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Opening Day is finally here. For players, it’s a chance to build upon a month of steady Spring Training progress. For fans, the transition into the season is bit more brisk. We’re just throw into the real thing without a month of graceful preparation. For that reason, fans go hard on Opening Day – which [...]

It’s a brisk morning in St. Louis, with Opening Day a little over 24 hours away. Game day forecast calls for “Mostly cloudy with a high of 53″.  Yikes.  Not exactly what we envisioned for the return of baseball to the Gateway City and we all could use a little boost getting into the proverbial [...]

Last week, we documented the most offensive, legit personalized jerseys a fan could wear to Busch Stadium.  The column prompted a handful of omission suggestions and one extremely disturbing email. The subject read, “Now THIS jersey is offensive!!!” and the following photo. Oh.  My.  Goodness. A Chicago Cubs jersey with a Pujols nameplate. It’s out there. [...]

Last week we watched the first piece of dirt fall in what became the Mike Anderson-to-Arkansas avalanche of Twitter activity when Chris Lincoln, sports anchor out of Tulsa, dropped his now infamous tweet confidently predicting a press conference that didn’t happen until 72 hours later.  As noted last week, Lincoln deserves no credit for “breaking” [...]

We’ve observed a cornucopia of offensive jerseys in our history of fan hunting. Undoubtedly, at the top of the crudeness hierarchy are the creative hybrids; HOOKER, HO, PUJOLS #69 and the LA RUSSA #.093 jerseys come to mind. You know, the ones that make you feel like you need to take a shower by just [...]

As a sports fan, it’s never ideal to be in a place where you have to mine little things such as a rival’s misfortune to find your enjoyment.  A perfect example came last night when fans of Mizzou – a program that ended the season with a thud, lost its coach and is now scrambling [...]

Paddy O’s, a favorite watering hole for Cardinals fans, received a much needed/anticipated makeover this winter. The bar, located a few drunken stumbles South of Busch Stadium, began construction on a renovated patio and a massive, two-story extension to their property as soon as the Cardinals’ 2010 season ended. This weekend, we got a sneak [...]

When Tiger Woods ended up in an Orlando hospital after getting beaten mercifully by his wife…and then divorced on a cornucopia of infidelity…you had to figure he would eventually end up with Jeff Lahti’s daughter. No, seriously. This, according to USA Today…. That’s right, Tiger Woods is (allegedly) countering a fall from grace with Jeff [...]

Yesterday, our own Josh Bacott highlighted the blurred lines between “rumors” and “new scoop” these days.  Twitter has undoubtedly changed the sports reporting industry, where journalists must weigh the trade-offs between “being right” and “being first”. In the Mike Anderson coaching saga, Twitter has also provided an outlet for both Mizzou and Arkansas fans.  For [...]

Back in the good old days, the world found out “breaking news” about things like basketball coaches changing jobs when the nightly news sports anchor was damn ready to tell them – 10:00PM.  No sooner.  Now, firmly entrenched in a multi-media age where info is spit out so rapidly that most fans can hardly keep [...]