
Don’t get me wrong, I love baseball. I also happen to think that the MLB All-Star game is the best of the 4 major North American sports. That is unless you enjoy watching the light-hitting 75% effort that is the Pro Bowl.
Can you really predict the All-Star race winner?Source: T
2011 marks the 27th running of NASCAR's all-star race at Charlotte. In the 26 previous races, there have been 18 different winners. No driver has been a repeat winner since 2006 as NASCAR has continued to change the rules and format.
A million bucks is still a lot of money!Source: TalkRacin.com
Come 7:30 Saturday night, one of the hottest (as in anger, aggressiveness, etc.) races of the season takes place at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The All-Star Race. 22 drivers will “have at it” for 70 laps and for $1 million in prize money.

He's the real-life Natural. His story is even more dramatic than the one Hollywood wrote for Robert Redford's character Roy Hobbs. And before his career is over, he may just knock the cover off a ball.

President Obama is going to throw out the first pitch of the All-Star Game tomorrow night, and unlike every fifth pitch in Major League Baseball these days, it won't be caught by a Molina:

And now, the moment only the masochistic among you have been waiting for, the Home Run Derby:

Baseball has taken to staging charity concerts during the All-Star break. This year it's Sheryl Crow:
NBA Player ViolatedSource: Yahoo! Sports
The NBA Players Association is investigating charges that a former certified player agent stole several hundred thousand dollars from Detroit Pistons star Richard Hamilton and the union says it will turn potential findings over to legal authorities for possible prosecution, Yahoo …

Watching the Major League Baseball All-Star game laboriously drag into the early morning hours and the benches become so depleted that the managers were 2 seconds away from putting the bat boys in the field, the possibility of another embarrassing tie was slowing inching towards …
Can Obama do more than Source: Salon.com
Do the economic policies of Barack Obama represent a "Third Way" between the militant free market ideology of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School, on the one hand, and the much more interventionist approach favoured by the followers of John Maynard Keynes, on the other? Writin …
Vikings Draft JD Booty Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Minnesota Vikings may have gotten the steal of the 2008 NFL draft when they picked up standout USC quarterback John David Booty in the fifth round.

I watched the first half of the first period of today's NHL all-star hockey game. That's all I could take.
Anyone who got past my tune-out point might argue that it was a great game. If so, I have no defense. But what I saw of the game was also "No Defense".
NBA All-Star balloting needs fixingSource: projectspurs.com
very year, several deserving players are left off the All-Star rosters, and it seems fans, especially those in China, will make sure this year is no different.

The All-Star break is always a good time to look back at the history of the game, grab a pint or two, and mull over some deep thoughts about baseball. This year, Barry Bonds has just been chosen for his gazillionth All-Star game.
More cash for A-rod.. Source: ESPN.com
So A-rod makes the All-Star team, for what the Yanks (and the Rangers) are paying him, I would think that it would be expected. Well, with 200K, his wife can afford some more tank tops with colorful language..

I am completely and utterly appalled at the gross exaggerations and assignment of stereotypical attributes by this particular journalist. Simply, he should be ashamed.
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It's like somebody just played a joke on me.
Scratch that one. Not somebody, that implies a wide array of possibilities. No, I know exactly who pulled this one on me. All-Star Weekend just clowned on me.