Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
Yeah, we went missing in action again this weekend. Here are some thoughts on things we missed while having a life....
Stephen Colbert loves America and The Out Route loves Stephen Colbert. In fact, we'll be in the stands for Colbert on August 15th. So if Stephen says Floyd Landis is innocent, we won't argue....
If you mention the words "Scott Kazmir" to a Mets fan, you'll get the same reaction as if you said the words "I think your condition is terminal" or "Your mother was arrested for prostitution. You'll need to bail...
Thomas Jones is pissed. No, not because every time the Bears played on TV, Fox played Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual" (I'm pissed about that though). He's pissed at the Bears. Since he actually had a good season (1,335...
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
If you'll remember all the way back to our Browns preview, we placed a lot of the Browns potential success for the upcoming year on their offensive line, a unit they were dead-set on improving this offseason. So what...
I'm sure by now you've all heard about Floyd Landis, a man we'd never heard of until about three weeks ago, and the results of a test taken by him after the stage 17 of the Tour de France...
There are certain life lessons I've learned in my 22 years -- namely, things like this are usually too good to be true. Regardless, it supplied a hearty chuckle for the day. The people at Media Take Out have posted...
We're a couple of weeks into baseball's second half, the time where teams-who-are-within-10-games-of-the-division-lead's performances actually begin to count. The playoff picture is shifting more than Pangea because prominent playoff teams are going on runs, for good and for bad....
If you've got some time today, send TSN senior writer Paul Attner an e-mail asking him what it feels like to only have followed football for a year. Attner claims that Marshall Faulk isn't necessarily a Hall of Famer....
When the NHL started drafting its new CBA, its biggest concern was keeping salaries at a tolerable level and maintaining a reasonable cap that would allow every team to keep their best players, despite market size. The level they set...
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
It must really be the dog days of summer. Preseason is still a few weeks away and with only two first rounders signed, bored journalists with no basis for a story tend to invent one anyway. It gets sort...
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
I spent a year of my life in Pittsburgh. I have no sentimental attachments to the area. But it makes me sad, as a sports fan, to see a city on the verge of losing a team. That's why...
I'll be straight with you: I don't know much about what's going on in boxing now and I'm not the only one. I don't feel bad about my lack of knowledge as it pertains to boxing's current events. There...
When someone named Jackea Chan contacted Saints Report offering free tickets to the Quite Frankly to see Deuce McAllister, I thought it was a hoax. After all, doesn't Jackea Chan seem like just the most obvious pseudonym? Apparantly, it...
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
As the USA basketball team prepares for another embarassing blow to our nation's sports reputation, potential players for the squad are sharing the emotions involved in having to follow up 2004's highly unsucessful squad. Joe Johnson, Antwan Jamison, Brad...
Although things have settled a little bit on the Neil Smith/Garth Snow debacle emanating from Long Island, there's still an air of mystery and conflicting reports as to exactly what happened, who's the bad guy, and how in the hell...
Sports are an odd thing. They can take the most logical people and turn them into superstitious fools. I like to believe I'm a perfect person with no flaws, but that's not true. When it comes to sports, like almost...
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
It wasn't a long stay in Long Island for recently hired Islanders GM Neil Smith. Smith, who was drafted by the Islanders as a player and then hired on June 8th after serving as GM to the New York...
The New York Red Bulls are our favorite soccer team. OK, that's not true. Our favorite soccer teams are whichever ones are NOT playing at this exact moment. But the MLS team, who's second-to-last in the league right now,...
I'll probably get stuck, again, watching the Yankees or Mets tonight since there's no national game. This is no problem for Kyle, obviously, because he lives Mets baseball. I've seen him rock a Mets hat, jersey, and boxers at...
We've kept quiet about Ben Roethlisberger's many public appearances since emerging from the wreckage of his car crash because we're really just tired of the whole thing. We're tired of the heart wrenching, the "inspirational" post-crash interviews, the whole...
We're going to keep this pretty brief today, since Entourage is on in 12 minutes. Besides, many people have discussed the heartbreaking ineptitude of the Cubs in far greater detail than I ever could -- people who've suffered the...
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
I made a special trip on the "F" train Saturday, taking it all the way to the end at Stillwell Ave. for the Village Voice's annual Siren Fest on Coney Island. I love the festival because it's the only time...
We've come across a lot of white guys, specifically in college, that want to be black. Most of them are Jewish. It's one of the funniest subcultural phenomenons since the birth of hip hop. I mean, what white guy...
Wait. First, isn't an autobiography written by the subject of the biography? We're not naive enough to believe Terrell Owens actually wrote a word of either of his two books. But to call the book an autobiography and then...
More than in any other sport, baseball teams use the trade deadline to identify themselves. Sellers are clearing cap room by bringing in unproven prospects in exchange for established veterans. Buyers are playoff and bubble teams that think they're a...
The Texas Rangers got six home runs last night, including three from Mark Teixiera, to beat the Orioles, 15-1. The Athletics got a home run from wild child Nick Swisher to beat the Red Sox, 5-4 in 11 innings....
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
We're pretty sure this is a first -- Saints fullback Mike Karney revealed that he signed a five-year extension. What's troubling is that he announced it through his Myspace account. ESPN is further behind than they thought if Myspace...
Today seemed like it was going to be a total drag -- slow day at work, ominous thunder rolling outside, nothing but gray clouds, nothing exciting in the world of sports; in general, the type of day you should...
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
LeBron James is one slippery fellow. Watch out Cleveland, he's like the guy who knows all the smooth lines, works his game, woos you into dropping your pants and then is nowhere to be seen in the morning. When...
I'm just going to come out and say that I successfully predicted that Ryan Howard would win the Home Run Derby last night (I can supply phone numbers for verification, if need be). Not that it matters really at...
For some reason, the media as a whole focuses on the disastrous, relegating feel-good stories to the backpage. The NFL media is no different. We hear, on what seems like a daily basis, stories of players getting caught driving...
Should it be a detriment to the reputation of a guy like Terrell Davis, who had four absolutely stellar NFL seasons before injuries derailed his career prematurely? What about Ken Griffey Jr., who could very well have been the...
We've gotten a few questions on The Out Route's noticeable lack of World Cup coverage. The truth is, we're not soccer-haters. And we're not the type of arrogant pricks who only care about international competition when the U.S. is...
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
That strong gust of wind ruffling the trees outside your window right now is the collective exhale of relief coming from Cleveland right now, as one of the more intriguing stories of the summer has ended. LeBron James has...
Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for so long before we need to start prognosticating on the '06-'07 NFL season. Fall can't come soon enough. In the meantime,...
Todd Sauerbrun is no ordinary punter. Evidence: 1 - He absolutely trucks players in the open field, even causing a fumble with the tackle above. 2 - He's the only player since 1970 to lead the league in punting...
The mood around the Meadowlands right now is bright enough to overcome even the heaviest of the swamp's smell. That's because the New Jersey Devils have had the best offseason in the NHL, despite not spending a dime to...
Mike Pelfrey loves America. The Mets are a bit banged up. Sure, we don't hear about it because everyone likes to talk about the Yankees with Hideki Matsui and Gary Sheffield out. But the Mets have problems too. Cliff...
The NFL has one leader and 31 followers. Who the leader is changes constantly depending on what exactly pertaining to the league is being discussed, as the NFL is annually mercurial. When Bill Belichick decided to implement a Matrix-esque 3-4...
Welcome to the first of 32 NFL team previews that we'll be running up until the start of the regular season. Baseball's no fun from now until September, and we can only watch old NFL highlights on YouTube for...
We really, really wanted the opportunity to spend about 500 words reveling in the failure of the Yankees on the birthday of both America and the Boss, who like the President also runs an evil empire. But we figured...
OK -- so a bunch of us had planned to kick off our July 4th weekend with a trip to the Bronx Friday night to see the Mets and Yanks determine which borough smells less (we always sided with Queens,...
Although it can't be official until July 12th (when the salary cap is set), it looks like Ben Wallace is moving over to Chicago from the Pistons, where Big Ben was a crucial component to a team that won...
You might have noticed (although probably not) that we were m.i.a. this weekend. We were too busy not being slaves to this world wide web thing, enjoying a beautiful tri-state weekend by making it to Yankee Stadium, after muchas...