Picture Of The Day – Who Are You Cheering For? Let’s do a little analysis of this photo to try and figure out who this woman is. The positives are this lady is comfortable enough to wear a hat, head to a baseball game, and drink a nice cold brew — awesome. [Total Pro Sports]
Miami Heat Ban Players’ Wives From VH1 Show. The former wife of NBA player Michael Olowokandi told an NBC reporter recently that the Miami Heat has instructed its players and their wives and girlfriends to not participate in an NBA-themed VH1 reality show. [SPORTSbyBROOKS]
Leonsis removes Mystics attendance banners. Maybe if D.C. teams were regularly winning titles, no one would care. If the attendance banners were just accents to all the conference and division titles, maybe you could overlook it. But no Verizon Center tenant has won a league championship since the building opened, and that made the banners a regular punchline for visiting fans and visiting writers — the Montreal Gazette’s Canadiens writer made mention of the banners this spring. And they were especially grating to the sardonic home fans. [D.C.Sports Bog]
Meet Pierre the Belligerent Buccaneer. If you’re unfamiliar with the guys from Nine More Outs, we’re delighted to be the ones who introduce you to their hilarity…The rest of you remember their debut Stadium Schmadium Tour where they infiltrated the Rogers Centre dressed as die hard Toronto Blue Jays fans. They entitled that afternoon of shenanigans A Game of Centimeters. Haven’t seen it yet? We’ll hang out here while you go laugh until you wet yourself. [Babes Love Baseball]
Cubs: A Star(lin) is Born. History was made on Friday night when 20-year-old rookie Starlin Castro made his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs. Castro drove in six runs in five at-bats, the most by any player in their major league debut. But that’s not all — Castro also became the first major leaguer to be born in the 90′s. Don’t we all feel old now? [Larry Brown Sports]
