national league baseball
Dodgers need to honor Koufax with statue
Los Angeles' all-time greatest sports icon is also the most famous celebrity in Vero Beach, Fla.Think about that for a moment.Think about all the sports stars that have performed on the glittery Hollywood stage.
Baseball's all-overpaid and underpaid teams
We interrupt the hype for the upcoming Red Sox-Cubs-Yankees Love Fest, also known as Major League Baseball's All-Star Game, for this bit of perspective.
Zito factored tabloids into choice of team
NEW YORK -- All week, the tabloids here have gone cuckoo over the impending divorce of Alex Rodriguez and his wife, Cynthia, as well as their alleged love quadrangle with rockers Madonna and Lenny Kravitz. Wednesday's New York Post, for instance, wrote about a stripper who supposedly had an affair with A-Rod.
Tampa Bay acting like they belong in first place
Check out the American League East standings. The Tampa Bay Rays are in first place. And they are acting like they belong.Shocked?
Trades in offing for capitulating Rockies
DENVER -- Let's talk trades. The Colorado Rockies sure are.If putting pitcher Jeff Francis on the disabled list Wednesday was not their white flag, it was pretty close. Francis could have continued to pitch through an inflamed shoulder, but the way he's pitching and the Rocks are playing, why risk it?
Rockies-Padres rivalry now battle for basement
DENVER -- Before Monday night's battle for last place in the feeble National League Worst, Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle sent a greeting to the visitors' dugout for San Diego Padres manager Bud Black."If it was easy," Hurdle shouted from the batting cage, "anybody could do it."
Injuries could help Chipper's quest for .400
Chipper Jones is fighting a torn quadriceps muscle that has turned him into baseball's top pinch-hitter and might put him on the disabled list.That's bad news for the Atlanta Braves. That's good news for baseball.
Tracy Ringolsby's weekly baseball notes
First, there was then-Seattle general manager Bill Bavasi ordering the towels and post-game food removed from the clubhouse and demanding that the players stand at their lockers in response to continuing lethargic play.
Has Carter's mouth gotten him blackballed?
The woman on the other end of the phone assured me she'd give him the message, but she quickly added, "Gary's not going to be talking about that. He's already said too much."So I'm not surprised that Gary Carter hasn't called back -- even though he told me, just three months ago, to buzz him after he got settled in California.
