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Shut Up, Carlos Beltran. Baseball Needs More Yasiel Puig
Yasiel Puig’s first hit of the NLCS was a laser toward right field, and the rookie flipped the bat as if the ball were leaving the park. Instead, it ricocheted off the wall, and Puig, a Bo Jackson...
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Jameis Winston is Also Pretty Good at Baseball Too, Could He Follow in Bo...
Jameis Winston is good at this college football thing, in case you hadn’t noticed. With a Heisman trophy to his name and now a BCS Championship, the Florida State quarterback is at the summit of the...
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45 Days to Football: Bo Knows
Most weekdays from now until the Packers and Seahawks kick off on September 4th, The Big Lead will detail one reason we are excited for football season to begin. Including today, we’re 38 days away...
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Bo Jackson Used to Ride His Harley Into The Big A, Park It By the Dugout
Bo Jackson joined Royals television announcer Rex Hudler on the The Drive on 610 Sports in KC yesterday for 50 minutes of stories. (The full audio is here) The two were teammates with the Angels for...
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Roundup: Full House Revival Coming to Netflix; The Rock Owns Lip Sync Battle;...
Lyna Perez … Full House reunion coming to Netflix. … Man who drank 16 glasses of iced tea a day suffers kidney failure. … Disney is going to make a live-action Winnie the Pooh. … Golden Tickets to...
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A Few SEC Coaches Did Some Golfing at the Regions Tradition Celebrity Pro-Am
There were quite a few SEC coaches at the 2015 Regions Tradition celebrity pro-am on Wednesday morning at Shoal Creek in Birmingham, Alabama. Some of them have good swings (Nick Saban) and some of...
View ArticleYasiel Puig Snapped a Bat Over His Knee
Yasiel Puig struck out against Rangers reliever Tanner Scheppers with two runners on base and the Dodgers down 4-1 in the eighth. Puig, the tying run at the point, took his frustration out on his bat,...
View ArticleMike Trout's Leadoff Homer Finished Off His All Star Game Cycle
Mike Trout led off the 2015 All Star Game in Cincinnati with a line-drive home run to right off Zach Greinke — the first run off the righty in 35+ innings (of regular season work). It’s the first...
View ArticleCarlos Gomez Broke A Bat Over His Knee ... On His Third Try
Your browser does not support iframes. Carlos Gomez is batting .216 in 13 games since his trade to the Astros last month. The veteran outfielder also missed time this week with a sore knee. So you...
View ArticleBo Jackson Embraces Tecmo Bowl Dominance In New Ad
Bo Jackson and Tecmo Bowl will always be linked in the minds of anyone who has ever played sports video games. He was easily the most dominant player in the history of gaming and no one can make any...
View ArticleBo Jackson Would Have Just Played Baseball if He Had Known More About Head...
Bo Jackson, childhood idol of this guy and many others, is in the short argument for greatest two-sport professional athlete, with Deion Sanders. He spawned a national ad campaign dealing on his sports...
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NFL Draft: Leonard Fournette is Being Compared to Bo Jackson
I love to call the NFL Draft the silly season, because players soar up draft boards because they test well in their underwear; other players fall simply because they stuck around college too long. If...
View ArticleIf Hunter Greene Could Actually Pitch and Play the Field in the Big Leagues,...
My days as a sentient observer of the sports world began in about 1994. That was the year I turned 11, and the year of the World Series–cancelling MLB strike, which introduced me to the novel idea that...
View ArticleThe Top 25 NFL Moments Twitter Wasn't Around For
Social Media platforms started coming of age a decade ago, and have changed the way we interact in big sporting events and moments. Facebook was just coming into prominence back in 2007, and Twitter...
View ArticleChris Davis Snaps Bat Over Knee, Barely Notices
As a normal person, it’s difficult to imagine myself doing most things professional athletes do with ease while engaged in competition. But breaking a baseball bat over my knee in disgust may be the...
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The 10 Best Multi-Sport Athletes
Who are the best athletes who have played multiple sports? Inspired by this tweet, I thought I would try to answer that question (and no, [autotag]Tim Tebow[/autotag] does not make the list). I am...
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The Magic of Bo Jackson and Other People's Televisions
Bo Jackson was human clickbait. He was appointment television because you couldn’t risk missing the next unbelievable exploit. He did it in a time when catching something live was of paramount...
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PM Roundup: Chloe Bennet; Mike Trout Is Having By Far His Best Season;...
The Big Lead’s PM Sports Roundup, which is oddly fascinated with the Tour de France. Chloe’s dating a douche: Chloe Bennet has confirmed she is dating uber-douche Logan Paul. That’s just insanely...
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PM Roundup: Debby Ryan; Why Jarvis Landry Went All-In on the Browns; Ohio...
The Big Lead’s PM Sports Roundup, wishes his employer was as forgiving as Urban Meyer’s. Debby is all kinds of controversial: Debby Ryan stars in the controversial new series “Insatiable.” Reviewers...
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