Archive for September, 2007

In a win for fans and players everywhere, MLB has finally taken a step, abeit a small one, in curtailing in the increasingly brazen and often outrageous behavior of MLB umpires. After a calculated and deliberate effort to bait Padres outfielder Milton Bradley with profanity on Sunday, the league has come down on Winters and the [...]

Milton Bradley’s past behavior has finally caught up to him in bizarre fashion. In Sunday’s game against the Rockies, the Padres outfielder again found himself in a tempermental rage, though time is appears it was a result of a gang-up taunting effort from the homeplate and first base umpires. While Bradley’s behavior on the field [...]

With just over 2:00 left in tonight’s NFL game featuring the Baltimore Ravens at the Cincinnati Bengals, a back judge called offensive pass interference on Todd Heap as he hauled in a touchdown pass from back-up Kyle Boller on fouth-and-goal that would have tied the game. Replays showed that if anything, it was defensive interference and [...]

Rarely do we get to applaud officials, but this is one of those time. On the opening weekend of the NFL season, Coach Bill Belichek felt like he might need an edge later on when the Pats face the Jets in Foxboro, so he did what he’s done before: order up the cheating video guy. [...]

In an uncharacteristic outburst, a frustrated Chipper Jones complained about the strike zone called by home plate umpire Rick Reed. He offered up some pretty choice quotes, included “I’ve been playing baseball for a long time, I know what a strike looks like”. He also used adjective like ‘abysmal’ and ‘awful’ repeatedly. While no one [...]