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Richard Justice of the Houston Chronicle: "First of all, Bud Selig would never have issued an ultimatum. Are you listening, David Stern? Baseball's 16-year labor peace has come about, in part, because Selig insisted the lines of communication remain ...

When George Postolos saw the movie "Moneyball," which opened last Friday, he had some qualms. The former president of the Rockets noted that in portraying Brad Pitt's character, A's GM Billy Beane, as a man unilaterally changing baseball, the film...

This Spring, the NBA had a series of opportunities to think about homosexuality. In April, Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 for using a gay slur, ironically about the same time Grant Hill and Jared Dudley appeared in a PSA advising kids to keep the ...

Jason Fry, baseball blogger at Faith and Fear in Flushing, worked across the street from the World Trade Center in 2001, and still lives in Brooklyn. Last night he was watching baseball on ESPN when he heard news of Osama Bin Laden's demise, and w...

Jonathan Abrams of The New York Times wrote about Carmelo Anthony a few days ago, and another NBA player became part of the story: In athletics, Anthony flashed his competitiveness. In baseball, he wanted to pitch, and his football coaches described...

ESPN's Amy K. Nelson has written a fantastic story about baseball umpire Jim Joyce. Joyce did all he could do: Called the play as he saw it. And in the moment, he was certain he was correct. But what can you do? Decades of elite umpiring do not...

There's something we don't do well in sports media, and that's tell stories of vulnerability. If athletes are butting heads, dominating, humiliating, pumping iron, dunking, trash-talking or doing anything else high-adrenaline ... we have that cove...

Fred Mitchell and David Kaplan of the Chicago Tribune: "For years, there have been whispers around the NBA that Michael Jordan first retired from the league in 1993 to play baseball because of his heavy involvement in gambling. Ron Shelton, who direc...

By J.A. Adande It might be hard to fathom in a time when Stephen Strasburg is pitching in the big leagues seemingly right after baseball's draft, when Derrick Rose leads a team to the playoffs as a rookie not long after LeBron James saved a franch...

Howard Beck of The New York Times: "At 6 feet 8 inches, he could be an overpowering staff ace or a fearsome closer. Imagine the possibilities. Tracy McGrady has. 'I love baseball right to this day more than I love basketball,' he said, lounging at th...

Baseball's recent frenzy of steroid stories could be seen as good news for the the NBA, I suppose. The leagues compete, on some level. Perhaps some disaffected baseball fan would spend a few extra hours watching basketball, a sport that really has no...

From a Q+A with Maxim: It's something that's not done. I think it's hurting baseball, because it wasn't banned and now it is banned, so it's hard to flush out completely. It's just something in the NBA that hasn't been done, so no one's going to sta...

A call, in baseball, to have machines call balls and strikes. If they're way more accurate, why wouldn't you? Machines are, I assume, a long way from being able to referee NBA games. But when the time comes, and the machines are simply better...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Kevin Martin & Adam Dunn: What do these two guys have in common? (Rocky Widner, Mitchell Layton/NBAE/Getty Images) There probably isn't a slugger in Major League Baseball more polarizing than Adam Dunn. I...

In all sports. Think about it. It's not just salary, but also winnings in sports that have that, and income. Golfers make a lot. The very best in every major sport make a lot. Race car drivers, baseball players, football players ... Out of those ...

George Diaz of the Orlando Sentinel: "If this were baseball, you could limit the pitch count if your top left-hander was coming back to the rotation. But in basketball, it's all ebb and flow. What if Jameer was limited to, say, 10 minutes a ...