Posted in Video, News, Sports, Places, People, Links, Family, Fun, General on May 15th, 2008
I thought that I would share last weekends match on NBC of the Heads-Up Poker Match between Gus Hansen and Phil Ivey. This weekend is the final match, and boy do I want Phil to win it all!
Good luck Phil!
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Posted in People, News, Business, Sports, Fun, Friends, Links, Tech News, Family, General on Jul 25th, 2007
Poker champion Phil Laak has a good chance of winning when he sits down this week to play 2,000 hands of Texas hold’em — against a computer. It may be the last chance he gets. Computers have gotten a lot better at poker in recent years; they’re good enough now to challenge top professionals like […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, Sports, People, Fun, Links, Family, Friends, General on Jul 12th, 2007
Formula One will not return to the United States next year, the sport’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway said on Thursday.”We didn’t reach an agreement… Let’s see if we miss America,” Ecclestone told Reuters, adding that no other U.S. venue was lined up to replace Indianapolis on the 2008 calendar.
Indianapolis, who […]
Posted in News, Business, Politics, Sports, Places, People, Links, Family, Friends, General on Jul 9th, 2007
Mark Buehrle is staying with the White Sox. The left-hander agreed to a four-year, $56 million deal Sunday, ending weeks of trade speculation about Chicago’s best pitcher.
Fans at Sunday’s game were told over the public address system that Buehrle had signed as the White Sox left the field following a 6-3 win over the Minnesota […]
Posted in Business, Politics, Sports, News, Places, Links, Tech News, People, General on Jun 21st, 2007
Yahoo Inc. today said it has signed a deal to acquire Rivals.com, an online site for college and high school sports and recruiting information. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.�
Yahoo said the acquisition will increase the community offerings and open publishing capabilities of Yahoo Sports.
The deal “exemplifies Yahoo’s mission to connect people with […]
Posted in Places, News, Politics, Sports, People, Fun, Links, Family, Friends, General on Mar 25th, 2007
It ain’t on-base percentage, home runs, ERA or VORP, but the Chicago White Sox lead the majors this spring in one very specific category.
Conspiracy theories.
Their follow-up to the 2005 World Series triumph a dud, Sox general manager Kenny Williams over the winter rearranged his pitching, sending Freddy Garcia to Philadelphia and one-time top prospect Brando […]
Posted in News, Sports, Places, Friends, Links, Family, General on Jan 10th, 2006
Ok! Ok! So I’ve been a gone for a while …. over a week. Doesn’t a person deserve to take a break every once in a while, without saying anything to anyone?
Geez! Its not like the world will end without me.
So is everyone looking forward to the Bears game this weekend? Hey! This is the […]
The Sox haven’t won a World Series in 88 years, so a 14-inning game Tuesday night wasn’t going to faze them.
So after overcoming a four-run deficit off Houston workhorse Roy Oswalt and then blowing a save opportunity for the second consecutive game, the Sox moved to within one game of their first world championship since […]
(Part’s of this, was quoted from the Chicago Tribune)
If this was Paul Konerko’s final at-bat as a White Sox player at soggy U.S. Cellular Field, it’s safe to say he went out in grand style Sunday night.
But even Konerko, who hit a seventh-inning grand slam, was upstaged in one of the craziest and dramatic victories […]
After 46 years and an additional five days, the White Sox methodically scraped off layers of World Series rust Saturday night.
Jermaine Dye and Joe Crede supplied power with home runs. Crede also provided Gold Glove-caliber defense to halt two Houston rallies.
And rookie closer Bobby Jenks showed no signs of a 15-day layoff by striking out […]