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After three clubs committed over $575 million to secure the services of Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder and Yu Darvish, baseball's latest spending bonanza appears complete. With baseball's gluttonous underbelly fresh in our minds, it's time to survey the excess.
Just the other day, MLB created some interesting news. Beginning next season, the media will be required to adhere to a specific dress code. Failure to do so may result in a fine or being denied access to the players.
The NBA will be everyone's all-day-long Christmas present. There was lots of frustration along the way, but the deals were made.
All interested parties should agree that Selig needs to take his "nuclear option" off the table. Los Angeles fans have loyally supported the Dodgers for fifty years and we deserve better.
The Bottom of the Eleventh: Game 6 In the bottom of the eleventh in old St. Louis city... Did you partake of the feast of heroism, comedy, insanity?...
For the integrity of the game, MLB needs to do away with the ridiculous and arbitrary rule that awards home field in the World Series to the team from the league that won the All-Star Game.
Funny how one fly ball can change everything. Cards manager Tony La Russa is back to being a genius. If David Freese's fly ball to right in the 9th inning of game 6 is caught, then La Russa is labeled anything but.
In one of the greatest games in World Series history, St. Louis stays alive. OK, "greatest" is a relative term. When Major League teams commit five errors in one game it's fair to say they didn't play great.
This World Series has been a reminder that Babe Ruth was right -- not about eating and monogamy, but when he said this: "Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world."
There's lots of chatter going around that Peyton Manning is the NFL MVP. He hasn't played a game all season. Hey, the Colts are 0-7 without him. Who is more valuable than he?
A Czech soccer ref decided to celebrate his birthday before reffing his game. So he showed up drunk. There's no rule against it. Really?
While being a "control artist" isn't as sexy as being a "strikeout artist," sometimes the former is more important.
Pujols gave Reggie Jackson a run for the title of "Mr. October," and has sports commentators basking in the slugger's glory. Just how good was this performance?
Time flies. Seven years ago tonight I was at the old Yankee Stadium when the Red Sox finally did it, they vanquished the Yankees after trailing three games to none.
I think the problem is that fear and greed and star addiction have in common is that they are all adrenaline driven.
What do these constitutional connections portend for the World Series? Not much for the outcome on the field, but everything for the teams' future lineups and financial fortunes.
