Breitbart readers who apparently shared my fond memories of baseball board games now can pit Boston Red Sox’ Carl Yastrzemski from the ultimate deadball season of 1968 on a level playing field with the Yankees’ Joe DiMaggio’s Statis-Pro card from the liveball 1939 season when he hit .381.
Jason Whitlock opened up the Independence Day edition of his Fox Sports 1 Speak for Yourself episode, charging that LeBron James moved to Los Angeles to challenge Donald Trump and Kanye West.
The greatest rivalry - the Red Sox vs. the Yankees - wraps up our six pre-trade deadline divisional reviews. Our ratings show the two classic rivals absolutely dead even with 16.1 of 20 points each and if one can trade for Jed Lowrie or even one extra lefty like Patrick Corbin or Francisco Liriano it could tip the crucial scales to give one team the AL East and make the other play a dangerous one-game wild-card game.
The final numbers are in and... Breitbart's estimate that an average of 21 millionhomes tuned in for the World Series games during the past two years proved very close — with the final figure calculated at 20.8 million, an increase of6.6 million homes over the two World Series before the NFL protests began.
The Los Angeles Dodgers forced Game 7 with a 3-1 victory against the Houston Astros Halloween night, drawing higher overnight TV ratings than even the Chicago Clubs classic Game 6 win last year.
Moments after the Houston Astros outlasted the Los Angeles Dodgers in a thrilling 13-12 World Series game, Fox 11 in Los Angeles flashed a screenshot of Dodger fans celebrating with the header: "Dodgers Win!"
In a shocking reversal, more fans tune into Fox for baseball's Fall Classic than for their NFL games for the second straight year. From 2010 to 2015, an average of 14.5 million viewerswatched Fox for each World Series game while 20.4 million (41% more) tuned into Fox for their average football game.
As liberals pretend half-empty NFL stadiums and falling TV ratings have nothing to do with President Donald Trump calling out anthem protests, the New York Daily News reports the Yankees-Astros American League Championship Series averaged 95 percent more viewers than last year'sclash for the pennantbetween the Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays.
Despite Las Vegas giving only a 35 percent chance ofeither the Los Angeles Dodgers or Houston Astros winning the World Series, Breitbart Sports' Dodgers, Astros Shaping Up As Likely World Series Match-upheadline 77 days ago proved prophetic with the Astros 4-0 win over the New York Yankees Saturday night.
If newlyacquired Yu Darvish matches Friday's seven scoreless-inning, 10-strikeout performance in the playoffs and his Dodger teammate Clayton Kershaw is 100%, andthe Astros' line-up continues to hit anything likeit did Friday when they scored 16 runs with all three starting All-Stars on the bench, it could be a great World Series clash.
Four Duke 1st Round Draft picks play Summer League with guaranteed NBA contracts bring the total to 38 Duke players in the Value Add historical database who made the NBA, and the average Duke team since 2001-02 boasted a national best 5.5 future NBA players per season.