VETERAN PRESENCE BOOK CLUB I (Originally posted 09/06/08. One update is that I did get around to reading Crazy ’08 and it is amazing. Ed might have read Next Man Up and you can never laugh too much at the Ravens or realize how How To Get Away With Murder should be about Ray Lewis’ live. – Rippa) ED: We are […]
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KEN O’BRIEN (by PHIL RIPPA) (Requested by Bill… or Justin…. Crap.. let me look and see… okay this one was Justin) (I would like to point out that I was WAY ahead of my time since I wrote this like… oh… 6 years before ESPN got around to doing the 30 for 30 on the 83 QBs. And good Lord was […]
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FORGOTTEN PLAYER OF THE MOMENT ORLANDO WOOLRIDGE (By PHIL RIPPA) Request by JOEL MARTIN It’s hard to imagine how Orlando Woolridge is forgotten. I mean one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players of all-time. Huh? What? You mean he wasn’t put on the list just because he played with Michael Jordan?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Crap, well that just changes everything. Well, he was […]
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San Francisco Giants vs. Baltimore Orioles A Road Report – June 13, 2004 (by PHIL RIPPA) (Originally Posted (06/21/2004) Writer’s Note: This has taken forever to write as, no joke, on four separate occasions I started writing, completed two paragraphs and promptly fell asleep. Maybe that should have just been the whole write up. Stupid boring game. My boy, Jamal […]
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JIMMY ROLLINS VP OF THE MONTH – NOVEMBER 2009 ED: Ed Agner : PR: Phil Rippa Originally Published (12/18/09) ED: Yeah, we are just scrounging for content now. Just the same, we are pleased to announce a new feature here at VP – the Veteran Presence of the Month. The criteria is simple – any figure in the world of […]
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THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS VP OF THE MONTH – DECEMBER 2009 ED: Ed Agner : PR: Phil Rippa (Originally Published on 1/11/2010) PR: Somewhere in the process of thinking up this new feature, we easily decided on Jimmy Rollins and our VP of the Year we realized that we needed a December too. Again, we wanted no part of Tiger Woods […]
» Read moreVETERAN PRESENCE OF THE YEAR (2009) THE NEW YORK METS ED: Ed Agner : PR: Phil Rippa : BB: Bill Barnwell (originally posted 01/07/2010) ED: Yeah, when Phil and I came up with this whole VP of the Month deal (and we’ve got one month done; take your bets on how long this lasts), we also decided to go with […]
» Read morePawtucket Red Sox @ YOUR BELOVED COLUMBUS CLIPPERS DOUBLE HEADER!!! (7/22/06) (by ED AGNER) (originally posted 7/26/2006) That’s right kids; it’s your annual Clippers game(s) write up. Yep, another year, another trip for me and Dad to a Clippers game. No time to edit so readers beware. “And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon…” Dad is staring […]
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(by PHIL RIPPA) – Originally posted 10/13/2006. Figured it was appropriate to re-post this one now. With A-Rod stinking up another post season, the immediate calls to trade him by Yankees fans and the sports media and anyone who wanted to pretend they followed sports came fast and furious. MLB GMs immediately tried to determine why they should acquire A-Rod […]
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by PHIL RIPPA (originally appeared on Veteran Presence) This there NBA that the kids watch today is not the NBA that I watched. The difference is that while both have truckloads of ugly guys, the ugly guys in my NBA could actually shoot or at least block a shot or hustle back on defense. Today, it is nothing but high […]
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