Allen: Baseball must act quickly
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Sen. George Allen, R-Va., says Major League Baseball needs to move fast to toughen its steroids-testing policy in order to avoid congressional action.
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A moment that could have tainted Jeff Allen's freshman year at Virginia Tech has instead spurred the forward to work harder.
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Woody Williams tried cutting the ball. He tried sinking it, tried spinning it. He threw fastballs over the middle, inside, up, down, and he changed speeds.
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needs to get into a groove to stop the powerful St. Louis offense. Martinez has. lost five of his last six decisions going back to the regular season.
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WESTWOOD - There is an ideal way to kick-start an offense: Give it a short field.
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Perhaps he was trying to be too fine with his pitches. Perhaps he was trying too hard to pinpoint his location. And perhaps Fausto Carmona wasn't being as aggressive as he should have been against the Red Sox in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series.
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Baseball can be so fickle. The line between the daring and defeatist is precariously thin, blurred by intangible factors, altered by blind providence.
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A fight broke out at a major league baseball game between the Oakland A&#39;s and Texas Rangers Monday night, and the incident should spark action to eliminate this problem in the future.
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Bud Selig could be baseball commissioner for life if he wanted.
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There are progressions that must continue in Josh Beckett's game. Last season, he went over the 200-inning hump for the first time. He faced American League hitters for the first time and realized how much tougher the lineups with a DH can be.
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With 16 years in the major leagues, Mike Mussina has been around long enough to know how to handle a problem like the one Carl Pavano presented last week.
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One thing Red Sox manager Terry Francona is demanding of his players from here on out: Play the game right.
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The highlight reel is usually reserved for Ray Allen , not Tony Allen . It was quite the opposite last night.
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NORTON -- Most of the players on the PGA Tour can drive it a mile, dial in approach shots with radar-like accuracy, and get up-and-down out of a trash can.
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Paul Allen&#39;s money and vision recently gave the world its first privately financed space flights. Why can&#39;t his football team get a yard?
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World Series analyst Tim McCarver noted last week that his boss, Fox sports chairman David Hill, had made the point that baseball isn't a slow game, it's a fast game in terms of constant strategy and decision-making.
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Take it from Terrell Owens: Roy Williams is such a hard-hitter that offensive players look for him before the ball is snapped so they can try avoiding the star safety.