Forget mystique and just play ball
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Flying back from Boston late Sunday night, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa popped in a DVD of the film &quot;Miracle,&quot; which tells the true and uplifting story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey team.
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Hi, Mr. Curmudgeon here. First night of the season, the Jazz pound the Lakers into Jell-O and what do I do? Call me a party pooper.
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The best athletes  can sense every  play before it even  happens. Coaches  have long assumed  that this magical  "field sense" was  unteachable. Maybe  they were wrong.
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Cristie Kerr can finally relax. She isn't 0-for-the-majors anymore. Meanwhile, Lorena Ochoa can only look to her next chance to snap her string of major futility.
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Calling this one a statement game doesn't do it justice.
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One strategy that looks attractive right now is actually incredibly bad.
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A professional athlete sidelined by an injury might as well be a dead man. Harsh, but true. If you are too hurt to play, you might as well stay home. Some teammates don't even want to look at you. Reminds them of their own vulnerability. In a big league locker room, no one wants to talk about ...
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ÂExtreme pogoingÂ is geared toward athletes who pogo for thrills rather than locomotion Â leaping over cars or performing tricks.
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Rajon Rondo might not play. The offense is sluggish. The defense is passable, but getting lazy. What a perfect time to be seeing the hottest team in the NBA!
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Science is well on the way to building a better athlete. Just try to stop it.
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Ignore the rankings. Ignore recent form. Remember this: You never can count a Williams out.
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Defense can only bail a team out for so long. Then you need to find a way to score. The University of Connecticut womenâs basketball team was unable
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No tradition this time. No storied rival that dates to the beginning of the 20th century. No ghosts of Christy Mathewson, Rube Marquard, or Enos Slaughter. Not even a Ray Knight in sight.
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This is turning out to be more like a game of snakes and ladders than anything else. Or perhaps an analogy with chess would be better.
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Take advantage of cards instead of it being the other way around.
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Doug Mientkiewicz has the ball . The Red Sox want it back. Stay tuned. Certainly you know which ball we're talking about. By now you've seen the video a couple million times.
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There will be a strange phenomenon in spring training this year. Camps will be full of players who have been named in the Mitchell Report. They will play among players who weren't caught and maybe never will be caught. They will play alongside players who never used. They will play among players who might still be using HGH because there's ...