Fantasy Sports Outlook

Good read from Ball City Guy on San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum (7-1, 2.33 ERA), He’s good after last night’s win over Dan Haren and the Diamondbacks. I only caught part of the game but the kid was smoking. While non-Giants fans are having fun talking bad about our Giants, I’m having a blast watching them this season. Sure we have a long ways to go but when they get efforts like this they are fun to watch. 

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Great day of action on Saturday. Big Brown showed he’s the real deal with a convincing win in the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. AP Racing Writer, Beth Harris on Filly Eight Belles.

Clint Bowyer wins in Richmond, in a race Dale Earnhardt Jr. should have, no wait, Denny Hamlin should have won. I’m a Dale Jr. fan, but Denny Hamlin easily gets the hard luck award this week. Won’t talk about Kyle Busch…yet.

Denny Hamlin led 381 of the first 382 laps in last night’s Dan Lowry 400 at Richmond International Raceway. Then, check.

A check was the shape of the cut in his right front tire. Hamlin, formerly of Chesterfield, finished 24th.

Phillies Chase Utley hit his MLB leading 13th home run against the San Francisco Giants, but the Giants came away with a 10 inning, 3-2 win.

The Giants pushed across the go-ahead run in the 10th on an RBI single by Bengie Molina to grab a 3-2 victory in front of a chilled sellout crowd of 43,804 at Citizens Bank Park.

The Phillies had problems in areas other than starting pitching. They managed only three hits, none after the fifth, against four San Francisco pitchers, and the Giants touched them for four stolen bases, including one by Randy Winn that helped Winn become the deciding run in the 10th.

They have to be rockin in New Orleans right now as the Hornets beat the San Antonio Spurs 101-82 in game one of the Western Conference semifinals

Neither the San Antonio Spurs nor a ring of fire gone awry could derail the Hornets on their first night in the Western Conference semifinals.

The Hornets used a third-quarter comeback against the Spurs, then beat them 101-82 before a sellout crowd of 18,040 on Saturday night at the New Orleans Arena. A game that was oddly delayed in the first half by on-court residue from a fire extinguisher gave the Hornets a 1-0 lead in their best-of-seven series against the Spurs.

Hey Oscar is back! Oscar De La Hoya looking for another big payday came out of retirement to beat Steve Forbes in a 12-round decision.

The win set up a September rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr., who beat De La Hoya by split decision last May in what was the richest fight ever.

Of course…

Mayweather has yet to sign for the rematch, though De La Hoya expressed confidence that the money would be too great for him to refuse.

David Beckham, yeah he’s that good…Ric from over at The World’s Beautiful Game sent this over, Video: REAL SALT LAKE v GALAXY, Beckham’s two goals.

His first two-goal game in MLS is good for a tie.

Some quick hits before the draft starts…“Front Row Joe” Nemechek wins pole for Talladega. Qualifying from the 45th spot Nemechek turned in a lap time of 187.386 to overtake Stewart (186.896)…Gotta love the San Francisco Giants right now, Jonathan Sanchez finished last night’s game with this line in last night’s 3-1 over Aaron Harang and the Reds:

Giants are getting the hits when needed and the pitching has been even better than Giants fans hoped it would be.

NFL Draft Hangouts, not a fan of ESPN so I’ll be hanging out over at New Era Scouting and NFL Draft Scout. Don’t forget about NFL.com also.

Draft Cheat Sheets: NFL Draft Scout has a one page pdf you can download and you can still grab the Draft guide over at New Era Scouting.

There’s nothing better than a good old fashion pitchers duel. That’s just what Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum and Padres pitcher Chris Young served up Thursday night in a 1-0 San Francisco win. At 10-13 heading into the last weekend of April the Giants have to be feeling pretty good.

San Francisco Chronicle write-up, Lincecum Pitcher with the Midas Touch

MLB.com recap, Aurilia’s bat, Lincecum’s arm lift Giants

STATS.com recap, Aurilia’s homer carries Lincecum, Giants to 1-0 win

The hard-throwing Lincecum (4-0) extended his scoreless streak to 16 1-3 innings and lowered his ERA to 1.23. He allowed four hits in 6 1-3 innings, struck out nine and walked five. Brian Wilson pitched the ninth for his seventh save in eight chances.

Here’s the game graph and play log from fangraphs.com.

Only caught a few innings of the game last night, but got the rundown from Al the Sports Dude. Great inning by inning account of the game.

Don’t look now but White Sox pitcher Gavin Floyd has Detroit with this line…listening on XM 181…