By Andrew Both PA SportsTicker Golf Writer
Archive for August 3rd, 2008
August 3rd’s show is available now as an MP3 archive at RevolutionRecap.com and on iTunes.
The show features New England Revolution Play-by-Play TV and Radio Announcer/Broadcast Executive Brad Feldman, plus post-game SuperLiga Semifinal Comments from Matt Reis, Steve Nicol, and Jeff Larentowicz.
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Maybe it was fitting that Ryan Cochrane, a player Alexi Lalas helped draft with the original San Jose Earthquakes four years ago, scored San Jose’s game-winning goal on Sunday. Better yet, maybe it was more fitting to see Frank Yallop celebrate a victory over the manager he was dumped for, a manager whose job is in jeopardy.
Kevin Keegan has a good interview with the Times today, where he’s his usual upbeat self, and the interview was conducted before the last game against Real Mallorca last night. Kevin Keegan - upbeat about next season - what else?
Greg Maddux is back to winning after a long dry spell. Maddux drove in a run and pitched six strong innings to pickup career win No. 352, lifting the San Diego Padres to a 4-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday. Maddux (5-8) won his second straight after having gone through a career-high 14-game winless streak since victory No.
Is Ivanovic?s and Jankovic?s No. 1 rank adding to the already intense pressure on Djokovic?
TENNIS No Comments »Not only are they from the same country they are girls. As a man you don’t take that too kindly, no matter what country you come from, and what politically correct BS that comes out of your mouth.
With the pecking order in as a fluid a state it’s been for a long time, and with a new player attempting to add to the bunching at the top, this new scene being played out at WTA is not helping Djokovic. If he fails at the US Open, where nothing but the title will suffice and satisfy his fans, his mental toughness will come under a severe test so early in his career.
He has repeated that ’I am not in a hurry to get to No. 1 and it will happen when it will happen’ many times to push back the heavy expectations that come from winning your first Grand Slam. But you don’t have that long a gestation period, even if you are just 21. With a new wave of youngsters about to hit with Gulbis etc. there’s no room for ‘when it will happen it will happen’. There’s no rest.
The window is so small that you have to be at break neck speed all through to grab whatever you can before the door shuts.
With Djokovic having a history of exacerbating his physical problems when under pressure, it does not bode well, if your goal is to be the No. 1 player in the world for more than a week.
These three jokers will have to grow up in a hurry and whoever passes the other in that category will attract the most spoils of war. So far no one appears to have any clear edge over the other, despite Nadal’s brilliance of late.
The Chicago White Sox dropped out of first place for the first time since May 16, but they didn’t go down without a fight. There was a bench-clearing brawl in the fifth inning and five ejections total in Chicago’s 14-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Mike Aviles went 4-for-4 with a home run and Zack Greinke pitched well into the seventh inning before he was among those sent to the…
After a little more thought, I’ve just come up with two more books that I want to write.
1) A History of Cheating. There are so many ways to cheat in football. Players can break the rules, players can simulate.
Do these tournament organisers even know that people from all over the world are watching the event?
TENNIS No Comments »Did you notice the sumo wrestler as a linesman at center court today? He had to take all the baggage out of pants just to bend. And to rub it in he was stationed right next to the almost invisible skinny ball boy. It seemed he just came out of that fatty and another one is due anytime.
Isn’t this the time to showcase to the world the best you have? Millions of fans are glued to the event all over the globe and you choose the fattiest person in your city who will have the most exposure on TV? Are you freaking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!
There’s a reason why the ugliest people work in the radio, for crying out loud.
Shouldn’t good looks and a healthy looking body be the basic freaking criteria for such high visibility jobs? Unless of course this is your genius trick to discourage people from visiting your country and city.
If that’s your freaking basis, why aren’t people in wheel chairs and hospital beds with ivy drops and tubes attached all over their body not selected as linespeople, if two eyes are all that’s needed. Shouldn’t that be considered discrimination? It will also achieve your objective of dispelling tourists and new residents beautifully, don’t you think? Geeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!
Reed Johnson raised his right arm as soon as the ball left his bat, and he popped out of the dugout moments later for a curtain call. Alfonso Soriano simply added to the frenzy. Johnson and Soriano hit back-to-back homers in the eighth, and the Chicago Cubs escaped with an 8-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday after blowing a three-run lead in the top half of the inning.

