Video: JaVale McGee doesn’t want your game ball

Maybe JaVale McGee had a bad experience with a game ball he received previously. Maybe the Nuggets’s big man saw a heckler in the stands he was trying to hit. Or more likely, there was something entirely different going on in the, uh, unique mind of McGee. Whatever the reason,…

Why Jamie Moyer isn’t a Baltimore Oriole

Westword feature subject Jamie Moyer is baseball’s unlikeliest story. At 49, and coming off of major elbow surgery, he’s not only become the oldest player ever to win a game, he’s also managed to pitch well enough to be considered the Rockies’s ace, though that may say just as much…

49 things younger than 49-year-old Rockies pitcher Jamie Moyer

Every story about Rockies pitcher Jamie Moyer, including our cover story this week by Caleb Hannan, prominently features the word “old.” But because, rightly or wrongly, that word can have a negative connotation in our society, we decided to focus for once on something young in relation to the 49-year-old…