The Rundown

The Cy Young Shutout

2009-11-20 09:36:20

Sigh. What? Oh, no. Nothing. No, I'm fine. It's just... no, never mind. Well, I mean, it's just that, well, see, there's this award, called the Cy Young, and each year it's given to th...

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St. Louis Blues Forward David Perron is Just Like the Rest of Us: He Loves Lady Gaga

2009-11-20 08:22:27

And there you have it. Read the rest of the interview with the Blues forward at InsideSTL. ...

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Breaking Down the Blues' Slow Start

2009-11-19 15:28:47

Sadly, it's become an annual tradition here in St. Louis, it seems: the Blues' Slow Start. Happens every year, right around this time, when we look at the record of our beloved boys in blue and no...

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The Best Headline Ever, And a Possible Solution to a Very Tough Problem

2009-11-19 09:42:26

So yesterday Joe Strauss of the Post-Dispatch writes an article about Mark McGwire, the day when he will finally have to Talk About the Past, and the way the Cardinals plan on trying to han...

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7 Coaches Who Should Replace Charlie Weis at Notre Dame

2009-11-19 09:17:09

As we near the end of another college football season, one of America's favorite subjects rises again: What happens to Notre Dame? Why is this non-story a story? Yu don't have to look far -- whe...

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Memphis Basketball Fans Watched the Birth of the Pastner Era Last Night in St. Louis

2009-11-18 11:58:58

Last night at the Scottrade Center, University of Memphis basketball fans watched the birth of the Josh Pastner Era.Memphis played Kansas in the regular season game (and rematch of the '08 NCAA ch...

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Gold Gloves: Cheers, Jeers, and Snubs

2009-11-17 01:23:36

The baseball awards season is in full swing now, with Rookie of the Year just having been announced (and by the way, Andrew Bailey, who won ROY in the AL, wasn't even the best rookie on his own fu...

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Game Notes: Saints 28, Rams 23 -- The Great Leap Forward

2009-11-16 13:42:27

Okay, Rams fans, now you should be excited. Two weeks ago, after the Rams beat the Detroit Lions for their first victory in over a year, I played the role of buzzkill, trying to explain why ...

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Blurring the Lines of Dis- and Over-Abled

2009-11-12 14:42:19

There's an outstanding article over at Gizmodo right now everyone, and I do mean everyone, should read. It's an article by Aimee Mullins, whose name you may not be all that familiar with, but yo...

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Blues' TJ Oshie Will Eat at the Drunken Fish, Wear Flip-Flops on the Ice

2009-11-12 12:10:11

Blues fans love TJ Oshie, and to satisfy their hunger for more Tiger Beat-esque facts about the 22-year-old phenom, Kevin Lorenz of InsideSTL caught up with Oshie after practice recently for a pro...

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Larry Johnson Is Not a Political Prisoner

2009-11-10 14:12:14

Larry Johnson was given his walking papers yesterday by the Kansas City Chiefs, after they had finally had enough of his antics. The latest incident involved him criticising the Chiefs' head coach...

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Brett Hull's Hall of Fame Speech: The Word Cloud and Transcript

2009-11-10 09:52:25

One-time St. Louis Blue Brett Hull was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame on Monday in Toronto. Hull spent most of his career with the Blues, from the spring of 1988 to the summer of 1998, before...

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Sammy Sosa Wants to Set the Record Straight

2009-11-09 15:29:01

Sammy Sosa wants everyone out there to know that, no matter what you may have heard, and despite seemingly incontrovertible photographic evidence to the contrary, he has not become a gay vampire...

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Game Notes: Calgary 2, Blues 1 (O/T) -- Still Struggling to Score

2009-11-06 13:55:19

-- Well, the Blues still can't score, but at least Lars Eller had himself a nice debut, eh? Eller became the twelfth player in St. Louis Blues' history to score in his debut game, as he put in a ...

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The Blues' Next Big Thing Debuts Tonight

2009-11-05 13:18:14

Tonight is an exciting night if you're a St. Louis Blues fan. The team's top prospect, Lars Eller, will make his NHL debut at the Scottrade Center against the Calgary Flames. Eller will also ...

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