I do not want to ride this game out and try and suck every dollar I can out of the game. |
| | | | | Adam LaRoche at his peak, in 2012. (Heidi) | | | | | | | “I do not want to ride this game out and try and suck every dollar I can out of the game.”
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| rantnrave:// Maybe ADAM LAROCHE suddenly retired from baseball this week, leaving $13 million in 2016 salary on the table, solely because the WHITE SOX suddenly became uncomfortable with his son spending every day with him in the clubhouse. Or maybe, between his declining numbers and busy off-field life, he was ready to retire anyway and just looking for a reason. Maybe 14-year-old kids belong in a schoolroom, not at their dad's office. Maybe employers shouldn't tell the dads who work for them how to raise their kids. I'm certainly not going to. What's interesting to me about this week's baseball parenting news is that LAROCHE, like SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS linebacker CHRIS BORLAND, who suddenly quit football 365 days earlier, appears to have realized there's more to life than his day job. And that his job, no matter how fun, rewarding and well-paid it may be, may not be worth the sacrifices and trade-offs it demands. Deciding to leave it is no doubt a hell of a lot easier for the kind of person who makes $13 million a year than it is for the rest of us. But it offers a healthy lesson, in any case, about life, priorities and self-awareness. If that's all he teaches his son, DRAKE, in 2016, I'd venture that's a pretty good year of schooling right there.... Sports statistic of the week: 75 to 80 percent of NBA players smoke pot, according to ex-CHICAGO BULL guard and current ESPN basketball analyst JAY WILLIAMS. I would fact-check that but I can't because I have to eat a donut right now. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| He's a lunatic, a father and a retired marine. He's Chaps, and he's fooling everyone in sports media. | | |
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| Forgive Adam LaRoche if he doesn't remember his first time inside a Major League clubhouse. It was sometime in the early 1980s at the old Yankee Stadium. He was no more than 3 or 4 years old, probably with his older brother, Jeff, and definitely with his father, Dave. | | |
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| If Adam LaRoche retires from baseball because the White Sox asked him to limit how often he brought his 14-year-old son, Drake, into the clubhouse, then he was looking for a reason to leave. The Sox simply supplied him one. | | |
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| Greg Hardy will eventually sign with an NFL team. Bleacher Report's Jason Cole reported Wednesday that teams are starting to snoop around Hardy, albeit anonymously. At some point, a team will offer him a modest deal with few guarantees and lots of incentives. | | |
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| It would be all too easy for boxing fans to dive into the depths of cynicism and dismiss the third meeting between Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs) and Timothy Bradley (33-1-1, 13 KOs), scheduled for April 9 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, as unimportant or irrelevant. | | |
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| TORONTO-- When the NBA staged its All-Star Game in Toronto this year it was another subtle sign of a league's global ambitions. It marked the first time the mid-season showcase had been held outside the U.S. yet could hardly be considered daring or groundbreaking with the NBA firmly entrenched in North America's third biggest metropolis for over two decades. | | |
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| The fourth Ty Cobb card found in an old paper bag sold for $1 million. As I dug deeper into the history of the Cobb cards and their origins, I realized that controversy has long clung to them like tobacco stains on cards from the period. | | |
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| In northern Mexico, a few miles outside the city of Monterrey, a massive limestone spire known as El Diente begs to be climbed. Rising from a lush, forested river bottom, the bare-rock monolith stands like a mini Meru between the cliffs and crags of the valley walls. | | |
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| Along with self-lacing sneakers, the company has a new app to up its tech game. | | |
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| Few things bring Americans together like rooting against Duke in the NCAA tournament, and bless the schedule-makers' hearts, we won't have to wait long to do so this year. When the defending champion Blue Devils tip off the tournament against UNC Wilmington on Thursday at 12:15 p.m., every non-Duke fan will be cheering for the Seahawks, or at least they should be. | | |
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| Eric Weddle became an unrestricted free agent last week after nine years as a member of the Chargers. On Monday, he signed with the Ravens. Weddle granted Bleacher Report exclusive access to his free-agent experience. | | |
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| Every March since 2012, sabermetricians have gathered in Phoenix for their own version of spring training: the SABR Analytics meeting, which serves as a showcase for some of the latest developments in baseball analysis. | | |
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| So, wait. David Beckham retires from being the world's most famous and dashing athlete...and then he becomes even more famous and dashing. How'd he do that? | | |
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| British comedian Eddie Izzard is aiming to run a total of 27 marathons in 27 days. | | |
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| During the Academy Awards last month, comedian Chris Rock punctuated his brilliant monologue about diversity in Hollywood with a most basic reminder. After weaving incendiary and unrestrained commentary to achieve poignancy, Rock opted to close by straying from discomfort and returning to a familiar, oft-disregarded message. "We want opportunity," Rock said. | | |
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| We all can agree that the organizational side of boxing is a mess. Politics stymie matchmaking. The term "titleholder" has been watered down by an endless supply of spin-off belts churned out by suspect sanctioning bodies. For every meaningful unification bout, there are dozens of mandatories against no-name challengers, forfeitures on the scale, or big... | | |
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| What Are the Arguments? Gawker argues that its decision to publish the excerpt is protected by the First Amendment. Further, it argues that Mr. Bollea often referred to his sexual exploits in public -- in his autobiographies, with Mr. Stern, and on television -- and so it is difficult for him to claim his privacy was infringed in this area. | | |
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| GPS trackers and cell phones give us a false sense of security in the wilderness. And with more thru-hikers than ever set to take on the Appalachian Trail this year, we should be on alert. | | |
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| Was Buddy Hield's hometown of Eight Mile Rock in the Bahamas an obstacle the star University of Oklahoma guard had to overcome? Or would there be no Buddy Hield without it? | | |
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| A behind-the-scenes feature on the 2015-16 Saint Joseph's Hawks basketball team as they head into the NCAA Tournament. | | |
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