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Sports Illustrated April 10, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
After the Storm Having cleared the air in L.A., Gary Sheffield is winning over fans with his play... |
Sports Central December 8, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
A Sad Stop Just Shy of Cooperstown Continuing our look at this year's Baseball Writers Association of America ballot, we'll take a look at the rest of the newcomers. |
Sports Central October 7, 2003 Jonathan Lowe |
A Season of Wonder Perhaps the quick-paced intensity of Baseball's playoffs is payback for months of living in an unenthusiastic matrix. Whatever the reason, the MLB playoffs give baseball a leg-up on most of its other pro brethren. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: 2008 Baseball Games To Watch You can't watch every game, so you should at least try to catch some of these must-see games. |
Sports Central September 7, 2005 Matt Thomas |
Stretch Run is Full of Hidden Gems As the sun sets on the 2005 Major League Baseball season, a little retrospection is appropriate. |
Sports Illustrated November 7, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Contraction and speculation Where are baseball's top players headed? |
Sports Central June 20, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Are the Yankees Back? With new additions all over the field, the New York Yankees are once again romping through the regular season, despite some key injuries. Yet, does it really matter? Even if the Yankees win 105-110 games? |
Sports Illustrated January 22, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Take That, You Mets! Gary Sheffield may give the Braves the punch needed to stay ahead of New York... |
AskMen.com Malcolm MacMillan |
Top 10: Valuable Collector's Items These items from key moments in sporting history are out there, but got shuffled away in the excitement of victory. And someone might just have one of them among his family treasures. |
Sports Central December 26, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Sports Illustrated February 20, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel Big contract could keep Sheffield in a Dodger uniform... |
Salon.com November 1, 2002 Allen Barra |
Why nobody watched the World Series Blame it on late games and regionalism -- not the great baseball. And has anybody checked the NBA ratings lately? |
Salon.com January 17, 2001 Allen Barra |
PGA honchos to world: We're even bigger jerks than you thought! Plus: Why aren't Gary Carter and Joe Torre in the Hall? |
Sports Central July 26, 2005 Billy Davis |
New and True in Yankee Blue What sort of test must a newcomer pass before earning recognition as a true New York Yankee? Thursday night's game against the Red Sox offered such a test for Alex Rodriguez. |
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Mark Hyman |
One Hank Aaron Shirt, Please For fans of baseball history, vintage sports wear is the ultimate cool. And with price no obstacle, these reproduced retro duds from teams of long ago are hitting home runs at the sales counter. |
Sports Central October 16, 2006 Zach Jones |
Fire Torre? The Curse of Playoff Thinking How would the debate over Torre's job would look if cool reason were applied to the Yankees' personnel decisions for once? Simple: the debate wouldn't exist. |
Sports Central March 30, 2004 Eric Poole |
Comeback Kids (Or Maybe Not?) With only a short break last fall for the playoffs and World Series, talk about baseball for almost a year has been about everything but the game itself. |
Sports Central January 5, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
2003: Never a Dull Moment "We try every way we can do to kill this game," Sparky Anderson once said of baseball, "but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it." That was then, this is now. Nothing nobody does never hurts it still, but lots of people do continue to embarrass it. |
Sports Central November 16, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
HOF Ballot: The Holdovers The holdover Hall of Fame ballot entrants are both an interesting and a troublesome group, largely because the recent rule changes limiting a Baseball Writers Association of America candidate to ten years on the ballot. |
Salon.com March 31, 2001 Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
Sports Central December 30, 2003 Mike Round |
Sox, Yanks Ignoring Way to Glory The Yankees and Red Sox are pinning their hopes on veteran, big-name signings that come with veteran, big-time salaries. |
Sports Illustrated October 26, 2000 Rick Reilly |
Face it, baseball games are too long The World Series and a previous column on it spark loads of reader mail... |
Sports Central March 26, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sports Media's Steroid Hypocrisy Today's sports pundits have more in common with Major League Baseball's braintrust than they'd like to admit -- they all placed their heads in the sand just deep enough to play blind to the sport's steroid subculture while still being able to hear the cash register ring. |
Sports Illustrated March 26, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Brave new world It's been a while, but Atlanta's pitching is now questionable... |
Salon.com March 28, 2002 Allen Barra |
What Barry Bonds did wrong He's the best player in baseball, but hitting 73 home runs at age 37 isn't just unnatural, it might be ruining the game... |
Sports Central July 3, 2007 Scott Shepherd |
2007 MLB All-Star Snubs When the players and coaches filled out the remaining roster spots with worthy participants, they dropped the ball. |
Salon.com October 17, 2001 Allen Barra |
The decline and fall of the Yankees -- I mean, the A's Ancient arrogance beats the youthful variety -- this time... |
Sports Illustrated April 3, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Give Pedro some time The best young pitcher I ever saw was Dwight Gooden. But as he grew heavier and stronger after rehabbing his shoulder, he lost some of that natural looseness in his arm and consequently lost some of the late life off his fastball. Is that happening to Pedro now that he's gained 15 pounds? |
Sports Central November 4, 2003 Tony Arnoldine |
The Fallout From the Meltdown I picked the Marlins to get beyond the Giants and perhaps even to the World Series, but never had I thought of them winning the championship. Especially not over my New York Yankees. |
Sports Central June 3, 2005 Eric Poole |
Baseball of a Different Color While "September Swoon" sometimes gets bogged down in game accounts, it's worthwhile reading for its coverage of race and baseball, particularly in reference to the Philadelphia Phillies' Dick Allen, regarded as baseball's first black superstar malcontent. |
Sports Central April 21, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Bums: Major League Players vs. Fans Gary Sheffield is uncertain as to whether to press charges against a fan but Boston police are sure it is a chargeable misdemeanor. |
Sports Central May 9, 2005 Tyson Wirth |
Modern Problems, Modern Solutions An outline of innovative and appropriate solutions to baseball's major problems such as foolish fans and luxury tax failures. |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Sports Gossip: Jamal Lewis Fesses, Earnhardt Jr. Cusses Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis will spend four months in a prison uniform during the NFL off-season... New York Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield ripped San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds a new one in an article appearing in the October 11th issue of Sports Illustrated... etc. |
Sports Central May 1, 2006 Bob Ekstrom |
Yankee Like Me Yankees fans must possess an agility of affection and principle having no equal in baseball. |
Sports Central June 10, 2004 Eric Poole |
The Best Team in Baseball? The team that might be the best in baseball exists not in real life, but in the land of "couldabeen," as in: "The Pirates 'couldabeen' a great team this year if they 'coulda' kept some players." |
Sports Central May 22, 2007 Paul Tenorio |
Should Barry Bonds Be a Hall of Famer? Barry Bonds surely had Hall of Fame numbers before the steroid controversy erupted. So does his alleged steroid use change the picture -- and should it? |
Sports Central September 24, 2004 Vincent Musco |
AL MVP Debate: Manny, Vlad, or Sheff? Recent history proves that projecting the American League's Most Valuable Player has become a fool's task. Still, through some light detective work, we may be able to narrow the field. |
Sports Central February 17, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Reaction to A-Rod to Yankees It will not really surprise you that some of the usual suspects in New England are ready to jump out the window over Alex Rodriguez in Yankees' fatigues, will it? |
Sports Central October 13, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
What Happened to the Yanks? The 2005 postseason for the New York Yankees followed one of the most challenging of all regular seasons for manager Joe Torre. |
Sports Illustrated March 6, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel Penny will shine in Marlins' rich rotation... |
Sports Central May 30, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
Why Baseball's Losing its American Identity The decline of participation of the black athlete in baseball is a far more multi-faceted problem than commonly expressed. |
Sports Central September 28, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Yanks/Sox: "It's Like a Disagreement in a Family" "It's a heated rivalry," said Boston"s Dave Roberts. "There's respect between the teams, but there's no love lost." |
Science News September 8, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: May the Best Team Win Designing a sports schedule so the strongest team prevails: The winner of the Superbowl or World Series is that season's best-performing team. Right? Wrong, according to scientists. |
Sports Illustrated October 10, 2000 Rick Reilly |
Major League Torture For reasons that scientists don't fully understand, there are still a few humans in this country who watch baseball games on television from start to finish, without the use of restraints, amphetamines or toothpicks... |
Sports Central April 20, 2006 Zach Jones |
Marlins Part of Baseball Royalty? The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. To this short list of baseball royalty, add the Florida Marlins. Yes. You read it here first: it's good to be a Marlins fan. |
CFO April 1, 2004 Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2000 |
Chat Reel Sports Illustrated senior writer Gary Smith joined users on Dec. 18 to chat about his new book, Beyond the Game, a compilation of his best stories... |
Sports Central October 20, 2005 Mike Round |
The Boss Needs to Play NL Ball The problem with the Yankees, as always, is Steinbrenner himself -- who thinks he's a fantasy GM and runs his personal fiefdom with meddlesome inefficiency. |
Sports Illustrated February 21, 2001 Jeff Pearlman |
Not many matches for Sheff What is the deal with this new demand by Gary Sheffield? Are the Dodgers really going to move him? |
Sports Illustrated October 9, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Rethinking some questions This week's bag filled with responses to my picks for the best player in baseball right now and best left-handed pitcher of all time... |