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Sports Central
September 20, 2006
Ryan Day |
The Team Everybody Wants to Play Florida is ripe with young baseball talent. Yet, beginning in 1998 the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have done nothing but lose, finishing last in their division in every year except one.   |
Sports Central
August 15, 2011
Matt Thomas |
Wait Till Next Year? No, Wait Till June! Major League Baseball has on the table a proposed rule change that would result in an increase in the number of playoff teams from eight to 10. |
Sports Central
July 11, 2006
Bill Hazell |
Making a Pledge to Baseball Now that March Madness, the NHL and NBA finals, the World Cup playoffs and other distractions are off the boards, it's time to catch up on the baseball season. |
AskMen.com
October 15, 2003
John Clarkson |
The Wild Face Of Baseball Baseball may be the national pastime, but there has been legitimate cause for years to wonder if Major League Baseball (MLB) is the forum in which America chooses to express her love for the sport. |
Salon.com
August 30, 2002
Allen Barra |
Strike 4 The baseball deal will either make the game worse for fans or it'll be a sham that won't hold salaries down. The owners came close to wrecking the season for this? |
Sports Central
October 4, 2010
Paul Foeller |
2010 MLB Playoff Predictions Baseball predictions, with a team by team analysis |
Sports Central
January 4, 2012
Louie Centanni |
Why the 66-Game NBA Season Should Stay Between playing more frequently, forcing stars to show effort nightly, and reintroducing the concept of team basketball, the 66-game NBA season seems to be a great experiment - one that should become the norm for years to come. |
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
July 11, 2011
Bill Hazell |
Locked Out Twice? The NFL labor dispute is on the edge of being resolved, but the NBA lockout has just started and thus, they are nowhere near an agreement. |
Sports Central
September 9, 2004
Martin Hawrysko |
September May Bring Baseball's Best While the playoffs are still three weeks away, the regular season is far from over. Ignore these final weeks, in anticipation of the actual postseason, and you might miss out on some of the best that baseball has to offer. |
Sports Central
June 22, 2007
Matt Thomas |
Five Truths About the '07 MLB Season Things aren't what they seem in baseball -- until at least June 1. |
Sports Central
September 10, 2004
M. Edward Guest |
Is the Braves' Dynasty Valid? Or are the they baseball's version of football's 49ers? Both have had a string of successful regular season records, only to fail (usually) in the postseason. |
Sports Central
October 25, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Baseball No Longer Rules October After more than century of dominance in the american sporting marketplace, baseball is no longer king. |
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
July 3, 2013
Adam Russell |
Five Predictions For MLB's Second Half Without delay, here are my five predictions for the second half of the 2013 Major League Baseball season. |
Sports Central
October 4, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Baseball at its Best Down to the Wire The stage is set for a MLB playoffs season that lends itself to great theater, with no sure winner and possibly surprising upsets. You can't ask for any more from this game of baseball. |
Sports Central
May 23, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Protracted Playoffs The NBA playoffs have been irrelevant up until this point since the expected has occurred. |
Sports Illustrated
January 10, 2001
Frank Deford |
The hot stove league Once upon a time there was an offseason. Super Bowl? NFL Playoffs? The NBA? Hard to imagine today, but for much of the 20th century, perhaps as late as into the 1960s, the sports calendar effectively ended with the New Year's Day bowl games... |
Salon.com
October 15, 2002
King Kaufman |
Who needs champions? The evil possibility of an all-wild card World Series has come to pass, and you know what? It looks pretty good from here. |
Sports Central
April 15, 2013
Adam Russell |
MLB Should Consolidate the Leagues Could there ever be the possibility of MLB proposing a unified organization with consistent rules and a more objective schedule? If enough fans jump on the bandwagon, it most certainly could be possible. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2005
Jeff Hwang |
Take-Two Takes the Mound Will the company's baseball deal strike out, or will it toss EA out of the ballpark? |
AskMen.com
Lewis Helfand |
Strikes & Lockouts In Professional Sports Everything from ticket sales to stadium parking takes a significant hit when games are canceled. The strikes and lockouts listed below show just how much professional athletes, teams, and even leagues stand to lose when faced with a work stoppage. |
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. |
Sports Central
June 17, 2011
Andrew Jones |
How to Realign Major League Baseball Rumors have been floating around about the potential for MLB to realign into a system with two 15-team leagues and no divisions. |
Sports Central
November 21, 2005
William Geoghegan |
Is the BCS Really All Bad? From the moment the computers churned out the rankings that stuck Nebraska in the national championship a few years back, we had a travesty on our hands. |
Sports Central
October 23, 2008
Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Odds and Ends This Rays team is reminiscent of the Tribe of the '90s... Many competitive college football match-ups this weekend... The 2009 Arizona Cardinals will be the NFL's answer to the 2009 Tampa Bay Rays... |
Sports Central
February 25, 2008
Jon Gonzales |
Happy 25th, USFL! (Or What Could've Been) Had the United States Football League continued down the path it was blazing, and had a few breaks gone its way, it likely would have survived to today. |
Sports Central
March 27, 2011
Jess Coleman |
Can You Buy Wins in Baseball? Could the Yankees' unlimited sum of cash really result in an astonishing 27 World Championships? |
Sports Illustrated
October 16, 2002
Frank Deford |
The right call All sports should use available technology to review plays |
Salon.com
January 17, 2003
Allen Barra |
Penalties, Part 2 The NFL's dreadful officiating can't be ignored anymore. One solution: Give one ref a TV. |
Sports Central
April 17, 2008
Sean Crowe |
Why the NHL is Dead The question is, how do we bring it back to life? |
Sports Central
February 16, 2006
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Central
July 23, 2014
Ross Lancaster |
The Era of Having a Chance It struck me that this is a year where there just aren't that many baseball teams that look very strong. |
Sports Central
October 24, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2011
Adam Russell |
Is Common Sense Coming to Major League Baseball? The report this week that Major League Baseball is considering realignment is music to my ears, and signals a possibility of the National Pastime returning to common sense. |
Sports Central
August 3, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
Root For the Home Team? Not Always For about $10 bucks you can walk up to just about any stadium on game day, buy an upper reserve ticket, and hang out at the ball park and stand and watch the game. |
Sports Central
October 15, 2008
Chad Wilson |
America, Baseball Need Philly/Tampa Series I like is seeing new, hungry teams in the World Series. That is why I am praying for a Phillies/Rays series. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: Playoff Chokers A number of athletes saw their ugly side triggered by the playoffs. |
Sports Central
July 18, 2013
Corrie Trouw |
Fickle in the Middle If the goal of an NBA team is to collect ingredients that can be combined in a winning recipe, then the summer of 2014 is the greatest basketball farmer's market in some time. And the best way to afford a piece of that bounty is not to spend in 2013. |
Sports Central
September 21, 2005
Chris Lindshield |
Addressing Baseball's Needs Baseball still seems to be losing ground to football in the battle for America's heart. Here are a few thoughts about how we can change this trend. |
Sports Central
October 1, 2014
Jonathan Lowe |
Preoccupied With 1985 Expansion has been big for all sports since the mid-'80s, but probably no bigger than in baseball and college football. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2013
Andrew Jones |
Wild Card Drama The National League has a fraction of the excitement contained within the American League as we enter the final two weeks of the 2013 major league baseball season. September baseball is bound to be exciting. |
Sports Central
April 4, 2004
Gary Geffen |
Keep the NFL Playoffs the Same At the annual NFL league meetings, there was talk of expanding the playoff field from 12 to 14 teams. Finally, the idea was tabled for another year's agenda. |
Salon.com
May 15, 2002
Allen Barra |
Bloody ice The NHL could crack down on the violence that's wrecking hockey -- but it doesn't want to, and neither do its fans... |
Salon.com
October 1, 2002
King Kaufman |
Picking winners In the baseball playoffs, the National League teams all look vulnerable and the American League teams all look unbeatable. Something's gotta give. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2002
King Kaufman |
Any given Thursday It's time for the NFL to prove once again that having money doesn't mean a team can't still stink. Baseball, are you listening? |
Sports Central
November 14, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason. |
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
June 4, 2012
Adam Russell |
Top Five Surprises of the MLB Season With two months of the current MLB season in the books, here are five things that, while maybe they're not that uncommon, are surprising to me. |
