Major League Baseball

The World Series and Barry Sanders

Chris Campbell | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York


Chris Campbell

The Yankees clearly have many, many great years ahead of them, and likely will for generations to come. But the game just doesn't feel the same anymore.

Yankees Buy Another World Series Title

Av Sinensky | Posted 11.05.2009 | Comedy


Av Sinensky

Sources inside the Yankees revealed late last night that they will be holding a press conference to announce that they have acquired the rights to the Florida Marlins' 2003 World Series Championship.

Why the American Genius for Math Vanished

Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media


Gerald Sindell

Why can't little Tiffany learn to program? What happened to the American genius for math? I've been wondering about this for a long time, but suddenly...

Mark McGwire Needs to Tell the Truth

Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment


Graham Bensinger

He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.

A Mets Fan's Lament

Eric Trager | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York


Eric Trager

Mets fans are diametrically opposed to baseball's Goliath. We cannot root for the Yankees any more than Christians can cheer on Satan.

I Want to Be More Like the New York Yankees

Rachel Thebault | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home


Rachel Thebault

This isn't easy for me to say. Growing up in Washington, DC, I was born and bred to hate the Yankees, and I've spent the first 98.5% of my life thus ...

Baseball's 'Magic Mud': An MLB Secret (VIDEO)

cnn.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home


In 1920, a Major League Baseball player was killed after being hit in the head by a wild pitch. It was the first and only time a player had ever been ...

Change in Yankees Brings World Series Return

Eugene Michael Santiago | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York


Eugene Michael Santiago

Now there are players who are excited to be Yankees, and to play for their first World Series appearance. Sure, they too got big checks in the off season, but they wanted to play for a team.

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 10.23.2009 | New York


Len Berman

Oakland's Tom Cable will not face charges for allegedly breaking the jaw of one of his assistants. When I saw the headline "No Charge for Cable," I knew the story wasn't about Cablevision.

Yankees Angels Game 5: Los Angeles Beat New York, Extend ALCS

AP | GREG BEACHAM | Posted 10.23.2009 | New York


ANAHEIM, Calif. — Chone Figgins and the Los Angeles Angels know they're heading straight into more than one kind of storm, and they can't wait t...

Yankees-Angels Game 4: A-Rod, CC Sabathia Bring New York To Brink Of World Series With Win Over Los Angeles

AP | GREG BEACHAM | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York


ANAHEIM, Calif. — When Derek Jeter recalls the last time the New York Yankees got this close to the World Series, he gets chills down his spine ...

Rivera Spitball Video: Did Yankees' Mariano Rivera Cheat?

Posted 10.20.2009 | New York


The Internet is aflutter with accustations that Yankees' closer Mariano Rivera prepared an illegal spitball in last night's ALCS game against the Ang...

Yankees Angels Game 2: Yankees Win Off Maicer Izturis Error, Alex Rodriguez Homer

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 10.18.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — Maicer Izturis' throw zipped by second base, the ball careening out of control like a wet bar of soap, and headed toward somewhere near t...

Yankees Beat Twins: Alex Rodriguez, Jorge Posada Power New York Back To ALCS

AP | DAVE CAMPBELL | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York


MINNEAPOLIS — After so many October misses, Alex Rodriguez delivered the playoff performance his talent demanded. Rodriguez and Jorge Posada hit...

Barack Obama, Nobel Laureate; First the Reward, Now the Risk

Mike Hegedus | Posted 10.09.2009 | World


Mike Hegedus

Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize because the world outside our own borders hopes, wants, and prays for his success internationally. And that's a good thing, a very good thing.

Breaking News: Barack Obama Wins AL and NL MVP, Other Awards

David Parker | Posted 10.09.2009 | Comedy


David Parker

In a stunning turn of events, Obama has swept baseball's postseason honors in both leagues, a feat never before accomplished and long considered impossible.

Yankees Slash Ticket Prices By Up To $1,250

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — The New York Yankees are reclassifying more than a quarter of their ritzy Legends Suite seats next season, and slashing prices on many of...

Coming Soon: Rocktober

Ari Shapiro | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver


Ari Shapiro

What if we did this: What if we took the greatest postseason on Earth, and raised it about 5,280 feet? Do I have your attention?

Will the Real Jim Tracy Please Stand Up?

Ari Shapiro | Posted 09.30.2009 | Denver


Ari Shapiro

I need someone -- anyone -- to explain to me how Jim Tracy has managed the Colorado Rockies to the verge of the MLB playoffs. I just don't get it.

Funniest Colorado Rockies Commercials (VIDEOS, VOTE)

Posted 09.30.2009 | Denver


With all the Rockies fighting for a playoff spot, we decided to take a look at some of the classic Rockies commercials of all time. Do you think these...

Like Lottery Winners, Pro Athletes Also Blow Big Money

Don McNay | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business


Don McNay

Even as a structured settlement consultant, I was stunned to learn that within two years of retirement, 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress.

New Yankee Stadium Prepares for October

Eugene Michael Santiago | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York


Eugene Michael Santiago

The game was about more than just Derek's hit. It was a baptism for a new stadium, for the new home of the most historic franchise in sports

Yom Kippur Game Rescheduled For Yankees, Red Sox

AP | Frederic J. Frommer | Posted 10.18.2009 | New York


WASHINGTON (AP) -- ESPN and Major League Baseball have agreed to switch the starting time of a Yankees-Red Sox game to avoid conflicting with Yom Kipp...

The Lottery Question

Don McNay | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business


Don McNay

Everyone has dreams and desires but usually keep them hidden, back in the recesses of their minds. The lottery question gets those dreams and desires out in the open, on the front burner.

Baseball's Big Black Eye: Black Sox, Blackouts and the Banning of Buck Weaver

Devra Maza | Posted 09.27.2009 | Entertainment


Devra Maza

In the notorious Black Sox scandal of 1919, eight players were banned from baseball for life. George "Buck" Weaver never should have been one of them.