Mars Blackmon Dead

New Zealand authorities are reporting that Mars Blackmon was found dead from an apparent suicide. Recent reports that Nike was discontinuing the Air Jordan shoe line may have been a contributing factor in the star's death. Mars was best known for his Nike shoe commercials starring Michael Jordan.

a. A lumberjack b. A

a. A lumberjack b. A cowboy

Ejected Fan Poll: If Russel

Ejected Fan Poll: If Russel Branyan weren't a baseball player, what would his occupation be? (sorry, you only have two choices.)

Sign of the Times

I just went on ticketmaster to check on some tickets for Chris Cornell at the new House of Blues in Boston and this was the encryption message that came up. Is this in reference to the Economic stimulus packages? In order to be more accurate, Ticketmaster should have said a trillion dollars vanished. Maybe the CEO of Ticketmaster was checking his 401 K when he came up with the idea for this encryption message. ...

88 mph, suckas.

greetings, internet goers of the past. i am writing to you from the future (mid-October 2009) to inform you that the Sox have won the AL East. this, contrary to reports from the earlier part of the year that a.j. burnett, c.c. sabathia, m.c. teixeriaieria, and (of course) d.s. jeter would lead the jankees to a 160-2 record.

but nay! Las Mediasrojas took the crown by a game over the yankees, who fell flat on their faces in August after alex rodriguez went down with a curious injury. to put it bluntly, one of his balls exploded. take a guess why.

coming soon (i really, really hope), a commentary on ARod's now infamous interview with Peter Gammons. actually, since i am writing to you from the future, i can say with a high level of certainty that i will never get around to doing this.

also, put all your money into Chrysler. right. now. you'll thank me sometime around August.

Performance Enhancing Drugs.

How do you think he won all those medals?

why kill yourself over Roger Clemens? really.

attempting to follow in the footsteps of thousands of Bostonians during the winter on 1996-1997, everyone's favorite 15-year old (formerly, anyway) karaoke singer tried to kill herself (presumably) over the departure (figurative) of roger clemens. it's right here.

the pills she took? they were probably these. word on the street is she had an SI photo shoot coming up.