Miami rapper Rick Ross or the “Bawse” as his fans call him, recently hit up a Dodgers game in Los Angeles after filming a rap video with California rap OG Mack 10. It was only fitting that Ross (born William Leonard Roberts II) visit the city that was home to Freeway Ricky Ross, the infamous drug kingpin behind his rap name. Read the full story

The summer of 1977 belonged to Star Wars. It was all about Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, and light sabers. Those were the only things that mattered unless you’re Mike Douglass interviewing Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford when Pete Rose and Tom Seaver showed up.

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The fuzzy video below is from an Arizona bar in 2006 and allegedly features San Diego Padres outfielder Brian Giles abusing his then girlfriend Cheri Olvera. The video was released following Olvera’s filing of a $10 million civil suit against Giles for verbal and physical abuse during their relationship.

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LMontro, the barber of choice for Major League Baseball players, was in Philadelphia for the rain suspended Game 5 of the World Series. Sometime during the rain LMontro gave Carl Crawford, Akinori Iwamura, Willy Aybar, and Grant Balfour fresh Rayhawks. The Rays eventually went on to lose Game 5 and the series but at least they were clean when they got back to Florida.

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• Curt Schilling bounced the Game 5 first pitch and then J.D. Drew helped Boston bounce the series back to Tampa

Sox and Dawgs provides this video of an $8 million bounced first pitch by Curt Schilling. I’ll give Schill a little slack since he had surgery, but his toss seemed like an omen after B.J. Upton took Dice-K deep for a two-run shot in the first inning.

I know the Boston Red Sox have given us incredible comebacks in playoffs past, but at 7-0, I had written the Nation off. I was only watching the game to see how many runs Tampa Bay would score en route to clinching their first trip to the World Series. Then it happened.
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• The Players’ Association says owners acted in concert against Barry Bonds after 2007 season

As first reported by Murray Chass, the Major League Baseball Players’ Association claims to have evidence that team owners acted in concert to keep Barry Bonds out of baseball after the 2007 season.

The MLBPA won’t immediately file a grievance because of an arrangement reached with the Commissioner’s Office. Read the full story

I don’t remember this story getting much play at the time, but the fellas from The Heater talked to Evan Longoria of the Tampa Bay Rays about “EvanLongoria.com” being available on EBay for $25,000. Longoria didn’t think much of his name being auctioned off in August.

Longoria laughed when he heard about it Friday. “That’s weird,” he said. “And kind of funny. What are they going to come up with next? I guess it’s a good idea if you’re the guy selling it. He beat me to the punch.”

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