Two weeks after Alex Rodriguez acknowledged he used a banned substance to enhance performance, Commissioner Bud Selig said the sport's popularity is at an all-time high and he lauded the Rays as an example of what's right with baseball. ...more

February 25, 2009

The last time the economy was worse than today was during the Great Depression, when a reporter asked New York Yankees star Babe Ruth why he got paid more than President Herbert Hoover. ...more

February 15, 2009

Kentucky's defense looked plenty capable of carrying the Wildcats until the offense catches up. ...more

September 1, 2008

It was 1975. Gas was cheap, I was dating the Frau, the Bucs were on the horizon and soccer was coming to town. You just never know how your life is going to change, do you? ...more

June 23, 2008

I had turned on the car radio and there was this rant going on over this guy. I thought I had turned on a right-wing AM talk radio show and I swear I thought they were talking about Barack Obama and why he should never be allowed to set foot in Florida. It took me a minute to realize the two men were going on about a football player by the name of Jerramy Stevens. ...more

June 6, 2008

Boxing has the prolific "Rocky" series and the Martin Scorsese black-and-white classic "Raging Bull." Hockey has the rough-and-tough "Slap Shot" starring the venerable Paul Newman and the much-goofier "The Mighty Ducks." ...more

May 7, 2008

"Faster than a candidate's mouth, More powerful than a Kennedy endorsement, Able to leap real facts in a single bound, ...more

February 17, 2008