Author: Eric Fischer

Wednesday night, it was the National League’s turn to play the Wild Card game. Like the American League counterpart, the game started with a bang, with each teams’ ace on the bump Jon Gray going for the Rockies and Cy Young candidate Zack Grienke for Arizona. In the bottom of the first, the top seeded Arizona Diamondbacks put up a three spot on the Rockies, after a Paul Goldschmidt three-run dinger. The Dbacks would go on to score in each of the first three innings, leading 6-0. The Rockies wouldn’t go away and put up four in the fourth, and…

Today begins one of my favorite times of year, playoff baseball. Now that the MLB regular season is finished, we finally have a schedule and seeding for October baseball.  Tonight, we will have the American League Wild Card Game in New York between the Twins and Yankees, with a 8:09 EST first pitch on ESPN. Ervin Santana is scheduled to start for the Twins, while Luis Severino gets the starts for the Yankees. The Yankees won the home-and-home regular season series 4-2. Wednesday will be the National League’s turn, with an NL West matchup of the Colorado Rockies traveling to…

In what continues to be one of the saddest stories in sports, another chapter has emerged.  Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who committed suicide in prison just days after being cleared of a double homicide while serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd, had his brain studied and evaluated for CTE.  Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is the degenerative brain disease that many athletes in contact-based sports, such as football, wrestling/mixed martial arts and hockey to name a few, have been found to have.  This disease has been linked to early Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, as…

First and foremost, this is an opinion piece that does not necessarily reflect the values of FlurrySports. That being said, let’s jump right to the elephant in the room. It is time to pay college athletes. Year after year we see Division 1 athletics becoming a bigger and bigger entity, specifically football, basketball and to a smaller extent but still in dominating fashion, baseball and softball. There are bowl games, NCAA tournaments selling tickets for hundreds of dollars, sponsorships of literally everything, including the ladder they use to cut the nets, as well as the sale of hats, t-shirts, jerseys,…

For the past nine seasons, Aaron Rodgers has been tearing apart opposing defenses for the Green Bay Packers. This season, there could be another Aaron terrorizing defenses right next to #12, Aaron “Showtyme” Jones. The little-known product out of the University of Texas-El Paso could go down as one of the steals of the 2017 NFL Draft, where the Packers took him in the 5th Round, the 182nd overall pick. Jones can do it all on the field, as he proved at UTEP. Jones might be the most dynamic back of the three the Packers took in this year’s draft.…

After not receiving the bid to host the Summer Games in 2024, which went to Paris, Los Angeles will be hosting the 2028 Summer Olympics, the IOC announced Monday. President Trump had tweeted earlier this month that there was a bid to get the Olympics in LA. After the announcement, Trump and the White House released a statement saying, in part: “For the first time in a generation, the Olympics are coming back to the United States, and I am proud to support LA 2028.” This will be the first time since 1996 that the games will be in the…

Well, the Cavs have finally made a move in attempt to compete with Golden State after the beating they received in the 2017 Finals. The Cleveland Cavaliers have inked Derrick Rose to a 1 year, $2.1 million contract. On the surface, it is incredibly easy to rip into this move, and don’t get me wrong, I was just as baffled as many others when the move was announced. However, this move actually makes a lot of sense, and honestly isn’t the worst thing in the world.   Let’s start with the obvious: this move, by no means, makes them…

First and foremost, I think the Major League Baseball All Star Game is the best all-star game in sports.  Not even close.  Maybe it’s the nature of the game or the fact that the players actually have to try, aside from one alleged pitch to Derek Jeter in 2014. Maybe, for the last twelve years, this is the only all-star game that meant anything. But perhaps the Midsummer Classic is just what James Earl Jones taught us in Field of Dreams: “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of…