Hamels ready to deliver

Phillies general manager Pat Gillick watches Cole Hamels pitch and is reminded, he said Wednesday night, of another left-hander: Jimmy Key. Hamels, su...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 11, 2006

Conspiracy against Bonds?

Moises Alou plays conspiracy theorist, suggesting that all the walks Barry Bonds is getting are tied to a desire to prevent him from getting Hank Aaro...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 30, 2006

Diversity report reflects reality

...when the Yankees and Red Sox refrained from fielding blacks. If a kid can really play these days -- whether he's Latin American or white or black -- someone is going to find him. They're...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 22, 2006

Lincecum to be No. 1 pick?

A staggering list of injuries in the links below, but first: The Kansas City Royals are long overdue for some good news, but in a year in which they ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 20, 2006

What Selig should've said

When the dust settles, when baseball's belated investigation into steroid use ends, I bet Bud Selig is going to wish he had taken a different course o...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 31, 2006

The last days of irrelevance

...gone, as he fights off the effects of a late-season concussion. • The Rockies' Zach Day received great news: His mother and sister are OK, after his mother donated a kidney for...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 05, 2006

...power to both of them. It's also fine that Early Wynn hung on, far beyond his days as a good pitcher, to get his 300th victory. He wanted a chance to achieve a goal...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 17, 2005

Peter Angelos is not the kind of owner who secretly wants to become a player personnel director. He's not scanning box scores and hitting his general ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 20, 2005

...Nats did for fantasy: Kudos to Washington for finally unloading a pitcher it didn't want (Zach Day, and now you don't ever want him, either) for a legit power hitter. I have...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 14, 2005

Breaking down the men's College Cup

CARY, N.C. -- It was a blustery, sunny day at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., as the men's College Cup competitors ran through...

Sound-off responses

...On the Al Davis billboard: Whether you agree with it or not, at the end of the day its a wasted effort, because Al does what Al wants to do regardless of what anyone else...

Big East lunchtime links

...South Florida going forward. UConn lineman Zach Hurd has gone from being labeled "soft" to being picked first team All-Big East, Chuck Banning writes in The Day

Mike James back to Miami? Maybe

...Rich, remember, went from New York to Memphis on draft day, from the Grizzlies to the Los Angeles Clippers in July in the Zach Randolph deal, from the Clippers to Minnesota in a deal...

A chip-cashing trade

...one of the great young power arms in the game, and there will be back-to-back days, inevitably, when right-handed hitters will struggle to muster half-decent swings against him and Justin Verlander...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 09, 2009