Today is indeed a sad one for the National Pastime. News that affable dreadlocked slugger Manny Ramirez abused performance-enhancing drugs has shocked the sports world and couldn’t have come at a worse time, as it will now overshadow the continuing coverage of news that Alex Rodriguez abused performance-enhancing drugs.
As A-Rod returns to action this week, [...]

Monday, April 27, 2009; NEW YORK – The New York Jets of the National Football League made an important scientific discovery at last weekend’s NFL Player Selection Meeting, uncovering a previously unknown subspecies of SN GRN. The new creature, known as “Shonn Greene,” is a close relative of the previously discovered Shawn Green and Sean [...]

This was a sad weekend for the sport of baseball.
Revelations that Alex Rodriguez, a three-time MVP winner and respectable family man, may have abused steroids have shaken everything that I hold sacred. You go through life thinking that people are good, and when push comes to shove, generally do the right thing. But if professional [...]

Among the coolest things about being a Major League ballplayer, save for the spoils of wealth, fame, status and fulfillment, is being able to rock the one-earflap helmet for the first time in a lifetime of playing baseball. From Little League all the way through college, batting helmets are obtrusive, cranial-consuming behemoths that alert the [...]

As Sam Elliott’s character imparted in The Big Lebowski, “Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.” In a similar vein, sometimes a guy surfaces with the unfortunate name of “J.J. Putz” and sometimes J.J. Putz gets traded to the city with a larger Jewish population than Jerusalem.
The Mets continued wheeling and [...]

As FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reports, the Metropolitans have expressed interest in trading for Dodgers outfielder and multimillionaire Juan Pierre. The idea that anyone wants Juan Pierre at all is a funny enough concept on its own, which is why this column ends here.
Nah, there’s more.
Even better than the possibility of the Mets expressing interest [...]

David Cross favorite and sometime Oakland Athletics left fielder Rickey Henderson is finally on the ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame, contingent on his not randomly being picked up by a Major League team sometime between now and the vote in July. Rickey will clearly be elected on the first ballot, but probably not [...]

ESPN reported on Sunday that the Yankees will not pursue a trade for Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder, who is apparently being dangled as trade bait this offseason, due to “the eventual need to keep first base open for Derek Jeter.”
First base has been a trouble spot for the Bombers in recent years, with 25 [...]

The Mets’ playoff run may have ended on a down note, but Minor League relief pitcher Ambiorix Burgos wasted no time murdering people this offseason. Coming off a solid 2008 campaign in which he pitched a total of ten innings, striking out two and walking three over three levels of class-A ball, the 24-year old [...]