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Tim GriffinBig 12 Blog | E-mail | Chats | College Football Blog NetworkTim Griffin joined ESPN.com in February 2008. He has covered the Big 12 since its inception, among a variety of beats during a 24-year career at the San Antonio Express-News. Griffin, a Memphis State University graduate, lives in San Antonio with his wife and son. |
A new chapter for Lee and Sabathia
Buster OlneyThe 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
Tigers, Twins and my award picks
Buster OlneyCarl Pavano seemed almost out of breath Sunday night, naturally, at the end of a day in which he and the Twins had won a game they had to win, after t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2009
A "Major League" move by the Padres
Buster OlneyIf you're looking for a CliffsNotes version of what has happened in San Diego, just flip on the movie "Major League." To review the events of the pas...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 03, 2009
Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars
Buster OlneyIt is still September and nine days of regular-season baseball remain, but the playoffs provided the context for everything that occurred at Yankee St...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 2009
The Cy Young cases for Greinke and King Felix
Buster OlneyThis time of year, teams begin to include information in their media dispatches about their various candidates for major awards. The AL Cy Young Award...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 18, 2009
A somber celebration in Detroit
Buster OlneyErnie 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
Trevor Hoffman's tour of Memphis
Buster Olney...from the days as the Memphis Chicks when a team rep would come into the clubhouse at Tim McCarver Stadium to address the visiting team and warn them not to walk alone in downtown Memphis...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 15, 2009
For a night, Penny is prime currency
Buster OlneyMike Krukow, half of the Giants' broadcast team, said it best about Brad Penny in the seventh or eighth inning of the pitcher's debut with San Francis...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 03, 2009
The value of waiver warfare
Buster OlneyA friend of a general manager accepted an invitation to watch a game from the GM's private box this season, thinking how much fun it would be. The exp...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 02, 2009
Inside another great Colorado run
Buster OlneyThere 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
Money for nothin'
Buster OlneyThe largest pure salary dump in Major League Baseball history was concluded Monday evening, when Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi info...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 11, 2009
Trade deadline ripples
Buster OlneySome rippling after the trade deadline: The Padres had to trade Jake Peavy lest they run the risk of having one guy take up 30 to 40 percent of their...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 02, 2009
The Hall should preserve history, not dodge it
Buster OlneyThe day after Bill Madden wrote a story saying commissioner Bud Selig was thinking seriously about reinstating Pete Rose, there is another story from ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 28, 2009
Eight reasons for Halladay to be a Phillie
Buster OlneyEight great reasons the Blue Jays and Phillies should work out a Roy Halladay trade: Maximizing value: Halladay will have very high trade value for t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 23, 2009
The familiar angle on Houston's surge
Buster OlneyThe Astros are 27-17 in their last 44 games, which is actually par for the course for Houston. Year after year, the Astros seem to start slowly and th...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 20, 2009
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