About The Sports Blog
What are the components of sports? For starters, at an early age, sports involvement is designed to teach you things like sportsmanship, competitive spirit, and teamwork. Next, there is usually a set of game rules to follow when taking part in sports. And finally, there's a team or individual competition that yields a winner.
Sounds simple, but when it comes to the world of sports, debates over which team is the best, whether or not the coach blew the game, or which athlete deserves the highest accolades, can rage on and on. The Sports Blog is here to provide a play-by-play and help keep score of the latest sports-related news and views.
From game rules and regulations and recent sports scandals to controversies concerning performance-enhancing drugs to over-the-top contracts, sports stories are always big news. Whether you love baseball, football, hockey, basketball, golf, or other sports, add this to your required reading list, sports fans!

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That Sinking Feeling
This week I wanted to look more in-depth at the aerodynamic fingerprints of different pitches, particularly sinkers. A sinker is a two-seam fa...

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Why in the World is Doug Mientkiewicz Batting Second?

Guess Who Wanted To Buy The Cubs? Crains had some …

As the A-Rod Turns
I wrote a two-part piece on Alex Rodriguez last year when he was supposedly washed up, struggling, could not hit a thing. What a difference a year makes. Now A-Rod is rewriting the American League record book and is...

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The New #20 Felix Pie made the unfortunate choice …

Best in Class
Every year we all place a little too much stock in early season results. Yet while it's too early to discern much of anything at this point, th...

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Rule 5 Revisited
We are about 20 games into the season for most teams so it is time to take a quick look back at last winter's Rule 5 draft. The story of the dr...

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