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Hello everyone and welcome to today’s “The Stack” with me, Nathan Stacken. Let’s put a bow on week two of the NFL and find out what else made today’s shortened “Stack” right now:
1. Giants beat Rams on MNF.
It was a rather sloppy game, but the New York Giants were able to avoid an 0-2 start by beating the St. Louis Rams 28-16. The Rams are 0-2 for the fifth straight year. They made plenty of mistakes. The Rams had eight [...]
So the greatest relief pitcher in the history of mankind is human after all.
Who knew?
Over his past three appearances, 41-year-old Mariano Rivera has made some bad pitches and gotten hit.
As predictable as saying “it might snow in December,” the lunatics [...]
Tommy John spent 26 years pitching in the major leagues. During that span, he won 288 games, struck out 2,245 batters, and finished with a career ERA of 3.34. Despite spending time with both the Dodgers and Yankees during the height of their baseball power, John was never a champion, losing to each of those clubs in the World Series. And though he fell just 12 victories short of 300, and is ranked seventh all time in victories for left-handed hurlers, he is not in Cooperstown.
Fans are often driven by the comeback, watching teams and players battle back into contention after appearing down and out. [...]
Three years ago, the New York Yankees brought up a young reliever named Joba Chamberlain. He wowed people in his first year pitching with 0.38 ERA in 19 games.
In that first year though, the Yankees stood to something that good coined the “Joba Rules”, which was the Yankees conserving the amount of innings Chamberlain would [...]
The 2000s have been a great decade in sports. There have been many different records broken, and we have seen great displays of athleticism and talent.
While I and many other people will be handing out yearly and decade awards, I wanted to crown an athlete of the decade.
There where so many people to chose from, [...]