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Sports Central September 22, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Save Some Drama For the Playoffs The Yankees and Rays simply bring out the best in themselves and each other. |
Sports Central October 7, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
"He's Not Going to Hear the End of It" Reality check: it's going to be up to all the Tampa Bay Rays as much as rookie Wil Myers as to whether or not Myers' lapse Friday marks him for the rest of his career. |
Sports Central May 17, 2010 Bill Hazell |
What's Wrong With the Red Sox? Perhaps for once, the Red Sox are the overlooked team in Boston at the moment. |
Sports Central October 8, 2009 Sean Crowe |
It's Groundhog Day For Angels If the Angels don't beat the Red Sox this year, they'll never beat the Red Sox. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Boston Red Sox Last night, the Red Sox became the first team in baseball history to miss the playoffs after entering September with a nine-game lead for a playoff spot. |
Sports Central October 22, 2008 Mike Round |
2008 World Series Preview Tampa Bay's emergence from obscurity and irrelevance has captured the imagination of every sports fan in the nation and they will be the romantic pick. Those most unromantic of people, the Vegas oddsmakers, have them as favorites, too. |
Sports Central September 13, 2011 Ryan Day |
Can the Rays Make the Playoffs? As baseball winds down and makes its way to the final weeks of the season, the Tampa Bay Rays are a handful of games away from a wild card berth. |
Sports Central October 11, 2010 Clinton Riddle |
Ray of Hope? The Tampa Bay Rays won 6-3 in a do-or-die Game 3 at Arlington tonight on the strength of late-inning homers from Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena, despite a last-gasp from the Texas offense in the bottom of the ninth. |
Sports Central July 10, 2008 Chris Gonzales |
My Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Rays That's right, the leader of the AL East is not a powerhouse with a huge payroll from the Northeast, but a young, upstart team from the Sunshine State. |
Sports Central September 30, 2008 Mike Round |
MLB 2008 Divisional Series Breakdown A closer look at the four MLB playoff match-ups. |
Sports Central August 21, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
At Least it Wasn't a Massacre There was a difference between this weekend's Boston Massacre and the one which helped to send the Red Sox toward eventual sinking 28 years before. |
Sports Central July 5, 2007 Bob Ekstrom |
Where, Oh Where, Are the Devil Dogs? With the Red Sox and Yankees playing 18 and 14 games, respectively, against Tampa Bay from here out, the last-place Devil Rays have a magnified prominence in the American League East race. |
Sports Central October 24, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
What Indians Fans Don't Want to Hear Unexpected calamities or mental vapors at the worst possible moments? This used to happen to the Boston Red Sox all the time. |
Sports Central October 31, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 6: B Invincible The Red Sox turned out to be the best team in baseball, winning a World Series against a team that was the next-best team in baseball by a hair. And, a three-run double. And, perhaps, the most inadvertent destiny in 21st Century baseball. |
Sports Central March 5, 2009 Mike Round |
Forget Steroids and Recession: Play Ball! Here's a look around MLB's American and National Leagues and predictions for the upcoming season. |
Sports Central October 24, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 1: Getting the Drop on the Cardinals It's not that the Boston Red Sox needed the help that badly, opening the World Series with a near-blowout win. But they certainly weren't going to complain if the St. Louis Cardinals wanted to help their cause early enough and often enough. |
Sports Central October 30, 2008 Bill Hazell |
It's Finally Sunny in Philadelphia The Philadelphia Phillies won a championship Wednesday night in a game that had a large and noticeable fracture right in the middle of it. |
Sports Central October 21, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
ALCS Game 6: The Pennant That Wasn't in the Plans The Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers learned the hard way Saturday night that baseball's often what happens when you have other plans. |
Sports Central September 8, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
Now Ear This Apparently, in Baltimore, when you commit a balk that invites an opposing run on the house, at a time when you're already down 2-0 against a bristling opposing pitcher, you shake it off by sticking the next pitch in the hitter's ear. |
Sports Central May 23, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Things We've Learned From the NBA Playoffs The NBA playoffs are usually generous when it comes to player meltdowns, tearing up age-old adages, and having certain teams rise to the top. |
Sports Central April 23, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Playoffs: Split Decisions With the first two games of each NBA playoff series in the books, an incredible five of the eight series are tied up at a game apiece. |
Sports Central March 27, 2009 Jon Hamelin |
The Sun is Setting on the Phoenix Suns Even if the Suns manage to squeak out a birth in the postseason, it is unlikely the will pose a challenge to the powerhouse teams in the West. |
Sports Central May 26, 2006 Isaac Miller |
Red Sox and Yankees: Rethinking the Rivalry If this is the most storied rivalry in all of baseball, where was it from 1918 to 1967? |
Sports Central October 4, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Random Thoughts on MLB Playoffs We can still hope to see the first truly memorable game of the '06 playoffs, since none of Tuesday's games reached that level. |
Sports Central October 14, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
ALCS Game 2: Tight, High, Wild, Grand Those guys are playing what used to be Red Sox baseball when crunch time arrived! You could hear Fenway's ghosts whispering among themselves. |
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." |
Sports Central May 5, 2006 Bill Hazell |
NBA's Second Season is Red-Hot The playoffs are only a week into things, but the subplots and themes have already been well-developed. |
Sports Central November 1, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
The Agony of a Defeat Game 6 of the World Series should be remembered as the most heart-stopping baseball game in history. The fact that the Cardinals prevailed in Game 7 adds to its historical standing. |
Sports Central October 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Maybe We Get Our Goats at Last Maybe, little by little, people are beginning to get the idea that a baseball postseason goat doesn't always deserve the goat horns because he didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do. |
Sports Central June 6, 2005 Chris Speckman |
NBA Playoffs: Score More, Bore Less For the first time in a while, the NBA playoffs have been memorable and exciting. |
Sports Central January 13, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
Back to the Future Sunday April 3, 2005. The Yankees and Red Sox officially kicked off the 2005 MLB season tonight in a highly-anticipated rematch of last year's ALCS. |
Sports Central August 25, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
AL Wild Card Wild Cards Here's a look at the chase for the AL wild card and examine some possible wild cards each team has. |
Salon.com July 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
Sports Illustrated April 30, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Lowe-Hitters In a weekend of near no-hitters only Boston's Derek Lowe finished the job... |
Sports Central August 23, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
AL Pennant: Yanks' For the Taking? Well Beantowners, start your guest lists if you must, but don't set that date for this year's Yankee Elimination Party quite yet. It might not come. The Yanks will be hitting the playoffs in peak form. |
Sports Central December 20, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Forgotten Mavericks, Spurs Are Rising Two NBA teams flying under the radar are the San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks. |
Sports Central May 24, 2006 Bob Ekstrom |
Hell Week in the Fens In the "land of eternal September," a distinctive autumn nip fills the air as the Red Sox dig in against their chief antagonists in three key matchups that should offer the first prognostications for October. |
Sports Central September 16, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again. |
Sports Central October 8, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Goodbye, Atlanta Braves, Yet Again The Braves, who managed to shake off a few hiccups and a few dubious deals to post the National League's best regular season record, deserved better than regular season managing in a win-or-be-gone game. |
Sports Central August 12, 2008 Jeff Kallman |
The Curse of the Rambino? Manny Ramirez had been stripped of his Red Sox silks at last, by way of a three-way swap making a Los Angeles Dodger of him and a Red Sox out of Jason Bay. |
Sports Central October 14, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
Paterinty Test Revealed: Yanks Are Pedro's Daddy Management is different, the players are different, the game is different, but the Red Sox remain unchanged. Maybe there really is a curse. Or maybe Vegas and the prognosticators were wrong, and the Yankees really are the better team. |
Sports Central May 25, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
Top NBA Shots of the Decade Here's a look back at some of the greatest shots of the last decade. |
Sports Central July 13, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Derek Jeter's All-Star Blessing A lot of the folk are hemming and hawing over Derek Jeter's withdrawal from the All-Star Game. But nobody seems to catch onto his withdrawal as an inadvertent blessing upon it. |
Sports Central June 13, 2007 Bob Ekstrom |
Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not. |
Sports Central October 30, 2007 Ross Lancaster |
The Great Comeback Team The real story was how the Red Sox had managed to come up so big with their arms and bats at every occasion necessary after losing Game 4 of the League Championship Series in Cleveland. |
Sports Central May 2, 2011 Bill Hazell |
Unstoppable Grizzlies From Graceland Nothing about the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies of 2011 indicated there was anything other than the usual mediocrity to this team going into the postseason. |
Sports Central October 25, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 2: No Time For Generosity Want to know what we learned from World Series Game 2? Easy. The St. Louis Cardinals aren't the only ones who can hand their opponent a game on an infield platter. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: Athletes Without Championships Disney movies typically have happy endings, but sports careers often have more tragic conclusions. |
Sports Central April 16, 2009 Sean Crowe |
Step Off the Ledge, Red Sox Fans You have to admire Red Sox fans. What other group of fans would reach for the panic button in unison 5.55% of the way into the season? |
Sports Central October 28, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 4: Shazam! At the rate this Weird Series is going, who's to say Game 5 won't end with a bullpen pitcher throwing out the would-be winning run at the plate? |