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There are always explanations from these poor athletes in trouble, even the worst kind of trouble, the kind facing an accused murderer named Oscar Pistorius in South Africa, all the way down to some of these baseball players with their tortured explanations of how their names ended up in the books of a two-bit “biochemist” and anti-aging specialist named Anthony Bosch. They all have a story to tell when they are caught. Do they ever.
The king of tall tales, at least for the time being, remains The Rocket himself, Roger Clemens, who now says he barely knew his great and good old friend Mindy McCready, whose life ended young the other day.
“The few times I had met her and her manager/agent they were extremely nice,” Clemens said when he heard McCready was dead...
The Texas Rangers are more popular than the Dallas Cowboys. That doesn't sound right, does it? Nolan Ryan even had to take a second to digest the information. The thought of that had never crossed his mind. When... more »
PHOENIX -- What do the Oakland Athletics do for an encore? Actually, that may be the wrong question. Is an encore even possible for a team that rode waves of youth and energy into the playoffs in a 2012 season in which so little... more »
Most likely, we're not going to see a pair of turnarounds in 2013 like the Orioles' and Athletics' from a season ago. There's a reason those teams captured so much attention: what they did is rare. Still, it's not all... more »
FORT MYERS — There was a time when Red Sox fans hailed John Henry for riding into town, investing big bucks to deliver two World Series championships in a four-year span, and restoring glory to a franchise that hadn’t... more »
A shrewd baseball man once observed that having a good record in Spring Training means exactly one thing: You're going to have a good Triple-A team. The lesson, of course, is that people who care about baseball put far too much... more »
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