Time and again, ballplayers have falsely protested their innocence, until they've got no credibility left. So before I offer my unqualified support to...
Ken Levine | Posted 06.07.2009 | Entertainment
Manny Ramirez testing positive for steroids is a crushing blow to the Dodgers and their fans. As a lifelong fan, it breaks my heart. Is my love for baseball the only remaining pure thing about it?
Brandon Perkins | Posted 06.07.2009 | Entertainment
While the media may discuss how this affects the career .315 hitter's legacy, it may be more appropriate to ask how it affects baseball's legacy.
AP | BETH HARRIS and RONALD BLUM | Posted 06.07.2009 | Home
LOS ANGELES — Manny Ramirez joined a growing lineup of All-Stars linked to drugs Thursday, with the dreadlocked slugger banished for 50 games by...
James Warren | Posted 04.15.2009 | Media
The once and future owner of the New Republic, contravenes the conventional wisdom on CNBC host Jim Cramer amid his faceoff with Jon Stewart.
Paula Duffy | Posted 04.02.2009 | Entertainment
If the Dodgers are cash-strapped then just say it to help fans digest the reason why Ramirez might play elsewhere this season. We'll understand it but make no mistake... we won't like it.
Michael Shapiro | Posted 04.02.2009 | Entertainment
We are left to assume that Ramirez, talented as he is, remains a child -- a moody, eccentric, if overgrown child. It was not always so.
David Margolick | Posted 01.28.2009 | Entertainment
What better way to restore the Yankees' traditional repulsiveness than to spend more than all of the other teams combined this off-season?
Tom Cosgrove | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
Obama's election night challenge to "look after not only ourselves, but each other" does a better good job of describing what public interest lawyers at Legal Services NYC do every day.
Brad Spirrison | Posted 11.06.2008 | Chicago
It got late early and the Cubs just gave us more of the same. In what was thought to be a change postseason for Major League Baseball, the North Side nihilists ended up giving hope the finger. The curse will not be reversed.
AP | RICK GANO | Posted 11.02.2008 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers look ready to run the shaky Chicago Cubs out of the playoffs early and extend their championship drought...
AP | RICK GANO | Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Manny Ramirez and Joe Torre brought their winning postseason ways to the Los Angeles Dodgers _ and Wrigley Field. James Loney hit a go...
Paula Duffy | Posted 10.31.2008 | Entertainment
All had complied with Torre's clubhouse rules til Manny came along with specific pre-game music that got him ready to take the field and hair he'd grown for a few years into wild, scrambled-looking dreadlocks.
Ken Levine | Posted 08.12.2008 | Entertainment
When the Red Sox unloaded Manny to the Dodgers for essentially a day pass to Universal Studios, it set off the kind of mass media hysteria normally reserved for the Pope's visit or the premiere of The Love Guru.
AP | JOHN NADEL | Posted 08.08.2008 | Home
LOS ANGELES — After a nasty split with the Boston Red Sox, Manny Ramirez is Hollywood-bound. The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired the enigmatic slug...
Kay Goldstein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living
It's Saturday night. Manny Ramirez, one of the most feared hitters in baseball is at bat against the Houston Astros. The count is 1and 2 with two outs...
washingtonpost.com | Sally Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Home