Former professional baseball player Darryl Hamilton was found dead in a suburban Houston home yesterday, according to the Houston Chronicle. His girlfriend’s body was also found in the house, leading police to believe the crime may have a been a murder-suicide.
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's skills include rapping, surviving gunshot wounds, never masturbating , and clowning on Solange and Jay Z . But, as we saw Tuesday night at the Mets-Pirates game, they don't extend to pitching. The announcers generously described 50's ceremonial first pitch as "a little outside."
R.A. Dickey, a starting pitcher for the New York Mets, earned his 20th win of the season two nights ago. Now everyone is talking about him, and you are standing off to the side smiling and nodding like an idiot because you thought the Met was a museum. You're a nerd, it's fine, but we wanted to help you out: Here, Deadspin's Jack Dickey (no relation, just obsession) breaks down the wonder that is R.A. Dickey's 2012 season.
A funny thing happened during Game 3 of the National League championships. Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab For Cutie) and Zooey Deschanel (of our wildest indie-rock dreams) performed patriotic tunes at AT&T stadium. How could hipster royalty crossover to MLB?
Star Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton has had past problems with alcohol. He stated earlier this year he would avoid the conventional champagne celebration with teammates if it presented itself. Here, Josh enjoys a celebratory ginger ale, all by his lonesome.
During Sunday's baseball game against the Marlins, Chicago Cubs player Tyler Colvin was impaled by the shard of a baseball bat while running from third base. The bat fragment punctured his chest and he was rushed to the hospital.
During a meaningless September baseball game last night, an SNL sketch broke out. Pete Twinkle and Greg Stink have nothing on Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo, veteran TV broadcasters for the Boston Red Sox.
Matt Garza of the Tampa Bay Rays just pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers.
The National League finally beat the American League, winning the MLB All-Star Game 3-1 for their first victory since 1996.
Tonight, in Anaheim, Major League Baseball's All-Star game is underway. This morning, the sport lost one of its most well-known figures: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. And as expected, the late powerhouse was honored before tonight's game. Videos inside.
We've earned TV treating us like idiots. This is the nation that gets emotionally invested enough to call a hotline to determine whether Pamela Anderson or Evan Lysacek is the better dancer.
The biggest names in today's MLB steroids scandal? Miguel Tejada, Roger Clemens, Mo Vaughn, Andy Pettitte and yeah, Google. A tipster sends us this juxtaposition: a Google ad for steroids next to an article on the Mitchell report. So that explains why search-ad revenues are growing so fast.
IAC's Ticketmaster division is trying to close a multiyear deal to be the official ticket scalper of the National Football League. TicketMaster competitor and eBay subsidiary StubHub is the other potential bidder for resale rights. Earlier this year, Stubhub made a deal to resell Major League Baseball tickets, a significant blow to Ticketmaster. Unfortunately for Ticketmaster, while the MLB deal gave StubHub resale rights for all 30 teams at once, because of the way the NFL is structured, the league has negotiating rights for only about half the league.
