No relief in sight searching for first golfers to be drug tested
Jason SobelBETHESDA, Md. -- It's Day 1 of the PGA Tour's new drug testing policy and I'm utterly confused. Congressional Country Club, host venue of this week's ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 01, 2008
Another young American winner
Jason Sobel...he's not. How about Phil? Nope. Who's winning? Nick Watney, by two strokes over Ken Duke. Oh. Never heard of 'em. Not surprised. In fact, I'll bet the only guy on...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 22, 2007
What happened to Craig Perks?
Jason Sobel...No. 522 in the World Ranking -- nestled right in between such legends as Kiyoshi Murota and Ken Duke -- which raises the question: What is he still doing on tour? Like David Duval, who earned...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 22, 2006
Small ball dominating this World Series
Somewhere, John McGraw is smiling and Ty Cobb is saying something about how it's about time the modern-day ballplayers learned how to play small ball....
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 26, 2008
For one night, Fenway's ghosts haunt Rays
BOSTON -- I walked three miles along the railroad tracks from Groton to Ayer, took the Boston and Maine Railroad train to North Station for 75 cents, ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2008
Rays' Howell mixes his pitches with precision
...there isn't Maddux-type movement," catcher Brad Ausmus wrote in an e-mail. "[Pirates pitcher] Zach Duke will do it, and [Brewers pitcher] Chris Capuano as well." Wrote Twins right fielder Michael Cuddyer: "There...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2008
Price to get his first taste of the majors
David Price has been summoned to the big leagues, and presumably, he will make his major league debut sometime in the next 48 hours. Like a lot of Sep...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 13, 2008
Beckett back in rare form
...the White Sox certainly will miss him. But they do have depth among their position players, and Ken Griffey Jr. and Paul Konerko may well step up and make up for the offense lost in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 06, 2008
Good vibe in Brewers' clubhouse day after scrap
After the crowd of reporters around Prince Fielder in the visitors' clubhouse disappeared in Cincinnati Tuesday evening, a teammate walked over a copy...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 06, 2008
Older players less productive in post-steroid era?
By the turn of the 21st century, it had become routine for Major League Baseball players to remain productive deep into their 30s and into their 40s. ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 12, 2008
Count on Sabathia having an impact on NL
All along, the Milwaukee Brewers were the team that matched up best in satisfying the Cleveland Indians' wish list in a C.C. Sabathia trade, and once ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 07, 2008
Monday Mendozas
...his first home run of the season -- and the 245th of his career -- yesterday. And like Elijah Dukes' first homer the other night, this one was a walk-off job. • Speaking of which, I...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 09, 2008
Cuban crisis: Will they let him in?
Mark Cuban says he will pull out all stops to buy the Cubs. Mentioned here last month, it seems more than a coincidence that in recent months the oft-...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 07, 2008
Angels win with homegrown arms
When we awakened on May 28, the Angels' starting pitchers had won more games than any starting staff in the American League. And the two aces who comb...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 28, 2008
Things falling into place for Rays
Failure is engrained in baseball, with missed swings and bobbled ground balls and hanging sliders, and for executives, there are the free agent signin...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 13, 2008
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