petercaputo:

Supa Hott knows the deal

sportspage:

MLB 2012 All-Star Rosters.

I’ve bolded the players in the home run derby. *The AL team hasn’t been announced yet. I bolded the rumored names.

To vote on the final All-Star spots click on the photo above.

AMERICAN LEAGUE ROSTER

Starters

C - Mike Napoli, TEX

1B - Prince Fielder, DET

2B - Robinson Cano, NYY

3B - Adrian Beltre, TEX

SS - Derek Jeter, NYY

OF  - Josh Hamilton, TEX

OF - Curtis Granderson, NYY

OF - Jose Bautista, TOR

DH - David Ortiz, BOS

Pitchers

RHP - Ryan Cook, OAK

LHP - Matt Harrison, TEX

RHP - Felix Hernandez,SEA

RHP - Jim Johnson, BAL

RHP - Joe Nathan, TEX

RHP - Chris Perez, CLE

LHP - David Price, TB

RHP - Fernando Rodney, TB

LHP - CC Sabathia, NYY

LHP - Chris Sale, CWS

RHP - Justin Verlander, DET

RHP - Jered Weaver, LAA

LHP - C.J. Wilson, LAA

Reserves

C - Joe Mauer, MIN

C - Matt Wieters, BAL

SS - Elvis Andrus, TEX

SS - Asdrubal Cabrera, CLE

3B - Miguel Cabrera, DET

2B - Ian Kinsler, TEX

1B - Paul Konerko, CWS

OF - Adam Jones, BAL

OF - Mike Trout, LAA

OF - Mark Trumbo, LAA

DH - Billy Butler, KC

DH - Adam Dunn, CWS

NATIONAL LEAGUE ROSTER

Starters

C - Buster Posey, SF

1B - Joey Votto, CIN

2B - Dan Uggla, ATL

SS - Rafael Furcal, STL

3B - Pablo Sandoval, SF

OF - Melky Cabrera, SF

OF - Carlos Beltran, STL

OF - Matt Kemp, LAD

Pitchers

RHP - Matt Cain, SF

LHP - Aroldis Chapman, CIN

RHP - R.A. Dickey, NYM

LHP - Gio Gonzalez, WAS

LHP - Cole Hamels, PHI

RHP - Joel Hanrahan, PIT

LHP - Clayton Kershaw, LAD

RHP - Craig Kimbrel, ATL

RHP - Lance Lynn, STL

LHP - Wade Miley, ARI

RHP - Jonathan Papelbon, PHI

RHP - Stephen Strasburg, WAS

RHP - Huston Street, SD

Reserves

C - Yadier Molina, STL

C - Carlos Ruiz, PHI

1B - Bryan LaHair, CHC

2B - Jose Altuve, HOU

SS - Starlin Castro, CHC

SS - Ian Desmond, WAS

3B - David Wright, NYM

OF - Ryan Braun, MIL

OF - Jay Bruce, CIN

OF - Carlos Gonzalez, COL

OF - Andrew McCutchen, PIT

OF - Giancarlo Stanton, MIA

siphotos:

This week’s SI cover features LeBron James, who finally earned his first NBA title. (Gregory Heisler/SI)

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sportspage:

Watch out LA, he’s back!

Odom traded to the Clippers in a four-team trade involving Mo Williams.

With Mo Williams finally deciding Friday to exercise his $8.5-million contract option, the Clippers and Dallas Mavericks were able to agree to a four-team trade that will bring Lamar Odom back to the Clippers team that drafted him in 1999.

Williams will go to Utah and the Jazz will send the Mavericks a trade exception when the deal becomes offical, probably later today, said sources who were not authorized to speak publicly on the trade.

…

The Clippers will send the rights to their second-round draft pick, Furkan Aldemir, to the Houston Rockets as part of the deal.

LA Times

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pag-asaharibon:

Facts:

• The Klement’s Sausage Race occurs during each game in the middle of the 6th inning; it was moved from the bottom of the 6th inning to enable the sausages to create more excitement for the fans as the Brewers prepared to bat. The current racing sausages are the bratwurst, the Italian, the chorizo, the Polish, and the hot dog. The Chorizo sausage (to salute the region’s growing Latino population) was added on July 29, 2006 for one race, and became a full-time participant in 2007. 
• Bernie Brewer, the team mascot, has a club house above the left field seats. Following every Brewers home run and victory, Bernie Brewer makes a splash in the new Kalahari Splash Zone area, which sends an explosion of water into the air. The feature can be adjusted to send more water into the air, giving fans seated below an experience similar to attractions at the Kalahari Resorts in the Wisconsin Dells. This is different from his old home at Milwaukee County Stadium, where Bernie slid into a giant mug of beer in center field. During the home run celebration, a short burst of fireworks is shot out from the top of the center field scoreboard, and above Bernie’s club house, the call words of Brewers’ radio announcer Bob Uecker are illuminated, Get Up, Get Up, Get Outta Here, Gone! 
• During the seventh inning stretch, in addition to Take Me Out to the Ballgame, fans at Miller Park sing the Beer Barrel Polka, in salute to Milwaukee’s beer-making history.

bleacherbummed:

All-Stars

Bryan LaHair & Starlin Castro are selected as All-Star reserves for the 2012 MLB All-Star game

(via Photo from Getty Images)

nba:

June 28, 2012: Austin Rivers is selected 10th overall by the New Orleans Hornets in the 2012 NBA Draft.

(Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images)

nba:

June 28, 2012: Anthony Davis is selected first overall in the 2012 NBA Draft by the New Orleans Hornets.

(Photo by Jeyhoun Allebaugh/NBAE via Getty Images)

thedailywhat:

Trademark of the Day: Kentucky basketball phenom Anthony Davis, likely to be snapped up by the New Orleans Hornets with the No. 1 pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, has trademarked his famous unibrow — he now owns the rights to the phrases “Fear The Brow” and “Raise The Brow.”

“I don’t want anyone to try to grow a unibrow because of me and then try to make money off of it,” Davis explains. “Me and my family decided to trademark it because it’s very unique.”

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pag-asaharibon:

Facts:

• The ivy that covers the outfield wall is Boston Ivy, which can endure the harsh Chicago winters better than its English cousin. Only professional ballpark with an ivy covered outfield wall. Many times a ball has been lost in the ivy when hit towards the outfield fences. An outfielder will signal that a ball is lost by raising his hands. When this occurs, the umpires will call time and rule the play a ground-rule double. Although the ivy appears to pad the bricks, it is of little practical use as padding. There have been occasions of fielders being injured when slamming into the wall while pursuing a fly ball.
• The flat rooftops of the apartment buildings across Waveland and Sheffield, which pre-date the ballpark, were often populated with a reasonable number of fans having cookouts while enjoying the game for free. The Cubs tolerated it quietly until the 1990s, when some owners of those apartments began building little bleacher sections, and charging people to watch the games. This led to meetings and to a peaceful settlement among the various parties. The building owners agreed to share a portion of their proceeds with the Cubs, and the Cubs obtained permission from the city to expand the ballpark’s own bleachers out over the sidewalks and do some additional construction on the open area of the property to the west, bordered by Clark and Waveland, and to close the remnant of Seminary Avenue that also existed on the property. The rooftop seats are now effectively part of the ballpark’s seating area, although they are not included in the seating capacity figure.
• The traditional singing of Take Me Out to the Ball Game at Wrigley Field began when Hall of Fame announcer Harry Caray arrived in 1982 (he had sung it the preceding 7 years when he was the Chicago White Sox announcer), and has remained a staple at Wrigley Field during the Seventh Inning Stretch ever since. Today, former players, other sports stars, actors, and other famous people are invited to come and sing during the Seventh Inning Stretch in place of Caray.