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!

Last Day for Andruw Jones
December 1st is the deadline for teams to offer contracts to former players who became free agents. One more day for Andruw to follow in the...

Continue Reading Last Day for Andruw Jones

Papelbon likes idea of Santana trade
Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon likes the idea of trading with the Twins and having Johan Santana on his team next season. “I like it,” said...

Continue Reading Papelbon likes idea of Santana trade


‘Twas Just Before Winter Meetings
with many, MANY apologies to Clement Clarke Moore 'Twas just before Winter Meetings, when all through the air Not a creature was stirring,...

Continue Reading ‘Twas Just Before Winter Meetings

Bronx Banter: King Kong v Godzilla
We need a No.1, and I think that's one of the reasons we're going after Santana," [Jorge] Posada said. "It is a need in October, no question...

Continue Reading Bronx Banter: King Kong v Godzilla

Bedard negotiations stall
Per The Sun. MacPhail stresses that ...the cooling of talks shouldn't be taken as a sign that the Orioles are ready to unload Bedard..."I'm not conc...

Continue Reading Bedard negotiations stall

Favre’s In Need of Favre Today
For my birthday, my parents got me tickets to the Stevie Wonder concert in Raleigh last night. He puts on a pretty awesome show. He had the cr...

Continue Reading Favre’s In Need of Favre Today

Dirty Jobs
I've looked at pitcher's counts vs. hitter's count before, and prompted by this comment on The Book's blog, I decided to revisit the topic. ...

Continue Reading Dirty Jobs

Fun With Owners
There's some cool NHL management stuff floating around the Internet this week. Boston magazine had an interesting piece on Charlie Jacobs, the man who runs the Boston Bruins for his fathe...

Continue Reading Fun With Owners