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As the Francisco Rodriguez saga between the Major League Baseball Players Association and the Commissioner's Office will most likely run and run until the end of the season and, more likely, through next years Spring Training, the New York Mets have publicly stated that they want K-Rod to come...

On Wednesday, Alex Rodriguez hit career home run #600 against Toronto's Shaun Marcum, after a 46 at bat homerless streak, as New York sealed a 5-1 win at Yankees stadium. In doing so, Rodriquez became the sixth player to join the 600 Club alongside Barry Bonds (with 762 career dingers), Hank...

When living out their dream, some people spend time in the ocean swimming with dolphins. For others it might be driving a really fast car really really fast around a racing track; perhaps even getting interviewed by Tomato while they are doing it. But there are 22 players this season in baseball...

Measuring a pitcher's performance through wins and losses is generally not considered a true and accurate measure. Similarly the use of a simplistic measure like ERA is affected by ballpark factors, the quality of the defense as well as quite a bit of luck. The xFIP metric is an estimation of...

When the New York Yankees have a $200 million payroll, they are accused of buying the World Series even though the Florida Marlins have won it all twice on a fraction of that money. When the Chicago Cubs or the New York Mets have a $140 million payroll and can't even make the playoffs, people...

Although the MLB season is played over a total of 162 games per team, the volume of games compared to other team sports still fails to ensure that there is inherent fairness built into the final season standings. The lack of parity is highlighted with the likes of the Toronto Blue Jays having...

After winning their first World Cup two years after winning the 2008 European Championship, it was no surprise to see that Spain usurped Brazil to take the #1 spot in the latest FIFA World Rankings which were released Wednesday. Brazil were the previous holders of the top spot and they fall to...

It was three months ago that Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA, shelved two years of research into the use of video replays in football for the foreseeable future. It was three days ago that Jerome Valcke, General Secretary of FIFA, confirmed this stance after commenting that the use of any...

Carlos Zambrano of the Chicago Cubs was today suspended indefinitely by General Manager Jim Hendry after a meltdown in the Cubs dugout after his first inning where he allowed four runs, all of them earned, in the game against cross town rivals the Chicago White Sox. The incident which sparked...

Irrelevant of whether the fix is on in the Mexico/Uruguay match, the fact is that any draw between the two teams will see of them both progress to the next round. And in the big scheme of things a draw between two relatively equally matched teams in the World Cup Finals is nothing at all out of...

The Group A match last Thursday pitted the 1998 World Cup winners and 2006 runners up France against Mexico where France, after a first game draw against Uruguay, needed at least to avoid defeat to leave the passage to the next round purely in their own hands. However, Mexico proved formidable...

Just under a year after being taken as the #1 pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, Stephen Strasburg will make his Washington Nationals debut Tuesday when they take on the Pittsburgh Pirates at Nationals Park. After being drafted on June 9 last year and subsequently signing a record $15.1 million...

After the Washington Nationals signed his right arm to the tune of $15.1 million after being the number one overall pick in the 2010 MLB Draft, it seems like Stephen Strasburg mania is not just limited to the province of Washington DC. One of the more limited cards in the 2010 Bowman Baseball...

On Sunday at 7pm in your particular US time zone (as well as in Greece, Israel, Italy, Turkey, Spain and the United Kingdom who are showing it at 7pm PST in their respective timezones) there will be the season finale and absolute finale of Lost inspirationally titled The End - which will answer...

July 1, the day when LeBron James becomes the most sought after free agent on the market, got a lot nearer (well metaphorically at least) on Thursday when the Cleveland Cavaliers were unable to overcome the Boston Celtics and so the team with the best season record fell short again following a...

Brian Cushing, the Houston Texans linebacker, won a second vote on Wednesday which saw him keep his Associated Press NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award despite it being revealed that he tested positive for a banned substance last week. Cushing, taken by the Texans with their #15 pick in the...

Coming off a 12-70 season for the worst record in basketball, and also tied fourth for the all time worst season record, there is more than one reason for the New Jersey Nets to be a little more optimistic for 2010/11. On Tuesday evening, the NBA Board Of Governors approved the sale of the Nets...

The Tacoma News Tribune today reported that last week Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu was asked why he didn't make use of Ken Griffey Jr. in a pinch hitting situation late in a game and Wakamatsu was vague in his answer. Two unnamed Mariners players were slightly less vague. He was...

Before today Oakland's Dallas Braden, a ninth round pick of the 2004 draft out of Texas Tech, had only 52 career starts and was probably most famous for this season's spat with Alex Rodriguez. In an April 22 game pitching against the Yankees, Rodriguez ran over the pitcher's mound as he returned...

The writing was on the wall when he turned up to training camp in March weighing 290 pounds, moreso when he was rumored to have tipped the scales at 300 pounds in April and by the time that a trade was made for Washington's Jason Campbell a fortnight ago it looked like game over for JaMarcus...