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11 Best Agents In Pro Sports
In today’s world, pro athlete salaries are higher today than they ever have been before. And while the first steps toward $100 million contracts were taken years ago by the player unions that fought for free agency, there’s no doubt that, in recent years, players’ agents have been a driving force in the rise of [...]
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9 Athletes You Never Thought You Would See In Another Uniform
Yesterday it was announced that Albert Pujols agreed to a $254 million, 10-year deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, finally putting an end to months of speculation about the future of baseball’s greatest slugger. And while I’m glad that the sports world can now finally move on, I must admit that it will [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 9/1/11 — Albert Pujols
When the Cards entered their three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday, it appeared as though the Brewers had the NL Central locked up. That no longer appears to be the case, thanks to a sweep by the Cards. On Tuesday it was pitcher Jake Westbrook providing the unexpected run support with a go-ahead [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/21/11 — Albert Pujols
With the official “best player in baseball” set to become a free agent at the end of the 2011 season, people started to worry when Albert Pujols got off to an excruciatingly slow start back in April and May. More recently, however, the Cardinals first baseman has started to look more like himself. Last night [...]
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The Stat Line of the Night — 6/29/10 — Albert Pujols
Albert Pujols is one of the best players in the league and some would say one of the best players of all-time. It would be a tough thing to argue against, as Pujols has consistently hit his way to the top of the leaderboards and kept his team competitive even when all has seemed lost. [...]
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Albert Pujols: Baseball’s Nice Guy
The list of jerks throughout pro sports is a lengthy one, and too often we read about them instead of the good guys in sports. But today we have a nice story about one of baseball’s nice guys, slugging St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols. Pujols recently hit his 14th homerun of the season [...]
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The Stat Line of the Night – 5/30/10 – Albert Pujols
When it comes to hitting home runs, Albert Pujols has somewhat struggled thus far this season, at least by his standards. Coming into yesterday afternoon’s game, the St. Louis Cardinals first baseman had only managed to hit nine out of the park through the first two months, but a big game against the Chicago Cubs [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Albert POO-holes
That’s how you say his name, folks. POO-holes. Make fun of a guy that is the best player in all of baseball and whacked two homers in his first game of the season? Sure, why not? It’s funny because it’s pronounced POO-holes. He’s an 8-time all-star and three-time MVP? Awesome. You know how to say [...]
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The Stat Line of the Night – 4/5/10 – Albert Pujols
It didn’t take Albert Pujols long to pick up where he left off last season. In fact, it was only his second swing of the season yesterday when he launched his first home run into deep left center field. Last year’s NL MVP got off to a great start in his first at-bat, but he [...]
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The Stat Line Of The Night – 08/04/09 – Albert Pujols
Total Pro Sports – During the All-Star break much of the talk was surrounding Albert Pujols‘ great first half and the possibility of him capturing the triple crown. He has since struggled at the plate and as a result his numbers have take a hit, but last night may have been the night the Cardinals [...]
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Phillies’ Fans Attempt To Distract Cards’ Batters With Laser Pointer
Total Pro Sports – Rain delays are quite common. Laser pointer delays? Not so much. Just a few days ago we were poking fun at the assumed stupidity of some Chicago Cubs fans. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Phillies’ fans are in the same class. I wonder if they [...]
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The Ultimate Home Run Derby Of All Time
Total Pro Sports – Tonight will mark the 25 year anniversary of the MLB All-Star Game (unless you want to be stingy and exclude the 1988 event, which was canceled due to rain). The fans in St. Louis will be jacked to see hometown hero Albert Pujols taking part in his third derby, as will [...]
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The Stat Line Of The Night – 06/18/09 – Adrian Gonzalez
Total Pro Sports – Interleague play has not been kind to the San Diego Padres as they found themselves going into last night’s game having lost 13 in a row to American League competition. Thanks to the great hitting by first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, they have now during that long losing streak into a one [...]
