After the Flood
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.
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.
Brian Ross | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment
Selig is making a mockery of the rule book used for more than a century, in my opinion. The tug of war between the union and ownership is the primary concern for him. The game is getting lost.
Len Berman | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
A California sperm bank is setting up shop in New York. They feature samples of famous lookalikes. Do you really want your daughter looking like Manny Ramirez?
Eric Dezenhall | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment
Baseball survives -- and thrives -- because fans want to see quasi-mutant athletes slamming home runs from Baltimore to Brazil, provided that steroid use isn't thrown in their faces.
Avery Corman | Posted 09.04.2009 | New York
If there's still work to be done in cleaning up the sport, saying it's ancient history and blaming the messenger doesn't help.
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
Talk about a sports fanatic's wet dream. There I was in the Celts' locker room, free to talk to whomever I wanted.
Robert E. Murphy | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment
A modern fan can never trust that he or she is watching an honestly competitive game, nor that the statistical records that the baseball fan closely follows are even remotely legitimate.
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment
I've had it with the steroid controversy in baseball. It's time to take control. MLB and MLBPA can agree to end this dripping mess by disclosing the entire list of the players who tested positive.
Ferentz LaFargue | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment
In spite of all of its problems, it wasn't until today when I heard the news about David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, that for the first time in my life, I am ready to turn my back on baseball.
AP | Posted 08.30.2009 | Home
NEW YORK — Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz became the latest star implicated in baseball's ever-growing drug scandal, acknowledging Thursday ...
Danny Groner | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media
As sports fans, we're prone to forgive, though we rarely forget, because these players' contributions and abilities are what draws us to them, not their decisions.
Jim Lichtman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Entertainment
Manny Ramirez is gone, suspended for 50 regular season games for testing positive for a banned substance, but should he be allowed to play in this year's All-Star Game?
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media
Chicago Cubs' Sunday night ball games consist of irrelevant drivel and unabashed self-love by ESPN "Sunday Night Baseball" commentators Jon Miller and Joe Morgan.
Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 06.18.2009 | Entertainment
Year after year of daily physical abuse leads to substance overuse which in turn can often lead to abuse and dependence.
Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 06.12.2009 | Comedy
Letterman marveled at President Obama's jokes at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last night, while Stephen Colbert berated Barack for his new c...
Chris Kyle | Posted 06.12.2009 | Entertainment
Just how popular is Manny Ramirez? Is he more popular than, say, Alex Rodriguez?
George Mitrovich | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media
The sports writing fraternity has pronounced Ramirez guilty; but wait, not only "guilty", but guilty beyond question. (Barely mentioned were the 15 previous drug tests he had passed.)
Chris Kyle | Posted 06.10.2009 | Entertainment
My mom is an unusual sports fan. She doesn't use the word hate and she's never booed a single team or person in her life.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.09.2009 | Home
This was not a good week for Bank of America (brother can you spare $34 billion?); Manny Ramirez (fertility drugs? Who does he think he is -- Octomom?); Miss California USA Carrie Prejean (not just leaked topless pics, but leaked pre-implant topless pics!); Jack McCollough's nose (ground zero for Kiefer Sutherland's head); and John Edwards (Rielle wants a paternity test, the Feds are investigating his campaign spending, and Elizabeth isn't sure she still loves him). This week also brought us the Hannity-fueled Condiment-gate (the lamest political food fight since freedom fries), and Pat Robertson claiming that legalizing gay marriage will lead to the sanctioning of bestiality, child molestation, and pedophilia. Enjoyed with a spicy French mustard, no doubt. At least things end on an upbeat note: a very happy Mother's Day to all my fellow HuffPost moms. And happy birthday to HuffPost, which turned four years old yesterday!
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.09.2009 | Entertainment
Manny grabbed the headlines for a day. It drew solemn pledges from MLB officials to do whatever it takes to end the cheating. And just as quickly the Manny flap will blow over.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.08.2009 | Comedy
The national pastime suffered another black eye last night when a mob of irate Cleveland Indians fans poured onto the diamond at Progressive Field to demand that their team take steroids.
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment
Even when we are finally back to thinking about baseball and not A-Rod's hip surgery or Manny's fertility drugs, the public scrutiny will continue.
Alec Brownstein | Posted 06.08.2009 | Comedy
Steroids provide the unpredictability that baseball so desperately needs. What could be more interesting than emotionally volatile man children with rock-like projectiles and bats?
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 06.08.2009 | Comedy
Even if they close some loopholes, the Republican Party knows they can't catch us all. Just ask Willie Nelson and Wesley Snipes. You can't spell "making millions by cheating on taxes" with out "cheating on taxes."
washingtonpost.com | Sally Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Home
Time and again, ballplayers have falsely protested their innocence, until they've got no credibility left. So before I offer my unqualified support to...
Arn Tellem | Posted 11.18.2009 | Sports