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Major League Soccer hopes to announce plans in four to six weeks for a stadium in Queens for a 20th team.

Buster Olney writes that when Ryan Braun won the appeal of his positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, it highlighted a much different opinion among players than it would have 10 or 20 years ago. Today, players want cheaters caught.

Blog | Conversation | March 01, 2012

Buster Olney speaks with several people from around baseball to try to get a handle on how Mark McGwire's recent confession is being received throughout the sport. Plus, answers to readers' questions on McGwire, and news and notes from around the league.

Blog | Conversation | January 13, 2010

With a number of matters that remain either undecided or unclear, here are nine innings of questions about the World Baseball Classic.

The role of underdog doesn't come naturally to a city that calls itself "The Capital of the World," but that is how New York's Olympic boosters are casting themselves.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called New York the "perfect place" to hold the Olympics, lending her support during a rally Tuesday a week before the vote to decide the host of the 2012 Games.

The committee organizing New York's bid for the 2012 Olympics on Sunday released the first drawing of the proposed New York Mets stadium that would be converted into an Olympic Stadium if the city is awarded the games.

The five cities vying for the 2012 Summer Games courted African support Friday -- with New York given a platform to present its revised stadium plans at the last major Olympic gathering before next month's IOC vote in Singapore.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city will use a new stadium for the New York Mets in Queens as part of its latest effort to land the 2012 Olympics.

Sources say pulling together a World Cup-style tournament by next March might not be possible.

Story | Conversation | June 29, 2004

Seibu Lions shortstop Kazuo Matsui, a seven-time All-Star in Japan, said Monday at a news conference that he's decided to pursue a big league career in North America.