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Major League Baseball appears set for a vast expansion of video review by umpires in 2014 and is examining whether all calls other than balls and strikes should be subject to instant replay.

Memory of the last 15 years a little foggy? Fear not -- ESPN The Magazine's staff provides the notable sports championships from the last decade and a half.

Like Hunter Pence's logic-defying hit, San Francisco's elimination-defying run to the World Series cannot be easily explained.

After 21 years, Ivan Rodriguez is out of uniform. But don't think for a minute that retirement is keeping him from continuing to study the game.

Josh Beckett hasn't just driven a wedge between himself and Red Sox Nation; he's driven a wedge between himself and any sense of a trade market. Boston is in a tough position -- the city and the team management.

Blog | Conversation | May 11, 2012

Buster Olney writes that the Philadelphia Phillies are struggling, and the return of Chase Utley won't necessarily be the boost that they desperately need. Given the status of Utley's knees, what he can actually contribute remains unclear.

Blog | Conversation | May 10, 2012

In the NHL, three more postseason playoff series got underway Thursday, with both of the higher seeds in the Eastern Conference ending the night with losses. Here's what else you missed last night.

It looked as if the 21-year-old Rory McIlroy would walk away as this year's Masters champion. But after a historically bad round on Sunday, 26-year-old South African Charl Schwartzel emerged as the 2011 champion.

Will Phil Mickelson win his second straight Masters title? Can Tiger Woods win his first green jacket since 2005? Follow the "tradition like no other" this weekend.

Philly unveiled a Fab Four this week, and the collective quiet signaled what this group will really be all about -- work, not talk. The bottom line is that when it comes to Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels, only the results will speak.

Blog | Conversation | February 15, 2011

The father-and-son team of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch Sunday night in what Major League Baseball said was the first time two former presidents attended a World Series game.

Buster Olney examines why Matt Cain has been so successful and provides analysis of the World Series, in addition to the usual links.

Blog | Conversation | October 30, 2010

The Giants, a self-proclaimed group of castoffs and misfits, might not be the most imposing team in baseball, but they are one of the last two left standing.

Former National League MVP Kevin Mitchell has been ordered to stand trial after he was accused of assaulting a man at a golf club in Southern California.

Trevor Hoffman tried his hand at being a position player, but his bat never showed up. At least he had a mid-90s fastball to fall back on -- until he didn't even have that anymore. Here, he tells the story of the pitch that made him great.

Blog | Conversation | September 08, 2010

Barry Bonds thinks Mark McGwire and Pete Rose belong in the Hall of Fame.