SPORTS NEWS

Op-Extra Guest Columnist | The Throwback: Sympathy for the Slugger

While Barry Bonds may be detestable, the government’s legal case against him has turned from a prosecution into a venomous persecution.

Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:17 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Steroids, Athletics and Sports, Bonds, Barry

Advertising: Major League Baseball Is Blogging Its Way Through the Playoffs

Baseball’s playoff advertising push gets under way Thursday, when the first spots of the league’s largest ever campaign are broadcast.

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:49 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Major League Baseball, Athletics and Sports, Advertising and Marketing, Blogs and Blogging (Internet), Online Advertising, Engvall, Bill, Jackson, Randy, Hutton, Timothy, Caliendo, Frank, Foxworthy, Jeff

Baseball to Use Replay Review on Homers

Commissioner Bud Selig said that the replay system would start with the three series that open Thursday and be used in all games throughout the rest of the season.

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:08 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Major League Baseball, Athletics and Sports, Selig, Bud, instant replay

Too Good to Pitch? 9-Year-Old Is Barred

Nine-year-old Jericho Scott throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that Scott could no longer pitch in the league.

Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 8:20 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Athletics and Sports, New Haven (Conn)

Sherman L. Maxwell, 100, Sportscaster and Writer, Dies

Mr. Maxwell was a chronicler of Negro league baseball and, some believe, the first black sports broadcaster.

Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 10:52 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Deaths (Obituaries), Athletics and Sports, Blacks, Negro League, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Sports Business: When One All-Star Game Wasn’t Enough

From 1959 to 1962, the American and National Leagues played two All-Star Games each year. There was a simple and obvious reason: money.

Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 9:34 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Athletics and Sports, American League, National League, All Star Games

The Yankees Look to Their Future by Taking a Step Back

C. C. Sabathia joined Johan Santana and Eric Gagné as temptations that Brian Cashman resisted, all in the name of rebuilding the Yankees’ foundation.

Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 10:48 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, Athletics and Sports, Trades (Sports)

For Guillén, Passion Is No Ordinary Word

Depending on whom you talk to, White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillén is a breath of fresh air or an id in need of a superego.

Posted Saturday, June 21, 2008 1:13 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Athletics and Sports, Chicago White Sox, Guillen, Ozzie

Field of Facial Hair Helps a Place in Baseball History

In Hoboken, N.J., a charity mustache competition is part of an effort to refurbish a metal plaque that commemorates a baseball game played June 19, 1846.

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:50 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Athletics and Sports, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Hair

Advertising: A Venerable Sports Paper Plays Catch-Up

Now a new owner is hoping to revive the Sporting News, once nicknamed the bible of baseball, by bringing it into the digital age.

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 9:07 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Athletics and Sports, Computers and the Internet, Newspapers, American City Business Journals, Magazines, Sporting News

Op-Extra Guest Columnist | Heading Home: The Problem With Being Preordained

The retired Cubs outfielder revisits his former team’s epic 2003 collapse, and the failed expectations that accompanied it.

Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 10:42 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Athletics and Sports, Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, National League, World Series

American League Roundup: Athletics End Lester’s 2nd No-Hit Bid Early

Jack Hannahan hit that leadoff single and later drove in two runs, and Jack Cust hit a two-run homer as the host Oakland Athletics completed a three-game sweep with a 6-3 victory Sunday.