Chicago Cubs third baseman and 2016 National League MVP Kris Bryant met his match when he faced someone working as the sound guy for a Red Bull ad. As Bryant took swings for the ad, the sound guy critiqued his
With one tweet, Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Trevor Bauer stirred up Twitter users Thursday.
Baseball’s commissioner has hinted that he may be preparing to try and force the owner of the Cleveland Indians to eliminate the team’s decades old Chief Wahoo logo.
Los Angeles (AFP) – Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura died Sunday after a car accident in his native Dominican Republic, the Major League Baseball team confirmed in a statement.
On Thursday, Fox Sports 1 “The Herd” host Colin Cowherd weighed in on the MLB Hall of Fame balloting, saying the sports media is keeping pitching great Curt Schilling off their ballots because of his outspokenness on social media regarding his
If hope springs eternal, then the hope for Tim Tebow to make it in Major League Baseball will have to wait until after this spring.
President-elect Donald Trump has had quite a full schedule in the days and weeks leading up to his inauguration, and has met and broken bread with all the power brokers in and out of Washington with whom he will work with over the next eight years.
During Monday’s “First Take” on ESPN, college football analyst and professional baseball player Tim Tebow discussed not changing positions in the NFL and his pursuit of becoming a Major League Baseball player when pressed by co-host Max Kellerman. Tebow said
Former Major League Baseball star Curt Schilling said in an interview with TMZ Sports that the outspokenness of his political views are keeping him out of the MLB Hall of Fame. “[Voters] are not hiding the fact that they’ve stopped voting for
In an apparent bid to prove they’re capable of playing games in non-communist countries as well, Major League Baseball has targeted 2018 to play a regular season game in England.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 22 (UPI) — The World Series runner-up Cleveland Indians aren’t waiting until October to throw its best pitch.
Few broadcasters take more grief than Joe Buck, and after an interview with 590 The Fan’s Tim McKiernan in St. Louis, Joe Buck won’t be here to kick around much longer either, at least not at World Series time.
An announcement made on Monday by Major League Baseball may rival the impact of the league-wide implementation of PED testing in 2003.
Unfiltered. That’s one of many ways to describe Lenny Dykstra. The former Mets and Phillies star does not mince words. Instead he uses them any which way they happen to come out.
The reloading Red Sox pulled off the biggest deal yet at the winter meetings, acquiring the dominant ace Chris Sale from the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday for a hefty package of four prospects.
The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame elected former Commissioner Bud Selig into their ranks on Sunday night. The decision on Selig, along with former General Manager John Schuerholz, came in via the Today’s Game Era ballot.
Major League Baseball changed the rule that gave World Series home-field advantage to the league that wins the All-Star Game.
ESPN marked the passing of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro by acclaiming the huge impact that the Caribbean strong man had on the world of sports in a piece titled “Fidel Castro, 90, Deftly Fused Sports into Cuba’s National Identity.”
The NFL fully earned the title of “No Fun League” over the last ten to fifteen years. Now, belatedly but most assuredly, Major League Baseball and the cities that host their stadiums strive to make MLB the “Make Life Boring” league.
At a gala for his “Safe At Home” foundation on Thursday night, Joe Torre took questions on what he thought of Trump’s campaign. He had few positive words, telling the Daily News, “I know (Trump). I played golf with him. I’m
Craig Calcaterra of NBC’s “Hardball Talk” re-asked a question posed by Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday. That question: Will Donald Trump’s changes to the U.S. immigration system effect the market for international players in Major League Baseball?
One does not simply win the World Series to undo a curse that lasted for more than a century.
As part of their celebration tour, 2016 World Series champs Chicago Cubs players Anthony Rizzo, David Ross and Dexter Fowler, along with former SNL cast member and Cubs fan Bill Murray, sang “Go Cubs Go” on this week’s broadcast of
Thursday, Fox Sports 1 “Undisputed” co-host Skip Bayless reacted to the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series, suggesting “a segment of Cubs fans” did not want the team to actually win the World Series because doing so “forever destroys their
Comedian and lifelong Chicago Cubs fan Bill Murray was elated when the Cubs ended the 108-year World Series drought late Wednesday night. A somewhat inebriated Murray interviewed Cubs outfielders Dexter Fowler and Jason Heyward, as well as team president Theo Epstein,
Whenever the unstoppable force and the immovable object collide, drama ensues. Wednesday night, that clash happens in Game Seven of the World Series.
Comedian and lifelong Chicago Cubs fan Bill Murray led the Chicago Cubs faithful in the traditional 7th inning stretch “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” Friday night. In Bill Murray fashion, the comedian requested everybody to sing like the
Official documents detailing the aftermath of the boat crash that took the life of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and two companions say the victims’ bodies smelled strongly of alcohol.
Appearing on the Mike & Mike sports radio program, MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred said that he plans on meeting with Cleveland Indians ownership to discuss the team’s use of Chief Wahoo as their logo.
Last night Indians starter Corey Kluber devastated the Cubs lineup, mowing down batters with reckless abandon and setting a World Series strikeout record for the first three innings. Kluber, along with the rest of the Indians staff, treated runners in scoring position with a particular ferocity.
Every now and again, life must imitate art. Such as the case with this year’s storybook World Series contest, featuring two teams with the longest championship droughts in sports, which could soon take a very Hollywood turn.
For Cubs fans the hope remains that a combination of youth and ignorance does away with any curse and brings a World Series championship. If you pay close attention, you’ll realize that baseball fans and the media make up 99.8% of the people talking about history and curses.
Just when you thought 2016 couldn’t get any weirder, the Cleveland Indians won the ALCS on their way to the World Series. Also true to format for both 2016 and the Indians, it came complete with major oddities.
It didn’t come on his first pitch, like it did in Instructional League play. However, Tim Tebow did get his first hit in the Arizona Fall League on Tuesday.
Adrian Gonzalez boycotted the hit column in the box score of Tuesday night’s win over the Chicago Cubs. Back in May, when the Los Angeles Dodgers took on the Cubs in a regular season series, Gonzalez boycotted the Trump International Hotel and Tower.
Ronnie Lott, the former NFL safety who once had a portion of his left pinkie finger removed to avoid an extended rehab, might have some company at the top of the list for all-time warrior moves in the history of sports.
A fan almost hit Baltimore Orioles left fielder Hyun-soo Kim Tuesday in the AL Wildcard matchup between the Orioles and the Toronto Blue Jays. With two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning in a tied game, Jays outfielder Melvin Upton hit
MLB Hall of Famer and former Chicago White Sox first baseman Frank Thomas weighed in on Tim Tebow’s baseball career, and “The Big Hurt” thinks Tebow, a Heisman winner at the University of Florida, is an even better baseball player
Tim Tebow made his professional baseball debut Wednesday with the New York Mets instructional league team, and started off with quite a bang. He sent the first pitch he saw in professional baseball over the left center wall for his first
Miami Marlins outfielder Marcell Ozuna is thanking his lucky stars he decided not to join Jose Fernandez and his pals for the ill-fated boat trip that ended in disaster and death on September 25.
