Smack the Bowsers out of the park.

One of my old college housemates currently works in baseball; when he graduated, his first job was with the Atlantic City Surf. He worked a variety of jobs for the now-defunct independent league team, including selling tickets, scoring games and, of course, playing the mascot at a Quiznos opening. But I don't know if his duties ever went as far as those of Chelsea Wargo of Ewing, N.J., who interns for the Trenton Thunder and has quite a few different jobs with the club . Wargo runs around

July 31st, 2009ElizabethLeave a commentGo to comments I may not have met a cooler pro football player than Carolina Panther running back DeAngelo Williams. He and I met during his first year with the Panthers.Williams was drafted 27th (first round) by the Carolina Panthers in the 2006 NFL Draft after a stellar career at the University of Memphis. I was at the press conference to welcome Williams a couple days later. I instantly gravitated to the speedy running back. I think it was because how

Dear past or present MLB performance enhancing drug user, So I’m guessing by know you’ve heard about the report in the New York Times that Manny and Big Papi tested positive for a performance enhancing substance back in 2003. Actually, seeing as how you are on the “inside,” this probably was not news to you. And honestly, I think I speak for the overwhelming majority of baseball fans and observers when I say that it wasn’t really news to us either. Just like the sun rising in the East ever

R. Lee Ermey had a distinguished 11 year career in the Marines before he started dabbling in movies, where his skills as a drill instructor gave him a specialty in that arena. He had a few credits to his name as actor and as technical adviser (in Apocalypse Now among other films) when Stanley Kubrick saw his work in The Boys of Company C and changed his career by making him the ruthless Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 1987's Full Metal Jacket, which has kind of defined his career ever since.