This Sporting Life: Baseball (Babylon)

Jeff MacGregor seeks answers to the American condition by looking at the the past, present and future of baseball.

A man in a cricket sweater adjusts a transistor radio on a picnic blanket as a woman with a headband looks on...

Page 2 Power Rankings: Odom edition

Patrick Hruby delivers the supremacy metric on the world of sports and beyond.

This Sporting Life: The Nationals

Turns out President Obama isn't planning to overhaul just health care; he's planning to overhaul American sports as well.

12 years later ...

The Sports Guy hasn't changed in the 12 years since he started writing professionally. But the same can't be said of the sports fan experience.

Enough with the Red Sox and Yankees, it's time for a West Coast bias

From Seattle to the Bay Area to L.A., Jim Caple says it's time for a West Coast bias in baseball.

Winless, but not witless ...

Bill can't explain his 0-4 effort in Round 2, but he can explain why he's big in Pakistan and how Eli Manning is like the "Karate Kid." And, of course, he offers his kiss of death to two of the NFL's final four.

Splitsville: Dissecting Favre and the Packers

What caused the breakup between Brett Favre and the Packers? It's a matter of politics.

How did these guys get voted MVP?

Sometimes there's seemingly no rhyme or reason to who wins baseball's MVP awards.

The silky side of thoroughbred racing

Paul Lukas saddles up the world of horse racing, a place where there are no uniforms -- only silks.

The Wonderlic has nothing on this quiz

Hey, did you hear that Brett Favre retired? If you didn't, then you need to brush up with this quiz.

The horror, the horror: Pistons-Spurs II looming?

Bill Simmons tackles an entire mailbag of basketball letters ... except the real letters were so bad he had to make up his own.

Welcome to the Year in Review Quiz

If you've paid attention to sports, you shouldn't have a problem with the Year In Review Quiz.

It's time to open up NFL Sunday Ticket to everyone

The NFL wants everyone to get the NFL Network, yet it restricts access to its NFL Sunday Ticket. It's time for a radical change.

Joe Paterno has something to tell you

From Joe Torre to Joe Paterno to a woman who picked every NFL game, it was another crazy week.