Fantasy World: Baseballapalooza!
Rick PaulasIt's a scientific fact that 1994 was a great year for music. (And not just because it marked the end of the first phase of New Kids on the Block.) For...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 04, 2009The Hard Sell
Ryan McGeeDown at the local GM dealership the boys are nervous. In the shadow of downtown Charlotte, a group of car salesman sat in the shade outside their sho...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 03, 2009Fantasy World: Picking the Worst
Rick PaulasThere's a lot of downtime to fill during a 17-3 baseball game (like, for example, last Monday's drubbing of the Angels by the White Sox) so you have t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 29, 2009Action Sports Report
Alyssa Roenigk...Jersey barriers and one very daring video producer on a Segway at El Toro Airfield in San Diego. The video, which became a cult classic in both the action and motorsports worlds, was viewed...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 28, 2009Fantasy World: The Dude Abides
Rick PaulasTwo weekends ago out here in the horizontal mess of Los Angeles was another incarnation of the Lebowski Fest, a two-day event that celebrates all of t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 21, 2009Fantasy World: Substitute Bats
Rick PaulasA month and change into the baseball season, we can start to see a few patterns. Carl Crawford is really fast. Roy Halladay is a pretty good pitcher. ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 13, 2009Fantasy World: Justify My Trade
Rick PaulasMy first trade of the year is in the books, and I'm already second-guessing it. It's only natural any blockbuster trade comes with nightly fits of i...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 23, 2009The Morning According to Us
Paul KixJeremy Tyler, a junior at San Diego High School, will forgo his senior year to play pro basketball in Europe. Amazing. And smart...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 23, 2009ESPNTheMag.Com Presents: All-World Power Rankings
Ted BauerBEST GARY SHEFFIELD SEASON EVER? WE'LL TAKE 1992 [Ed's note: Not sure what All-World Power Rankings is? Please click here.] Ya probably heard: the ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 31, 2009Mag Writers Roundtable: Size Matters
Jeff Bradley, Ric Bucher, David Fleming and E.J. Hradek...can move. A while back, in an essay for The Mag, Chuck Klosterman pointed out that San Diego's all pro linebacker Shawne Merriman (6'4", 272-pounds) is not only as big as...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 27, 2009Fantasy World: The Battle Fallout
Rick PaulasWhile you were distracted by Bud Selig's favorite child—the awesome, amazing, fantastic, etc. WBC—a whole lot has been happening in spring...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 26, 2009Fantasy World: The Wieting List
Rick PaulasEvery season, usually around May, a few youngsters who start the season down on the farm get that one phone call they're never going to forget—t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 19, 2009Fantasy World: Draft Lessons
Rick PaulasLast week, I participated in two mock drafts with the ESPN Fantasy collective. While the experiment had its downsides (having to actually set an alarm...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 19, 2009The Back and Forth: Best Sports Day Of The Year?
Ted Bauer and Eric Angevine...on the first day or two of last year's Dance was probably WKU over Drake, San Diego over UConn, or Belmont taking Duke to the very limit. None of those contests had broader...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 19, 2009ESPNTheMag.Com Presents: All-World Power Rankings
Ted BauerWHEN IT COMES TO THE BIGGEST CURSES IN SPORTS AND CULTURE, WE'LL STILL TAKE THE BILLY GOAT [Ed's note: Not sure what All-World Power Rankings is? Pl...
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