Boras: Baseball-palooza
Scott Boras loves the World Series so much, he wants to make it a best-of-nine event, opening with two games at a neutral site. Arguing that the shift would create a marketing bonanza that would rival the Super Bowl, Boras outlined his ideas in a two-page letter he sent to baseball commissioner Bud Selig on April 15. “I know from an owner’s perspective, this is a gold mine,” Boras said. “To have a World Series Weekend, WSW, I think it will create a stage that the game has not seen.” Boras, the high-profile agent with high-profile clients who earn high-octane paychecks, said in an interview Thursday that he will meet with the commissioner after the all-star break to discuss his proposal. “Create this buzz around it the same way they do the Super Bowl,” Arizona outfielder Eric Byrnes said. “I think it is a very innovative idea.”
But he doesn’t do windows
“I was just cleaning. Still don’t have the floor done yet.”
Scott Stevens, Former New Jersey Devil defenseman, on what he was doing when he got the call notifying him he would be inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame
Bulked-up Tiger offers training tips
Tiger Woods now has to tailor practice sessions around being a father and find time for workouts that can last up to three hours as many as six days a week. Woods and trainer Keith Kleven offer detail and insight into a fitness regimen that has enabled the world’s No. 1 player to add nearly 30 pounds of muscle since he left Stanford in 1996 after his sophomore year. “Pound for pound, I put him with any athlete in the world,” Kleven told Men’s Fitness magazine in its August issue. The routine is built around stretching up to 40 minutes before each session, core exercises, endurance runs of 7 miles and speed runs of 3 miles, along with weight training. “You have to listen to your inner self,” Woods said. “Your body knows when it can be pushed and when you just need to back off a little bit.”
