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CHICAGO -- From goat to hero. That's how Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro feels after winning Friday's game against the San Francisco Giants with a walk-off double scoring David DeJesus to break a 3-3 tie in the ninth. It was just the day be...

Leave it to Metta World Peace to top a severed goat's head for lunacy. Elsewhere, Spike Albrecht's tweet to Kate Upton surely is lost on Vin Scully in this week's "The Buzz That Was."

A goat's head was delivered to Wrigley Field on Wednesday addressed to Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts, a team spokesman confirmed. Read the entire story....

A goat's head was delivered to Wrigley Field on Wednesday addressed to Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts, a team spokesman confirmed.

Does pressure exist in baseball? We've made heroes and goats of those who performed -- or didn't perform -- in the game's biggest moments. But those are usually isolated snippets of time in a postseason game, when the results of one at-bat or a few g...

Joe Girardi really had no one to blame but himself for Tuesday night's loss.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Jonathan Broxton has always had a great poker face. Win or lose, hero or goat, the former Los Angeles Dodgers closer's face never gave much of anything away. He was as stoic and silent as he was strong. Until, it seems, he actu...

Bombers had, um, better bullpen goat in ending Trop curse before Boston series.

CHICAGO - Here we go again with more proof that goats make the Cubs' world go around. Read the entire story....

A group of five men and a goat named "Wrigley" just completed a nearly 100-day walk from the Chicago Cubs' spring training complex in Mesa, Ariz., all the way to the ballpark on Clark and Addison with the main goal of raising money for cancer research.

Their ankles, feet and backs are sore, they're tired of looking at each other and, at this point, they can't wait for their long trek to be over. But for five guys and a goat, the quest is almost complete. A three-month march from Arizona to Ch...

The baseball that broke the hearts of Boston Red Sox fans everywhere and turned Bill Buckner into one of the most famous goats in sports history is up for sale.

Baseball's a zero-sum game on the field: Somebody wins, and somebody loses. Off the field, it isn't always as cut and dried, but when you want to talk about the season's goat of the year, sometimes it's a lose-lose proposition: for the free agent who...

Well, that was an interesting Game 6, right? Hopefully the fun continues in Game 7. Meanwhile, Mark Simon and I tried to put into words what we saw on Thursday night, and here it is in Friday's Baseball Today podcast! 1. Was that the greatest Worl...

It's Game 7 of the World Series. Someone will win. Someone will lose. Someone will be a hero. Someone will be a goat. Someone will fulfill a lifelong dream. And someone will endure something much different.

Earlier today, we posted a blank cartoon and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by commenter Bigd0g10. Thanks for participating. Check back tomorrow for another cartoon....