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Micah Owings, Hitting Machine

Milo Taibi

Posted by Milo Taibi
Categories: Athletes, Kudos, MLB

Micah Owings hits a home run
Coming into tonight, Micah Owing’s stats for the 2007 season seemed about average. He had a 5-6 record, with a 4.78 ERA. However one tool he posses that was not taken into account was his bat. Coming into tonight, he had eight hits this season, even with a dinger and 5 RBI’s. But against the Atlanta Braves tonight Owings hit two home runs, four hits, and six RBI’s. This is the second consecutive ground breaking night for Arizona Diamondbacks pitchers. Last night Brandon Webb threw his third consecutive shutout. 

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Brandon Webb Throws Third Consecutive Shutout

Milo Taibi

Posted by Milo Taibi
Categories: Athletes, Kudos, MLB, News

Brandon Webb
Brandon Webb, reigning National League Cy Young award winner, threw his third consecutive shutout against the Atlanta Braves on Friday, yielding just two hits. Even more impressively, Webb has now thrown 42 straight scoreless innings pitched. The record for most consecutive scoreless innings pitched belongs to Orel Hershiser, who set the record in 1988 with 55 innings. The hits for the Braves tonight belonged to Kelly Johnson and Jeff Francouer.

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Bonds Now Four Home Runs Away From Record

Milo Taibi

Posted by Milo Taibi
Categories: Athletes, Kudos, MLB

Barry Bonds Hitting 751

Last night in a game against the Cincinnati Reds Barry Bonds hit lifetime home run number 751, making himself just four home runs away from the alltime record of 755 home runs. The home run came against pitcher Aaron Harang. With an 0-2 count Harang threw a fastball right down the pipe, which proved to be a mistake. However, Harang had no regrets about how he pitched Bonds in the at bat.

“You can’t be scared to go after guys like that, especially when there’s nobody on or it’s early in the game,” Harang said. “That’s what I tried to do with the third one, and he was right on it.”

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Hoosiers coach Terry Hoeppner dies due to tumor

Brendon Lindsey

Posted by Brendon Lindsey
Categories: Front Office, Kudos, News, College Football

Normally I’ll make jokes and poke fun at what’s going on, but a few stories deserve to be handled with respect and dignity, and this is one of those.

Earlier today, Indiana football coach Terry Hoeppner died due to complications from a brain tumor. He was 59. Coach Hoeppner didn’t have a stellar career at Indiana (9-14), and since he was hired in 2004 as the new coach for the Hoosiers after a successful six years as the head coach at Miami (Ohio) (57-39), many fans were upset at what appeared to be a true lack of progress for the program. Over the past 18 months, however, Coach Hoeppner had begun treatment to battle a tumor found in his brain. 

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Chipper gets 2,000

Brendon Lindsey

Posted by Brendon Lindsey
Categories: Athletes, Kudos, MLB

Today against the Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves 3B Chipper Jones got his 2,000th career hit with a single against Fausto Carmona in the second inning. With three more doubles, Chipper will join Eddie Murray and Chili Davis as the only switch-hitters with 2,000 hits, 400 doubles, and 350 home runs. With 369 career homers heading into today’s game, Chipper trails Dale Murphy by only 2 dingers.

On September 14, 1993 Chipper got his first hit in the MLB; on August 18, 2000 Chipper reached the 1,000 milestone. His jump from 1,000 to 2,000 was slightly faster than from 1-1,000, so maybe Chipper isn’t slowing down, after all.

So far this season, Jones is batting .316 (.015 above his career average) with 12 HR and 27 RBIs.


The End Score Report 006: De La Hoya-Mayweather, Roger Clemens Returns, Golden State Warriors

Andru Edwards

Posted by Andru Edwards
Categories: Athletes, Boxing, Editorial, Kudos, MLB, NBA, News, Videocasts

Dan Devone is back with another edition of the End Score Report. This time Dan tackles:

  • De La Hoya vs. Mayweather: The fight that was supposed to save boxing was a waste of cash.
  • What happened to good boxing? Roger Clemens Returns to Baseball - $28 million to play for the Yankees.
  • David Ortiz: Doesn’t think Barry Bonds is on steriods. What?!?
  • Golden State Warriors are the funnest team in basketball, fantastic in the post-season.

Agree or disagree? Let us know your thoughts on the End Score forums.


The End Score Report 005: Kentucky Derby, Alex Rodriguez, Keyshaun Johnson, Sydney Crosby

Andru Edwards

Posted by Andru Edwards
Categories: Athletes, Editorial, Kudos, NBA, News, NFL, NHL, Videocasts

In this edition of the End Score Report, Dan Devone gives his take on the latest news from the world of sports:

  • Kentucky Derby: Horses built and bred to run, what we feel about it. Dan is pulling for Scat Daddy.
  • April-Rod: Alex Rodriguez can’t be Mr. April in NY and have success. He has to be in it for the long haul.
  • Keyshaun Johnson, the Mouth of the South.
  • Sydney Crosby: The second coming of Wayne Gretzky, Crosby is going to bring attention back to the NHL and hockey.
  • Dirk Nowitzki of the Mavericks: Dirk needs to take the Mavs to the Promiseland, and start going to the hoop to start making moves. You can’t be a 7-foot tall jumper.

Agree or disagree? Let us know your thoughts on the End Score forums.


The End Score Report 004: NFL Draft, JaMarcus Russell, Supersonics Leave Seattle, Alex Rodriguez

Andru Edwards

Posted by Andru Edwards
Categories: Athletes, Editorial, Front Office, Kudos, NBA, News, NFL, Videocasts

In this edition of the End Score Report, Dan Devone gives his take on the latest news from the world of sports:

  • NFL Draft: Publications, networks, etc. spend the entire year crunching the numbers, and most of the time they aren’t right, even on the #1 pick.
  • We discuss the draft. JaMarcus Russell should be the #1 draft pick, not Brady Quinn.
  • SuperSonics leave Seattle, possibly heading to Las Vegas if NBA betting disappears.
  • A-Rod out of his mind and going bananas with the New York Yankees - 14 home runs in a month.

Agree or disagree? Let us know your thoughts on the End Score forums.


Is Oliver Perez Back? Ask The Braves…

Milo Taibi

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Oliver Perez Bringing the Heat For the Mets
Picking up where he left off in the 2006 playoffs, Oliver Perez started off his 2007 season shutting down the Atlanta Braves. Of course, 11 runs of support from the Mets offense doesn’t hurt. Perez went seven strong innings, giving up five hits, zero walks, and striking out six. He also didn’t do too badly at the dish, scoring two runs with a base hit.

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Soriano Joins The 40/40 Club

Dennis Velasco

Posted by Dennis Velasco
Categories: Athletes, Editorial, Front Office, Kudos, MLB, News

Alfonso SorianoWashington Nationals 2B Alfonso Soriano joined Jose Canseco (Oakland Athletics, 1988), Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants, 1996), and Alex Rodriguez (Seattle Mariners, 1998) in the elite 40/40 club, where the four players hit at least 40 home runs and stole 40 bases in a season.  The historic moment happened in the first after Soriano reached base on a single off of Milwaukee Brewers SP Dave Bush and on a 2-0 count to SS Felipe Lopez, stole second uncontested.

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