Courtside Post

Raphael Perahia explains how the World Cup can be a cruel mistress and why England diehards, despite years of heartbreak, keep coming back for more.

By Eric Goodman – Courtside Post Reporter

These aren’t my father’s baseball cards. And, having grown up in the sports card crazed world of the 1990’s, I can’t say these are necessarily my baseball cards either.

On Monday evening, a lucky gambler named Robert J. Power turned a nearly $9,000 profit on a Bowman Chrome superfractor 1 of 1 version of Washington Nationals rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg that he had purchased for $16,304 on May 29 from Ebay. While all that geeky superfractor talk might be confusing to the uninitiated collector, remember that baseball and business are all about the numbers and someone netted a nearly five-figure profit in one month’s time on a single product that they had already spent five-figures on.

According to a tweet by the co-author of the upcoming ESPN “The Book”, Erin Andrews will be staying with the network. James Andrew Miller tweeted:
“Erin Andrews will be staying at ESPN, and no, I didn’t get it from the network.”
ESPN has responded saying that nothing is official, but it seems that a deal is close [...]

Following his 183 game match against Nicolas Mahut, John Isner visited Dave Letterman to give the Top 10 thoughts he had during the record breaking match.
Hopefully he is enjoying his moment in the sun, he certainly earned it. However if he is to maintain his public profile the 6′9″ American will have to start winning [...]

By Spencer Loomis

After vowing to never miss another birthday of one of his children, Tiger Woods missed his daughter’s 3rd birthday while competing in the U.S. Open. He threw her a party after the fact to make up for it, but reportedly brought another woman with him.

By A.J. Puzzo

In the United Kingdom it’s called football and it powers a premier world economy through a nation’s fervor and love of the game. In Italy it is known as “calcio” and is defined by battle scars and broken limbs. But here in the States, where we refer to the beautiful game as soccer, it has been the Achilles’ heel of American sport for nearly a century. Soccer is the world’s game, and yet the United States, one of the world’s most formidably athletic and competitive nations, has never truly adopted it as one of its major pastimes.

Bill Clinton stole the show over the US’s last two games, making a post game locker room appearance and cheering on our boys side by side with Mick Jagger.

by Raphael Perahia

What a great Tuesday it was. I woke up at seven in the morning to try to go to the famous footballing establishment known as Nevada Smith’s. We got there at seven thirty and it was already too crowded, I wasn’t yet drunk enough to start standing with three hundred Americans in a sweaty, dark and lonely room.

By Raphael Perahia

I don’t want to talk about it. Don’t you dare even mention Heskey, or Rooney’s antics, or whatever the fuck is going on with John Terry. Like my dinner in Washington DC with the girl I haven’t seen in two years, who can only be described as “the one that got away… and then started dancing on the pieces of my broken heart”, I don’t want to talk about it.

In reaction to Jim Joyce’s blown call preventing Armando Gallaraga’s would be perfect game, isn’t it time for the MLB to evolve?