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Fifty-five years ago, someone snapped a photograph of a third-string quarterback watching his team from the bench with a cheerleader standing behind him. It could have ended up an ordinary picture -- one of the countless extra snapshots of life --...

The NFL can't survive if decisions are made to soften the game.

Andrew McCutchen is laughing, shaking his head in disbelief. "It's just another hat," he says during a spring training interview. I tell him maybe he doesn't understand how special these hats were. I tell him I realize they are ridiculous looking...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Russell Martin knows what it is like to be framed. Sure, it's his art, framing others, but every once in a while the tables turn. As the pitch comes toward the plate it looks borderline low. But then he glances back into the catcher's ...

ST. LOUIS -- How do the St. Louis Cardinals properly thank the Rally Squirrel? A lifetime supply of peanuts? Freedom to run amok on the field at Busch Stadium when the team is on the road? Maybe a big oak tree in the left field bleachers? Actua...

JUPITER, Fla. -- Hall of Fame manager Whitey Herzog leans against the bullpen wall while former player and new Cardinals manager Mike Matheny talks with the media. Off in the distance Lou Brock sits in the shade at a picnic table waiting to go into ...

BRADENTON, Fla. -- Pirates right-hander A.J. Burnett, after having surgery on his fractured right orbital bone on March 2, threw for the first time on Saturday. "I thought it was a good day for A.J. [Burnett]," manager Clint Hurdle said of Burnet...

Ex-St. Louis Cardinals pitcherJoe Magrane isn't mad at Steven Tyler.

ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Allen Craig had a pretty good idea the final out of the World Series might be coming toward the left side of the diamond. He remembers the buzz in the stadium as David Murphy was up to bat. As the ball came...

On Dec. 12, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers sat at a table after practice and signed 100 items for kids with cancer. He stopped for a minute, looked up and said, "The reality is, these kids help me." On Friday, tickets will go on sale fo...

Let's face it, over the course of a year, every decision we make -- all of our actions in work or play -- lead to one question: "Will this land me on Santa's naughty list, or his nice list?" This goes for sports, too. So Page 2 baked some extra coo...

Who's on Santa's naughty and nice lists?

Branch Rickey once said "Baseball is a game of inches" and that is true. It is also a game of decisions and unpredictability. Hundreds and thousands of decisions over the course of a season by players, managers, coaches, owners and everyone involved ...

ST. LOUIS -- Every spring when the Busch Stadium grounds crew pulls back the tarp for the first time, a rabbit hops out. Now, in early October, it is looking for a squirrel. As Game 5 of the National League Division Series heads to Philadelphia, wher...

Over the course of the 2011 season "most valuable" has been defined many ways. On a summer evening at Miller Park, Prince Fielder hit a deep fly ball to left field. His home run in the bottom of the second on July 27 put the Brewers up 1-0 against...

Despite his reputation as an all around good guy, observers of Lance Berkman, also known as "The Big Puma", should take note: don't be fooled, "The Big Puma" is anything but a large, tame house cat. "I'm sleek and fast and secretive," said Berkman ...