ESPN.com has a cool profile on Ted Ginn, Jr. For all the hype that Reggie Bush is getting heading into the college football season, Pat Ford points out that Ginn might steal Bush’s thunder as the most exciting player this season. Bush is a great player, but I think Ginn will assert himself as the best player in college football and lead the Buckeyes to a great season.
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The Tribe bounced back this afternoon with a 9-4 victory over the Rangers to take the series and move within two and a half games of the A’s for the Wild Card.
The race is on folks. In many ways this has been a frustrating season, but the fact is this team is in the hunt in the middle of August. They are contenders, and frankly, with their pitching, if they make the playoffs they could be very dangerous. It should be a fun ride.
Veteran cornerback Ray Mickens signed a one-year contract with the Browns, who are suddenly thin at the cornerback position after Michael Leehan came up with a pulled hamstring. Daylon McCutchen has yet to practice during training camp due to headaches and dizziness, so Savage and Crennel felt the need to make this move.
As for the defense as a whole, I think everyone is jumping the gun with all the concern over the performance in the first preseason game. Relax. It’s early. Give Crennel time to teach his system to the players.
Now that the NBA’s moratorium on signings and trades has (finally) been lifted, teams have begun to announce to the public deals the public has known about for weeks.
Tuesday, Cavaliers GM Danny Ferry talked about his summer spending spree that resulted in new deals with Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Larry Hughes and Donyell Marshall. “It’s been a successful free agency period. Each guy brings us something different and should help us be competitive. We’re trying to build a team-first attitude. I think these guys will all play that way.” Ferry also made it clear that Hughes was the team’s first choice, not Michael Redd or Ray Allen, to step in as the starting shooting guard. “His ability to play and defend different positions, I think, is going to be of great value. He’s 26 years old and his best years are ahead of him.”
While I’m not sure I believe the talk about Hughes being the top choice (they seemed to go after Redd pretty hard), I do believe Hughes is a better fit for this team, especially in light of the Donyell Marshall signing. I have to admit that I wasn’t very optimistic about the Ferry hire initially, but he’s done an excellent job so far, getting the guys he wanted to get and filling some gaping holes in the process. Plus, he’s still got a little change jingling around in his pocket, perhaps enough to sign an offensive point guard to share the load with Eric Snow. Meanwhile, the more I think about it, the more keeping Drew Gooden makes some sense. Don’t get me wrong — there’s also a compelling argument to be made for trading him — but at this point I think they’ll be fine whether Gooden’s in Cleveland next year or not.
Bob Wickman made it interesting but in the end, the Indians beat the visiting Yankees 6-5 Tuesday night. Victor Martinez continued to sizzle, going 2-3 with a home run and an RBI single, while Ronnie Belliard drove in three runs and Grady Sizemore tallied two hits and stole a base. Scott Elarton delivered a decent performance considering the opponent, yielding three runs on four hits in six innings, but after Arthur Rhodes and Bobby Howry surrendered single runs in the seventh and eighth, Wickman allowed the tying run to reach second base before getting Derek Jeter to ground to second for the final out of the game.
It was a significant win for the Indians, moving them to within 1.5 games of the Yankees in the wild card race, five behind front-runner Oakland. The question is, will they follow through tomorrow and Thursday? It seems that, whenever this team has been faced with the opportunity to improve their playoff chances, they fail. Let’s hope that trend ends this week.
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