Stamkos Has Awesome Hand-Eye Coordination

((HT: Sportsnet))

Just watch what he was able to do last night in putting the puck in the net against Ottawa...

More than anything, the HQ is impressed that he was able to choke up on the bat and make contact...

Nicely done...

Oscar Pistorius Trial: Day 8- Reconstructing The Scene

((HT: SABC Digital News))

The prosecution had their moments with a police officer constructing what they believe to be the events in the bedroom the night of the Reeva Steenkamp murder. Police Colonel J.G. Vermeulen swung a cricket bat at a makeshift construction of the Pistorius bathroom to recreate the event as they saw it unfold.

He, naturally, faced tough questioning from the defense lawyer...

Here's that segment...
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Testimony also continued from a friend of Pistorius', Darren Fresco, about the incident previously talked about where the Olympian shot a hole in a sunroof in a vehicle...

One Of The Worst Brawls You'll Ever See...

((HT: Baseball America))

Take you to Cuban baseball for this one...

First, just watch... pretty wild...


Now, the background...

Villa Clara pitcher Freddy Alvarez gives up a homer and then hits two batters afterwards. After the second batter got buzzed, a player came in from the dugout with the bat and started swinging...

You saw the self-defense. Now, the HQ just wonders how much of a suspension that Matanzas player Demis Valdes will get...
Even with a swing and a miss...

Bat Boy Actually Deals With A Bat

((HT: MLB.com))

And by that the HQ means the nocturnal thing that hangs upside down inside caves and things like that...

Last night in OSG HQ over at Turner Field, Braves infielder Paul Janish scooped up the bat (the winged kind) in his glove and gave it to a Braves bat boy.



The HQ doesn't know whether or not to give Janish and the, ahem, bat boy who handled a LIVE BAT any attaboy or "what were you thinking?" kind of hat tip...

We'll just take survival as the good first step...

Ortiz Demands Phone Know "Whose Your Papi?"

David Ortiz was hot after an at-bat tonight in the Red Sox-Orioles game...

And then he wanted to take on any and all comers- inanimate or otherwise...
((HT: NESN))


Torey Lovullo was able to stop him...???

Big East Turns Into Bat Cave

((HT: blueduke19))

This is, probably, the only positive pub the Big East has gotten in the last few months... and it doesn't have the slightest bit to do with an actual win or loss.

Someone got into the Marquette-Providence game without a ticket and made sure to hang around and dive bomb whatever it could for a while...

Here's the proof...


They even tried to turn the lights out to encourage said bat to leave...
Here's the highlights in the 81-71 win for Marquette...
((HT: Big East/ESPN))