Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig should have been fired long ago for his incompetence in handling the game's steroid era. ...more

January 28, 2008

The Flip Side ...more

January 27, 2008

The Red Sox and the A's will open the 2008 regular season with a two-game series on March 25-26 at Tokyo Dome. ...more

January 24, 2008

Marion Jones, former Olympian, fallen angel, received six months prison time Friday for lying in two federal grand jury investigations. ...more

January 12, 2008

It's not on the Chinese calendar, but The Year of The Lyin' is in its final week. We can't wait to say goodbye. ...more

December 27, 2007

Tom Brady arrives at Gillette Stadium before the sun comes up. As always, there is work to be done, and no time to waste. ...more

December 22, 2007

Barry Bonds got what he wanted. So did the feds. What should have been a year of fame and adulation for Bonds had equal parts of shame and condemnation. ...more

December 22, 2007

Plant junior guard Sheldon Cooley leads the undefeated and No. 8 state-ranked boys basketball team in scoring at 23.6 points per game. As a sophomore, he was named the Tampa Boys Basketball Coaches Association Co-Player of the Year and was selected to The Tampa Tribune's All-Hillsborough County First-Team. He already has received numerous letters of interest from Division I schools, which include Central Florida and Marshall. ...more

December 14, 2007

In a shocking announcement, a 20-month investigation led by former Sen. George Mitchell has revealed that baseball ... was rampant with drug use. ...more

December 14, 2007

What does this report mean? Former Sen. George Mitchell's investigation concluded that baseball had experienced a "collective failure" to deal with the problem of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. The report named 86 players, including All-Stars Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Miguel Tejada, as connected to the use or possession of steroids or other performance enhancers. The list also included eight players (Barry Bonds and Gary Sheffield among them) whose names were linked to the BALCO investigation. Several other players were alluded to but not named within the report. Mitchell recommended that Major League Baseball employ an independent party to conduct future drug testing, that the program should be transparent and the scope should expand to year-round testing. ...more

December 14, 2007