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Unassuming Tracy ideal fit for Rockies

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

Jim Tracy took over a Rockies team in late May that was spiraling out of control. Nearly four months later, he's guided the team to the brink of the postseason.

Story | Conversation | September 21, 2009

Three Strikes: NFL steroid era

Jayson Stark

...term, in the first four words of this item: "The NFL's steroids era." We all know baseball's "steroid era" gets dropped into our national conversation as casually as terms like "federal bailout" and...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 23, 2009

Many ways for Series to become Super

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

Explaining the many ways baseball can learn to better market the World Series in the same way the NFL expertly markets the Super Bowl.

Story | Conversation | January 29, 2009

Three Strikes: Hall of Fame Tag-Team Edition

Jayson Stark

Every once in a while I just have to turn these blogs over to the readers, because you folks are so ingenious, you deserve your own blog. So here goes...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 28, 2009

Three Strikes: Attention Mike & Mike Edition

Jayson Stark

...name Brady Quinn. Namely: Which league has more competitive balance these days -- the NFL or Major League Baseball? In his latest attempt to refute my argument that the correct answer is clearly baseball, my buddy...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 23, 2009

Three Strikes: NFL Playoff Edition

Jayson Stark

...is new? We need no better excuse than that to point out a big, big difference between baseball and football in the 21st century. This makes four times in the past five years that the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 02, 2009

Exposing our dirty double standards

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

Rick Ankiel's HGH tale is the perfect test case for all the double standards we've been hearing.

Story | Conversation | September 07, 2007

Bidding starts at eight figures

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

Roger Clemens is positioning himself as the greatest midseason free agent in the history of any sport.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | April 14, 2006

History not on the side of Seahawks

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

In honor of Super Bowl week, Jayson Stark broke out a special baseball/football Useless Information Department.

Story | Conversation | February 01, 2006

No Yankees or Red Sox? No problem

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

So no Yankees or Red Sox? Jayson Stark offers up 10 reasons why the World Series will be even better this year.

Story | Conversation | October 21, 2005

Trading for Clemens won't come cheap

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

A little-known clause in Roger Clemens' contract makes trading the Rocket highly unlikely.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | May 03, 2005

Hope now a widespread reality

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

The days of widespread hopelessness for some teams is definitely a thing of the past now.

Story | Conversation | March 11, 2005

NFL doesn't put MLB to shame

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

The MLB postseason shouldn't take a backseat to the NFL playoffs when factoring in competitive balance.

Story | Conversation | January 28, 2005

Best ever right before our eyes

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

Not only is this the most memorable in 100 years of baseball, this postseason will top any in sports history.

Story | Conversation | October 09, 2003

Rose's reinstatement remains a mystery

Jayson Stark, ESPN.com

What Bud Selig and baseball will eventually decide to do with Pete Rose remains as unclear as ever.

Story | Conversation | August 21, 2003