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Q and A with Oakland A’s Outfielder Ryan Sweeney

By Chris Osburn • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Sports

In 2009, just his second full season in Major League Baseball, Oakland Athletics outfielder Ryan Sweeney finished second on the team with a .293 batting average while hitting six home runs, recording 58 RBI’s and stealing six bags. He was a human highlight reel, collecting many a web gem and leaving numerous batters gap-jawed as [...]



MLB Postseason Preview

By Chris Osburn • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Sports

The American League:
Boston Red Sox vs. Los Angeles Angels:
I feel like a broken record. Every postseason I write previews for the playoffs, and somehow, every year I write a preview for the Red Sox and the Angels embroiled in another battle. Stretching back to ’86, the Sox have been a large, unrelenting thorn in the [...]



The Week In Sports #14: Something Is Rotten in Pennsylvania

By Chris Osburn • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Features, Sports

Something strange is going on in the state of Pennsylvania, and it has been for a long long time. The Phillies have lost the most games in MLB history and had sixteen straight losing seasons in the thirty’s and forty’s. But, somewhere in the early nineties, the Pirates must have decided that they weren’t going [...]



The Week In Sports #13: Aging NFL Free Agents

By Chris Osburn • Sep 4th, 2009 • Category: Features, Sports

The NFL season begins next week and there are still quite a few big name free agents sitting by their phones. Players like Marvin Harrison, Shaun Alexander, Joe Horn, Amani Toomer, Matt Jones, Derrick Brooks, Michael Boulware, DeShaun Foster, and Joe Jurevicius are still on the market looking for a home, as are many other [...]



The Week In Sports #12: Rockies Deja Vu (all over again)

By Chris Osburn • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Features, Sports

What year is it, 2007? It sure feels like it. That year, the Colorado Rockies won 21 of their last 22 games to force a one game playoff with the San Diego Padres for the National League Wildcard. We all know what happened. The Rockies won the game in extra innings and went on to [...]



The 150th Anniversary of the Box Score

By Dave Baldwin • Aug 2nd, 2009 • Category: Sports

Baseball has been regarded as America’s pastime for over 150 years. Journalists back in the 1850’s regarded baseball as America’s game. Whether you are a big time baseball fan or not, most everyone is familiar with the box score. The box score is a brief snapshot of all the relevant statistical data from the game [...]



The Week In Sports #8: Baseball Roadtrip, Michael Vick, Surfing, and more

By Chris Osburn • Jul 31st, 2009 • Category: Sports

Back in the summer of 2002, my friends and I took a road trip to see some Major League Baseball games. It’s one of my favorite summer memories of my life.
We started our journey in Western New York and drove through Niagara Falls into Canada. There were seven of us, on a mission to see [...]



The Week in Sports #5: MLB All-Stars, Ocho Cinco, Tour de France

By Chris Osburn • Jul 10th, 2009 • Category: Sports

The Major League Baseball All-Star game is next Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. This is one of the only all-star games that I care about in any capacity. It’s most likely because the game is usually close and the winning league gets home-field advantage in the World Series, so [...]



The Week in Sports #2

By Chris Osburn • Jun 20th, 2009 • Category: Sports

This is the second installment of “The Week in Sports”. I’m excited to once again give you the scoop on the world of sports. Honestly, feel free to lay back and not watch SportsCenter at all during the week, I’ll hook you up. I’ll set you up with all the information you need. So, let’s [...]



[MLB] Preview: AL West, NL West

By Dan Mason • Mar 26th, 2009 • Category: Sports

The AL West was the sorriest division in baseball last season, with just one team finishing above .500. That team, the LA Angels of Anaheim, ran away with the division, clinching weeks before the season was over.