Josh Hamilton just put on a show at Yankee Stadium setting a Home Run Derby record with 28 bombs in the first round.

Hamilton’s compelling journey is the type of story from which Hollywood movies are made and it’s chronicled in our COED Vault story Josh Hamilton’s Journey From Crack Addict to Triple Crown Threat, a must read for any sports fan.

The public has spoken! Last week Barry Bonds called Marc Ecko an “idiot” for letting the fans decide the fate of his 756th home run ball. Well, we did decide and now the $700,000 baseball artifact will be shipped to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY with a big old asterisk branded on it!

Like many baseball-loving Americans I think Bonds, and not Ecko, should feel like the real idiot here. He broke one of the most coveted records in sports while cheating and now we will forever make note of that. You can’t beat that with a bat.

Every sports fan has an opinion on whether of not Barry Bonds is a cheater.

Watch ESPN’s media blitz for 10 minutes and you will know what I’m talking about. Bonds just broke the most coveted records in all of sports and the media can’t seem to redirect their news fiending boner away from the fact that the guy potentially cheated.

Are American’s really fired up about Bonds cheating or is this just another case of the media force feeding us “controversial” topics to drum up ratings? I decided to hit the streets and ask some every day Joe’s whether or not they think Bonds is a cheater and why.

Here’s what I found… Read more

SAN DIEGO — At 7:29 p.m. local time Saturday, in the top of the second inning, Barry Bonds hit career home run No. 755 off Padres pitcher Clay Hensley. It was the first home run he had ever hit off Hensley, who became the 445th different major league pitcher to surrender a home run to Bonds.

It came on a 2-1 pitch, a 91-mph fastball. The swing was clean and true, hands back, head in, follow-through a study in grace and power. The crack of the bat was sharp, familiar, prodigious. The ball flew 382 feet on a low, sharp line to the opposite field, over the left-field fence and off the facing of the second deck of seats at San Diego’s Petco Park.

The sellout crowd came to its feet — some cheering, some booing. Bonds’ teammates burst from the dugout to await him at home plate, and he circled the bases quickly, clapping his hands on his way to first, and slapping a celebratory high-five with Giants coach Tim Flannery as he made his way around third base.

Read the full story