This is a Sports Post

We did a non-sports post before. Well, this is a sports post (clearing out some links):

• The New York Times with two great articles: the first on baseball's use of DNA and the privacy issues that go along with that and the second on Tony Kubek, one of my favorite Yankees announcers, returning briefly after a 15-year hiatus.
• The New York Times Freakonomics blog did a very interesting Q&A with Buster Olney
• This Sports Networking and Sports Summit from The Biz of Baseball is pretty awesome. Some really, really good sources on there.
• Detroit4Lyfe has one of the craziest catches you'll ever see (that was amazingly ruled a non-catch...probably because the umpire was so amazed)
• ESPN takes on "Moneyball" 6 years later, with Howard Bryant saying that the Moneyball legacy is suffering (with some great Brian Cashman quotes) and Baseball Prospectus writes about how the Athletics' approach has changed
• Vin Scully is retiring and Bill Plaschke of the LA Times says the Dodgers have 15 months so send him off with a home run. If you haven't heard him broadcast a game, find a way to tune in to it.
• The Wall Street Journal points out who hits the shortest home runs with Dustin Pedroia on the top of the list. I think this proves that if he didn't play in Boston last season, that MVP probably would have never even been discussed.
• ESPN's Page 2 goes behind the scenes to look at what it's like to be a vendor at Fenway Park. Pretty cool.
• Joe Posnanski lists his top 100 players in baseball for Sports Illustrated. Yankees on the list: A-Rod (#6), Mark Teixeira (#17), Derek Jeter (#23), CC Sabathia (#41), Mariano Rivera (#42), Johnny Damon (#84), A.J. Burnett (#91), Robinson Cano (#93), and Jorge Posada (#96).
• The Wall Street Journal turns the MLB Forecasting upside down by showing how accurate writers are in their predictions. Newsday's Ken Davidoff came in #1. In other news, he's been predicting 96 wins for the Yankees which really should be a playoff birth.
• RealClearSports says that legalized sports betting is inevitable and shows England as an example that it can work fine. Also, RealClearSports on the top Minor League baseball promotions
• Fart-Gate: did he or didn't he?
• New York Magazine with a great article on the Nadal and Federer of New York handball
• Don't look now, but the Angels are in first place in the American League, which not even Yahoo!'s Big League Stew knew. David Pinto of Baseball Musings (filling in for Rob Neyer) says the reason is that more Angels are getting on base.
• Do you remember William Ligue, the guy who brought his shirtless son on the field to beat up the Royals first base coach? Well his son is still proud of what he did, according to Deadspin. 
• Mike Vick's first night out of federal custody may have been in a strip club with Allen Iverson according to The Big Lead
• Ian O'Connor of the Bergen Record says that Antonio Pierce is lucky and now needs to learn what a leader really is
• Rob Neyer and the intentional walk. Rob Neyer and Ben Zobrist's MVP chances.
• The New York Times reports on a study that shows the curveball isn't too stressful for young arms to throw
• Who is buying a piece of the old Yankee Stadium? Hideki Matusi, Jason Giambi, Reggie Jackson, LeBron James, and Charlie Weis so far according to Darren Rovell of CNBC
• The Wall Street Journal has a very cleverly named article titled "Baseball's Haul of Fame" about how much MLB's Hall of Famer's can cash in
• Jason Whitlock from FOX Sports on why athletes should never marry
• Deadspin on the NHL's horrible salary cap coming from their horrible CBA
• Forbes on the most disliked people in sports (A-Rod would like to thank Michael Vick and Manny Ramirez for pushing him to #3)
• The Philadelphia Daily News goes over the unwritten rules of baseball
• Speaking of Philly, this is an awful story from the supposed "City of Brotherly Love" of some fans (allegedly) going overboard. Awful
• The Onion with an amazing headline: "Extremely Patient Kevin Youkilis Works Count to 6-5"
• Lastly, an article no one reading this post wants to read, yet anyone getting this far should not be surprised by: a study found that die-hard sports fans live less healthy lives according to the Kansas City Star