Sports Getaways for Sept. 22-25

Winter meetings recap

Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at the fantasy impact of many of the key moves during this week's winter meetings.

Free-agency side dishes (before the turkey)

So many teams are sitting back and waiting for the completion of the Type A free-agent and possible non-tender markets that there probably won't be a ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009

A new chapter for Lee and Sabathia

The old friends pitched against each other in the first game ever at new Yankee Stadium back in April, and then afterward, CC Sabathia took Cliff Lee ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009

McGwire has a road map, but also a guide

We saw again Sunday night an example of how others have talked about their past use of performance-enhancing drugs and moved on. Yankees pitcher Andy ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 26, 2009

A game filled with crossroads

The moment Nick Swisher lifted the ball over the infield, Angels reliever Brian Fuentes shot his arm into the air, that arm driven by the exultation o...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2009

ALCS Game 2 filled with regrets, redemption

The Yankees and Angels played through 13 innings, 432 pitches and 310 minutes (not to mention 6,980 meetings between Yankees catcher Jose Molina and h...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 18, 2009

Heyward already living up to hype at AFL

...3. Michael Cisco, Philadelphia Phillies; 4. Chaz Roe, Colorado Rockies; 5. Bryan Augenstein, Arizona Diamondbacks Mesa 1. Randon Bierd, Boston Red Sox; 2. Mike McCardell, Minnesota Twins; 3. Tommy Mendoza, Los Angeles Angels; 4. Andrew...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 15, 2009

La Russa may be leaving St. Louis

Nobody will know how the St. Louis Cardinals' season might have ended if the third out hadn't escaped them in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 2...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 11, 2009

A somber celebration in Detroit

Ernie Harwell will chat with his extended family tonight, from a baseball field in Detroit, and Al Kaline has a pretty good idea of what he will say. ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 16, 2009

Cubs-Sox, blow-by-blow

...least Chicago fans have gotten used to that over the years … 1:07: As my buddy Bryan Dolgin pointed out earlier, it does seem odd that this game was rained out on the day...

Mets in impossible spot going forward

The Mets' awful season could very well turn into something the franchise won't recover from for a long time.

Joe Torre's Straw man acquisition

Joe Torre loved having Darryl Strawberry on his bench in the days when the two were manager and player with the New York Yankees. Strawberry didn't pl...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 01, 2009

Inside another great Colorado run

There was gleeful jumping and running and hat-tossing and a pig-pile kind of thing, and this was all taking place about 1,500 miles away from the Litt...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 25, 2009

Signing deadline updates

...from the University of North Carolina, for $2.25 million, just under what the eighth overall pick, Mike Leake, received from the Reds. White was a probable top-5 pick entering the year on the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 17, 2009