Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant was born at 2:03 a.m. in Orange County, Calif. ESPN’s Jim Gray reported that she was 6 pounds, 7 ounces and 18.5 inches long.
[Shaq] and his wife, Shaunie, welcomed a new daughter. Mearah Sanaa O’Neal was born just before 5 a.m. Monday morning, and team officials said the baby girl and her mother were resting comfortably.
It’s the third girl for the O’Neals, with Mearah joining sisters Taahirah and Amirah and brothers Myles, Shareef and Shaqir, who turned 3 last month.
First of all, congrats to all, both on the babies, and in Shaq’s case, making up at least three entirely new names.
For the rest of us, adjust for the time zones, and these babies were born within ten minutes of each other. You know how crazy that is? It’s crazy.
Let’s get a little deeper and explain the craziness. It’s so crazy. On a scale of crazy-to-10, it’s high. Above “kinda crazy”, and also about “really crazy”. Adjust that for time zones, as well, and we think you can see where this is going.
Today was break-up day for the Rangers at the MSG Training Center. The coaching staff held exit interviews with each player and tried to come to grips with understanding what went on this season and what everyone needs to do…
Ryan Bennett (MMAWeekly.com) signs with The Fight Network.
The Denver-based ACF (American Championship Fighting) promotion has signed a deal with HDNet to air footage of ACF MMA shows. The heavy push starts this weekend at the Denver Coliseum.
Over 5,600 fans show up in Halifax on Saturday for their first MMA event. Chronicle Herald writer […]
Perhaps in response to somewhat famous Grady’s Ladies, the official cheering section for Indians outfielder, these Indians fans, either tongue-in-cheek or not, have dressed themselves as “Mrs. Wickman.” They’re the official fan club of the portly Indians closer, who is, Grady Sizemore aside, an extremely handsome man.
There are two reasons these guys would dress like this.
1. They’re proudly gay baseball fans and grizzly men.
2. They knew about Grady’s Ladies and thought, “Hey, you know what? We think it’s dumb that women baseball fans find a player attractive and come out to cheer him on. What stupid broads! We should come up with some way to mock them, Dave! Let’s wear ‘Mrs. Wickman’ shirts to the game. That will show them how lame they are! Girls, man! If I ever end up talking to one, I’ll let them know just how lame they are! Yeah!”
You know what? We hope they’re gay.
(thanks to Brian Dickey for the heads-up on this.)
We know it’s early, but it’s hard to ask for much more from a series than this. Two of baseball’s most storied franchises, tied for first in a surprisingly competitive division, meeting head-on in a geographically similar location.
No, no, not the Red Sox-Yankees, silly. (We figure you’ve probably heard enough about that from various other media outlets.) Tonight our beloved Cardinals, off to one of the best starts in franchise history despite Juan Encarnacion, take on the rather shocking Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati.
Mark Mulder is going for his 100th win, Bronson Arroyo is trying to go to 5-0 … and we’ll be in the stands, scorebook in hand, trying to make sure future in-laws get along and nobody sees our Rick Ankiel jersey and tries to throw something at us. (Though they’d miss, obviously.) You can have your Red Sox-Yankees drama; we’re just going to try to figure out what the hell that ridiculous thing on Scott Spiezio’s face is.
In all likelyhood, the Clippers are going to take out the Nuggets in LA tonight, and the big question is upon us.
No, not the Lakers-Clippers question. We’re talking about the Reggie Evans question.
We mentioned this morning that he actually grabbed Chris Kaman’s package during a game, but then we actually saw it on YouTube, thanks to the mighty mjd.
See, it wasn’t that big a deal when we read about it casually. Then you watch it, and you realize Reggie blatantly reached underneath from behind and…Sam Cassell weighs in, and it doesn’t make things any better.
“When I saw it on TV, it was like, ‘Wow,’ ” 13-year veteran Sam Cassell said. “I asked the referees about it at halftime, and Jess Kersey, who has been in the league for [29] years, said he’s never seen anything like it.
“You know what, Reggie is a good guy. I think he just lost it for a minute.”
He lost it? Lost what exactly - his heterosexuality?
Watch the clip - it’s necessary in order to have a full understanding of what went on, to hear Chris Kaman discuss it, and to see the TNT crew reduced to schoolboy giggling. We await Reggie Evans’s explanation, or retirement, or his hiding in a cave, or whatever he needs to do.
While Marcus “New Mexico” Vick continues to sit around and wait for the phone to ring — if you don’t think there’s a very nervous-looking Atlanta Falcons executive avoiding brother Ron Mexico’s calls right now, you’re not paying attention — we present you a happy non-drafted free agent story: Jai Lewis, one of the heroes of the George Mason Final Four team, was signed by the New York Giants this afternoon.
Lewis is attempting to make it as a tight end though, uh, he hasn’t played organized football since high school. Not that it’s necessarily stopping Jeremy Bloom, the pin-up boy skiier who was drafted by the Eagles. We are continually amazed by the overthinking that goes on in NFL offices sometimes. (Chuck Klosterman touched on this in his “The Texans are idiots for not drafting Reggie Bush” piece from over the weekend.) Teams are so obsessed with tools and size and speed and what-not, that the act of having actually played football is somehow of less importance. And you know what’s weird? More often than not, they’re right.
Forecast for the Boston area tonight: cold, with chance of falling objects. It’ s the return of Johnny Damon to Fenway Park, of course, and we all look on with a bit of trepidation. We don’t know what to expect, but we’re secretly kind of hoping for the Jerry Springer Show of baseball games. Have Red Sox Faithful had sufficient time to get used to the fact that Damon has turned to the Dark Side? How many fans will be packing signs? We’re all pretty much sitting at our desks looking at the clock, waiting for school to end so we can rush out to watch the big fight between the two kids who hate each other. Only this time it’s Damon and, like, every kid at school. Or, as Boston’s David Ortiz said to the Associated Press: “It’s going to be a little crazy out there tomorrow.”
At least one Red Sox site, however, is pleading for calm. Over at Boston Dirt Dawgs, there are several posts showing Damon in happer times, such as him clutching the World Series trophy in 2004 and being loaded into an ambulance with his fist raised. “Give it up for a guy who gave his all … all the time,” advises the site. “World Series Champions, period. Boston never forgets.”
Um, that’s what we’re afraid of.
By the way, as near as we can tell, the Photoshop above was created by the folks at Da Bronx Bombers.
We know it’s early, but it’s hard to ask for much more from a series than this. Two of baseball’s most storied franchises, tied for first in a surprisingly competitive division, meeting head-on in a geographically similar location. 
In all likelyhood, the Clippers are going to take out the Nuggets in LA tonight, and the big question is upon us. 
While Marcus “New Mexico” Vick continues to sit around and wait for the phone to ring — if you don’t think there’s a very nervous-looking Atlanta Falcons executive avoiding brother Ron Mexico’s calls right now, you’re not paying attention — we present you a happy non-drafted free agent story: Jai Lewis, one of the heroes of the George Mason Final Four team, 
Forecast for the Boston area tonight: cold, with chance of falling objects. It’ s the return of Johnny Damon to Fenway Park, of course, and we all look on with a bit of trepidation. We don’t know what to expect, but we’re secretly kind of hoping for the Jerry Springer Show of baseball games. Have Red Sox Faithful had sufficient time to get used to the fact that Damon has turned to the Dark Side? How many fans will be packing signs? We’re all pretty much sitting at our desks looking at the clock, waiting for school to end so we can rush out to watch the big fight between the two kids who hate each other. Only this time it’s Damon and, like, every kid at school. Or, as Boston’s David Ortiz said to the Associated Press: “It’s going to be a little crazy out there tomorrow.”
