TORONTO – For a brief moment, Michael Liambis wasn’t sure what to do. Participating in the opening scrimmage at the Toronto Maple Leafs training camp on Saturday, he saw teammate Carl Gunnarson get hit from behind by Jay Rosehill.
May 18, 2010 – St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson, left, laughs as he rides a stationary bike next to teammate Chris Massey during NFL football organized team activities at the Rams’ training facility.
From NYDailyNews.com: It’s almost too sad to fathom: A player who abandons his hardscrabble neighborhood for the serenity of small-town life is a victim of senseless violence, killed in cold blood. A player who relies on his teammates on the field of play takes his last gasps of breath in the arms of a teammate who is powerless to save him. A father-to-be with NFL dreams, a young man with hopes of supporting his mom and two sisters, is cut down celebrating a homecoming victory. Jas
People who think computers play baseball will say the Angels are down 2 games to 1. But computers don’t play baseball. And when you have a teammate like Derek Jeter, and you see the way he goes about his business and how calm he is after a game like that, it’s like you’ve won. So the computers may say the Angels are down just one game, but if you’re in the Yankee clubhouse you feel like you just won two games. That’s the kind of player Derek Jete — I’m sorry, I came down here and Joe Morga
by Wendell Maxey The air was frigid in the arena that distant winter day during Portland’s 10 o’clock shoot around at Memorial Coliseum. Luckily, Terry Porter came prepared. “I can remember Terry walking in and shooting in his gloves with a scarf around his neck,” remembers Porter’s then Blazer teammate, Jerome Kersey. “They had the ice skating rink underneath for the minor league hockey team and it would be freezing in there.” On Wednesday night, those innocent memories of seasons g
