Jonathan Papelbon Ties Red Sox Saves Record
The Boston Red Sox played a semi-home game against the Baltimore Orioles last night at Camden Yards. Throughout majority of the game, the crowd could be heard chanting, “Let’s Go Red Sox”. The crowd did an amazing job, cheering Jon Lester through seven innings of shut out baseball. Lester gave up no runs, allowing five [...]
Live Blog Tonight for Red Sox vs. Orioles
The first ever live blog for Sports Fan 4. Join me, your resident sports fan Josh Gans, as we watch and blog Jon Lester and the Boston Red Sox take on the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. Yes, we realize it’s not the biggest, most important game ever but it’ll add a little excitement to [...]
R.I.P. Michael Jackson: Thanks for the Epic Music & Super Bowls!
Michael Jackson has been a music icon for decades, declared as the King of Pop. Michael is also indirectly involved with the New England Patriots winning three Super Bowls. In 1984, Patriots owner Chuck Sullivan went broke by funding the King of Pop’s Victory Tour. Due to this, Sullivan was forced to sell the team [...]
Dice-K on DL
The Boston Red Sox placed Daisuke Matsuzaka on the 15 Day-DL, Sunday, June 21. Dice-K is listed for right shoulder fatigue and could possibly spend up to two months on the DL. Yahoo! Sports spoke with Red Sox pitching Coach John Farrell who said: Every intention will be to get him back this year. Now, [...]
Bill Russell on The Daily Show
On Monday June 22nd, Bill Russell, the Boston Celtic legend appeared on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. Bill talked about basketball, the Dalia Lama, Red Aurbach and his new book, Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend. Check out the full interview below: Thanks to Vedia for the photo of Bill Russell.
Show Them The Money: Sports Strapped for Cash at Boston Public High Schools
Remember being a kid and your Dad always telling you “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”? Boston Public School student-athletes know the meaning of this saying all too well. Practicing on dirt and rocks, running laps in a cloud of dust and carrying our practice equipment from our locker room to our makeshift practice [...]
Bryce Harper: High School Baseball Phenom
Matt Simonini told me about a kid named Bryce Harper from Las Vegas High School in Nevada. Bryce went to a few MLB competitions and is just an animal of a player. Harper was a contestant at Tropicana Field in Tampa Bay and hit one home run after another. Bryce’s longest home run was 502 [...]
Boston Red Sox Player Profile: Daniel Bard
Daniel Bard is a product of the Boston Red Sox minor league system and has worked his way up from single-A Greenville to the major league level. Daniel was not considered a closer until 2008 with the Portland Sea Dogs, recording his first seven saves. He is known primarily for his mighty fastball, which has [...]
Raul Ibanez Attacks Blogger Over Steroid Speculation
Last week, Jrod from Mid West Sports Fan debated whether Raul Ibanez’s outstanding first half numbers are the result of steroid use. While the story goes on to analyze all sorts of factors to explain his numbers, such as hitting in the NL, Pitcher ERA, hitter friendly ball parks, etc., the article goes back to [...]
Hockey Burnout
Many hockey articles start with “I’m not much of a hockey fan myself” or “Hockey isn’t really my forte”. Or, they focus on the superstars of the NHL like, Sid the Kid Crosby and Alexander the Great Ovechkin. Here in Boston, the Bruins second playoff appearance in as many years got the town and its [...]
Brett Favre Prepares For Third Retirement Speech
With the ongoing Brett Favre Saga, I thought it would be helpful to him if we posted his Green Bay Packers retirement speech to prepare him for the 2010 off season in Minnesota.
Switching Leagues Helps Pitchers
Earlier this week, Matt Simonini wrote about how moving from the NL to the AL hurts pitchers’ performance. In the post, Matt showed how Josh Beckett’s statistics from his final season with the Florida Marlins were better than his first season with the Boston Red Sox. From my perspective, it doesn’t matter if a pitcher [...]
The NBA Lottery Is A Scam
The NBA Draft has not always been the way it is today. Starting from 1947, the Draft had Territorial Picks, where any team could could give up it’s first round pick and then choose any player from the local area. The idea behind territorial picks was for teams that weren’t doing well to draft a [...]
The Effect of Switching Leagues on Pitchers
Baseball is chock full of debatable topics. Arguments go back and forth over who was the best hitter of all time, the best left handed pitcher or whether steroids made baseball better. The list of questions could potentially go on and on forever. For today, let’s talk about pitchers. More specificially, does a pitcher gain or [...]
New England Patriots Player Profile: Rodney Harrison
Tuesday night (June 2, 2009 – my birthday), I received an e-mail from the Boston Globe Newsletter: According to a source with knowledge of his plans, Rodney Harrison will announce tomorrow that he is retiring after 15 seasons — the last six with the Patriots — to pursue a broadcast career as part of NBC [...]
Meet the Sports Fan 4 Team
It took us a couple months, but we finally got around to posting mini-biographies for all four main sports fan 4 writers here in the about section. Head on over if you’d like to learn more about our sports writers. We’re also considering doing short videos with each writer to give you a better understanding [...]
Will Tom Glavine Join John Smoltz in Boston
The talks are up all over the place. The Boston Red Sox may very well be shopping Brad Penny and a few teams are already interested. The Atlanta Braves who recently waived Tom Glavine have shown interest in Penny as the Sox would pursue Jeff Francoeur. The Philadelphia Phillies have also reportedly shown interest in [...]
Randy Johnson Wins 300th Game
With Randy Johnson earning his 300th win against the Washington Nationals yesterday, I thought it would be fitting to place my favorite Randy Johnson moments for this Friday’s video. Check out what Randy Johnson did to that bird if you’ve never seen it before. If you have seen it, I promise you it doesn’t get [...]
He Loves It When You Call Him "Big Papi"
David Ortiz has become synonymous with the Boston Red Sox, World Series championships and late inning heroics all the way up from third base to Huntington. Bill Simmons, The Sportsguy, recently wrote an article about Big Papi and how likely it is that his career has come to an end. Bill Simmons was my inspiration [...]
Guest Post on Two Cents From Beantown
I’d love it if you could take the time to visit a friend’s site, Two Cents from Beantown, where I guest posted today about the Wildcat Formation Taking Over the NFL. I hope you all like it and it would be great if you left some feedback in the comments section of the article. This [...]
NBA Finals Predictions
To be honest, all of our main writers here at Sports Fan 4 experienced a bit of basketball and hockey withdrawal after both the Bruins and Celtics were eliminated from the playoffs. It’s why you haven’t seen much chatter here about either sport’s continuing playoffs excitement. But today, we’ll offset that a bit and focus [...]
Steroids Did NOT Make Baseball Better
We recently ran a poll asking our readers, Did Steroids Make Baseball Better? We posted the poll after news broke that Manny Ramirez was suspended for using Performance Enhancing drugs. Though he wasn’t using steroids, it did make for a simpler headline and at this point we all use the words steroids and Performance-Enhancing drugs [...]
Boston Red Sox Player Profile: George Kottaras
The 26 year old Ontario native George Kottaras came to the Boston Red Sox scene in 2007 from the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox in a trade with the San Diego Padres for starting pitcher, David Wells. It took a season for Kottaras to adjust. He had great numbers in 2008 with the PawSox, belting 22 [...]
The King Dethroned
On Saturday night, the Orlando Magic defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-90 to advance to the NBA Finals. With this defeat, the Cavs have lost their best opportunity to date to win an NBA championship. Also, let’s not forget the millions of dollars that Vitamin Water wasted on those “Kobe vs. Lebron” commercials! One on Five [...]
Should Manny Ramirez be Allowed to Play in the 2009 All-Star Game?
What do you think about Manny [Ramirez] going to the All-Star Game? Do you think we should stop chastising the players and let them play in these situations, even though under suspension? Or should he rightfully so be suspended from this too, even though the fans are still voting for him. One of my readers, [...]
