The show - or ball game - must go on
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Three days later, it&#39;s still what everybody&#39;s talking about: the basketball brawl at the Pistons v. Pacers game Friday night, as now the teams and fans are trying to move past the incident and find ways to make sure it doesn&#39;t happen again.
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If anything, there will be a little more sizzle around the ballpark. There won't be so much focus on Julio Lugo's slump, or J.D. Drew's batting average, or Curt Schilling's injury, or the fact that there's not much of a race in the American League East right now.
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The TV timeout is one of the banes of a sports fan's life. You're at a stadium, the game is rolling along . . . until everything just stops for 1 1/2-2 1/2 minutes.
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Start with this: The major league baseball All-Star Game will never be what it once was. It never can mean what it once meant. That time has come and gone.
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It tries to turn its live music show into a TV star.
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There are two sports that matter in the Lone Star State, the old saying goes. That would be football and spring football. But donât trust an outsider.
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As Saturday nightâs game against the Patriots showed, the Giantsâ inability to finish big games is a big issue as the playoffs arrive.
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Buckle up, folks. The 100th World Series is off to a, shall we say, perversely entertaining start.
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BOSTON Go figure this World Series. An old maxim in baseball is you always give away more runs with shoddy defense than you gain with torrid bats.
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The National League Championship Series boils down to one simple fact: The Cardinals must win today and Thursday, while the Astros need win only once, to advance to the World Series.
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By JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer. a job that might last only a few months while the team is being sold. funding for a new ballpark.
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Some television networks are racing to develop eye-catching score boxes. Fox, for example, now has fire coming out of its baseball scores.
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Few of the thousands of Cardinal fans who will travel across the Bay this weekend are aware of the intense planning required to make Big Game a reality.
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Baseball is about to be offered some much-needed help pulling its head out of the sand.
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So you&#39;re a casual baseball viewer who watches the game only when the playoffs roll around. Now, with the World Series about to begin Saturday, you realize you have no idea who&#39;s playing, how they got there and how they play this game.
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No need to watch the out-of-town scoreboard anymore. What the Yankees and White Sox and Twins and everybody else in sanitary hose are doing will be irrelevant if the town team keeps losing life-and-death games with last-place ball clubs.
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Yes, a slimmed-down version of America&#39;s pastime soon may be coming to a ballpark near you. The new production might even be suitable viewing for children.