Boxing promoter Bob Arum says the big fight in March between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather is off. Then again, boxing promoters say lots of things.
Tim Raines, the best pure base stealer of all-time, has been snubbed by Hall of Fame voters for the third time.
Baseball fans everywhere can now rejoice. There is a new Negro League version of Strat-O-Matic, a board game that preceded all of the rotisserie leagues that have proliferated in recent years.
As of the day before Santa hops into his sleigh to deliver all the treats to the good little boys and girls of the world, the Yankees have been hard at work filling empty space under the tree.
Wall Street firms such as AIG, which received $90 billion in government funds, and sports teams such as the Dallas Cowboys, who received $325 million to build the Cowboys Stadium, have more in common than being run by white males.
College math: the Big 10 is considering expanding from 11 teams to 12.
It's time for the champion of college football to be determined on the football field by a legitimate playoff system.
Though the NCAA's no-agent rule is supposedly designed to protect athletes, all it really safeguards is the billion-dollar industry that the organization controls.
The truth is that the traditional currency of a player's value, the win, is fairly unimportant.
Major League Baseball appears to be hurting financially. The signs were there from the time we landed at the airport in Indianapolis, site of this year's Baseball Winter Meetings.
A $300 million dollar perfect storm is brewing. One that will help the rich get richer and keep the poor mucking around their farm systems.
Did the 2009 New York Yankees have the most efficient payroll in baseball? According to some recent research we've done, they did indeed.
The NHL's popularity remains under question in in the U.S. Last year's All-Star Game drew lower TV ratings than reruns of Andy of Mayberry.
I have yet to make the acquaintance of a Boston sports fan who, having witnessed six championships in a little more than six years, is capable of sitting back and saying, "OK, I'm good."
In 1969, Curt Flood sued baseball for $1 million. He ultimately lost his case, but set in motion the legal battle that would topple the reserve clause, which bound a player for life to a particular team.
As expected, the baseball cognoscenti has gone ga-ga for Tyler Kepner's New York Times piece on AL Cy Young winner Zack Greinke. And why not?
Major League Baseball will announce its 2009 National League Manager of the Year on Wednesday. The only way Jim Tracy doesn't walk away with the award is if Clint Hurdle gets to cast all 32 votes.
Here's why we like sports. Everything is neatly categorized. You have distinct winners and losers and everyone knows where he or she stands.
Let me debunk a few common myths about baseball's labor market as baseball's second season begins
I believed that my son might be the one we'd been waiting for, the guy who would turn the Cubs' luck around. Then something incredible happened. In 2007, his first full season, the Cubs made the playoffs.
Although the phrase "franchise player" is vague and could mean different things to different people, I was curious to find out how many I thought there were in baseball. So, let's take a look.
