The Yankees’ evil empire keeps expanding

[picapp align=”right” wrap=”true” link=”term=Lance+Berkman&iid=8924515″ src=”http://view4.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/8924515/mlb-brewers-astros-may/mlb-brewers-astros-may.jpg?size=500&imageId=8924515″ width=”234″ height=”351″ /] A few years back my younger son and I marveled at the awesome display of power Lance Berkman put on at the home run derby during the All-Star break. Now the longtime Houston Astros slugger is wearing pinstripes for the Evil Empire that is the New York […]

Matt Garza no-hits the Tigers

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=Matt+Garza&iid=9263262″ src=”http://view4.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9263262/tampa-bay-rays-matt-garza/tampa-bay-rays-matt-garza.jpg?size=500&imageId=9263262″ width=”500″ height=”365″ /] Matt Garza entered his named in the record books at Cooperstown as he threw a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers tonight. In the old days, I’d have been lucky to catch the game late at night on the radio if the right stations with the right wattage […]

A tip of the cap to Lou Piniella

[picapp align=”right” wrap=”true” link=”term=Lou+Piniella&iid=7044743″ src=”http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/7044743/tampa-bay-devil-rays/tampa-bay-devil-rays.jpg?size=500&imageId=7044743″ width=”234″ height=”350″ /] In a graceful move, Lou Piniella has announced he’ll retire after wrapping up the season with the Chicago Cubs. Piniella has distinguished himself as someone who excelled as a player and a manager, a combination that is uncommon if not rare. I’ve followed Piniella’s career for a […]

Oosthuizen wins the British Open (silence the vuvuzelas, please)

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=Oosthuizen&iid=9376700″ src=”http://view3.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9376700/sports-news-july-2010/sports-news-july-2010.jpg?size=500&imageId=9376700″ width=”234″ height=”333″ /] Congratulations to Louis Oosthuizen on winning the British Open today. I turned on the TV this morning and was shocked to see he was still far out front of everyone else early in his final round. One of the images that will stick with me was of […]

RIP George Steinbrenner, one of the last great black-and-white figures

[picapp align=”right” wrap=”true” link=”term=George+Steinbrenner&iid=2183905″ src=”http://view3.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/2183905/yankees-mets-steinbrenner/yankees-mets-steinbrenner.jpg?size=500&imageId=2183905″ width=”234″ height=”315″ /] As the world knows by now, George Steinbrenner died today. The longtime owner of the New York Yankees was 80 and leaves behind a legacy of championships. This afternoon I put together a gallery of Associated Press photos showing Steinbrenner over the years. What struck me was […]

All hail Spain, World Cup champions

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=World+Cup&iid=9335294″ src=”http://view3.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9335294/spain-iniesta-holds-the/spain-iniesta-holds-the.jpg?size=500&imageId=9335294″ width=”500″ height=”329″ /] Congratulations to Spain for winning the World Cup. I’m wavering a bit from an earlier post that soccer is here to stay among American sports fans. The first half of today’s game was mind-numbingly dull. The only excitement was wondering whether the Dutch were going to set […]

Bye, Bye, Lebron

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=Lebron+James&iid=9312354″ src=”http://view4.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9312354/file-photo-cleveland/file-photo-cleveland.jpg?size=500&imageId=9312354″ width=”500″ height=”319″ /] Lebron James has bid adieu to Cleveland and the Cavaliers, choosing to take his quest for an NBA championship to Miami and the Heat. The tales in the leading newspapers of the two cities are as expected. There’s joy in Miami, where the Herald’s lead sentence tonight is […]

And the blue holiday baseball caps are cool, too

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=baseball&iid=9289359″ src=”http://view3.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9289359/hat-and-glove-member-the/hat-and-glove-member-the.jpg?size=500&imageId=9289359″ width=”234″ height=”156″ /] I didn’t realize when I posted the other night that many Major League Baseball teams are wearing special holiday caps with blue bills this weekend. The mix of red and blue is pretty cool, and I think MLB has a winner. Hard as it is to adjust […]

MLB Independence Day ball caps are looking good

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=baseball&iid=9278128″ src=”http://view4.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9278128/mlb-2010-rockies-beat/mlb-2010-rockies-beat.jpg?size=500&imageId=9278128″ width=”234″ height=”312″ /] For the Independence Day weekend, Major League baseball players are wearing patriotic caps. I think the red bills with white crowns look good, and from the highlights I saw last evening think they go better with most uniforms than previous models. The caps that were used in […]

The World Cup and Americans: This time it will stick

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=Landon+Donovan&iid=9228533″ src=”http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9228533/united-states-donovan/united-states-donovan.jpg?size=500&imageId=9228533″ width=”500″ height=”240″ /] Nearly 24 hours after the United States fell to Ghana and exited the World Cup, it’s time to look ahead. I really believe that the U.S. national men’s team scored a breakthrough with American sports fans this time around, and they’ve sold many people on the thrill […]