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For weeks now, the Cardinals have been pushing the ability to bid on the delivery of Valentine's Day flowers from Fredbird. Other teams in town have taken note. More specifically, the St. Louis Rams.

Mascots are terrible. They're perpetually distracting, typically pantless and way too animated. They're glorified hobos. But we understand that Fredbird is a part of the fabric of this franchise and children love him. Fine, Fredbird can stay. And for the magical month of October 2011, we stomached the Rally Squirrel. But now he's an actual mascot? And gay?

Mizzou wide receiver TJ Moe isn’t exactly an interview subject who is prone to tossing out assembly line quotes.  He has a tendency to be outspoken, whether it be via his Twitter feed or an ESPN Q&A session on Mizzou’s move to the SEC like the one posted earlier this week.  And when a guy like Moe [...]

When the words “journalist” and “fan” cross paths in reference to the same person, sometimes things get ugly.  A journalist is supposed to be a neutral reporter of news, not a homer.  Homers report news in a manner that is consistently skewed in one direction.  They often refuse to criticize when it’s warranted. And sometimes, [...]

Through perpetual efforts to solidify the back-end of their rotation, the Cardinals released two nuggets of insight on Monday afternoon: they've signed SS Alex Cora to a minor league contract and have soured on the chances of acquiring Lee Harvey Oswald.

The 6-foot-6, 220 pound wide receiver is ranked as the No. 1 overall college prospect in America and runs the 40-yard dash in 4.43-seconds. So even at the age of 18, Green-Beckham is a man among boys. No, really.

Let’s face it, we’ve become a culture obsessed with Super Bowl commercials as opposed to the actual action on the field.  Every year, we expect to see visual brilliance delivered by marketing geniuses from worldwide beverage and automobile brands.  Oh, and definitely under-produced commercials from local real estate moguls. Wait, what? Yessir, Tony La Russa [...]

Who could have predicted that a auto-tunified rap song created as a demonstration of school pride by a trio of non-rapping students could result in people at the very same school hiding in shame?  Actually now that we think about it, yes, that was quite predictable. If you haven’t been one of the 300,000 to [...]

As any respectable St. Louis Rams fan knows, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, and the rest of New England Patriots are pure evil. Belichick is a cheater. Brady was obviously conceived in a petri dish in some weird Gattaca-like experiment. Adam Vinatieri had a robotic leg engineered at MIT. We get it. Now on the verge [...]

When word was released that former SLU coach Charlie Spoonhour had passed away this week, the response from former players, fans, media and fellow coaches was universal.  Spoon was considered by everyone as a genuinely likeable guy in an industry that often produces the polar opposite. What Spoonhour did for the Billikens basketball program – [...]