Football At Fenway?

The New England Patriots have defeated the Dallas Cowboys, thanks to a late field goal by Kevin Youkilis, by the score of 19-17.

Wait...Wrong sport? Could Have fooled me.

It was a slugfest to say the least in Boston on Tuesday night. The Red Sox, who scored ten runs in the bottom of the first inning, saw their huge lead vanish before the man they call "YUUUK" saved the day with a three run bomb in the bottom of the eight to lead Boston to victory.

Youkilis and David Ortiz each homered twice in the winning effort.

Every starter on both teams, except for Red Sox catcher Kevin Cash,had at least one hit in the game. The two teams combine for 36 runs on 37 hits. Certainly not a good night to be a pitcher.

Tigers Shuffle Roster

The Detroit Tigers made a pair of moves on Tuesday as they signed free agent right handed pitcher Freddy Garcia and placed DH/OF Gary Sheffield on waivers.

Garcia, who was coveted by several teams, has been out of the game since early 2007 when he was a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. It is expected that Garcia will be assigned to AAA for a few starts for conditioning purposes. Last week Garcia held a workout for major league teams where he was clocked in the 84-87mph range with his fastball. As many as eleven teams reportedly had scouts at the workout.

Sheffield, who is batting .219/10/33 in 76 games with season, has been beginning to show signs that age is starting to catch up with him. The former all-star outfielder had been known for his great power numbers which have declined greatly this season.

Best Olympian of All-Time

Michael Phelps has become the Olympian with the most gold medals (10) in a career. The thing is, the best is yet to come. Phelps still has four events left to hopefully take home gold medals in and break Mark Spitz's record of seven in one Olympics. Phelps earned this feat by securing the gold and a new world record in the 200 meter breast stroke.

Phelps is an incredible athlete, and will now be in the record books for one more thing. It is always fun to watch this man compete, and it should be very interesting to see if he can break Spitz's record.

Byrd Flying to Boston

The right-handed starting pitcher Paul Byrd has been traded from the Cleveland Indians to the Boston Red Sox. The Sox will give up a player to be named later or cash. Byrd, the Louisiana State graduate has had a pretty productive year. He has gone 7-10 with a 4.53 ERA through this season so far. He has been hot as of late, going 4-0 with a 1.24 ERA since the All-Star Break.

Byrd's name came up last year with the steroids controversy and the Mitchell Report. It should be very interesting to see how the Red Sox Nation and Boston media take to him. He will, however, be a much needed lift to this Red Sox team if all goes well.

Redeem Team Tunes Up For Tougher Contests

Team USA defeated Angola 97-76 earlier today in Beijing. Dwayne Wade lead the way for the red white and blue scoring 19 points in 16 minutes.Dwight Howard added another 14, going 6-6 from the floor in 15 minutes of play. All 12 Americans got in the game for at least 11 minutes against an over matched Angola team that never stood a chance. The one red flag that comes up is the 3-point shooting of the US, only going 5 of 21 from beyond the arc. In the Olympic opener against China, the US went only 7 of 24.

The United States needs to step up its long range shooting when they take on Greece, the only team to defeat the current USA team. Greece beat the Americans two years ago, 101-95 in the semifinals of the World Championship in Japan. If Team USA wants to prove that they aren't like Olympic teams from years past, knocking off Greece seems like the most obvious place to start. So far it's been easy for Team USA, now we really get to see what they're made of.