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• ESPN MLB Insider Jayson Stark shares his thoughts on Mariano Rivera's hot start, the Dodgers' struggles, Don Mattingly's status and more. Stark • Greeny and Golic weigh in on Jayson Stark's article about whether Mariano Rivera is the ...

The miraculous 2013 Yankees formula displayed many of its unexplainable parts Monday. But, on final analysis, what separated the Yankees and the Orioles is the same thing that has been the difference between the Yankees and everyone else since the mi...

There's an understanding among baseball fans who can read and do math that relief pitchers are pretty much interchangeable. Certainly not all relievers — some are consistently good, like Mariano Rivera, while others are consistently awful, like...

At age 43, Mariano Rivera is still as dominating as he ever was. He continues to destroy lumber, egos and batting averages, pitch after pitch after bat-eating pitch.

OMAHA 4, LAS VEGAS 3: Ex-Met Xavier Nady had an RBI double and scored the go-ahead run later in the sixth on Anthony Seratelli's single against Armando Rodriguez. The 51s (20-21) had taken a 3-2 lead in the fifth on Wilmer Flores' solo homer. Andrew ...

LAS VEGAS 9, OMAHA 4: Andrew Brown went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer, four RBIs and scored three times. Josh Satin went 3-for-5 and scored twice while upping his average to .313. Catcher Francisco Pena went 0-for-4 with a run scored in his Triple-A d...

"E:60" reporter Tom Rinaldi accompanies Mariano Rivera to the small fishing village in Panama where he grew up and gets the future Hall of Famer to open up about his final season, the injury that almost ended his career, and his place in baseball his...

Watching Felix Hernandez the other night prompted me to look up the pitchers with the highest career Wins Above Replacement who never started a postseason game. Hernandez's career WAR is 36.3 and I had no idea if he would top the list or even be near...

We haven't heard much about Cam Newton lately. Since early last season, it seems Newton has been overshadowed by a bunch of young quarterbacks. Russell Wilson, Colin Kaepernick, Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III started winning and took a lot of ...

The Carolina Panthers don't have the world's best secondary. That means it's only logical to link them to the only defensive back with a big name that is currently available. Charles Woodson is out there and Carolina fans are clamoring for him. Th...

Time for our morning run through the top headlines from around the division: ATLANTA FALCONS National Football Post lists running back Steven Jackson as one of its top comeback fantasy players for the upcoming season. Jackson should be an excel...

BINGHAMTON 9, AKRON 4: Cory Vaughn highlighted a six-run fifth inning with a grand slam as the B-Mets (22-18) produced a come-from-behind win for the third straight game. Vaughn The win gave Binghamton the series sweep and a season-high four-ga...

This past NFL season, a 36-year-old Peyton Manning shook off four neck surgeries and the rust of a year off to nearly win the MVP. In the NBA, Michael Jordan won three championships, spent almost a full season away and came back at 31 years old to...

You may have heard about the awful Joba Chamberlain-Mariano Rivera incident over the weekend, when Rivera told Chamberlain to "shush" as he was giving an interview, with Chamberlain later saying to Rivera: "Don't shush me." Now, this may be hard t...