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Jeter On Letterman

Jeter on Letterman, Patrick O'Connor (Yankee apologist) gets called onto the carpet and Curt Schilling strikes back

ESPN Insider Audio PodCast | April 27, 2007

Manuel's faith in Lidge pays off

Buster Olney

The fates of managers and pitching coaches are tied to their pitchers, and when a pitcher starts to go bad, some staffers instinctively separate thems...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 13, 2009

Baseball's week of U-turns

Buster Olney

...A-Rod has figured it out, writes Ian O'Connor. And so the Rangers wake up Monday tied...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009

Diagnostics a key to Colorado's surge

Aaron Cook is more of a country-and-western kind of guy, and as a result he didn't have a lot of input when the Rockies made their choices about what ...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 15, 2009

Verlander ascends to 'King of the Mountain'

When I was growing up in Vermont, the most popular winter activity was playing "King on the Mountain." It was played on the piles of plowed snow in th...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 11, 2009

Eurocamp: Who helped their stock?

Chad Ford, ESPN.com

NBA teams got an excellent look at prospects playing actual full-court games at Eurocamp

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | June 07, 2009

Q&A with Hurricanes coach Randy Shannon

Bruce Feldman

I had a chance to visit Miami last week and spoke to Hurricanes coach Randy Shannon about the state of his program, how it had fallen from the proverb...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 20, 2009

Bloom focuses on life after football

Bruce Feldman

Jeremy Bloom was one of the most exciting players to come through college football in a long time. Even though he was known more for his exploits as a...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 29, 2009

D-backs' slump opens door in NL West

...back, put together a great game. Manny Corpas still wants to be the next Mariano Rivera, writes Patrick Saunders. For the Diamondbacks, it's officially time to panic, writes Scott Bordow. • The Mariners are...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | June 18, 2008

An umpire's take on replay

In the aftermath of a week of missed home run calls, I e-mailed a major league umpire to ask what he thinks about the possibility. The umpire, who doe...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | May 27, 2008

Draft yields quantity, and plenty of quality, for Chiefs

Mel Kiper Jr., Special to ESPN.com

The Kansas City Chiefs came into the NFL draft with almost as many needs as they had picks. Their draft started with No. 5 pick Glenn Dorsey and continued to get better.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | April 21, 2008

No quick fixes for Detroit's bullpen

The Tigers looked for relievers at the end of spring training, their scouts poking around for good arms, club officials scanning the waiver wires. The...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | April 01, 2008

Grading the committee and breaking down the bracket

Jay Bilas, ESPN.com

There are teams in the field and on the outside that should feel slighted. Jay Bilas breaks down the bracket, and takes a glance at each region.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | March 17, 2008

Arizona State got snubbed

Doug Gottlieb

...Association regular-season title by three games. Tom O'Connor (George Mason's AD), the head of the...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | March 17, 2008

Evaluating Casey Kotchman

Casey Kotchman is coming off the best year of his career, at age 24, having hit .296 with 11 homers and a .372 on-base percentage. I asked three talen...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | March 12, 2008