only the rarest and most expensive presents. You will be judged by your gifts, and if found wanting you will be shunned by the baseball community. In a Facebook post, Jeter has announced that "The 2014 season will be my last year playing professional baseball." Here's his entire letter: You know what this means—Jeter will peace out before Alex Rodriguez comes back. YEAH JEETS. Top image via. …
Plaxico Burress has obviously just given up on obeying any authority figure ever. Just days after the Giants finally dumped him, comes words of another run-in with police that did not end happily for anyone. Burress was pulled over for speeding and cutting through traffic on I-95 in Florida back on March 18th. When the officer approached his car, Burress was talking on his cellphone and then flew off the handle when the officer opened his car door to get a better look inside. "F- – – you! You're going to be in a lot of trouble. I know the sheriff personally," the receiver raged at Broward County Deputy Sheriff Donald Harris during the March 18 traffic stop, police said. The embattled gridder (right) … followed every question and command with a "F- – – you," …
A pair of teams coming off key wins will meet Saturday afternoon when Maryland hosts Nebraska in a Big Ten Conference game at College Park, Md. Maryland (12-8, 4-5 Big Ten) is coming off a 69-67 win Wednesday at Iowa that saw Jahmir Young score the go-ahead jumper with 1.7 seconds left. It was the Terrapins' third road victory of the season and second in league play. "Coming in here we knew we had to fight and that was our mentality coming into this game," said Young, who finished with 22 points, including the final eight for Maryland. The senior guard is second in the Big Ten in scoring at 20.8 per game. Nebraska (15-5, 5-4) defeated Ohio State 83-69 on Tuesday to improve to 13-1 at home. It's on the road, though, where the Cornhuskers have been a different team, l…
data-mm-id=”_dfi7pzpvp”>Major League Baseball has already come under the microscope for how its youngest prospects are paid and treated as they struggle through the minor leagues. The issue came to a head in the innocently-named "Save America’s Pastime Act," which allowed teams to pay their minor-leaguers less than minimum wage.The good news is that MLB has plans to raise minor league salaries. The troubling part is how it plans to do so, per a report from Baseball America.Major League Baseball and its sister organization, Minor League Baseball (MiLB), work together under the Professional Baseball Agreement, which expires at the end of the 2020 season. When the PBA comes up for renegotiation, it is usually little more than a formality but this time that is not the case. MLB…
data-mm-id=”_j2tl6j26c”>On March 10, the Golden State Warriors were eliminated from NBA playoff contention. They're the first team to receive that "honor" and currently hold the worst record in the league at 15-50. At this time last season, the Dubs were 45-21 and well on their way to their fifth consecutive NBA Finals appearance. Golden State's tumble from one of the greatest dynasties of the millennium to leading the pack for the No. 1 overall draft pick was swift, if not surprising. But it always is, isn't it?There are a multitude of reasons the Warriors now find themselves in this position, and most of those are out of their control. Kevin Durant chose to head east to Brooklyn in free agency, Klay Thompson tore his ACL in last year's Finals and will mi…
data-mm-id=”_xxsk1i905″>Colin Cowherd has been informed that Tom Brady has made a decision where he'll play football next year. This would suggest an announcement or scoop is coming soon. Will it be the Buccaneers? The Chargers? The Bears? A mystery team?All I can hope for is that text to be accurate and for immediate sweet, merciful release from the Brady news cycle. It is something long overdue that long ago broke my spirit before real-world events should have broken it. This entire endeavor of trying to read the tea leaves surround Brady's decision has been exhausting. Each and every day for as long as I can remember there's been a new angle or spin or hypothetical. And deep down, a person didn't have to be a cynic to understand that an overwhelming majority of b…
data-mm-id=”_kj1yhhqve”>So I was using the Internet today and I saw a clip of Pamela Anderson playing a saxophone. Turns out, this is how the world was introduced to her iconic C.J. Parker character on Baywatch — standing on a rock on the riverside, playin' sax like she's standing on Baker Street. File this under things that are new to me. I needed to know more. And now I do and I'm going to share it with you. It turns out Pam Anderson's made her Baywatch debut in the season three premier, a two-part episode centering around a group of lifeguards investigating the death of Mitch's (David Hasselhof) prospector uncle. If you need a moment to process that storyline, by all means. Feel free to distract yourself with the full opening scene.The episode, which first…
data-mm-id=”_gwc10gz8l”>Fresh pictures have been released of the brand-spanking-new Texas Rangers stadium that will, against all odds, host some baseball this summer. It, um, did not really come out the way they said it would. All the way up ⬆️⬆️ pic.twitter.com/WNDtFP79QF— Globe Life Field (@GlobeLifeField) June 23, 2020When the roof is retracted, it does look like a nice new baseball stadium. But the exterior… Man. A generous way to describe it would be "gray." It is not exactly what the team said it would look like when they released digital rendering of the outside after announcing the new field. What happened? / Yeah, they might've missed the mark a bit. There is nothing resembling anything like that in our first look at the finished product. Perhaps tha…
data-mm-id=”_s1jf9o1by”>The past decade of the WNBA belonged to Maya Moore. She racked up every possible accolade after winning two NCAA championships at UConn and going first overall in the 2011 draft. But when it's all said and done, any basketball accomplishments might be the second-most impressive part of her resume.In 2019, Moore announced she was taking a sabbatical from her professional sports life to help reform the justice system in America. She was inspired by a Black man named Jonathan Irons, who had been serving a 50-year sentence for burglary and assaulting a homeowner with a gun. He was 16-years-old when he was convicted, and there was very little evidence to support the case, but Irons was tried as an adult and found guilty. Moore first met Irons in 2007 and took of…
data-mm-id=”_dv1lvfegd”>Playing against Adam Schefter in fantasy football would suck. Not only does the ESPN insider know teams and players inside and out, but he also has a huge advantage on the waiver wire. That's just how it goes when the majority of breaking news filters through one of your multiple cell phones before being distributed to the general population.It appears Schefter used that edge to his advantage with the latest Antonio Brown news. Hours before Schefter officially broke the news that Brown is expected to be reinstated by the NFL and the Seahawks were among the teams interested in signing him, Schefter picked up Brown on the waiver wire in his ESPN fantasy football league. That's some Gordon Gekko Wall Street level of insider trading right there. Shout out …