Wednesday, October 24, 2007

God's Squad vs. Satan's Sluggers

Baseball Update:
Wednesday's Schedule
Rockies @ Red Sox; 8 PM/est on FOX and ESPN Radio
Probable Starters
Red Sox: Josh Beckett
Rockies: Jeff Francis

Baseball Notes: Aaron Cook was placed on the Rockies World Series roster...While Tim Wakefield was taken off the Red Sox's roster...And Jacoby Ellsbury is expected to start game 1 for the Sox...Don Mattingly met with the Yanks; Tony Pena will meet with them on Wednesday...More coaching news, The Oakland A's hired Don Wakamatsu as their bench coach...and the White Sox hired Jeff Cox and Juan Nieves...Congratulations to Pittsburgh Pirates player Steven Pearce on being named Minor League Player of the Year...With a new manager and a new scoreboard the Kansas City Royals will hike ticket prices 15% for 2008...Meanwhile, the Colorado Rockies sold out their World Series tickets after a computer glitch haulted sales on Monday...Presidential candidate, former New York City Mayor and supposed lifetime Yankee fan Rudy Giuliani told a crowd in Massachusetts that he's rooting for the Red Sox because he roots for the American League team in the World Series. A real Yankees fan would root for any American league team but the Red Sox...Speaking of politicians, the annual governor's bet has Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is betting lobster and ice cream to Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter's beef.

NASCAR Update:
Doug Richert is out at Team Red Bull. Brian Vickers and the #83 Toyota will have Randy Cox sitting a top the pit box starting this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Carl Edwards went into damage control on Tuesday following a confrontation with teammate Matt Kenseth on pit road following Sunday's race at Martinsville. Edwards told reporters he and his teammates have to become closer like the Hendrick guys.

Clint Bowyer will race the entire Nationwide Series season in 2008 following in the footsteps of his Richard Childress Racing teammate Kevin Harvick who won the Series title in 2006. He will be sponsored by BB&T.

Furniture Row is finalizing a deal to keep Joe Nemechek in their car for 2008, 09 and 10.

Sad news, dirt track racer Ryan Bard died on Monday after crashing duirng qualifying at the Abilene Speedway over the weekend. Bard was only 23 years old.

Popo in my crib News:
Two Bengals ticket takers, Timothy Clifford and Keith Johnson, have bee charged with theft after taking money from fans to allow them into the sold out Bengals game against the New York Jets. Watch out Timmy and Keithy, because the popo are on your tail!

News & Notes: The wildfires in San Diego have postponed San Diego State University's football game against BYU to December 1st. The Chargers game is still up in the air...Meanwhile, the Lakers-Utah Jazz preseason game scheduled to be played in San Diego on Thursday was canceled...The NFL will shorten their draft to 10 minute intervals during the first round, seven minutes in the second and five minutes from their on...The Buffalo Bills will start Trent Edwards instead of J.P. Losman in their game with the Jets on Sunday...It was not a good year for first round draft picks in the NBA. First, the number one draft pick Greg Oden was sidelined for the year after knee surgery and now the second pick in the draft Kevin Durant left the game on crutches with an ankle injury...Luckily it's only the preseason for the Heat who suffered their first ever winless preseason with their loss to the Spurs...And finally, Hoover High School, which was featured in the MTV series "Two a Days" will have to forfeit all games that wide reciever Tristan Purifoy played in and pay a $2,000 fine after the Alabama High School Athletics Association ruled the Hoover illegally recruited and transfer Purifoy.

UPDATE: McLaren has filed an appeal with FIA to get four cars disqualified from last weekends Brazilian Grand Prix. If two of the three drivers who finished fourth, fifth, sixth are found to have doctored their fuel, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, who finished seventh, would move up in the finishing order and take away the Formula1 title from Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen. The fourth driver finished 10th.

Check this out: Click here to find out why the World Series is better than the Super Bowl.

It's been fun blogging with you,
Kate

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