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July 2006 News

Chase Utley Update

Published: July 31, 2006

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Chase Utley of the Philadelphia Phillies has now hit safely in 32 games straight after hitting a single today off the Florida Marlins. Utley has a long way to go until we really start to get excited, but it is very impressive nonetheless.


New York Yankees Load Up

Published: July 31, 2006

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George Steinbrenner continues to show each year that he is not afraid to spend money to better his team. Yesterday the Yankees picked up Bobby Abreu from the Phillies along with starting pitcher Cory Lidle. The Yankees traded away four minor league players to the Phillies in return for Abreu and Lidle. New York’s need [...]


SportsUnderground.com’s Dumb A$$ of the Week Award

Published: July 24, 2006

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Each Monday we give away this extremely prestigious award to a very deserving candidate based on fan’s feedback and our own biased opinions. This week there is no doubt the award goes to Tony Stewart. Tony “the untamed Tiger” Stewart showed us again yesterday he can’t stay under control. He decided to try and wreck [...]


Lightning Strikes Twice @ WSOP

Published: July 24, 2006

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21 year old Jeff Madsen won the $5000 short handed (six player) no-limit tournament over the weekend in Las Vegas. As we pointed out last week, Jeff Madsen is the youngest player ever to win a WSOP bracelet and now he has added a second one. All in all Madsen has won over $1.4 million [...]


The Ricky Williams Saga Continues

Published: July 24, 2006

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The latest mishap in the life of Ricky Williams happened this weekend when he broke his arm in a game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Ricky better lay off the cannabis sativa over the next four to six weeks while he recovers or he could be way out of shape for a possible Grey Cup run [...]


American Dominance Continues at Tour De France

Published: July 24, 2006

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Once Lance Armstrong retired it was pretty much a given that the American reign at the Tour De France would end. Floyd Landis obviously didn’t agree with this notion and yesterday extended the American dominance at the Tour to eight years. Landis has an arthritic hip that will be replaced very soon yet he won [...]


Youngest WSOP Winner Ever

Published: July 18, 2006

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Jeff Madsen is now the youngest player ever to win a WSOP tournament. Madsen won a $2k no-limit hold-em event yesterday at the ripe old age of 21 years, one month and nine days old. The tournament was over a three day period with roughly 1,500 people competing at the chance to win over $600k. [...]


Paul Pierce Signs Extension with Celtics

Published: July 18, 2006

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Paul Pierce signed a $59 million dollar extension with Boston yesterday. This extension in theory will keep him a Celtic through 2010-2011, but wasn’t it just last year he was in all the major trade talks? I also remember hearing rumors this summer of him being part of a big trade with the 76ers for [...]


Things look bleak for Barbaro

Published: July 13, 2006

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It’s been roughly seven weeks now since Barbaro severely broke his leg racing at the Preakness.  In that time the horse has gone through 4 operations and the last three have occurred pretty much back to back. Barbaro now has a severe case of laminitis which is a potentially fatal disease caused by uneven weight [...]


National League Bad News Bears

Published: July 12, 2006

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Things continue to look worse and worse for the National League of MLB. It has been a blue moon since the National League won a world series (8 years to be exact…I think) and they were completely ripped to shreds this year in Interleague play. They also had not won an All Star game in [...]


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